The Henderson surname

In the chronology 26 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Henderson, A. M. 2 entries, 1834
  • February 6, 1834: Chapel Hill's new board names its officers and lays the town tax
  • July 4, 1834: Chapel Hill celebrates the Fourth of July with a student oration and a dinner
• Henderson, Alexander Martin 1 entry, 1833
  • late 1833: Pleasant Henderson leaves Chapel Hill for Tennessee
• Henderson, Archibald 34 entries, 1895–1952
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• Henderson, Archibald 1 entry, 1925
  • by February 26, 1925: The Reviewer brings out its first number edited in Chapel Hill
• Henderson, Archibald, Sr. 1 entry, 1845
  • June 4, 1845: The Historical Society of the University issues its first report
• Henderson, Barbara Bynum 1 entry, 1913
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• Henderson, Dilcy 1 entry, 1866
  • August Term 1866: The court binds Dilcy Henderson, an eight-year-old girl of color, to Morgan Closs until eighteen
• Henderson, Elinor 1 entry, 1941
  • January 1941 (week of January 6): Chapel Hill high school begins serving hot lunches
• Henderson, F. L. 1 entry, 1933
  • December 1, 1933: Black Chapel Hill launches a community center on West Franklin Street
• Henderson, Fletcher 1 entry, 1943
  • August 15 to September 26, 1943: The Navy Pre-Flight band gives a summer series of public Sunday concerts
• Henderson, J. M. 1 entry, 1857
  • April 18, 1857: J. M. Henderson begins publishing the Chapel Hill Weekly Gazette
• Henderson, James M. 2 entries, 1859–1928
  • March 19, 1859: Chapel Hill's commissioners adopt a revised code of ordinances
  • by November 30, 1928: A copy of the 1857 Chapel Hill Literary Gazette is found and given to the University
• Henderson, John 1 entry, 1778
  • March 24, 1778: The superior court sits at Hillsborough for the first time in five years
• Henderson, Kirk 1 entry, 1974
  • March 2, 1974: The Chapel Hill Friends of the United Farm Workers expand their picket of the Airport Road A&P
• Henderson, Lula B. 7 entries, 1935–1938
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• Henderson, Mabel M. 1 entry, 1946
  • week of July 22, 1946: Workmen begin restoring the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro
• Henderson, Martha B. 1 entry, 1946
  • week of July 22, 1946: Workmen begin restoring the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro
• Henderson, Martin 3 entries, 1946–1949
  • 1946–1949: Restoring the Colonial Inn, 1946–1947
  • May 1, 1947: Paul Henderson reopens the restored Colonial Inn in Hillsborough
  • March 21, 1949: Commissioners cut the Colonial Inn's tax valuation after its operator reports heavy losses
• Henderson, Mary 2 entries, 1922–1933
  • June 11-14, 1922: The University holds its 127th commencement and confers 192 degrees
  • late 1933: Beppie Branson moves The Little Shop to 142 East Franklin Street as sole owner
• Henderson, Paul 8 entries, 1942–1949
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  • February 28, 1942: Colonel and Mrs. Paul Henderson buy the old Patterson farm near Mount Moriah church
  • by May 16, 1946: Hillsboro citizens petition for building priorities to restore the Colonial Inn
  • 1946–1949: Restoring the Colonial Inn, 1946–1947
  • week of July 22, 1946: Workmen begin restoring the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro
  • early April 1946: Paul Henderson buys the Colonial Inn at auction
  • May 1, 1947: Paul Henderson reopens the restored Colonial Inn in Hillsborough
  • February and March 1948: Josephine Humphries paints murals of four Hillsboro landmarks in the Colonial Inn
  • March 21, 1949: Commissioners cut the Colonial Inn's tax valuation after its operator reports heavy losses
• Henderson, Pleasant 17 entries, 1791–1833
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• Henderson, Pleasant 1 entry, 1797
  • 1797–1819: Steward's Hall and the University commons, 1797–1819
• Henderson, Richard 14 entries, 1757–1918
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• Henderson, Richard 1 entry, 1804
  • 1804: Richard Henderson becomes head of Hillsborough Academy
• Henderson, Stanford 1 entry, 1866
  • 1 May 1866: Ellen Coggins names Stanford Henderson, a freedman, as her child's father
• Henderson, Thomas 1 entry, 1770
  • late 1770: Hillsborough officials and merchants pledge to defend one another after the riot

In books and archives 5 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Henderson family family, 1 work
• Henderson, Richard, 1735-1785 25 works
• Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963 6 works
• Henderson, John S. (John Steele), 1846-1916 1 work
• Henderson, Leonard, 1772-1833 1 work

In the historical records 158 records

50 deeds, 3 records of enslaved people, 28 marriages, 61 court minutes, 5 tax list entries and 11 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Henderson marriages in full · Search the name in every collection