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Henry McCulloh

1700–1779 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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May 19, 1737 An order in Council grants Henry McCulloh's associates warrants for 1,200,000 acres along the Yadkin, Eno and Catawba On a petition from Henry McCulloh, Murray Crymble, James Huey and others, Arthur Dobbs among them, an order in Council allowed them warrants for 1,200,000 acres in the back country, to be located chiefly along the Yadkin, the Eno and the Catawba. Under the grant McCulloh was to settle substantial people on the land to carry on the potash trade and raise hemp and other naval stores. People: Arthur Dobbs Place: Eno River (later Orange County) · Also named: Murray Crymble, James HueySearch the index · Internet Archive: R. D. W. Connor, William K. Boyd and J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, History of North Carolina (1919), vol. 1, p. 165

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Arthur Dobbs 1 entry: An order in Council grants Henry McCulloh's associates warrants for 1,200,000 acres along the Yadkin, Eno and Catawba (May 19, 1737)

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Joint Papers (April-May, 1780): Joint Select Committee Reports and Papers

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1780

Reports and papers of the joint select committees of the North Carolina General Assembly from its April to May 1780 session, in 223 images. Items include a Virginia governor's letter on naval officers and duties at the Ocracoke channel, committee appointments, and Henry Mounger's petition on where Montgomery County's public buildings should stand. Orange County is among the many counties touched.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: McCulloh, Henry, approximately 1700-1779.

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Foundational · NC 929.209 DUNAWAY Henry McCulloh and Son Henry Eustace McCulloh: 18th Century Entrepreneurs, Land Speculators of North Carolina Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2013
Stewart E. Dunaway's 617-page study of two colonial land speculators: Henry McCulloh (about 1700 to 1779), the Londoner whose large Crown grants included land between the Northeast Cape Fear and Black rivers and tracts inside the Granville District, and his son Henry Eustace McCulloh (died about 1810). Facsimiles, maps and genealogical tables support the text, with a bibliography and index. Privately published through Lulu in 2011 and reissued in February 2013.

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Background

NCpedia: Henry Mcculloh Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry

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Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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