Harrison Parker

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1. April 25, 1835 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 ParkerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 1, 1835, p. 3
2. February 24, 1836 Orange County supporters of Hugh L. White meet at the court house More than a hundred Orange County opponents of Martin Van Buren met at the Hillsborough court house during county court week, endorsed Hugh L. White for president, John Tyler for vice president and Edward B. Dudley for governor, and named James Mebane, Dr. Edmund Strudwick and Harrison Parker to meet Granville and Person delegates and choose a district elector. James S. Smith, Hugh Waddell and James Mebane spoke, and the meeting adjourned to the Wednesday of superior court week to name candidates for the legislature. People: James Strudwick Smith, Hugh Waddell, James Mebane, Edmund Strudwick, Dennis Heartt, Harrison ParkerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 26, 1836, p. 3
3. by June 18, 1836 Orange's White ticket names Hugh Waddell for the state Senate and William A. Graham, N. J. King and Harrison Parker for the Commons Supporters of Hugh Lawson White for president settled on their Orange County candidates for the 1836 legislature: Hugh Waddell for the Senate, and William A. Graham, N. J. King, Harrison Parker and a fourth man for the House of Commons. People: William A. Graham, Harrison Parker, Hugh WaddellSearch the index · Columbian Repository (Chapel Hill), June 18, 1836, p. 3
4. April 25, 1840 Whig district convention at Red Mountain nominates Dr. James S. Smith as Harrison elector Whig delegates from Orange, Person and Granville met at Red Mountain and nominated Dr. James S. Smith of Hillsborough, who had served in Congress with Harrison and Tyler, as the district's elector for Harrison and Tyler, and asked him to canvass the whole district. Harrison Parker and Willie P. Mangum represented Orange; Dr. James L. Wortham of Granville chaired. People: James Strudwick Smith, Willie P. Mangum, Harrison ParkerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 14, 1840, p. 3
5. November 23, 1841 Orange County Whigs meet at the Masonic Hall and nominate Henry Clay for president A Whig meeting at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough, chaired by Dr. James S. Smith and addressed by Senators Willie P. Mangum and William A. Graham, nominated Henry Clay for president and Governor John M. Morehead for re-election. It refused to recognize President Tyler as a Whig and called for delegates from every captain's district to meet at Hillsborough at the May court to name the party's ticket for the General Assembly. People: James Strudwick Smith, Edmund Strudwick, Giles Mebane, Willie P. Mangum, William A. Graham, Henry Kollock Nash, Harrison ParkerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 25, 1841, p. 3
6. by April 4, 1844 Courthouse commissioners let the contract to John Berry The commissioners named by the county court to build the new courthouse, James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones sen., Osmond F. Long, John U. Kirkland, Harrison Parker, William Murray, Edwin M. Holt and Michael W. Holt, let the contract privately to John Berry of Hillsborough without public notice. Western critics attacked the bargain in the paper through the spring. People: James Strudwick Smith, Cadwallader Jones, John U. Kirkland, Harrison ParkerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 30, 1844, p. 3
7. 1845 to 1861 The county court binds more free children of the Day family to Harrison Parker After Adolphus and Caroline Day in 1843, the court bound Nathan Day, about 11, to Parker in 1845, Henry Day, 4 or 5, in 1853, William and Mary Day, 10 and 8, in 1855, Nancy Day, 6, in 1860, and John and Roan Day, 3 and 7, in 1861. Henry, John and Roan were children of Adeline Day, and William, Mary and Nancy of Jane Day.Search the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
8. February Term 1847 The court has Harrison Parker give the bonds it failed to take when it bound two free children of color in 1843 The court found that at February Term 1843 it had bound Adolphus Day, 5 or 6, and Caroline Day, about 3, free children of color, to Harrison Parker without taking the bonds, and ordered Parker to give them now, with William Nelson as security, as of the 1843 term. People: William Nelson, Harrison ParkerSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
9. March 9, 1847 The Whig district convention at Hillsborough nominates John Kerr for Congress Delegates from Orange, Chatham, Granville, Caswell and Person met at Hillsborough with Hugh Waddell in the chair and Henry K. Nash as secretary, and unanimously nominated John Kerr of Caswell for Congress. William K. Ruffin, who had announced himself a candidate, withdrew the same day. People: Hugh Waddell, Henry Kollock Nash, Harrison ParkerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 11, 1847, p. 3
10. February 1852 John W. Carr sits as a justice of the county court Carr was one of five justices holding the February 1852 term of the Orange County court, which elected a Board of Superintendents of Common Schools and set the county tax. People: John U. Kirkland, William Nelson, Harrison Parker, John J. FreelandSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 181
11. May 29, 1856 Orange County's American party convention names its legislative ticket A crowded American party convention at the Hillsborough court house, with Willie P. Mangum in the chair, heard speeches by Jones Watson and Henry K. Nash. A committee chaired by Harrison Parker recommended Josiah Turner Jr. for the state Senate and William N. Patterson and Frederick N. Strudwick for the House of Commons, and the convention ratified them unanimously. People: Willie P. Mangum, Jones Watson, Henry Kollock Nash, Josiah Turner Jr., William N. Patterson, Frederick N. Strudwick, James C. TurrentineSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 4, 1856, p. 3 ("Orange County American Convention")
12. December 13, 1859 Orange Whigs condemn John Brown's raid and name delegates to the state convention A Whig and Opposition meeting at the Hillsborough court house, with Harrison Parker in the chair, heard William A. Graham and Maurice Q. Waddell and adopted resolutions from a committee led by Josiah Turner Jr. They denounced the raid on Virginia as the work of abolition incendiaries, approved its swift punishment, pledged Orange's help to Virginia and the South, blamed the Democrats for stirring the slavery question for party ends, and named Orange delegates to the party's state convention at Raleigh in February 1860. People: William A. Graham, Josiah Turner Jr., Samuel Wellwood Hughes, Henry Kollock Nash, Harrison ParkerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 21, 1859, p. 2