Indexed works
Works about or by Nathaniel Duckenfield. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Dispatches from Josiah Martin to the Earl of Dartmouth numbered 21-24, enclosing copies of legislation
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Governor Josiah Martin's numbered dispatches 21 through 24 to the Earl of Dartmouth, with copies of North Carolina legislation enclosed, reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office file CO 5/303 part 2. Subjects include finance and currency, debt and the courts, judges' wages, the council and assembly, voting and taxes, oaths, litigation, sheriffs, inheritance, prisoners, Irish settlers, customs, quitrents, land grants, surveying and mortgages. Names include Arthur Dobbs, William Dry, Willie Jones, John Rutherford and Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Duckenfield, Nathaniel.
Dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough numbered 59-67, enclosing documents concerning the Regulators
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Numbered dispatches 59 through 67 from Governor William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, with enclosures about the Regulators, whose protests broke into riot at Hillsborough in 1770. Reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office CO 5/302. The papers touch on the council and assembly, naval stores and trade, oaths, militia and provincial troops, judges, sheriffs and juries, voting, currency, Cherokee affairs, clergy, quitrents and land, and name officials such as Richard Caswell, Richard Henderson, Maurice Moore and Hugh Waddell.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Duckenfield, Nathaniel.
Correspondence of Josiah Martin and the Earl of Hillsborough, including an enclosed letter by Mr. M. Howard, relating to instructions for trade, an embargo placed upon wheat and grain, and criminal activity in North Carolina
1772
Governor Josiah Martin's correspondence with the Earl of Hillsborough in 1772, taking in instructions for trade, an embargo laid on wheat and grain, and crime in the province. Companion letters in the file deal with pardons for convicts, a vessel detained by the Spanish at Veracruz, legislation for the trial of pirates and a new tax on liquors. The Orange County link is the Earl's name, carried by Hillsborough.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Duckenfield, Nathaniel.
Dispatches from Josiah Martin to the Earl of Hillsborough, numbered 1-2
1771
Two numbered dispatches of 1771 from Josiah Martin to the Earl of Hillsborough, covering the assembly, taxes and currency, the militia and the Regulators, the disbanding of troops, and hospitals, climate and epidemic disease. James Hasell, Hugh Waddell and Nathaniel Duckenfield are named. Orange County appears only in the earl's title, the source of the town name.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Duckenfield, Nathaniel.
William Hillsborough's letter to the Governor Martin regarding riots and royal appointments to The Board of Trade
1771
A letter of 1771 to Governor Josiah Martin from the Earl of Hillsborough on riots and civil disturbance in North Carolina and on royal appointments to the Board of Trade. Militia, defence, loyalism, communications and trade run through it, with Nathaniel Duckenfield and Marmaduke Jones named. The town of Hillsborough carries the earl's title, which is the county connection here.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC State record: Duckenfield, Nathaniel.
William Tryon's letter to the Earl of Hillsborough transmitting a copy of the Land Office Patents granted at a Court of Claims in New Bern, 30th Nov 1770
1770
Land office patents granted at a Court of Claims in New Bern on 30 November 1770, transmitted by Governor William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, with a companion file of council minutes on Nathaniel Duckenfield's claim of precedency. Samuel Cornell, James Hasell and Robert Palmer are named, and inheritance, juries, land warrants and land speculation are among the topics. The earl's title names the county town.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC State record: Duckenfield, Nathaniel.
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Letter of Josiah Martin relative to counterfeit currency circulating in the Northern provinces and military expenses
1771
Counterfeit currency circulating in the northern provinces and military expenses are the matter of this 1771 letter from Josiah Martin. Other subjects include his journey and health, the treasury, warrants, the militia, oaths and the council, with James Hasell, Nathaniel Duckenfield and William Tryon, with New Bern as a place. From Colonial Office volume CO 5/314 part 2, North Carolina correspondence of the Secretary of State.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Duckenfield, Nathaniel.
Orders in Council concerning appointments and legislative activity in North Carolina
1769
Orders in Council of 1769 on appointments and legislative activity in North Carolina. Land and surveying, land grants, quitrents, currency, imports, education, marriage, dissenters, a post office, riot and rebellion, and Scottish migration are among the subjects, with references to Edward Brice Dobbs, Nathaniel Duckenfield, Marmaduke Jones, Alexander McCulloch and James Murray. One online resource in Colonial Office series CO 5/302.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC State record: Duckenfield, Nathaniel.
Letters to William Tryon and representation to the King on the subject of several acts passed in North Carolina
1770
Several acts passed in North Carolina drew these 1770 letters to William Tryon and a representation to the King. Subjects range from judges, resignations and the frontier to Scottish migration, with Inverness and the Isle of Skye named, and include the Cherokee, a lottery and the boundary. One online resource in Colonial Office series CO 5/305.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC State record: Duckenfield, Nathaniel.
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