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Matthew McCauley came from Carrickfergus, Ireland, to Orange County before the Revolution, served in the 10th North Carolina Regiment of the Continental Army, and with his brother William gave 250 acres of land for the University of North Carolina.
Source: UNC Libraries: McCauley Family Papers, 1788-1872
1750–1821 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 works about Matthew McCauley are indexed here. 1 held at OCPL →
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Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 11 dated events in the chronology →
Later events: estates and burials, and the buildings, honors and histories that remember them.
People named in the same dated entries as Matthew McCauley, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.
Works about or by Matthew McCauley. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
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.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: McCauley, Matthew, 1750-1821 -- Family.
Black taffeta bonnet of about 1890, worn by Cynthia McCauley, wife of Ben McCauley and granddaughter-in-law of Matthew McCauley. The black chin ribbons were added in 1992. An Orange County piece in the Images of North Carolina collection.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
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, 1750-1821.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
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.
Buildings, schools, churches and other sites named in the dated events on this page, the most often named first. The map shows the 1 with a known location.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Site locations from the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office survey, Open Orange, Orange County GIS, OpenStreetMap and a few other published sources named on each site’s page; town and community pins show approximate locations.
One record of 1821 name Matthew McCauley as a party to the sale, gift, trust or other transfer of enslaved people. Each record lists the people named in it, with their ages and family ties.
31 deeds, 1782 to 1821, in the county’s deed books name Matthew McCauley as a party, from Mark Chilton’s published abstracts. Each links to the deed-book page at the Register of Deeds.
6 wills and papers in the county’s will books name Matthew McCauley, from Ruth Herndon Shields’s abstracts. Each shows the role and the year.
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