Samuel Child

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 8 dated events in the chronology →

1. May 26, 1814 The court orders a new bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough and levies a tax for it The court ordered a bridge built across the Eno at or near Hillsborough, named Dr. James Webb, James S. Smith, Thomas Clancy, Samuel Child and John Young a committee to contract for building it and keeping it in repair for seven years, with bond from the builder, and levied a tax of ninepence on each poll, each 100 pounds of town property and each 300 acres to pay for it. People: James Webb, James Strudwick Smith, Samuel ChildSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1814
2. May Term 1817 The court orders land valued for Samuel Child and Richard Ashe's proposed mill on Cain Creek On Samuel Child and Richard Ashe's petition for a mill, the court summoned James and Elias Millican to answer it at the August term and appointed James Morrow, William Moore, Alexander Pickard and John Bonner to view, lay off and value an acre of the Millicans' land where Cain Creek crossed the road from the University to Woody's ferry, and an acre of the petitioners' land opposite. People: Samuel ChildSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1817
3. August Term 1818 The court decrees that James and Elias Millican may build a grist mill and pay the petitioners eight dollars The court decreed that James and Elias Millican might build a water grist mill at the place named in a jury's return and that they pay Samuel Child and Richard Ashe, the petitioners in the case, eight dollars as the report assessed, with the costs. The Millicans paid the eight dollars into court. People: Samuel ChildSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: August Term 1818
4. 1822 Bethlehem Presbyterian Church is organized Elisha Mitchell, Elijah Graves and Samuel Child led the organization of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, which built its first church the next year. People: Elisha Mitchell, John Knox Witherspoon, Elijah Graves, Samuel ChildSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295
5. September 15, 1832 Willie P. Mangum declines a public dinner offered by his Orange County supporters Senator Willie P. Mangum declined a public dinner offered by a committee of Walker Anderson, Samuel Child, W. Montgomery, Allen C. Jones, V. M. Murphey and John Scott on behalf of a meeting that had approved his course in the Senate. He wrote that Orange had never so honored its public men and that such dinners belonged to great occasions. People: Walker Anderson, Samuel ChildSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 26, 1832, p. 3
6. February 2, 1833 Hillsborough elects John Scott magistrate of police and seven town commissioners Hillsborough's annual town election chose John Scott magistrate of police and James S. Smith, John U. Kirkland, William H. Phillips, Hugh Waddell, William Nelson, George M. Johnston and Samuel Child commissioners for the year. People: James Strudwick Smith, John U. Kirkland, Hugh Waddell, William Nelson, George Johnston, Samuel ChildSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 8, 1833, p. 3
7. by November 9, 1834 Mary A. and James M. Palmer buy the Union Hotel from Samuel Child Mary A. Palmer and James M. Palmer bought the Union Hotel in Hillsborough from Col. Samuel Child and announced that they would keep it themselves, with the stage lines through the town stopping at their house. People: Samuel ChildSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 12, 1834, p. 3
8. November Term 1835 The court cancels Richard Mayho's indenture to Samuel Child and binds him to Josiah Turner Samuel Child produced in court Richard Mayho, a free boy of color bound to him in 1832, and the court rescinded the indenture and bound Richard to Josiah Turner to learn farming. At the same term it bound Polly and Thaddeus Mayho to William Riley and Green Mayho to Catlet Campbell. People: Josiah Turner Sr., Samuel ChildSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)