Patterson H. McDade

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1. 1838 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: Matthew McCauley Jr., 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. January 29, 1851 The General Assembly passes an act incorporating Chapel Hill under five commissioners Chapter 330 of the 1850-51 session laws, ratified January 29, 1851, made Manuel Fetter, Jesse Hargrave, Patterson H. McDade, Elisha Mitchell and Jones Watson the commissioners of Chapel Hill, with five commissioners to be elected each February after. They were to choose a magistrate of police, treasurer, constable and clerk and fix the town's bounds. People: Elisha Mitchell, Jones Watson, Manuel Fetter, Jesse Hargrave, Patterson H. McDade Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Laws of the State of North Carolina, session of 1850-51 (1851), chapter 330, pp. 730-731 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952; The Daily Tar Heel, October 12, 1993, p. 18
3. February 1855 The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County The 1855 charters were for roads from Chapel Hill to Morrisville and to Durhamsville, from Hillsborough to Chapel Hill, and from Hillsborough to Milton, with capital from $20,000 to $150,000. The Hillsboro' and Chapel Hill company was chartered on February 10, 1855, and the Hillsboro' and Milton and the Chapel Hill and Durhamsville Plank Road and Turnpike companies on February 14. Lefler and Wager could not say which, if any, were built. People: Charles Phillips, Edmund Strudwick, Andrew Mickle, Patterson H. McDade Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Hillsborough to Chapel HillSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 184 · Also: Internet Archive: North Carolina Historical Review 16
4. March 1855 The Chapel Hill Baptist Church starts its Sunday school The Sunday school opened with P. H. McDade, the church's first clerk, as superintendent. It soon had a library of about three hundred books, and in 1861 its pupils memorized 20,000 Bible verses. People: Patterson H. McDade Place: Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 17
5. by April 18, 1857 E. J. Mallett serves as intendant of Chapel Hill over five commissioners Chapel Hill's town government in April 1857 was led by Intendant E. J. Mallett, with commissioners P. H. McDade, Calvin Scott, Elisha Mitchell, John H. Watson and a fifth whose name the print garbles. J. Watson was town constable. People: Patterson H. McDade, Elisha Mitchell, John H. Watson Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: E. J. Mallett, Calvin ScottSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Gazette, April 18, 1857, p. 2
6. July 13, 1857 Chapel Hill's commissioners enter resolutions on the death of their fellow commissioner Elisha Mitchell The village board recorded its loss of Mitchell, who sat with them as a commissioner, and ordered the resolutions entered in the village journals. Copies went to his family and the Chapel Hill Gazette. People: Elisha Mitchell, Patterson H. McDade, Hugh B. Guthrie, John H. Watson Place: Board of Commissioners, Chapel HillSearch the index · A Memoir of the Rev. Elisha Mitchell (1858), scan p. 47
7. December 1857 John H. Watson sits on Chapel Hill's board of town commissioners A business directory of Chapel Hill dated Christmas 1857 listed John H. Watson among the town's commissioners, with H. B. Guthrie, P. H. McDade and Calvin Scott. People: John H. Watson, Hugh B. Guthrie, Patterson H. McDade Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Calvin ScottSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Literary Gazette, January 23, 1858, p. 4 (Business Directory of the Town of Chapel Hill, December 25, 1857)