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Simon Lindley was born in Orange County on 20 January 1769 and, after marrying Anna Stanley in South Carolina in 1789, made his home there until the family moved to Christian County, Kentucky, in the mid-1790s. A farmer, Predestinarian Baptist minister and surveyor, he kept a cipher book of arithmetic and surveying methods from 1786 to 1795.
Source: UNC Libraries, Wilson Special Collections Library: Simon Lindley Cipher Book, 1786-1795
1769–1827 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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A cipher book kept by Simon Lindley, 1769 to 1827, between the years 1786 and 1795, a single item in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5256-z. The book contains mathematics exercises, surveying and account keeping, with connections to Orange County, the Reedy River area of South Carolina and Christian County, Kentucky.
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