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Thomas Faucett

1855– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Orange County voters re-elect Joseph C. Norwood and John Taylor as court clerks In the statewide election of court clerks on August 5, Orange County voters re-elected Joseph C. Norwood clerk of the Superior Court over George W. Bruce and Major John Taylor clerk of the County Court over Thomas Faucett and John W. Hancock. The Recorder printed the returns from eighteen precincts, from Hillsborough and Chapel Hill to Mason Hall and Turner's Mill. People: Thomas Faucett, John Hancock Place: Precincts across Orange County · Also named: Joseph C. Norwood, John Taylor, George W. Bruce · Also mentions: Mason HallSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 12, 1841, p. 3
  2. Hillsborough commissioners drop the paid town patrol for citizen patrol duty The Hillsborough commissioners repealed the ordinance that let the magistrate of police hire two paid patrolmen and made Thomas Faucett town constable and collector. They ordered the clerk to list the men liable to patrol duty so the magistrate could call out a patrol company every week. People: Thomas Faucett, A. C. Murdock, Lemuel Lynch Place: HillsboroughHillsborough Recorder, August 28, 1850, p. 3

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By Thomas Faucett

Thomas Faucett account books, 1841-1859.

Faucett, Thomas, 1855- · 1841

Thomas Faucett kept three account books between 1841 and 1859, now in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 2927-z. Faucett worked as a blacksmith, and the volumes record his accounts along with prices for alcoholic beverages, documenting economic conditions at Hillsborough in the middle of the nineteenth century.

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