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William Lenoir was the first chairman of the University of North Carolina's board of trustees, and Lenoir Hall, the campus dining hall that opened in January 1940, was named for him. He enslaved people; in July 1790 he bought an eleven-year-old boy named Martin.
Source: UNC Names in Brick and Stone: Lenoir Dining Hall
1751–1839 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by William Lenoir.
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October 1803 correspondence of Governor James Turner, in 35 images, with William Lenoir among the writers. Anson County, Hillsborough and Orange County are among the places concerned.
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Papers of Archibald D. Murphey, the Orange County lawyer, state senator, superior court judge and historian, 1797 to 1852. Many of the letters are ones William Henry Hoyt gathered for his two-volume edition of Murphey's papers, published in Raleigh in 1914. Topics include court cases, internal improvements, the western lands, the university trustees, and friends in Louisiana and the Mississippi Territory in 1811 and 1812. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.12.
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Reports of the General Assembly's joint select committees from 25 November to 20 December 1786, in 79 images. Among them are a report on Wilkes County petitions supporting Benjamin Herndon, a committee on counting the state's white and black inhabitants, and a rejected petition of John Bradley. Other business concerns taxes, paper money, tobacco, Quakers, the militia and Orange County.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Lenoir, William, 1751-1839.
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A 1784 bill in the House of Commons for the new District of Morgan: commissioners would build public buildings, raise a tax for them and plan a town in Burke County. Jesse Franklin and William Lenoir are named. Introduced 10 May at the General Assembly's Hillsborough session.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Lenoir, William, 1751-1839.
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Senate joint resolutions of 7 to 15 May 1782, 76 images with messages, a committee report and petitions. Among them: Francis Newby of Franklin County, David Marshall of New Bern, and Dennis O'Bryan, George Duncan and Joseph Pitman of Granville County. Thomas Burke, Willie Jones and Waightstill Avery figure in the papers, and Hillsborough is among the places tied to them.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Lenoir, William, 1751-1839.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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