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William H. Brown was a Hillsborough man who served for years as chairman of Orange County's Board of Superintendents of Common Schools. In December 1860 he chaired the Orange County mass meeting at the courthouse that debated a call for a state convention after Lincoln's election. In March 1863, as a county commissioner with John W. Norwood, he advertised the contract for a new bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough. He died in 1866.
Source: The Hillsborough Recorder, January 2, 1861
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Hugh Conway Browning assembled these notes on the William Brown family of Orange County in 1972, one of several such compilations he made on county families. Family historians use gatherings of this sort for names, dates and connections that never reached print elsewhere. Part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.
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Ledger of a shoe shop in Hillsborough, Orange County, kept by William H. Brown and others from 1852 to 1866.
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Two surnames carry this Bible record of 1809 to 1956, Hooker and Brown, part of the Bible Records collection of the State Archives of North Carolina. Margaret P. Hooker, Henry N. Brown and William H. Brown are documented here, with James Edgar Gay and the Gay family. Halifax and Orange counties are the two places.
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Governor Josiah Martin's dispatch numbered 4, written in 1771, on six rebels sentenced to death and the whereabouts of Herman Husbands, with Pennsylvania among the places. Six men are mentioned alongside Husbands: William Brown, James Copeland, Herman Cox, James Emerson, Forrester Mercer and James Stewart. Hillsborough is named, with petitions, mercy and capital punishment among the topics. From Colonial Office volume CO 5/329.
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In 1771 Josiah Martin and William Tryon wrote to the Earl of Hillsborough on five military men convicted of high treason, on states of rebellion and on the return of the army. William Brown, James Copeland, Hermon Cox, James Emmerson, William Robson, Edward Smith and James Stewart are named. Colonial Office series CO 5/315, North Carolina correspondence of 1771 to 1772.
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A report on William Brown, the only item in his folder in box 1 of the Individuals and Families series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical files. Undated.
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Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
Hugh Conway Browning assembled these notes on the William Brown family of Orange County in 1972, one of several such compilations he made on county families. Family historians use gatherings of this sort for names, dates and connections that never reached print elsewhere. Part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.
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