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William Montgomery

William Montgomery (1789–1844) was a physician who practiced at Albright's in Orange County. He represented Orange in the state senate from 1824 to 1827 and again from 1829 to 1834. In 1835 the county's voters sent him and James S. Smith to the state constitutional convention, and the same year he was elected to Congress, where he served three terms. He died at Albright's in November 1844.

Source: Documenting the American South: North Carolina. Constitutional Convention (1835). Journal of the Convention, Called by the…

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  1. Dr. William Montgomery of Orange is elected to Congress Montgomery, a Jackson Democrat and longtime state senator for Orange, defeated Daniel A. Barringer, carrying his home county 1,501 to 900. He served three terms. People: William MontgomerySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 85
  2. Orange County sends physicians William Montgomery and James S. Smith to the 1835 convention Ten men were put forward at meetings around the county, and the voters chose two physicians, William Montgomery and James S. Smith. Each sided with the majority that abolished borough seats, which cost Hillsborough its own member in the House of Commons. People: Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, William MontgomerySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 86
  3. James S. Smith of Orange moves to abolish borough seats at the 1835 convention At the state constitutional convention in Raleigh, James S. Smith, one of Orange County's two delegates with William Montgomery, moved on June 11, 1835, to abolish borough representation entirely; the motion failed 61 to 67. The convention's committee later recommended taking the House seat from Hillsborough, Halifax and Salisbury while keeping it for four other towns. People: William MontgomerySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Journal of the Convention ... Which Assembled in the City of Raleigh, on the 4th of June, 1835

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 929.375 CLE North and South Carolina Marriage Records From the Earliest Colonial Days to the Civil War Clemens, William Montgomery · 1973

    Nearly 7,500 marriages from North and South Carolina, roughly 1683 to 1865, compiled and edited by William Montgomery Clemens and arranged alphabetically by surname, with the brides' maiden names. First published in 1927; this is the Genealogical Publishing Company reprint of 1973, 295 pages.

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  • NC LIVE: prepared search for William Montgomery Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
  • Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries

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  • Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection North and South Carolina Marriage Records: From the Earliest Colonial Days to the Civil War Clemens, William Montgomery · 1927

    Marriages in the two Carolinas from early colonial times to the Civil War, compiled and edited by William Montgomery Clemens and published in New York by E. P. Dutton in 1927; x and 295 pages. Genealogical Publishing Company reprinted it in 1973 and 1981.

    Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Registers of births, etc -- North Carolina; Registers of births, etc -- South Carolina OCPL call number: NC 929.3 CLE

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