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Thomas Blount was one of the university commissioners who laid out the campus and the village of Chapel Hill in 1793. With William R. Davie, Alfred Moore and Alexander Mebane he announced the sale of the first town lots for October 12, and on August 10 they marked the sites of the university's buildings and grounds.
Source: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 79
1759–1812 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Background reading on The founding of the University and Chapel Hill, 1789–1795. These works cover the broader subject and may not discuss Thomas Blount. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.
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.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Herbert G. Gutman's 1976 history of African American families from 1750 to 1925, published by Pantheon Books in New York, 664 pages with 38 leaves of plates. Its Orange County connection is the Bennehan and Cameron family plantations, Stagville and Fairntosh: the book discusses the people enslaved by Richard Bennehan (1743-1825) and the Camerons, and follows family ties among them under slavery and after emancipation. Subjects include African American families and enslaved persons in Orange County.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1977), The William and Mary Quarterly (1977), The American Historical Review (1977), Journal of American History (1977), The History Teacher (1977), Political Science Quarterly (1977), Journal of Black Psychology (1978), Journal of Social History (1978), Civil War history (1978), Signs (1978).
Charles Richard Sanders's short history of the Cameron plantation in central North Carolina from 1776 to 1973 and of its founder Richard Bennehan, whose lands became Stagville and Fairntosh. It covers the Bennehan and Cameron families and their connection with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Published by the author in Durham in 1974, 79 pages with a plate and illustrations.
Two-volume collection of documents on the founding and first years of the University of North Carolina, 1776 to 1799, compiled by R. D. W. Connor and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1953. Each volume carries its own bibliography.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1954).
A portfolio of programs from the opening ceremonies of the University of North Carolina bicentennial, staged in Chapel Hill on October 11 and 12, 1993. It includes the program for the rededication of Old East, the university's first building, and the citations for the 1993 distinguished alumna and alumnus. Illustrated, and published by the university itself.
An eight page program printed for the sixth annual Lloyd clan convention at Carrboro on October 22, 1941, when the family unveiled a marker to Thomas F. Lloyd, who died in 1792. The program also concerns Adlai Osborne (1744-1815). Family gathering ephemera that also records the placing of a Lloyd memorial in Orange County.
A sketch of William Richardson Davie, the Revolutionary officer remembered as the founder of the University of North Carolina, written by John Manning and signed by him at the end. Detached from the January 1893 North Carolina University Magazine and printed at Chapel Hill by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, it concerns Revolutionary biography for the state.
Resolutions adopted by a meeting of Hillsborough citizens on Friday 30 January 1835, on the death of Joseph Caldwell, president of the University of North Carolina, who died that year. Signed at the end by W. J. Bingham as secretary and dated 31 January 1835. Printed at Hillsborough, it is a single sheet of civic mourning from Orange County.
A booklet accompanying the exhibition on William Richardson Davie, 1756 to 1820, the soldier and statesman remembered as founder of the University of North Carolina, shown in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library from February to June 2006, his semiquincentennial year. R. Neil Fulghum researched and wrote it. Thirty-seven pages of color illustrations, portraits by Charles Willson Peale and Gilles-Louis Chrétien among them.
University Publications of America issued this two reel microfilm edition in 1993, reproducing the Walter Alves papers of 1771 to 1858 with a printed reel guide. Alves, 1768 to 1819, was an Orange County landowner, and the material runs to real estate investment in North Carolina and Tennessee, Scottish American families, and letters with Richard Bennehan, William Boylan and John Wickham.
Eldon L. Johnson's article on the founders of the early state universities and the idea of a public university they worked from, issued as an offprint of the Journal of Higher Education, volume 58, number 2, for March and April 1987, with a bibliography. William Richardson Davie, who led the founding of the University of North Carolina, is the figure the article takes up here.
Former chancellor William B. Aycock gave this University Day address in Memorial Hall on October 12, 1986, pairing William Richardson Davie, who founded the university, with Frank Porter Graham. The text was reprinted from the Chapel Hill Newspaper of October 13, 1986, and runs pages 519 to 523.
Lucius McGehee Cheshire's typescript on James Hogg of Hillsborough, 1729 to 1805, prepared for delivery to the Hillsborough Historical Society and dated 12 March 1970. It runs to 26 pages with ten further unnumbered leaves. The account connects Hogg's life in Hillsborough with the early University of North Carolina. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.
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