Indexed works
Works about or by Charles Greville Montagu. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Representations for the King respecting four acts passed in North Carolina, the establishment of a Post Office, the disallowing of Queen's College in Charlotte Town, and additional instructions for the Governor
1773
Four North Carolina acts come before the king in this 1773 set of representations, along with the establishment of a post office, the disallowing of Queen's College at Charlotte Town, and added instructions to the governor. Riot and law and order, Presbyterian marriage, fines and seizures all figure. Josiah Martin, Bamber Gascoyne and Soame Jenyns are named. The Earl of Hillsborough gives the county link.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Greville Montagu, Charles.
Dispatches from William Bull to the Earl of Dartmouth, numbers 54-59
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Numbered dispatches 54 through 59 from William Bull, lieutenant governor of South Carolina, to William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth, secretary of state for the colonies, digitized by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019. Topics include the assembly, finance and currency, shipping, taxes, appointments, German and French Protestant migration, land grants and surveying, church building, education, and gold, silver and indigo. The Hillsborough connection is Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, Dartmouth's predecessor and the man for whom the Orange County town is named, rather than the town itself.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Greville Montagu, Charles.
Draft correspondence concerning South Carolina, 1771
1771
Draft correspondence of 1771 on South Carolina affairs, covering the colonial agent, roads and boundaries, Catawba and Cherokee lands, textile manufacture, militia, and Protestant refugees settling at New Bordeaux. William Henry Drayton, Charles Garth and Charles Greville Montagu are mentioned. The Orange County tie is nominal, the Earl of Hillsborough having given his title to the town.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Greville Montagu, Charles.
Documents concerning the border between North and South Carolina
1765
Documents of 1765 on fixing the border between North and South Carolina, concerning surveying, Cherokee and Catawba lands, and the Broad and Catawba rivers. William Bull, Charles Greville Montagu and William Tryon are mentioned. The file reaches Orange County only through the Earl of Hillsborough, who gave the town its name.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Greville Montagu, Charles.
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 Duke record: Greville Montagu, Charles.
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