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Alexander Martin, a Salisbury lawyer, was among the lawyers a Regulator mob assaulted at the Hillsborough court in September 1770. He later represented Guilford County in the Third Provincial Congress, became president of the state's Board of War in 1780, was elected governor in 1782 and served on the University of North Carolina's board of trustees until his death.
Source: NCpedia: Martin, Alexander (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
–1807 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Letters written and received by Governor Alexander Martin in October 1791, in 22 images, part of the Governors' Papers at the State Archives of North Carolina. Hillsborough and Orange County are among the places concerned.
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Salary papers for Joseph Martin, 1784 to 1789, covering his work as agent and then superintendent of Indian affairs, first for Virginia from 1777 and for North Carolina from 1783 to 1789. The documents bear the signatures of Governors Alexander Martin and Richard Caswell. Eighteen images.
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Letters from the first administration of Governor Alexander Martin, 4 May to 2 November 1782, in 22 images. Martin first held the office as acting governor after Tories captured Thomas Burke in 1781. Business in these months touches elections, clemency, judges and Continental Army pay, and names William Blount, William R. Davie, Hillsborough and Orange County.
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Papers of Alexander Martin from 1780 to 1790, when he sat on the Board of War and later served as governor of North Carolina. They include an order to pay expenses connected with Joseph Kidd and a letter to Comptroller Francis Child about settling Revolutionary army accounts. Sixteen images.
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Abner Nash's correspondence as governor from 2 May 1780 to 2 June 1781, with some undated pieces, in 68 images that include letters and resolutions. Nash served as the state's second governor, 1780 to 1781. Topics include military bounties, prisoners of war, debt, wages, the Continental Army and the French navy, with Hillsborough and Orange County among the places concerned.
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Ordinance of the trustees of the University of North Carolina, adopted in 1792 and signed by Alexander Martin as president, allowing the district trustees and the university's attorneys to settle certain claims by equitable compromise. It rests on the General Assembly act vesting escheated property in the university.
Letters of the historian George Bancroft, 1845 to 1885, 22 items. Fifteen are transcripts of letters addressed to UNC president David L. Swain about the state's history: the Regulators, the Loyalists, the Mecklenburg Declaration, Tryon and Martin as governors, and Edmund Fanning and Hermon Husbands, both central to the Regulator troubles in Hillsborough.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807.
North Carolina land grant number 479, conveying 595 acres in Orange County to John Walker, with the survey of the tract. The papers are dated 27 January to 5 December 1797, and the names of Governors Alexander Martin and Samuel Ashe are attached to them.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807.
Governor Alexander Martin's correspondence from his second administration, 12 January to 27 November 1792, with some items from 1791, in 121 images. Oliver Wolcott Jr. is among the writers. Matters include taxation, tobacco, liquor, military pensions, debts and the army's clothing accounts, with William Blount, Benjamin Hawkins, Richard Caswell and Hillsborough named.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807.
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April 1791 letters of Governor Alexander Martin, eight images, including correspondence from Abishai Thomas. Martin was elected governor six times. Hillsborough and Orange County figure in the month's business.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807.
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Governor Alexander Martin's letters from January 1791, during his second administration, in 20 images. Abishai Thomas is among the correspondents, and Richmond County, Hillsborough and Orange County are named.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807.
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June 1791 correspondence of Alexander Martin as governor, 14 images. Letters from Abishai Thomas are among them, and Hillsborough and Orange County come up in the month's affairs.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807.
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Hugh Williamson is among the correspondents in Governor Alexander Martin's letters from 6 March to 26 December 1790, during his second administration. County boundaries are a recurring matter, and the 33 images touch Anson, Cumberland, Granville, Johnston, Mecklenburg, Rowan and Orange counties.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807.
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Francis Child is among the correspondents in Governor Alexander Martin's letters for May 1790, 14 images. Hillsborough and Orange County appear in the month's business.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807.
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Land grant no. 1063 from the State of North Carolina, conveying 186 acres in Orange County to Billey Gosling Gouge and signed by Governor Alexander Martin, with a survey of the tract. The papers are dated 9 March 1785 to 30 August 1791.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807.
Documents sent for the General Assembly's perusal in 1784, 48 images. Governor Alexander Martin, loyalists, land titles, justices of the peace and elections all figure, with Burke County and Hillsborough among the places.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807.
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North Carolina's part in the Constitutional Convention of 1787, told by Burton Craige (1875 to 1945) with biographical sketches of the state's delegates: William Blount, William R. Davie, Alexander Martin, Richard Dobbs Spaight and Hugh Williamson. Archibald Craige published it in 1987, the Convention's bicentennial; 200 pages with portraits, a bibliography and a folded color facsimile map in a back pocket.
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