Isaac C. Patridge

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1. March 1832 William B. Crittenden proposes a newspaper called the Harbinger for Chapel Hill Crittenden, a lawyer from New York, issued proposals in March 1832 to publish the Harbinger at Chapel Hill. He seems not to have started it; the Harbinger that began in August 1833 was published by Isaac C. Patridge under the supervision of the university professors and lasted a year. People: Isaac C. PatridgeSearch the index · Internet Archive: Daniel Miles McFarland, "North Carolina Newspapers, Editors and Journalistic Politics, 1815-1835", North Carolina Historical Review 30 (1953), p. 380
2. by August 27, 1833 Patridge succeeds Charles Chalmers as Chapel Hill postmaster The first issue of the Harbinger reported that Patridge had been appointed postmaster of Chapel Hill after Charles Chalmers resigned. The new postmaster's notice of August 26 set the hours of the office and the days the northern, eastern, southern and western mails arrived and closed. People: Isaac C. PatridgeSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), August 27, 1833, p. 3
3. January 1, 1834 Chapel Hill's two main mails begin coming three times a week Postmaster I. C. Patridge announced a new schedule at the Chapel Hill post office: the northern, eastern and southern mail would arrive on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, and the western mail on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Under the schedule of December 10, 1833, each had come twice a week; the Clover Garden mail stayed at once a week, on Friday. People: Isaac C. PatridgeSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), January 2, 1834, p. 3
4. February 6, 1834 Chapel Hill's new board names its officers and lays the town tax Meeting the evening of the election, the new commissioners made John W. McGee magistrate of police, I. C. Patridge clerk, A. M. Henderson treasurer and Henry Hutchins town constable. The board set the town tax for the year at 25 cents a poll and 10 cents on each $100 of property. People: Isaac C. PatridgeSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), February 13, 1834, p. 3
5. by February 20, 1834 The Harbinger press prints Joseph A. Hill's address to the Institute of Education Isaac C. Patridge, publisher of the Harbinger, issued as a pamphlet the address Joseph A. Hill of Wilmington gave the North Carolina Institute of Education at Chapel Hill in June 1833. Papers across the state acknowledged copies and praised its attack on heavy corporal punishment and on emulation as a spur to study. People: Isaac C. PatridgeSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), February 20, 1834, p. 2
6. April 5, 1834 An Orange County meeting at Chapel Hill faults the county's legislators on internal improvement Orange County citizens meeting at the Village Chapel in Chapel Hill resolved that they disapproved of their legislators' course on internal improvement and would support only candidates who favored the state taking shares in improvement companies. They named a committee of seven, headed by Charles W. Johnson, to invite other parts of the county to a nominating convention at Hillsborough on the second day of the May court. People: William McCauley, Isaac C. PatridgeSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), April 10, 1834, p. 3
7. August 27, 1834 The Harbinger suspends publication at Chapel Hill after its first year Publisher Isaac C. Patridge closed the Harbinger's first subscription year with the issue of August 27, 1834, and announced that the paper would stop for some weeks while he decided whether to take a partner or retire as publisher. He had already offered part or all of the establishment for sale and asked delinquent subscribers to pay. People: Isaac C. PatridgeSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), August 27, 1834, p. 3
8. December 1834 I. C. Patridge opens the University Hotel in Chapel Hill Patridge advertised in December 1834 that he had opened a public house at Chapel Hill across from Watts' Hotel, with new stables and an ostler. People: Isaac C. PatridgeSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 273
9. June 24, 1836 University Lodge dedicates its new Masonic hall at Chapel Hill on St. John's Day Members of University Lodge and visiting Masons marched with a band to the College Chapel, where the Rev. William M. Green of Hillsborough gave the oration, then returned in procession to their new hall, which was dedicated to Masonry. The day ended with a dinner at the Eagle Hotel. People: William Mercer Green, Isaac C. PatridgeSearch the index · Columbian Repository (Chapel Hill), July 2, 1836, p. 3