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Stephen Moore

1734–1799 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineThe Orange County Bible Society, 1822–18461822–1846 · 6 events · In 1828 the Orange County Bible Society resolved to supply every household in the county that had no Bible. Hillsborough people had formed the society on January 7, 1822 as an auxiliary of the American Bible Society. Early in 1828 a committee visited every Hillsborough family and found one household without a Bible, which it supplied within the hour; that summer the managers turned to the whole county and named Dennis Heartt agent to collect gifts. In October 1829 the society reported about a thousand families in the county without a Bible and resolved to supply them through paid agents. In September 1846 citizens organized a new county Bible society at Hillsborough under Giles Mebane. StorylineOrange County's common schools, 1840–18531840–1853 · 12 events · When the federal census of 1840 counted 6,463 Orange County children between five and twenty, fewer than 500 of them were enrolled in school. After county voters accepted the 1839 school law, the county court levied a school tax and the county was laid off in districts. A common school opened in the Hawfield district near Gravelly Hill in May 1840, and the Recorder urged the other districts to follow. By the 1844-45 term 57 common schools taught only white children. In 1850 Samuel Wellwood Hughes was appointed to what NCpedia calls the first Orange County board to examine teachers, and the earliest written record of the schools, for 1853, showed 2,507 of 4,447 children attending.

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  1. The firm of Thomas & John Faddis is wound up after John Faddis Jr. dies After merchant John Faddis Jr. died suddenly in Hillsborough on September 27, Stephen Moore was authorized to settle the accounts of the late firm of Thomas & John Faddis. People: Stephen Moore Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John Faddis Jr., John FaddisSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 21, 1821, p. 3
  2. Hillsborough elects its magistrate of police and town commissioners Hillsborough voters chose C. M. Latimer magistrate of police and elected seven town commissioners for the year, among them Richardson Nichols, John U. Kirkland, John Scott, Stephen Moore, Thomas Faucette and James Palmer. William Nelson was chosen town constable on February 10. People: John U. Kirkland, Stephen Moore, William Nelson Place: Hillsborough · Also named: C. M. Latimer, Richardson Nichols, John Scott, Thomas Faucette, James PalmerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 13, 1835, p. 3
  3. Hillsborough elects Dennis Heartt magistrate of police and seven town commissioners Hillsborough voters chose Dennis Heartt, editor of the Recorder, as magistrate of police for the coming year and elected seven town commissioners, among them Dr. Edmund Strudwick, John Scott, William H. Phillips and Stephen Moore. People: Dennis Heartt, Edmund Strudwick, Stephen Moore Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John Scott, William H. PhillipsSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 12, 1836, p. 3
  4. Hillsborough's town commissioners engage J. Odend'hal to teach the town's English academy Hillsborough's board of commissioners, which owned the town's English Male Academy and had advertised for a teacher at the start of January, engaged J. Odend'hal, a teacher of eleven years' experience, and put the school under the board's superintendence to open on February 1, 1841. People: Edmund Strudwick, Lemuel Lynch, Stephen Moore, William H. Brown, James M. Palmer, John Berry Place: English Male Academy, Hillsborough · Also named: J. Odend'halHillsborough Recorder, January 28, 1841, p. 3
  5. Hillsborough re-elects Stephen Moore magistrate of police and returns its town commissioners In the annual town election, Hillsborough voters re-elected Stephen Moore as magistrate of police and returned the town commissioners for the coming year, among them John Berry, Edmund Strudwick, Lemuel Lynch, William H. Brown and James M. Palmer. People: John Berry, Edmund Strudwick, Lemuel Lynch, William H. Brown, James M. Palmer Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 11, 1841, p. 3
  6. Hillsborough's female seminary engages Moses Ashley Curtis as superintendent The trustees of the Hillsborough female seminary, among them James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones, William Cain, Hugh Waddell, Stephen Moore, Nathan Hooker and P. H. Mangum, engaged the Rev. M. A. Curtis as superintendent, kept the same women teachers, and set the next session to open on July 15. People: Moses Ashley Curtis, James Strudwick Smith, Cadwallader Jones, Hugh Waddell, Stephen Moore Place: Hillsborough · Also named: William Cain, Nathan Hooker, P. H. MangumHillsborough Recorder, June 24, 1841, p. 3
  7. Hillsborough men form the Washington Temperance Society of Orange County Meeting at the court house, Hillsborough men organized a Washington Temperance Society on the total-abstinence pledge, adopted a constitution and elected Col. Henry Webb president. The drive followed talks in the village by John F. Carey of the Baltimore Washingtonians, and about half the adult men of Hillsborough signed the pledge. People: James C. Turrentine, William Bingham (1835-1873), George Laws, Lemuel Lynch, Walter A. Norwood, Stephen Moore Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Henry Webb, John F. CareySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 18, 1841, p. 3
  8. The Orange County grand jury urges the legislature to build a state penitentiary Before adjourning, the grand jury at the fall term of the Orange Superior Court, with Stephen Moore as foreman, presented the need for a state penitentiary, declaring the present modes of punishing crime inadequate and commending the question to the county's members of the next General Assembly. People: Stephen Moore Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 13, 1842, p. 3
  9. County school board orders a new survey of the school districts The Orange County Board of Superintendents of common schools ordered a new survey of the county's school districts, kept the old district committeemen in office until elections under the new lines, and urged districts that had not drawn their school money to hold schools by fall, after which the funds would be apportioned by the new survey. People: Stephen Moore Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, April 11, 1844, p. 3
  10. Citizens organize a new Orange County Bible Society Citizens met in the Presbyterian session house in Hillsborough, adopted a constitution for a county Bible society and elected Giles Mebane president, David L. Swain and others vice presidents, Stephen Moore treasurer and the Rev. Dr. Alexander Wilson secretary. People: Frederick Nash, Giles Mebane, David L. Swain, Stephen Moore, Alexander Wilson, Andrew Mickle Place: Presbyterian session house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 24, 1846, p. 3
  11. Hillsborough's town commissioners have the market house moved The town commissioners voted to move the market house from its old site and named George Laws, Stephen Moore and Richeson Nichols to let the job to the lowest bidder on January 9. In August the board paid John Jones for extra work on the market house. People: George Laws, Stephen Moore Place: Market House, Hillsborough · Also named: Richeson Nichols, John JonesSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 7, 1847, p. 3
  12. Orange school superintendents name district committees and order a school census Meeting in the clerk's office at Hillsborough, the Board of Superintendents of Common Schools for Orange, with Stephen Moore as chairman, appointed three-man committees for the county's school districts, numbered to 51, and ordered each committee to take a census of its district and report to the chairman without delay; the Alamance committees were left as they were the year before. People: Stephen Moore Place: Clerk's office, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 13, 1850, p. 3
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  1. Hillsborough hires a paid town patrol and orders town property reassessed The Hillsborough commissioners ordered two men employed to patrol the town at no more than $50 a year each, to be commissioned by the magistrate of police on a committee's recommendation, and named Josiah Turner, Stephen Moore and a third man to reassess the value of real estate in town for taxation. People: Stephen Moore, George Laws Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Josiah TurnerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 13, 1850, p. 3

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By Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore papers, 1767-1869, Orange and Person counties, North Carolina : also Maryland, New York, and Quebec (Canada).

Moore, Stephen, 1734-1799 · 1993 · University Publications of America

A 1993 microfilm publication from University Publications of America reproducing the Stephen Moore papers of 1767 to 1869 on two reels of 35 mm film, with a printed reel guide. Moore, 1734 to 1799, was a merchant at Hillsborough and a legislator, and the material takes in account books, plantation and agricultural records, family correspondence, and ties to Maryland, New York and Quebec.

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Stephen Moore papers, 1767-1867.

Moore, Stephen, 1734-1799 · 1767

Some one hundred items from Stephen Moore (1734-1799) and his family, dated 1767 to 1867, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 2205. Account books and correspondence cover merchants in North Carolina and New York, agriculture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, commerce at Hillsborough, internal migration, and Mount Tirzah Plantation in Person County. Phillips Moore is named as well.

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