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Matthew McCauley Jr.

Matthew McCauley Jr., born in 1803, was the youngest child of Martha Johnston McCauley and Matthew McCauley Sr., who came to Orange County from County Antrim before the Revolution and with his brother William gave land for the University of North Carolina. A certificate of his bankruptcy, dated October 1842, survives in the family's papers.

Source: UNC Libraries: McCauley Family Papers, 1788-1872 (#4346-z), finding aid

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1803– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Matthew McCauley Jr. sells Elisha Mitchell a lot on West Franklin Street Professor Elisha Mitchell bought a West Franklin Street lot from Matthew McCauley in 1838 and sold it in 1847 to Patterson H. McDade. People: Elisha Mitchell, Patterson H. McDade Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Matthew McCauleySearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 81
  2. Matthew McCauley Jr. deeds five enslaved people to his mother, Martha McCauley By a deed of May 26, 1838, Matthew McCauley conveyed to Martha McCauley a man named Abram, a woman named Patsey, a girl named Sarah, a boy named Ben and an infant boy named Isaac, with a sorrel horse and a bay mare. Place: Orange County · Also named: Martha McCauley, Matthew McCauleySearch the index · Orange County Register of Deeds: sales of enslaved people, 1761-1867 (abstract of Deed Book 28, p. 112) · Also: Orange County Indexed: the record of Deed Book 28/112, with everyone named in it; Mark Chilton’s abstract of Deed Book 28/112, in Orange County Indexed’s historic deeds
  3. Matthew McCauley Jr.'s assignee in bankruptcy sells his land and six enslaved people to John W. Carr After McCauley was declared bankrupt, his assignee conveyed to John W. Carr 450 acres then held by McCauley's mother, Martha McCauley, next to Ilai W. Nunn; 160 acres next to W. H. Merritt; and six enslaved people, Abram, Patsey, Ben, Sarah, Isaac and Charity. People: John Wesley Carr Place: Orange County · Also named: Martha McCauleySearch the index · Orange County Register of Deeds: sales of enslaved people, 1761-1867 (abstract of Deed Book 30, p. 239) · Also: Orange County Indexed: the record of Deed Book 30/239, with everyone named in it; Mark Chilton’s abstract of Deed Book 30/239, in Orange County Indexed’s historic deeds

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McCauley family papers, 1788-1872.

McCauley (Family : Monroe, N.C.) · 1788

Eleven items of McCauley family papers running from 1788 to 1872, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4346-z. Subjects include Matthew McCauley, 1750 to 1821, and Matthew McCauley, Jr., born 1803, and turn on real property and economic conditions in North Carolina and the history of Orange County in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: McCauley, Matthew, Jr., 1803-.

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 929.209 NEV The Descendants of Matthew McCauley Neville, David Lindsay · 2001

    David Lindsay Neville's genealogy of the descendants of Matthew McCauley (1750-1821), one of the landowners who gave land for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Lloyd and Neville families come into it as well, and Orange County genealogy is its field. Compiled in 2001.

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