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Life and Times of Edmund Fanning, 1739-1818
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2011
Stewart E. Dunaway's life of Edmund Fanning (1739-1818), the colonial officeholder in Hillsborough whom the Regulators singled out and who left North Carolina as a loyalist, together with the Fanning family's genealogy. Self-published through Lulu in 2011, 223 pages with illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical tables and maps. Topics include American loyalists and Hillsborough and Orange County biography and genealogy.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fanning, Edmund, 1739-1818.
Account of mob violence witnessed in the courts of New Bern by Richard Henderson
1770
Richard Henderson's account of the mob violence he witnessed in court, written in 1770 and sent on to London. Edmund Fanning, James Hunter and Governor William Tryon all appear, and subjects include weaponry, rebellion, attack, property and civil disturbance. The violence occurred in Hillsborough, the Orange County town at the center of the Regulator quarrel. Reference CO 5/314.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Fanning, Edmund.
Advertisements, financial papers, and the insurgents address delivered to the council on the 20th June 1768
1766
Papers gathered around the Regulator troubles: printed advertisements, financial statements and the address the insurgents delivered to the governor's council on 20 June 1768. William Butler, James Hunter, Edmund Fanning and Isaac Edwards are among the men named, and the papers turn on taxes, grievances, oaths and petitions. Orange County was the center of the rising. Reference CO 5/312.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC State record: Fanning, Edmund.
Hillsborough Historical Society Journal: Vol.1, No.1, July 1998
Hillsborough Historical Society · 1998
First issue of the Hillsborough Historical Society Journal, July 1998, drawing on Mary Claire Engstrom's research on the town. Pieces cover William Churton, the surveyor who laid out Hillsborough; Edmund Fanning and the town in the Regulator troubles and the Revolution; the Third Provincial Congress, which met at Hillsborough in 1775; and figures and places of the old town: Mary Burke, known as Polly, the Presbyterian minister John Knox Witherspoon, Dr. Thomas Webb and Faddis Tavern.
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Walter Alves papers, 1771-1858, Orange County, North Carolina : also Kentucky and Tennessee.
Alves, Walter, 1768-1819 · 1993 · University Publications of America
University Publications of America issued this two reel microfilm edition in 1993, reproducing the Walter Alves papers of 1771 to 1858 with a printed reel guide. Alves, 1768 to 1819, was an Orange County landowner, and the material runs to real estate investment in North Carolina and Tennessee, Scottish American families, and letters with Richard Bennehan, William Boylan and John Wickham.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fanning, Edmund, 1739-1818.
George Bancroft letters
Bancroft, George · 1845
Letters of the historian George Bancroft, 1845 to 1885, 22 items. Fifteen are transcripts of letters addressed to UNC president David L. Swain about the state's history: the Regulators, the Loyalists, the Mecklenburg Declaration, Tryon and Martin as governors, and Edmund Fanning and Hermon Husbands, both central to the Regulator troubles in Hillsborough.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Fanning, Edmund, 1739-1818.
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William Johnston Paper
Johnston, William · 1783
Letter of 2 December 1783 from William Johnston, Orange County legislator and agent for the loyalist Edmund Fanning, to Adlai Osborn of Rowan County, about selling Fanning's Rowan lands to satisfy a judgment. Johnston also remarks on the death of former governor Thomas Burke. A photocopy. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.644.
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Joint Papers (April-May, 1780): Joint Select Committee Reports and Papers
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1780
Reports and papers of the joint select committees of the North Carolina General Assembly from its April to May 1780 session, in 223 images. Items include a Virginia governor's letter on naval officers and duties at the Ocracoke channel, committee appointments, and Henry Mounger's petition on where Montgomery County's public buildings should stand. Orange County is among the many counties touched.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Fanning, Edmund, 1739-1818.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
October-November, 1779: Joint Select Committees (Chiefly appointments and referrals)
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1779
Messages, reports and referrals of the General Assembly's joint select committees from October and November 1779, 97 pages in all. Business ranges over public money and depreciation, army supply, militia, taxation, land titles and appointments, and names include Governor Richard Caswell, Abner Nash, Edmund Fanning and the printer James Davis. Orange County is among the counties touched.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Fanning, Edmund, 1739-1818.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Senate Bills (October 26): Bill to vest the title of certain lands therein mentioned to Abner Nash
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1779
North Carolina Senate bill of 26 October 1779 to vest title to certain lands in Abner Nash, later governor. It touches confiscated property, surveys, wills and executors, with lands in Granville, Guilford, Randolph and Jones counties. Edmund Fanning, the Hillsborough loyalist, and Thomas Hart figure in it. Seven images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Fanning, Edmund, 1739-1818.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
British Records: Exchequer and Audit Department. Claims, American Loyalists, Series II (AO 13, selections) (State Archives series)
Great Britain. Audit Office · 1770
Thirteen Orange County items from the second series of American Loyalist claims to the British Audit Office (AO 13), dated 1770 to 1786. Memorials, certificates, letters and lists document property losses of merchants and attorneys, among them Edmund Fanning, the Hillsborough official targeted by the Regulators who later sided with the Crown.
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Letter forwarded from Wills Hill to Governor Tryon regarding rebellious groups in Hillsborough
1770
Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, forwarded this 1770 letter to Governor Tryon about rebellious groups in Hillsborough, the Orange County seat. Edmund Fanning, Francis Nash, William Johnston and James Monro are named, and the topics are intelligence, civil disturbance, destruction, crime and attack. From Colonial Office volume CO 5/314 part 1, North Carolina correspondence of the Secretary of State, September 1770 to August 1771.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Fanning, Edmund.
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Background
- NCpedia: Edmund Fanning Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
- Historical marker G-19: Edmund FanningNC Highway Historical Marker Judge and local official. Target of Regulators who ransacked and destroyed his nearby home, 1770. The state’s marker page heads this essay “1776-1847”, which are not Fanning’s dates: its own text has him born in 1737 and dying in London in 1818.
- NCpedia: Edmund Fanning (public-domain image) Edmund Fanning, a colonial official in Hillsborough the 1760s and 1770s, was a target of the Regulators, who charged him with abusing his power. This engraving was made in the nineteenth century.
Records of the time 5
- DigitalNC newspapers: 14 Orange County pages naming Edmund Fanning Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
- NCpedia: Letter from Governor William Tryon to Edmund Fanning, April 27, 1768 (public-domain image) This is an image of the original letter from Governor William Tryon to Edmund Fanning written on April 27, 1768. In the letter, Tryon responds to Fanning's report on the activities of the Regulators. Fanning had written to Tryon a few days earlier on April 23, 1768. This letter is in the Colonial…
- Colonial Records of North Carolina, volume 8 (1769–1771)Colonial and State Records of North Carolina Fanning in the depositions and correspondence of the Regulator years
- NC Digital Collections: Regulator MovementNorth Carolina Digital Collections The petitions, proclamations, and trial papers of the Regulator years
- NC Digital Collections: Colonial Court RecordsNorth Carolina Digital Collections Court papers from the colonial period, Orange County’s among them, digitized by the State Archives
Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Edmund Fanning 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
