Indexed works
Works about or by Benjamin Heron. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough numbered 59-67, enclosing documents concerning the Regulators
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Numbered dispatches 59 through 67 from Governor William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, with enclosures about the Regulators, whose protests broke into riot at Hillsborough in 1770. Reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office CO 5/302. The papers touch on the council and assembly, naval stores and trade, oaths, militia and provincial troops, judges, sheriffs and juries, voting, currency, Cherokee affairs, clergy, quitrents and land, and name officials such as Richard Caswell, Richard Henderson, Maurice Moore and Hugh Waddell.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Heron, Benjamin.
Letters from William Tryon to the Lords Commissioners, enclosing legislation and accounts of the ship 'Brigantine Fox'
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Letters from Governor William Tryon to the Lords Commissioners in London, with enclosed legislation and the accounts of the ship Brigantine Fox, reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office file CO 5/300. They show the range of a governor's business: council appointments, judges and courts, assembly acts, cotton manufacturing, poverty, naval stores, rice, tobacco and indigo, currency, the Tuscarora, education, marriage, debt and customs. Hillsborough is among the places named, and people include William Johnston, Richard Henderson, Cornelius Harnett and Samuel Strudwick.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Heron, Benjamin.
Correspondence of Governor Tryon and enclosed copy of the minutes of Council held at Brunswick, April 14 1769
1769
Governor William Tryon's correspondence for 1769 with a copy of the council minutes taken at Brunswick on 14 April, covering treaty and boundary talks with the Cherokee, complaints brought before the board, militia and sheriffs, and the dissolution of the assembly with writs for a new election. James Hasell, William Dry and Lewis DeRosett attend. The Earl of Hillsborough, namesake of the Orange County seat, receives it.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Heron, Benjamin.
Dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough
1769
Governor William Tryon's 1769 dispatches to the Earl of Hillsborough, ranging from quitrents, land surveys and timber to rice growing, housing, printing, a lottery, and the colony's enslaved people, women and children. Samuel Cornell, Benjamin Heron, Marmaduke Jones and Samuel Strudwick are among the names. Hillsborough was named for the earl, which is the local tie.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Heron, Benjamin.
Correspondence of Mr Robinson and Mr Pownall respecting payments ordered to Governor Bruce of Bermuda relative to the revenues arising to the Crown from land sales and leases there, and complaints made by customs officers of Rhode Island
1771
John Robinson of the Treasury and John Pownall exchanged letters in 1771 over payments ordered to Governor Bruce of Bermuda out of Crown revenue from land sales and leases there, and over complaints made by customs officers in Rhode Island. A claim involving Alice and Benjamin Heron also appears. The papers reach Orange County only by way of the Earl of Hillsborough, for whom the town was named.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Heron, Benjamin.
Correspondence of Governor Tryon and the Earl of Hillsborough containing and relative to returns records of arms, accoutrements, and taxables in North Carolina
1769
Governor William Tryon's letters to the Earl of Hillsborough from 1769, forwarding returns of arms, accoutrements and taxable persons in North Carolina. The same file carries his reports on suppressing insurgents, on land grants and quitrents, on the defence of the coast at Fort Johnston, and on paper currency and the appointment of Mr McCulloh. Orange County is present through the Earl, whose title named Hillsborough. CO 5/312.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Heron, Benjamin.
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Correspondence relative to regulations of land and schemes for a regular collection of Quitrents in North Carolina
1769
Letters of 1769 on land regulation in North Carolina and on schemes for collecting quitrents regularly, the yearly dues owed to the Crown on granted land. Benjamin Heron, Governor William Tryon and the Earl of Hillsborough are the principal names, and topics include sheriffs, rents, land grants and fines. Hillsborough takes its name from that earl, which is the whole of the local link.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Heron, Benjamin.
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