Frederick Nash

Life and Orange County connections

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1. between 1801 and 1807 Duncan Cameron builds a law office on Margaret Lane, later the Nash Law Office Lawyer Duncan Cameron built a one-story Federal-style law office on his lots on Margaret Lane. In 1807 he sold the property to Frederick Nash, who kept his practice there and taught law students in it until his death in 1858. People: Frederick NashSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (National Register, 2014), pdf page 101
2. 1807 Frederick Nash is elected a trustee of the University of North Carolina Nash was elected a trustee of the University of North Carolina in 1807 and remained an active supporter of the university. It awarded him an LL.D. in 1853.In the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · NCpedia: Nash, Frederick
3. 1807 Frederick Nash moves from New Bern to Hillsborough Nash and his wife left New Bern for Hillsborough in 1807 seeking a healthier climate. There he bought a small one-story house, an office and cabins for slave quarters from Duncan Cameron. People: Duncan CameronSearch the index · NCpedia: Nash, Frederick
4. 1814, 1816 and 1817 Frederick Nash represents Orange County in the House of Commons Nash sat for Orange County in the House of Commons in 1814, 1816 and 1817. He was speaker of the house in 1814.Search the index · NCpedia: Nash, Frederick
5. about 1818 Mrs. Frederick Nash plants the double row of cedars that forms Hillsborough's Cedar Walk Mrs. Frederick Nash planted two rows of cedar trees along a path of about ten feet running north from West Margaret Lane toward West King Street, linking the Nash house with the John H. Witherspoon house. The walk survives and several houses face onto it.Search the index · National Register: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (2014), section 7, p. 95
6. 1828 and 1829 Frederick Nash represents the town of Hillsborough in the House of Commons Having earlier sat for Orange County, Nash represented the town of Hillsborough itself in the House of Commons in 1828 and 1829.Search the index · NCpedia: Nash, Frederick
7. June 19, 1832 The Institute of Education names Gaston to a committee to petition the legislature on popular education At its second meeting, held during the 1832 commencement, the North Carolina Institute of Education voted to memorialize the General Assembly on popular education and named William Gaston, Frederick Nash and David L. Swain to the committee. People: Frederick Nash, David L. SwainSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 346
8. May 10, 1834 Six enslaved women are baptized into Hillsborough Presbyterian Church The Rev. S. J. Price baptized six women held by the Nash, Watters, Scott and Waddell households, and Frederick Nash and William J. Bingham received them as members. In the twenty years that followed under Robert Burwell, the church took in only one communicant of color. People: Frederick Nash, William James Bingham, Hugh WaddellBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 56
9. 1835 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
10. January 2, 1835 Trustees create an executive committee to run the university At Duncan Cameron's instance the board placed management in a seven-member executive committee including the governor, with the powers of the land, appointments and building committees and the right to change studies and dismiss faculty. The first members were Cameron, George E. Badger, William McPheeters, Charles Manly, Frederick Nash, William A. Graham and Governor Swain. People: Duncan Cameron, David L. Swain, Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, George E. Badger, Charles Manly, William McPheetersSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 399
11. September 18, 1835 The Recorder prints a county meeting's warning to abolitionists An Orange County meeting adopted a report warning "northern fanatics" not to stir up the enslaved and predicting lasting hostility between the sections if abolitionists pressed on. Its fourteen-man committee included Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, John U. Kirkland, Dr. Edmund Strudwick and the paper's own editor, Dennis Heartt, as a secretary. People: Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, John U. Kirkland, Edmund Strudwick, Dennis HearttBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 49
12. 1837 Trustees raise a sandstone monument to Caldwell on the campus The trustees adopted a design by Thomas Waitt, the master mechanic in charge of university repairs, for a shaft of local sandstone cut by J. B. Turney. It soon crumbled, and the marble slab meant for its Latin inscription arrived so badly cut that it was smashed, so the monument never bore a name. People: Frederick Nash, William McPheeters, Thomas WaittSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 414
13. Early 1842 Hillsborough Literary Association forms with Dennis Heartt as secretary A Literary Association was formed at Hillsborough in early 1842 with Frederick Nash as president; James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones and Robert Burwell as vice presidents; Dennis Heartt as secretary; and Walter A. Norwood as treasurer. Heartt, a charter member, had helped organize it. People: Frederick Nash, Cadwallader Jones, Robert Armistead Burwell, James Strudwick Smith, Walter A. NorwoodSearch the index · DigitalNC: Wilmington Chronicle, February 9, 1842, page 2
14. 1844 Frederick Nash of Hillsborough is appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court Nash was named to the Supreme Court in 1844, following William Gaston's death. Eight years later his colleagues made him Chief Justice. People: William GastonSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 90
15. December 1858 Frederick Nash dies in Hillsborough and is buried in the Old Town Cemetery Nash fell ill returning from a synod meeting at New Bern and died in December 1858 at his Hillsborough home, while serving as chief justice of the state supreme court. He was buried in the Hillsborough Old Town Cemetery.Search the index · NCpedia: Nash, Frederick