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Richard Stanford

Richard Stanford moved to the Hawfields district of Orange County in 1789 and opened an academy there in September 1790; Thomas Hart Benton was among his early pupils. He married Jeanette, daughter of Alexander Mebane Jr., and from 1797 until his death in 1816 represented a Piedmont district in the US House of Representatives.

Source: NCpedia: Stanford, Richard (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)

1767–1816 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Richard Stanford opens an academy in the Hawfields Richard Stanford, who had come to the Hawfields district of Orange County from Maryland in 1789, opened an academy there. Thomas Hart Benton was among his early pupils. Place: Hawfields · Also named: Thomas Hart BentonSearch the index · NCpedia: Stanford, Richard (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
  2. Richard Stanford begins about twenty years as congressman for the Hillsborough district Richard Stanford, who was not born in Orange, won the Hillsborough district seat in Congress in 1796 and kept it for about twenty years. He started out a Jeffersonian Republican and later broke with Jefferson. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 83
  3. The court orders the University road to Woody's ferry moved south of Richard Stanford's house The court ordered the sheriff to summon a jury to view the road from the University to Woody's ferry near Richard Stanford's house and lay it out to pass on the south side of his house. Place: Road from the University to Woody's ferry, at Richard Stanford's houseSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1811
  4. The court orders the road from the University to Woody's ferry laid off south of Richard Stanford's house On a petition, the court ordered the sheriff to summon a jury to view the road from the University to Woody's ferry near the house of Richard Stanford and to lay it off so that it passed south of his house. Place: Road from the University at Chapel Hill to Woody's ferry on Haw RiverSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1814

Indexed works

Works about or by Richard Stanford. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.

Stephen Moore papers, 1767-1869, Orange and Person counties, North Carolina : also Maryland, New York, and Quebec (Canada).

Moore, Stephen, 1734-1799 · 1993 · University Publications of America

A 1993 microfilm publication from University Publications of America reproducing the Stephen Moore papers of 1767 to 1869 on two reels of 35 mm film, with a printed reel guide. Moore, 1734 to 1799, was a merchant at Hillsborough and a legislator, and the material takes in account books, plantation and agricultural records, family correspondence, and ties to Maryland, New York and Quebec.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Stanford, Richard, 1767-1816.

UNC

Richard D. White Collection

White, Richard D. · 1751

Richard D. White's collection of papers from ten families of central and eastern North Carolina, 1751 to 1929, plus miscellaneous items. The Isenhour papers from Anson, Cabarrus and Rowan counties include land papers, a 1796 apprentice bond, accounts and the will and estate of Michael and Barbara Isenhour. Orange County, the university and Trinity College are among the places touched. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.133.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

State Archives of NC

Records of enslaved people

2 records, 1812 to 1818, name Richard Stanford 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

15 deeds, 1795 to 1818, in the county’s deed books name Richard Stanford 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

2 wills and papers in the county’s will books name Richard Stanford, from Ruth Herndon Shields’s abstracts. Each shows the role and the year.

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