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Benjamin Lincoln

1733–1810 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Governors' Papers: Richard Caswell, Correspondence, March 1780

Lillington, John A. · 1780

March 1780 letters of Governor Richard Caswell, in 63 images, from the last weeks of his first run as governor. John A. Lillington is among the writers, and Benjamin Lincoln, Samuel Huntington, John Rutledge and Charles Thomson are named, with Camden, Duplin, Hertford, Wayne and Orange counties.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810.

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1779 Orange County militia serve at Stono Ferry in South Carolina Under General John Butler, militia from Orange took part in Benjamin Lincoln's attack on the British at Stono Ferry. People: John Butler, Benjamin LincolnSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 49

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John Butler 1 entry: Orange County militia serve at Stono Ferry in South Carolina (1779)

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Background context: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 49 FamilySearch
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Benjamin Lincoln NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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