John Kinchen

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1770 Lawyer John Kinchen moves from Halifax to Hillsborough Kinchen sold 1,300 acres in Northampton County and moved to Hillsborough to practise law in Orange County's growing courts. He kept his law office in town and bought a plantation called Tar Hill in the St. Mary's community, staying about ten years. Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: St. Mary's communitySearch the index · NCpedia: Kinchen, John (Henry W. Lewis, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1988)
2. April 3, 1775 Orange County sends Thomas Burke, John Kinchen and Francis Nash to the second Provincial Congress The second Provincial Congress met at New Bern a day ahead of the royal legislature, with Burke, Kinchen and Nash as Orange's delegates. In the legislature itself Orange sat Ralph McNair and Thomas Hart, and Thomas Nash sat for Hillsborough. People: Thomas Burke, Francis Nash, Thomas Hart, Ralph McNair, John Kinchen Place: New Bern · Also named: Thomas NashSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 42
3. August 1775 Orange County sends Thomas Hart, Thomas Burke and three others to the Third Provincial Congress Thomas Hart sat for Orange in the Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough with Thomas Burke, John Kinchen, John Atkinson and John Williams. A 1961 article names Nathaniel Rochester as elected too, citing the Colonial Records; he may have sat for the town of Hillsborough. People: Thomas Hart, Thomas Burke, John Kinchen, John Williams Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John Atkinson, Nathaniel RochesterInternet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Thomas Hart in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 41 (1964), p. 332 · Also: Internet Archive: North Carolina Historical Review 38
4. August to September 1775 The Provincial Congress forms the Hillsborough District and its committee of safety The Congress grouped Orange, Granville, Chatham and Wake counties into a Hillsborough District with a thirteen-member committee of safety; John Atkinson, John Butler and William Johnston sat for Orange. Thomas Person and John Kinchen represented the district on the Provincial Council. People: John Butler, William Johnston, Thomas Person, John Kinchen Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John Atkinson · Also mentions: Hillsborough DistrictLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 43 · Also: Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
5. September 9, 1775 Provincial Congress at Hillsborough elects a Provincial Council to govern between sessions On September 9, 1775, the Congress at Hillsborough elected a thirteen-member Provincial Council to direct the army and militia during its recess: Samuel Johnston for the province at large and two members for each of the six districts, among them Abner Nash and James Coor for New Bern and Thomas Person and John Kinchen for Hillsborough. People: Abner Nash, Samuel Johnston, Samuel Ashe, Willie Jones, Waightstill Avery, Thomas Person, Cornelius Harnett, John Kinchen, Samuel Spencer Place: Hillsborough · Also named: James CoorSearch the index · Colonial and State Records of North Carolina: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, Aug 20 to Sep 10, 1775 (vol. 10, pp. 164–220)
6. April 12, 1776 Orange County's Thomas Burke and John Kinchen sit on the committee whose report becomes the Halifax Resolves On April 8 the congress named a select committee, Burke and Kinchen of Orange among its seven members, to weigh the British measures against America. Its report, adopted unanimously on April 12, empowered the colony's delegates at Philadelphia to join the other colonies in declaring independence. People: Thomas Burke, John Kinchen Place: HalifaxSearch the index · North Carolina Provincial Congress, Journal of the Proceedings of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, Held at Halifax, April 4, 1776 (1831), scan p. 20
7. Spring 1776 Orange County sends Rochester, Burke, Kinchen, Butler and Saunders to the Provincial Congress at Halifax Orange County elected Nathaniel Rochester with John Kinchen, James Saunders, John Butler and Thomas Burke to represent it at the Provincial Congress at Halifax in 1776, the session that set up a provisional government, ordered six more Continental regiments raised and instructed the state's delegates in the Continental Congress to vote for independence. People: Nathaniel Rochester, John Kinchen, John Butler, Thomas Burke Place: Halifax · Also named: James SaundersSearch the index · Internet Archive: North Carolina Historical Review 38 (1961), p. 473
8. early 1777 A special Hillsborough District court fails to sit when John Penn does not appear Governor Richard Caswell named John Kinchen and John Penn judges of a special court of oyer and terminer for the Hillsborough District. Penn did not come, Kinchen would not sit alone, and no court was held. People: John Penn, Richard Caswell Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsborough DistrictSearch the index · NCpedia: Kinchen, John (Henry W. Lewis, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1988)
9. February 12, 1779 General Assembly charters an academy near Hillsborough named Science Hall Meeting at Halifax, the General Assembly passed an act to establish an academy in the neighborhood of Hillsborough, naming William Hooper, Thomas Burke, Nathaniel Rochester, James Hogg and others as trustees. The act named the school Science Hall and gave its trustees the same powers as those of Liberty Hall in Mecklenburg County. People: Alexander Martin, Nathaniel Rochester, Thomas Hart, James Hogg, Thomas Burke, William Hooper, William Johnston, John Kinchen Place: HillsboroughDocumenting the American South: Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1779 (Colonial and State Records, vol. 24)