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Frederick Nash

Nash moved from New Bern to Hillsborough in 1807, represented Orange County in the House of Commons in 1814, 1816 and 1817 and the town of Hillsborough in 1828 and 1829, and was elected a University of North Carolina trustee in 1807. He became state chief justice in 1852 and died at his Hillsborough home in 1858.

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1781–1858 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Life and Orange County connections

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StorylineThe county patrol, 1787–18291787–1829 · 14 events · From 1787 the Orange County court named patrols to watch the movements of enslaved people: patrols for Hillsborough, for the county's districts and, in 1799, for the neighborhood of the University. From at least 1807 the patrols were paid with a tax on each Black poll, and committees of justices drafted rules for them in 1809 and 1813. The court also licensed some enslaved men to carry guns on their owners' land, on the motions of men such as Richard Bennehan and Duncan Cameron, and twice ordered patrollers to give back guns they had taken. In 1829 Chapel Hill's first town ordinance set up a town patrol, and the county was still levying its patrol tax on Black polls. StorylineOrange County and the 1835 constitutional convention, 1822–18351822–1835 · 11 events · Reforming the state constitution threatened Hillsborough's borough seat, the town's own member in the House of Commons, yet Orange pressed for reform. Toasts at Hillsborough in 1822 and 1823 said the constitution needed mending, and in 1823 a county meeting named four delegates, Thomas Ruffin among them, to a reform meeting at Raleigh; voters elected all four. In April 1835 Orange voted 1,648 to 111 for a convention, and Hillsborough itself voted 228 to 23 in favor. Candidates were pressed on the 32nd article, the religious test for office. At Raleigh, James S. Smith moved to abolish borough seats entirely and lost 61 to 67, but Hillsborough lost its member. Orange voters approved the amendments that November. StorylineInternal improvements and the 1833 Hillsborough railroad convention, 1828–18371828–1837 · 16 events · From 1828 Orange County leaders pressed for river navigation and, above all, a central railroad through the state. That year James Mebane brought a flour boat down the Haw from Murphey's Mills, and a meeting with Joseph Caldwell giving the address urged a central railroad. The 1833 convention at Hillsborough chose Thomas Ruffin president, called for a Roanoke and Yadkin Rail Road and adopted Willie P. Mangum's report that the state should pay two-fifths of any work for which private citizens secured three-fifths. By August 1834 every Orange candidate for the Assembly had declared for the central railroad, and in 1837 Cadwallader Jones of Hillsborough was named to the Board of Internal Improvement. StorylineJoseph Caldwell’s last years and the choice of David L. Swain, 1833–18371833–1837 · 9 events · When illness forced President Joseph Caldwell to ask for help in December 1833, the trustees gave the senior professor, Elisha Mitchell, power to act in his place. Caldwell died on January 27, 1835, and a Hillsborough town meeting agreed to wear crape for thirty days. Mitchell was named president pro tem, and the trustees put off electing a president until December while raising the president's salary. That November Caldwell's body was taken up so that the artist Alfred S. Waugh could make a plaster cast of his face. In January 1836 former governor David L. Swain moved to Chapel Hill as president. A sandstone shaft the trustees raised to Caldwell in 1837 soon crumbled and never bore a name. StorylineThe Nash and Bailey law school at Hillsborough, 1842–18591842–1859 · 6 events · Two separate plans for teaching law at Hillsborough became one school in 1850, when Frederick Nash and John L. Bailey joined forces. Nash and Hugh Waddell had announced a school in 1841 to prepare young men for the bar, and in 1845 Bailey moved to Hillsborough from Elizabeth City and announced a law school of his own. Together Nash and Bailey charged $100 for the whole course and held a moot court once a week. Nash, by then chief justice of the state supreme court, died at his Hillsborough home in 1858. In 1859 Bailey moved to Black Mountain, where he and his son proposed a new law school; it ran until the Civil War.

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  1. 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: Duncan Cameron, Frederick Nash Place: 143 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Margaret LaneSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (National Register, 2014), pdf page 101
  2. 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. Place: Chapel HillIn the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · NCpedia: Nash, Frederick
  3. 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 Cameron Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Nash, Frederick
  4. The court names a committee to draft rules for the patrols The court appointed Samuel Benton, Abner B. Bruce, James Webb, Frederick Nash and William Norwood to draft rules and regulations for governing the patrols and to report at the next term. At the same term it again levied one shilling on each Black poll outside Hillsborough to pay the patrols and allowed forty shillings each to patrollers for the past year. People: James Webb, Frederick Nash, William Norwood Place: Orange County · Also named: Samuel Benton, Abner B. BruceMark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1809
  5. Hillsborough men organize a company to build a cotton and woolen factory Citizens of Hillsborough and Orange County met in 1813 to set up a joint-stock company for a cotton and woolen factory in or near the town, with at least a hundred shares at $25 each. Calling it the Hillsborough Manufacturing Company, the stockholders adopted rules that gave large holders proportionally fewer votes. John Umstead chaired and John Taylor Jr. was secretary; subscription books went to James Mebane, John Craig, Michael Holt and Duncan Cameron of Orange and to Frederick Nash, William Whitted and John Taylor Jr. of Hillsborough, with agents in a dozen other places. The author found no sign the company went beyond organizing. People: James Mebane, Duncan Cameron, Frederick Nash Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John Umstead, John Taylor Jr., Michael Holt, John Craig, William WhittedSearch the index · Internet Archive: North Carolina Historical Review 34 (1957), p. 22
  6. The court names Thomas Ruffin and three others to draft rules for the patrols The court appointed Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, William Norwood and Catlet Campbell a committee to draft rules and regulations for the government of the patrols and to report at the next term. The same term it allowed thirty men pay as patrollers, to share the patrol money equally. People: Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, William Norwood Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Catlet CampbellMark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1813
  7. 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. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · NCpedia: Nash, Frederick
  8. 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. Place: Cedar Walk, between West Margaret Lane and West King Street, Hillsborough · Also named: Mrs. Frederick Nash · Also mentions: West King StreetSearch the index · National Register: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (2014), section 7, p. 95
  9. The synod forms the Education Society of North Carolina at Hillsborough During its session at Hillsborough the Synod of North Carolina formed the Education Society of North Carolina to help poor and pious young men study for the ministry, and adopted its constitution. Joseph Caldwell was chosen president, Frederick Nash a vice president, Dr. James Webb treasurer and Shepard K. Kollock secretary, with Elisha Mitchell among the managers. People: Joseph Caldwell, Frederick Nash, James Webb, Elisha Mitchell Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Shepard K. KollockSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 9, 1822, p. 3
  10. 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. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Nash, Frederick
  11. Orange County elects James Mebane to the Senate and John Stockard and Hugh Waddell to the Commons Orange County voters chose James Mebane for the state Senate and John Stockard and Hugh Waddell for the House of Commons, while the borough of Hillsborough returned Frederick Nash by 42 votes to 40. Polls were held at Hillsborough, Mason Hall and about nine other places across the county. People: James Mebane, Hugh Waddell, Frederick Nash, John Stockard Place: Orange County polling places, including Hillsborough and Mason Hall · Also mentions: Mason HallSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 20, 1828, p. 3
  12. The Orange bar meets at the court house to mourn Bartlett Yancey After the day's court adjourned, the lawyers of the Orange bar met at the court house in Hillsborough with Judge Thomas Ruffin in the chair to honor Bartlett Yancey of Caswell, the former congressman and Speaker of the state Senate. On Frederick Nash's motion they resolved to wear mourning for three months. People: Thomas Ruffin, John Wall Norwood, Frederick Nash Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Bartlett YanceySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 10, 1828, p. 3
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  1. Orange County elects William Montgomery, Thomas H. Taylor and John Stockard to the legislature Orange County voters chose Dr. William Montgomery for the state Senate and Thomas H. Taylor and John Stockard for the House of Commons, and the town of Hillsborough returned Frederick Nash to the Commons. People: William Montgomery, Thomas H. Taylor, Frederick Nash, John Stockard Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 19, 1829, p. 3
  2. The Orange County Bible Society finds a thousand families without a Bible Meeting at Salem meeting house, the Orange County Bible Society elected William Norwood president and reported that its agents had found about a thousand families in the county without a Bible; it resolved to supply every one through paid agents the next spring and then to join the state society's drive. People: William Norwood, Frederick Nash, James Webb, James Mebane, John Witherspoon Place: Salem meeting house, Orange CountySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 28, 1829, p. 3
  3. 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: William Gaston, Frederick Nash, David L. Swain Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 346
  4. Commissioners open a subscription book for the Bank of North Carolina in Hillsborough Commissioners named by the governor under the act establishing the Bank of North Carolina opened a book for stock subscriptions at William F. Strudwick & Co.'s store in Hillsborough, to stay open sixty days. The commissioners were James S. Smith, Frederick Nash, Alfred Moore, James Webb and William A. Graham. People: James Strudwick Smith, Frederick Nash, James Webb, William A. Graham Place: William F. Strudwick & Co.'s store, Hillsborough · Also named: Alfred Moore, William F. StrudwickSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 8, 1833, p. 3
  5. Orange County railroad meeting names fifteen delegates to the Hillsborough convention A meeting at the Hillsborough court house, with James Mebane in the chair and Dennis Heartt as secretary, heard Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, Willie P. Mangum and Hugh Waddell and named fifteen Orange delegates to the internal improvement convention called for Hillsborough in September. The speakers rejected the Raleigh convention's view that state money should go only to works that begin and end inside the state. People: James Mebane, Dennis Heartt, Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, Willie P. Mangum, Hugh Waddell Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), September 3, 1833, p. 2
  6. Orange citizens name Duncan Cameron, Frederick Nash and James Mebane to the state improvement convention An adjourned meeting of Orange County citizens at Hillsborough chose Duncan Cameron, Frederick Nash and James Mebane as the county's delegates to the state internal improvement convention due to meet at Raleigh in November. People: Frederick Nash, James Mebane, Duncan Cameron Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), September 17, 1833, p. 3
  7. An Orange County meeting takes up the internal improvement convention's plan Citizens met at the court house in Hillsborough to hear the county's delegates to the November 1833 Internal Improvement Convention. Duncan Cameron urged a vigorous state system of improvements, Frederick Nash read the convention's memorial to the legislature, and the meeting named Nash, William A. Graham, Priestly H. Mangum and Walker Anderson to draft an address to the people of Orange, adjourning to Thursday of May court. People: Duncan Cameron, Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Walker Anderson, Edmund Strudwick Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Priestly H. MangumSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), March 13, 1834, p. 3
  8. 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 Waddell, Robert Armistead Burwell Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Robert BurwellBurwell 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. An Orange County internal improvement meeting at Hillsborough asks the state to fund a steam route to the coast An adjourned meeting of Orange County citizens at Hillsborough, with Catlett Campbell in the chair and Dennis Heartt as secretary, heard an address by university president Joseph Caldwell urging a railway from Raleigh to the sea. It voted that the state should put $200,000 of its funds toward a steam passage to the coast if private subscribers raised the rest, and adopted these terms as instructions to Orange County's members of the next General Assembly. People: Joseph Caldwell, Dennis Heartt, Frederick Nash Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Catlett CampbellSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1834, p. 1
  10. 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 McPheeters Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 399
  11. Hillsborough citizens meet to mourn university president Joseph Caldwell A town meeting chaired by Frederick Nash resolved to wear crape for thirty days in memory of Dr. Joseph Caldwell and asked the university's executive committee to have an alumnus deliver a eulogy at Chapel Hill before the next commencement. William M. Green offered the resolutions and Hugh Waddell spoke. People: Frederick Nash, William Mercer Green, Hugh Waddell, Joseph Caldwell Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 6, 1835, p. 3
  12. The governor names Judge Frederick Nash of Hillsborough to revise the state's statute laws The governor appointed Judge Frederick Nash of Hillsborough one of the commissioners to revise and digest the statute laws of North Carolina, in place of Gavin Hogg, who had resigned. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Gavin HoggSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 16, 1835, p. 3
  13. A Red Mountain meeting nominates Thomas Ruffin and Frederick Nash for the constitutional convention Citizens of eastern Orange met at Red Mountain and nominated Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin and Judge Frederick Nash as the county's delegates to the constitutional convention, after Senator Willie P. Mangum, also nominated, asked to be excused because men deep in party politics should not revise the constitution. People: Willie P. Mangum, Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, Harrison Parker Place: Red Mountain, eastern Orange County (now Durham County)Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 1, 1835, p. 3
  14. 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: James Strudwick Smith, Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, William Montgomery Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 86 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, May 29, 1835, p. 3
  15. 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 Heartt Place: HillsboroughBurwell 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
  16. Hillsborough meeting sends Frederick Nash to the Salisbury railroad convention Hillsborough citizens met to choose a delegate to the internal improvement convention at Salisbury, with Col. Charles M. Latimer in the chair and Dr. Allen Parks as secretary. Latimer urged a railroad from the Yadkin to Raleigh crossing Orange near Hillsborough, and on Giles Mebane's motion the meeting chose Frederick Nash to represent the citizens of Orange. People: Giles Mebane, Frederick Nash Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Charles M. Latimer, Allen ParksSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 14, 1836, p. 3
  17. 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: Joseph Caldwell, Frederick Nash, William McPheeters, Thomas Waitt Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: J. B. TurneySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 414
  18. Hillsborough Literary Association forms with Dennis Heartt as secretary A Literary Association was formed at a meeting in the Presbyterian session house in Hillsborough on the evening of January 20, 1842, after a preliminary meeting the night before, 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: Dennis Heartt, Frederick Nash, Cadwallader Jones, Robert Armistead Burwell, James Strudwick Smith, Walter A. Norwood Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Robert Burwell · Also mentions: Presbyterian session houseSearch the index · DigitalNC: Wilmington Chronicle, February 9, 1842, page 2 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, January 27, 1842, p. 3
  19. Frederick Nash and Hugh Waddell open a law school in Hillsborough Frederick Nash and Hugh Waddell gave notice on November 1, 1841 that they would open a school at Hillsborough to prepare young men for the bar from January 1, 1842, if at least eight students enrolled. People: Hugh Waddell, Frederick Nash Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Waddell, Hugh (1799-1878) · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, November 11, 1841, p. 3
  20. Frederick Nash of Hillsborough is appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court After William Gaston's death the Council of State unanimously rejected the governor's first choice, George E. Badger, and in March 1844 accepted his second, Frederick Nash of Hillsborough, for the Supreme Court; the legislature elected him to the seat that December. Eight years later his colleagues made him Chief Justice. People: William Gaston, George E. Badger Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 90 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, March 28, 1844, p. 3
  21. John L. Bailey announces a law school at Hillsborough John L. Bailey, who had taught law students in his office at Elizabeth City, moved to Hillsborough and announced in the Raleigh Register of May 30, 1845 that he would open a law school there on July 1. He later joined Frederick Nash in conducting a law school in the town. People: Frederick Nash Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John L. BaileySearch the index · Internet Archive: Fannie Memory Farmer, "Legal Education in North Carolina, 1820-1860", North Carolina Historical Review 28 (1951), p. 280
  22. 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
  23. Frederick Nash and John L. Bailey form a law school at Hillsborough Frederick Nash and John L. Bailey announced that they had joined to open a law school in Hillsborough, teaching young men the branches of the law and preparing them for practice in the state's courts. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John L. BaileySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 26, 1850, p. 3
  24. Nash and Bailey's Hillsborough law school promises a weekly moot court A notice of December 31, 1851 for the law school of Frederick Nash and John L. Bailey announced a session to begin January 15, 1852, with a moot court once a week, textbooks for sale at the school at E. J. Hale and Son prices, and board with families in town and the neighborhood. Their notice of January 1, 1851 had put tuition at $100 for the whole course. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John L. BaileySearch the index · Internet Archive: Fannie Memory Farmer, "Legal Education in North Carolina, 1820-1860", North Carolina Historical Review 28 (1951), p. 291
  25. Mrs. Margaret Woods dies when her house on Little River burns Mrs. Margaret Woods died when her house on Little River, seven miles northeast of Hillsborough, burned one night in the week of the spring Superior Court. A coroner's jury held Presley Riley on suspicion of killing her and setting the fire, but Chief Justice Nash discharged him for want of evidence, and suspicion turned to enslaved men held by William D. Ray and Joseph Brown of the county. People: Frederick Nash Place: Little River, seven miles northeast of Hillsborough · Also named: Margaret Woods, Presley Riley, William D. Ray, Joseph BrownSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 21, 1855, p. 2
  26. Logs laid across the railroad west of Hillsborough strike the passenger train On Wednesday, April 23, the engineer of the eastbound passenger train found logs laid across the North Carolina Railroad about six miles west of Hillsborough and struck them before he could stop, though little damage was done. Two men named Turner who were seen nearby ran, were caught and were jailed in Raleigh, but on May 2 they were brought to Hillsborough on a writ of habeas corpus and discharged for want of evidence. People: Frederick Nash, John Wall Norwood Place: North Carolina Railroad, about six miles west of HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, April 30, 1856, p. 2
  27. Hillsborough holds a town meeting over an outrage at the Female Academy and three men are bound over After young men committed what the editor called a scandalous outrage in the Hillsborough Female Academy building on the night of September 28, 1858, citizens met the next morning with Cadwallader Jones in the chair, heard Judge Frederick Nash, and resolved that town and county officers should bring the offenders to trial. The culprits were arrested that afternoon and on September 30 three were bound over by Calvin E. Parish to the March Superior Court. People: Cadwallader Jones, Dennis Heartt, Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Josiah Turner Jr., Calvin E. Parish Place: Hillsborough Female Academy, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 6, 1858, p. 2
  28. 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 at his Hillsborough home on Saturday, December 4, 1858, in his seventy-eighth year, while serving as chief justice of the state supreme court. He was buried in the Hillsborough Old Town Cemetery. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Nash, Frederick · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, December 8, 1858, p. 3

After their death in 1858

Later events: estates and burials, and the buildings, honors and histories that remember them.

  1. John L. Bailey leaves Hillsborough and moves his law teaching to Buncombe County After Frederick Nash's death, Bailey moved in 1859 to his farm at Black Mountain, where he and his son William H. Bailey proposed to open a law school on the north fork of the Swannanoa River on March 1, 1859. That school ran until the Civil War. People: Frederick Nash Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John L. Bailey, William H. BaileySearch the index · Internet Archive: Fannie Memory Farmer, "Legal Education in North Carolina, 1820-1860", North Carolina Historical Review 28 (1951), p. 280
  2. The Nash and Kollock School turns the old Nash law office into a music room After Chief Justice Frederick Nash died, his daughters Sally and Maria Nash and their cousin Sarah Kollock began holding their school's music lessons in his former law office on Margaret Lane. People: Sarah Kollock, Maria Nash, Frederick Nash Place: Nash Law Office, 143 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough · Also named: Sally Nash · Also mentions: Margaret LaneNC State Historic Preservation Office: Nash Law Office, National Register nomination (OR0012), p. 3
  3. Nash and Kollock School for young ladies opens in Hillsborough After Chief Justice Frederick Nash died in 1858, his daughters Sarah and Maria Nash and their cousin Sarah Kollock opened a select boarding and day school for girls in the Nash home. People: Sarah Kollock, Maria Nash, Frederick Nash Place: Frederick Nash House, Hillsborough · Also named: Sarah NashHillsborough Recorder, April 20, 1859, p. 3 (advertisement) · Also: Open Orange: Frederick Nash House / Nash and Kollock School; Hillsborough Recorder, December 7, 1859, p. 2
  4. Former Orange legislator Henry K. Nash Sr. dies and is buried from St. Matthew's Henry Kollock Nash, a son of Judge Frederick Nash, had practiced law at Hillsborough, represented Orange County in the legislature and served for some years as district solicitor. He died at Tarboro on November 3 at 80, and his body was brought home to Hillsborough for a funeral from St. Matthew's Church the next morning. People: Frederick Nash Place: St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Hillsborough · Also named: Henry K. Nash, Henry Kollock NashSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 11, 1897, p. 2
  5. Maria Nash, teacher for 32 years and the town's oldest resident, dies Maria Nash, youngest daughter of Judge Frederick Nash and Mary Kollock, died at Hillsborough at 87. Born in the town in 1819, she taught for 32 years, was the last of the older generation of her family and the oldest resident of Hillsborough, and was buried in the Presbyterian churchyard. People: Maria Nash, Frederick Nash Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Presbyterian churchyardOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 2, 1907, p. 3

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By Frederick Nash

An address delivered before the members of Eagle Lodge, No. 71, on the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist, December 27, 1838

Nash, Frederick · 1839

An address by Frederick Nash to the members of Eagle Lodge No. 71, the Masonic lodge at Hillsborough, on the feast of St. John the Evangelist, December 27, 1838, printed at Hillsborough in 1839. Nash was a Hillsborough lawyer and judge who later served as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

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Rev. John Witherspoon, D.D., LL.D

Nash, Frederick, 1781-1858 · 1888 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

A sketch of John Witherspoon, the Presbyterian minister who died in 1853, written by Frederick Nash and identified as his in a note on page 137. It was detached from the North Carolina University Magazine for April 1888 and printed at Chapel Hill by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. Biography of North Carolina Presbyterian clergy is its subject.

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Frederick Nash (1781-1858) Papers

Nash, Frederick, 1781-1858 · 1757

Family papers of Frederick Nash, 1757 to 1864. Nash was an Orange County legislator and judge who sat on the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1844 and served as chief justice from 1852 to 1858. The letters, many undated, deal with family matters, an 1822 case in Wilkes County Superior Court and the lack of organized religion in Hillsborough. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.72.

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About Frederick Nash

Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present

Ashe, Samuel A. · 1905 · C.L. Van Noppen

Samuel A. Ashe's eight volume set of North Carolina biographies, published by C.L. Van Noppen from 1905 and running from the colonial period forward. The sketches take in governors, judges and public men, among them William Tryon, Frederick Nash, Richard Henderson and Matt W. Ransom. Genealogists use the set as a name source for families across the state, Orange County included.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Nash, Frederick.

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Willie Person Mangum papers,

Mangum, Willie Person,; Mangum, Arthur,; Mangum, Charity Alston Cain

Personal and political papers of Willie Person Mangum, the Whig senator from Orange County, together with papers of Arthur Mangum and Charity Alston Cain Mangum. Correspondents include Daniel Webster, William A. Graham, David L. Swain, John Chavis and Abraham Lincoln, and other topics include plantations at Hillsborough, the estate called Walnut Hill, state politics, agriculture and education.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Nash, Frederick, 1781-1858 -- Correspondence.

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Memoir of Hon. Frederick Nash, Ll.D. : late chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina

Bryan, John Heritage, 1798-1870 · 1859 · Neathery and Jones, printers to the University

John Heritage Bryan's memoir of Frederick Nash, chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who had died in 1858. Neathery and Jones, printers to the university, produced it at Chapel Hill the following year.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Nash, Frederick, 1781-1858.

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Frank Nash papers, 1726-1965 (bulk 1900-1919).

Nash, Frank, 1855-1932 · 1726

Four thousand items across six linear feet make up the Frank Nash papers, spanning 1726 to 1965 and thickest from 1900 to 1919, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 539. Nash lived from 1855 to 1932, and the papers concern judges and lawyers, prohibition in North Carolina, state roads, the Nash and Kollock School at Hillsborough, women's education, and Frederick Nash.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Nash, Frederick, 1781-1858.

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Records of enslaved people

6 records, 1808 to 1858, name Frederick Nash as a party to the sale, gift, trust or other transfer of enslaved people. Each record lists the people named in it, with their ages and family ties.

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Deeds

16 deeds, 1808 to 1858, in the county’s deed books name Frederick Nash as a party, from Mark Chilton’s published abstracts. Each links to the deed-book page at the Register of Deeds.

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Wills

One will or paper in the county’s will books names Frederick Nash, from Ruth Herndon Shields’s abstracts. Each shows the role and the year.

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Research sources

Sources and research tools for this person. For ready-made searches of other catalogs, see Search further. Research guide: Trace a family through historical records.

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Collections and databases

  • NC LIVE: prepared search for Frederick Nash Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
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Books about Frederick Nash

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Historical records and collections

Catalog searches use the Library of Congress name heading: Nash, Frederick, 1781-1858. Historical-record searches use the person’s name and may include namesakes. Links open in a new tab.

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