W. B. (William Bingham) Lynch

Life and Orange County connections

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1. March to April 1868 Agent Whittemore makes a planter divide a crop with two freedmen after two former Confederate officers vouch for them In his first case, agent Charles B. Whittemore heard two freedmen's claims to shares of a crop raised on a planter's farm about twelve miles from Hillsborough. Robert Bingham and Maj. William B. Lynch, who told him they had been Confederate officers with no love for Yankees, came with the freedmen and said they were faithful and industrious men about to be robbed of their dues. Whittemore ordered the crop held, on March 24 awarded one freedman 920 sticks of tobacco and 50 bushels of corn, and on April 17 sent Deputy Sheriff J. M. Blackwood to weigh and divide the rest. People: Robert Bingham, W. B. (William Bingham) Lynch Place: Orange County, about twelve miles from Hillsborough · Also named: Charles B. Whittemore, J. M. BlackwoodFreedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Letters Sent, Vol. 130, July 1867–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 77
2. 1873 Robert Bingham takes charge of the Bingham School near Mebane When his brother William died in 1873, Robert Bingham became headmaster of the Bingham School, which had moved from the Oaks to Mebane. In May 1879 he bought out his cousin William B. Lynch's interest and became sole proprietor. People: Robert Bingham, William Bingham (1835-1873), W. B. (William Bingham) Lynch Place: Orange County, Bingham School near MebaneSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Bingham, Robert