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Halcott P. Jones

Halcott P. Jones headed H. P. Jones & Co., which made long-cut and granulated smoking tobacco at a factory near the railroad depot in Hillsborough, as the 1886 North Carolina Tobacco Belt Directory records.

Source: NCGenWeb Orange County: Gazetteer of Orange County, NC: Hillsboro (from the North Carolina Tobacco Belt Directory of 1886)

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The Orange Guards, 1855–19281855–1928 · The Orange Guards, Hillsborough's volunteer company, went to war in 1861 and outlived it by decades. Formed in 1855 after a visit from Raleigh's Independent Guards, with sixty-two men under Dr. Pride Jones as captain, the company was incorporated by the General Assembly in 1859, which exempted members from jury duty and road work. On April 20, 1861 it left for Fort Macon, and as Company G of the 27th North Carolina it lost men at Sharpsburg and Bristoe Station. Old soldiers revived it in 1875 under Captain Halcott P. Jones, and nearly thirty men signed the roll to reorganize it in 1894. In 1928 the University of North Carolina Press published its Descriptive Book, edited by H. M. Wagstaff. Hillsborough's tobacco market: factories and warehouses, 1877–18911877–1891 · Hillsborough built up a tobacco market of warehouses and factories between 1877 and 1891, though the firms behind it dissolved or changed hands again and again. Pogue's warehouse held its opening sale in 1877, and in 1882 Major H. P. Jones received what the Observer called the first cablegram ever sent to Hillsborough, a Liverpool order for his Tar Heel smoking tobacco. In 1886 the Hookers' Central Warehouse gave the town a second warehouse. The Webb & Co. firm dissolved in 1887, A. A. Springs assigned his business in 1888, and Hooker & Crisp dissolved in 1889. E. A. Rosemond bought the Central Warehouse and in 1891 opened his warehouse at prices that pleased the farmers.

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  1. Hillsborough boys organize the Junior Orange Guards Boys of Hillsborough, following the example of the Orange Guards, organized a cadet company called the Junior Orange Guards on November 14, with Halcott P. Jones as captain and Robert D. Graham as first lieutenant. They chose Dr. Edmund Strudwick Jr. as surgeon and Pride Jones as secretary and treasurer. People: Pride Jones, Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 18, 1857, p. 2
  2. H. P. Jones ships two hundred cases of Tar Heel smoking tobacco from Hillsborough to Georgia The Recorder reported that Jones had lately shipped two hundred cases of his Tar Heel brand smoking tobacco to Georgia and held orders for a hundred more. People: Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 21, 1872, p. 3
  3. The Orange Guards reorganize at Hillsborough with Halcott P. Jones as captain Old soldiers and other citizens met at the courthouse on Saturday, September 18, under Dr. Pride Jones to revive the Orange Guards, the Hillsborough company that had served in the 27th North Carolina Regiment. They readopted the company's constitution and by-laws of 1859, elected Halcott P. Jones captain with William N. Anderson, Sidney G. Strayhorn and A. W. Graham as lieutenants, and named committees to choose a uniform and procure arms. People: Pride Jones, Augustus Washington Graham, Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 22, 1875, p. 3
  4. A new plug tobacco factory gives Hillsborough four, beside H. P. Jones's smoking factory A Mr. Brown opened a new factory in Hillsborough for making plug tobacco, bringing the town to four plug factories besides H. P. Jones's large smoking-tobacco factory. The town's tobacco warehouse stood empty, and the factories bought leaf mostly from Durham or privately. People: Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 23, 1877, p. 3
  5. A. W. Graham, H. P. Jones and New York investors buy control of the Patterson gold mine A. W. Graham, H. P. Jones, a Judge Pratt of New York and others bought a controlling interest in the Patterson gold mine, about twelve miles from Hillsborough. The same men also bought into mineral lands in Granville County. People: Halcott P. Jones, Augustus Washington GrahamSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 7, 1882, p. 3
  6. Major H. P. Jones receives Hillsborough's first cablegram, a Liverpool order for Tar Heel tobacco Major H. P. Jones received the first cablegram ever sent to Hillsborough, an order from Liverpool for 1,000 pounds of the Tar Heel smoking tobacco made at his factory. By April a second Liverpool order had come for 2,000 pounds, along with a standing order for 1,000 pounds a month. People: Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 18, 1882, p. 3
  7. Hillsborough holds a torchlight jubilee for the Democratic victory Democrats from Orange and five neighboring counties celebrated the election of Cleveland and Scales at Hillsborough with a cannon salute, a torchlight procession led by the Durham Cornet Band from the depot to the court house square, burning rosin barrels and fireworks, and speeches with Paul C. Cameron presiding. People: Paul C. Cameron, William R. Cox, Julian S. Carr, Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 15, 1884, p. 3
  8. Thomas B. Hill is elected senior warden of St. Matthew's Church At a vestry meeting of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Hillsborough, Thomas B. Hill was elected senior warden and James Webb Sr. junior warden and treasurer. Hill and Webb were also chosen among the parish delegates to the diocesan convention at Tarboro. People: Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 1, 1886, p. 3
  9. Major H. P. Jones puts the road west of Hillsborough to Dimmock's Mill in good order A letter to the Observer praised Major H. P. Jones for turning the bad road west of Hillsborough to Dimmock's Mill into the best in the county, and the editor added that he had done it at little cost to the county.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough): letter signed "Foot Man" on the road to Dimmock's Mill (January 14, 1888, p. 3)
  10. A new board of county commissioners takes office with H. P. Jones as chairman The new Orange County commissioners, W. D. Woods, James Y. Merritt and Major H. P. Jones, were sworn in by A. L. Holden of Little River Township, elected Jones chairman and approved the bonds of the newly elected county officers. At the same meeting Dr. Pride Jones reported his resignation as clerk of the superior court. People: A. L. Holden, Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), December 8, 1888, p. 3
  11. Orange County names its first superintendent of health Ten years after the 1879 law allowing county boards of health, Orange organized one, and the state health board's report for 1889-90 lists Dr. D. C. Parris of Hillsborough as part-time superintendent. Dr. C. D. Jones succeeded him in 1898 and served until the full-time department began in 1935. People: D. C. Parris, Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 215 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 12, 1889, p. 3
  12. County commissioners' chairman H. P. Jones leaves Orange for the Pacific Northwest Major H. P. Jones, chairman of the Orange County commissioners, left Hillsborough to run the Washington and Oregon business of the grocery and tobacco house of Mann, Sadler & Co., leaving a vacancy on the board; the paper credited him with putting the county's finances in order. People: Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 27, 1889, p. 3
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  1. The Orange County Farmers' Alliance names H. P. Jones its crop statistician At the State Alliance president's request, county Alliance president W. C. Cole appointed Major H. P. Jones county crop statistician and asked the sub-alliances to report crop conditions to him at once and every quarter after. People: Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 9, 1890, p. 3
  2. Fire destroys C. B. Grimes's shuttle factory near the Hillsborough depot Fire destroyed C. B. Grimes's shuttle factory near the railroad station, burning about $2,500 worth of shuttle blocks and damaging the engine, while hundreds of townspeople looked on with no buckets or ladders to fight it. Sparks set the depot warehouse and, that night, the old H. P. Jones factory alight, but both were saved. People: Charles M. Parks, Halcott P. JonesSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 13, 1895, p. 3

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