Background on Creation of Orange County and Hillsborough, 1752–1766
These works give background on Creation of Orange County and Hillsborough, 1752–1766, the wider story this person is part of (83 works in all). Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.
The Fullkersons in the Battle of King's Mountain : a revolutionary war story
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2014 · Stewart E. Dunaway?
Stewart E. Dunaway's family history following the Fulkerson (spelled Fullkerson in the title) and Hilton families through the Revolutionary War, centered on the Battle of King's Mountain fought in South Carolina in October 1780. It traces the families in eighteenth-century Hillsborough and elsewhere in North Carolina and Virginia. Apparently self-published in North Carolina, 2014, 137 pages with illustrations, some in color, maps and portraits.
The Land Grant Atlas of Old Orange County
Chilton, Mark · 2012 · Hand Made Books
Mark Chilton's oversized atlas plotting eighteenth-century land grants across the original Orange County, which stretched well beyond today's boundaries into what became Alamance and Durham counties. Published in Carrboro by Hand Made Books beginning in 2012, the set was planned in four volumes: Henry McCulloh's great tract number 11 and the land north of it; the Saxapahaw old fields (volume 2); Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and the Johnston Tract; and Durham, Rougemont and McCulloh's tract number 12. Maps and color illustrations, 41 cm.
Jesse Benton Letters (1780-1790)
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2009 · lulu.com
Stewart E. Dunaway's transcription of letters exchanged between Jesse Benton and Thomas Hart from 1780 to 1790, concerning Hart's affairs at Hartford, his place at Hillsborough. The letters concern the economic and social conditions of Hillsborough in the eighteenth century and the Revolution in North Carolina. Self-published through lulu.com in 2009, 68 pages with illustrations and facsimiles, and part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.
The Young Man From Mitre Court
Smith, Marshall L. · 1998 · M.L. Smith
Marshall L. Smith's brief life of William Churton, 1710 to 1767, the surveyor who laid out Hillsborough in the 1750s, with notes on the Churton family. Self-published in Hillsborough in 1998, 22 unnumbered pages with illustrations and maps.
The History Of Few's Ford (Eno V. 8, No. 1)
Anderson, Jean Bradley · 1989
Jean Bradley Anderson's history of Few's Ford, the Eno River crossing that gave its name to the Fews Ford section of Eno River State Park, published in 1989 as volume 8, number 1 of Eno, the journal of the Eno River Association. Topics include the Few family and eighteenth-century Orange and Durham county history.
Letters and dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, October 1768 - May 1769
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Governor William Tryon's correspondence with the Earl of Hillsborough for the months from October 1768 to May 1769, just after Tryon marched militia to Hillsborough to protect the court from the Regulators. Adam Matthew Digital reproduced the file, Colonial Office CO 5/301, in 2019. Topics include legislation, Anglican clergy, soldiers' wages, sheriffs, land and quitrents, trade and currency, taxes and education, the Catawba and the boundary line, roads, a murder case, punishment and prison, and people such as Richard Caswell, James Hasell and John Rutherford.
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Jesse Benton letters (1780-1790) : Hartford, Hillsborough, NC.
Benton, Jesse · 2009 · S.E. Dunaway
Letters written between 1780 and 1790 by Jesse Benton, a lawyer at Hillsborough, to Thomas Hart, the owner of the Hartford mill complex, edited by Stewart Dunaway and published in 2009. Sixty eight pages with illustrations, facsimiles and a plan. The correspondence falls in the Revolutionary and early federal years.
Farmers in court : Orange County, North Carolina, 1750-1776
Bushman, Richard L. · 2001
Richard L. Bushman looks at the county court of Orange County and the farmers who came before it between 1750 and 1776, a period that in this county included the Regulator insurrection of 1766 to 1771. Published in 2001 as pages 388 to 413 of a larger volume. Topics include courts, farmers and eighteenth century law in the county.
The Orange County and Mecklenburg County instructions : the development of political individualism in backcountry North Carolina, 1740-1776
Blower, Daniel Frederick · 1984
Daniel Frederick Blower's two volume study of the instructions that voters in Orange and Mecklenburg counties gave their representatives, and of the growth of political individualism in the North Carolina backcountry between 1740 and 1776. Five hundred ninety-one leaves with a bibliography, completed in 1984. Topics include colonial politics and government and representative government in the province.
A map of Orange County, N.C.
Noble, M. C. S. (Marcus Cicero Stephens), 1855-1942 · 1915
Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble drew this 1915 map to show how Orange County's original territory was divided, tracing the formation of Caswell, Person, Alamance, Durham, Chatham, Randolph, Guilford and Rockingham counties out of it. Topics include county boundaries and the history of political divisions in the Piedmont. Surviving as a photocopy on a sheet 31 by 23 centimeters.
Towns of the Revolution - Hillsborough, N.C.
Colton, Henry E. · 1856
Henry E. Colton's account of Hillsborough as a town of the Revolution, dated 1856 and paginated 161 through 176, which marks it as a piece lifted from a larger volume. It concerns eighteenth century Hillsborough and the Revolutionary War in North Carolina.
Copy of The Journal of the Proceedings of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, held at Hillsborough on the 20th of August, 1775
1775
The provincial congress of North Carolina met at Hillsborough on 20 August 1775, and this copy of its journal records the delegates and their proceedings as the colony moved toward war. Samuel Johnston, Richard Caswell, Samuel Spencer and Thomas Wade are among the men named, with delegates drawn from Anson, Rowan and other counties. The congress sat in Orange County. Reference CO 5/318.
