John J. Freeland

Life and Orange County connections

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

1. May 11, 1839 John J. Freeland chairs a Whig meeting at James Turner's A meeting of Whigs from part of Orange County at James Turner's called John J. Freeland to the chair, with Thomas W. Holden as secretary, and adopted resolutions against what it called the Federal Executive's assumption of power and its use of patronage in elections.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 16, 1839, p. 3
2. February Term 1841 The court binds Washington and William Day, boys of color, to two masters The court bound two sons of Vicey Day, boys of color, to separate masters: Washington, about seven, to John J. Freeland and William, about nine, to Jacob Jackson, each to learn farming and receive a good suit of clothes when free. In November 1844 the court bound William to Mary Jackson. People: John J. FreelandSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
3. February 1852 John W. Carr sits as a justice of the county court Carr was one of five justices holding the February 1852 term of the Orange County court, which elected a Board of Superintendents of Common Schools and set the county tax. People: John U. Kirkland, William Nelson, Harrison Parker, John J. FreelandSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 181
4. 1854 Ralph Graves sells the West King Street lot later the Parks-Richmond House to John J. Freeland In 1854 Ralph Graves, husband of Emma Taylor, sold Lot 18 on West King Street, for many years the home of clerk of court John Taylor, to John J. Freeland. Elbert H. and Emily Pogue owned it from the 1870s. People: John J. FreelandSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 175 W. King Street (Parks-Richmond House)
5. June 15, 1854 Hillsborough closes its graveyard for Black people to new burials The Hillsborough commissioners prohibited further burials in the town's graveyard for Black people from the next day and named a committee to set apart part of the town common as a new Black burying ground and to look for a site for a White burying ground. People: James C. Turrentine, John J. FreelandSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 21, 1854, p. 3
6. June 15, 1854 Hillsborough lays off its common in lots and names Hillsborough Avenue and Calvin Street The Hillsborough commissioners ordered the town common south of King Street laid off in lots, Margaret Lane extended to the western town line and a 99-foot street run from King Street to the railroad. They named the wide street Hillsborough Avenue and the street parallel with the depot Calvin Street, for Calvin Graves, whose casting vote as Speaker of the Senate had carried the North Carolina Railroad bill. People: Calvin Graves, Thomas Webb, William Nelson, George Laws, John J. FreelandSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 21, 1854, p. 3
7. June 1854 Hillsborough's commissioners appoint John J. Freeland to take the town tax list Appointed by the town commissioners to take the list of Hillsborough's taxables, J. J. Freeland gave notice that he would receive lists at the court house on June 26 and that anyone who failed to list would pay a double tax. The same month his store partnership, J. J. Freeland & Son, was dissolved.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 21, 1854, p. 3
8. February 3, 1855 Hillsborough elects a Know Nothing slate in its town elections In the town election of February 3, 1855, Hillsborough voters chose a Nativist (American Party) ticket: Lemuel Lynch as magistrate of police and James C. Turrentine, Josiah Turner Sr., George Laws, Charles M. Latimer, Levin Carmichael, Joseph Reese and J. J. Freeland as commissioners. The same year the county's congressional vote went to the Know Nothing candidate. People: George Laws, Lemuel Lynch, James C. Turrentine, John J. FreelandSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 87 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, February 7, 1855, p. 2