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Thomas Blount

1759–1812 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Thomas Blount

Governors' Papers: Richard Caswell, Correspondence, July 1785

Blount, Thomas, 1759-1812 · 1785

Thomas Blount is among the writers in Governor Richard Caswell's correspondence for July 1785. The 62 images concern Halifax County, Hillsborough, Orange County and the Continental Congress.

About Thomas Blount

Session of November 1792-January 1793: Miscellaneous Court Cases

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1792

Court papers laid before the General Assembly in its session of November 1792 to January 1793, including grand jury presentments from Halifax District and from the Hillsborough District superior court and Orange County court, a complaint of John Den and a New Bern District judgment. Twenty-one images.

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  1. Commissioners mark out the sites of the university's buildings and grounds Davie, Alfred Moore, Alexander Mebane and Thomas Blount met on the Chapel Hill tract and fixed the building sites, with land set aside for offices, avenues and ornamental grounds. People: Thomas Blount, William Richardson DavieSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 79
  2. The first town lots in Chapel Hill are sold at auction After the Old East cornerstone was laid, the commissioners auctioned the village lots on the spot; 29 lots brought more than 1,500 pounds, and one was held back for the president's house. People: Thomas Blount, William Richardson DavieLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 80

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