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Wills Hill Downshire

5 indexed records are connected with this person.

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Dispatches and letters from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, concerning the War of the Regulation

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: education, Church of England, finance, tax, marriage, administration, clergy, debt, town, metal, ordnance stores, ships and sailors, harbour, raising of troops, Provincials, riot, Regulators, assembly, law and…

Dispatches from William Bull to the Earl of Dartmouth, numbers 54-59

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: assembly, finance, currency, ships and sailors, tax, death, appointment, council, Germans, alcohol, migration, agriculture, French, Protestantism, church (building), education, land, land grant, surveying, gol…

Dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough numbered 59-67, enclosing documents concerning the Regulators

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: council, naval stores, trade, oath, militia, defence, raising of troops, judge, court of law, sheriff, jury, voting, riot, tax, alcohol, finance, Regulators, skirmish, resignation, soldier, Provincials, Cherok…

Letters and Dispatches from Josiah Martin to the Earl of Hillsborough and the Lords Commissioners

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: health and medicine, women, land grant, court of law, council, customs, frontier, migration, Germans, Protestantism, colonial disaffection, litigation, judge, rebellion, Regulators, riot, treason, land, legisl…

Letters and dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, October 1768 - May 1769

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: legislation, clergy, Church of England, Protestantism, soldier, wages, sheriff, land, property, trade, currency, import, tax, education, children, Indians, Catawba, boundary, road, murder, customs, family life…

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  1. Childsburgh is renamed Hillsborough Childsburgh was renamed Hillsborough in honor of Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough. People: Wills Hill, Earl of HillsboroughNCpedia

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