Indexed works
Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present
Ashe, Samuel A. · 1905 · C.L. Van Noppen
Samuel A. Ashe's eight volume set of North Carolina biographies, published by C.L. Van Noppen from 1905 and running from the colonial period forward. The sketches take in governors, judges and public men, among them William Tryon, Frederick Nash, Richard Henderson and Matt W. Ransom. Genealogists use the set as a name source for families across the state, Orange County included.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Burrington, George, Approximately 1680-1759.
Senate Joint Resolutions: February 1-2
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1781
Resolutions of 1 and 2 February 1781 before the North Carolina Senate, 33 images: a flag of truce to Charles Town carrying supplies for prisoners, a rejected purchase of arms taken at Kings Mountain, pay for John Haywood as secretary of the board of war, and Anthony Bledsoe's appointment as lieutenant colonel of militia. William R. Davie and Isaac Shelby are also named.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Burrington, George, Approximately 1680-1759.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Research sources
Resources picked for this person, each with a note on what it holds.
Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for George Burrington Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
