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Jesse Hargrave

Jesse Hargrave came to Chapel Hill from Davidson County in 1835 and became one of the village's leading merchants, with a general store on Franklin Street by 1840. The village Methodists, who had no church, met in the room over his store. In 1843 he married Margaret Barbee, a granddaughter of one of the university's land donors. He died in 1854, and his clerks David McCauley and Thomas A. Long took over the business.

Source: Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle (Kemp Plummer), 1831-1919. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume…

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  1. Jesse Hargrave opens a general store whose upstairs room serves the Methodists Jesse Hargrave, in Chapel Hill since 1835, had a general store on Franklin Street by 1840. The Methodists, who had no church yet, held services in a second-floor room of the store. Hargrave bought the Yancey house the same year. People: Jesse HargraveSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 75
  2. Charles F. Deems preaches to Chapel Hill Methodists in the hall he names Bethesda While a professor, Deems preached to the village Methodists, at their invitation, in the upper story of Jesse Hargrave's store, a former Masonic lodge room he named Bethesda. After he left the university in 1848, ministers were regularly appointed to the Chapel Hill charge. People: Jesse HargraveSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, Volume I
  3. The General Assembly passes an act incorporating Chapel Hill under five commissioners Chapter 330 of the 1850-51 session laws, ratified January 29, 1851, made Manuel Fetter, Jesse Hargrave, Patterson H. McDade, Elisha Mitchell and Jones Watson the commissioners of Chapel Hill, with five commissioners to be elected each February after. They were to choose a magistrate of police, treasurer, constable and clerk and fix the town's bounds. People: Elisha Mitchell, Jones Watson, Manuel Fetter, Jesse Hargrave, Patterson H. McDadeSearch the index · Laws of the State of North Carolina, session of 1850-51 (1851), chapter 330, pp. 730-731

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