Indexed works
Works about or by Richard Cogdell. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
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.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Cogdell, Richard, 1724-1787.
Committee of Propositions and Grievances May 29-June 2: Reports and papers
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1784
Reports and papers of the General Assembly's Committee of Propositions and Grievances for 29 May to 2 June 1784. Items include reports on the petitions of Durham Hall and of Stephen Cole, a state witness before the Superior Court of the District of Hillsborough, and on the accounts of Green Hill as a district treasurer. 95 images.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Cogdell, Richard, 1724-1787.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Joint Select Committees: Reports and Papers, Apr. 20-May 18
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1784
Joint select committee reports of the 1784 General Assembly, 20 April to 18 May, in 115 images. Judge Samuel Spencer's memorial, the petition of John Simpson and Richard Cogdell, and the claims of Dr. Miles King and Robert Hunter are among them. Other matters include loyalists, public debt, land grants, pardons, the French minister La Luzerne, and Hillsborough and Orange County business.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Cogdell, Richard, 1724-1787.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Joint Select Committees: reports and papers Apr. 19-May 2
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1783
Committee reports and papers of the North Carolina General Assembly from 19 April to 2 May 1783, in 84 images. Petitions came from John Fleetwood of Wayne County and David Dodd of Duplin County, with reports on the militia law and on the claim of Basel Smith. Hillsborough, confiscations, prisoners of war and Continental Army pay also figure in the session.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Cogdell, Richard, 1724-1787.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Richard Cogdell Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
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