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10 works about William Bull are indexed here.
Works about or by William Bull. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Governor William Tryon's 1769 dispatches to the Earl of Hillsborough, ranging from quitrents, land surveys and timber to rice growing, housing, printing, a lottery, and the colony's enslaved people, women and children. Samuel Cornell, Benjamin Heron, Marmaduke Jones and Samuel Strudwick are among the names. Hillsborough was named for the earl, which is the local tie.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Bull, William.
Numbered dispatches 54 through 59 from William Bull, lieutenant governor of South Carolina, to William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth, secretary of state for the colonies, digitized by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019. Topics include the assembly, finance and currency, shipping, taxes, appointments, German and French Protestant migration, land grants and surveying, church building, education, and gold, silver and indigo. The Hillsborough connection is Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, Dartmouth's predecessor and the man for whom the Orange County town is named, rather than the town itself.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Bull, William.
William Bull's reaction to The American Claim of Rights by William Henry Drayton, sent in 1774 with a copy of the pamphlet and a letter from Drayton himself. Parliamentary sovereignty, taxation, the Continental Congress, loyalism and Drayton's dismissal are the matters at issue, with Lord North and the Earl of Dartmouth named. A South Carolina file whose Orange County link is the Earl of Hillsborough, namesake of the town.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC State record: Bull, William.
Documents of 1765 on fixing the border between North and South Carolina, concerning surveying, Cherokee and Catawba lands, and the Broad and Catawba rivers. William Bull, Charles Greville Montagu and William Tryon are mentioned. The file reaches Orange County only through the Earl of Hillsborough, who gave the town its name.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Bull, William.
Boundary confirmation between the Carolinas occupies the first of these 1771 letters from the Earl of Hillsborough to Charles Greville Montagu. A companion letter concerns dissolution of the Assembly, council vacancies and the education of American Indians, with the Cherokee named. Quitrents, petitions, garrison, writs, warrants and the Admiralty are also subjects. One online resource in Colonial Office series CO 5/408.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Bull, William.
A contest between council and assembly, appointments to office, and unrest in North Carolina occupy these 1771 letters from the Earl of Hillsborough to William Bull. Newspapers, grievances, fines, pardons, judges, religion, trade, agriculture, petitions and the Catawba all are among the subjects. One online resource in Colonial Office series CO 5/408, South Carolina letters from the secretary of state, with London as the place.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Bull, William.
Three individual cases, those of Robert Bussard, William Faust and Christopher Davies, are the matter of these 1770 letters from the Earl of Hillsborough. William Bull is named, and London is given as the place of writing. Fines, aid, warrants, pardon, currency and the boundary are among the subjects, and the men are described as Germans. One online resource in Colonial Office series CO 5/408, South Carolina letters from the secretary of state.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Bull, William.
Extracts of 1769 correspondence to the Secretary of State, chiefly from Lord Charles Greville Montagu and William Bull, on assembly business, trade, troops and a boundary dispute. The subjects reach rice, indigo and naval stores, and relations with the Cherokee and Catawba. The letters concern South Carolina affairs and also mention North Carolina. From Colonial Office volume CO 5/409.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Bull, William.
William Bull's letters of 1769, one of them enclosing a copy of the South Carolina Gazette. Imports and trade, the assembly, silk, hemp, alcohol and tobacco, taxation and the slave trade are among the subjects, along with Catawba, Cherokee and Creek people and the boundary question. One online resource in Colonial Office series CO 5/393, South Carolina original correspondence, 1769 to 1770.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC State record: Bull, William.
Two South Carolina correspondents, Charles Greville Montagu and William Bull, received these 1768 letters from the Earl of Hillsborough on the establishing of a law court and on the boundary line between the Carolinas. Leave of absence, council and assembly business, and matters of health and medicine also are among the subjects. One online resource in Colonial Office series CO 5/408, with London and Charleston named as places.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Bull, William.
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