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Benjamin Franklin Mebane

1823–1884 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. The wardens of the poor elect Dr. Benjamin F. Mebane physician to the poorhouse At the same April 1857 meeting the Court of Wardens told its treasurer to hand over the rest of the 1856 poor taxes so the superintendent could pay the oldest orders first. People: Benjamin Franklin Mebane Place: Orange County poorhouseSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 187
  2. The Bureau agent orders a Mebaneville landowner to pay Jordan White for railroad cordwood On April 24, 1868, Whittemore settled Jordan White's complaint against Addison E. Wilson, on whose land near the North Carolina Railroad White had cleared ground and cut wood, by ordering Wilson to pay him for 22 cords and a dollar a cord on 27 more and to let him stay and work his part of the place until November 1. Wilson asked for a new hearing on April 27, and Benjamin F. Mebane, William Bingham and Robert Bingham signed a statement that the custom of giving the wood to whoever cleared the land did not hold along the railroad, where wood had a cash value. White wrote to Gen. Nelson A. Miles on June 10 that the ruling had been turned against him at a hearing he was not called to; the case went to Lt. Thomas H. Hay and was closed on October 30 with a $7.50 judgment from a justice of the peace. People: Benjamin Franklin Mebane, William Bingham (1835-1873), Robert Bingham Place: Mebaneville, Orange County · Also named: Charles B. Whittemore, Jordan White, Addison E. Wilson, Thomas H. HayFreedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Records Relating to Cases Tried & Destitute Freedmen, Part 1, transcription p. 84

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Mebane family papers, 1815-1948 (bulk 1870-1900).

Mebane (Family : Mebane, N.C.) · 1815

The Mebane family of Mebane, North Carolina left 950 items in a linear foot and a half spanning 1815 to 1948 and thickest between 1870 and 1900, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3227. Topics include physicians and patent medicines, the tobacco industry, family life, and schooling at the Bingham School in Orange County and the Nash and Kollock School in Hillsborough, with women's diaries among the papers.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Mebane, Benjamin Franklin, 1823-1884.

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