Samuel Strudwick

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1. April 10, 1754 Former governor George Burrington pledges 30,000 acres of the Haw Old Fields to Samuel Strudwick To secure a debt then grown to about 2,000 pounds, Burrington conveyed 40,000 acres to Strudwick by lease and release with a mortgage clause, 30,000 of them in the Haw Old Fields. General John Guise, who acquired Burrington's right of redemption, passed it to Strudwick on September 28, 1761. People: George Burrington, Samuel Strudwick Place: Haw Old Fields (Hawfields) · Also named: John GuiseSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 96
2. late 1766 Samuel Strudwick meets the settlers on his Haw Fields land Strudwick, who came over with Governor Tryon in 1764 to take up the Haw Fields tract, found it held by people claiming under Burrington and by squatters. Near the end of 1766 he met a large number of them, and those present agreed to recognize his title. People: Samuel Strudwick Place: Haw Old Fields (Hawfields)Search the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 96
3. April 16, 1768 Tenants on Samuel Strudwick's Haw Fields land meet to keep possession by force Francis Nash reported to Edmund Fanning that Strudwick's tenants had formed an association to hold his lands against him and had met in the Haw Fields the day before he wrote. People: Francis Nash, Edmund Fanning, Samuel Strudwick Place: Haw Old Fields (Hawfields)Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 96
4. September 20, 1768 At the Hillsborough camp, Robert Palmer is named one of six lieutenants general Palmer, whom Governor Tryon had made adjutant general of the militia marching on Hillsborough, was named a lieutenant general of the army in orders issued at the Hillsborough camp on September 20, 1768. The same orders posted a town guard of a hundred men, with the court house and market house as guard rooms. People: Robert Palmer, William Tryon, John Rutherford, John Sampson, Benjamin Heron, Samuel Strudwick, John Ashe Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South, Colonial and State Records: Journal of William Tryon's journey to Hillsborough, including orders to the militia, June 20 to October 2, 1768
5. August 25, 1772 Governor Martin and his council at Hillsborough forbid the export of wheat, rye and flour Told of a long drought and failing corn crops in the western parts of the province, the council sitting at Hillsborough advised an embargo, and Martin proclaimed a three-month ban on shipping wheat, rye or flour out of the province. People: Josiah Martin, Martin Howard, Samuel Strudwick, Alexander McCulloch Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South (Colonial and State Records): Minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council, August 25, 1772
6. May 1778 Orange magistrates tender the state oath across the county The county court named two magistrates in each district to offer the oath to people suspected of disloyalty, and they returned lists of those who took and refused it to the May 1778 term. At that term James Hogg, William Johnston and Samuel Strudwick were cited again, and those who still declined were given sixty days to leave. People: James Hogg, William Johnston, Samuel Strudwick Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 53
7. 1780 Samuel Strudwick asks the Assembly to stop taxing him on the whole Haw Fields Strudwick petitioned for relief from taxes on the entire Haw Fields tract, saying settlers had blocked his court-ordered survey and, since the Revolution, had taken state patents on nearly all of the 30,000 acres, even his own house and plantation. People: Samuel Strudwick Place: Haw Old Fields (Hawfields)Search the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 97
8. September 1, 1780 Samuel Strudwick asks Thomas Burke for help as settlers threaten his Haw Fields plantation Strudwick wrote Burke that a man named Bowles, who held a new patent for a small plantation in sight of his house, meant to take the peaches from his orchard to distill and said he could raise a posse to do it, and that another settler who had patented Strudwick's own house might drive the family into the woods. He asked Burke what he should do. People: Thomas Burke Place: Haw Old Fields (Hawfields)Search the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), pp. 97-98
9. 1788 Samuel Strudwick's long Haw Fields lawsuits come to an end Litigation between Strudwick and settlers on the Haw Fields tract, begun a few years after his 1766 meeting with them, ended in 1788 with Strudwick having lost about a third of the property. People: Samuel Strudwick Place: Haw Old Fields (Hawfields)Search the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 98