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Hugh Waddell

Hugh Waddell (1799–1878) practiced law in Hillsborough and Orange County from 1823 until 1867 and represented Orange in the House of Commons in 1828-29 and 1835 and in the state senate in five sessions from 1836 to 1848. In 1842 he opened a school in Hillsborough to prepare young men for the bar.

Source: NCpedia: Waddell, Hugh (1799-1878)

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By Hugh Waddell

To the freemen of Orange County.

Waddell, Hugh, 1799-1878 · 1835

Hugh Waddell announces his candidacy for the House of Commons in the seat left vacant by James Forrest, signing at Orange County on the first of November 1835. An address printed for the freemen of the county, and one of the few surviving traces of that contest.

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About Hugh Waddell

Substance of the testimony concerning the voters about whom the committee disagree.

1849

Testimony gathered in an 1849 contested election case from Orange County, summarizing the evidence about the individual voters whose eligibility the committee could not agree on. John Berry and Hugh Waddell were the candidates in the case before the North Carolina Senate committee on privileges and elections. Eight pages, useful to anyone studying who could vote in the county and on what terms.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Waddell, Hugh, 1799-1878.

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Willie Person Mangum papers,

Mangum, Willie Person,; Mangum, Arthur,; Mangum, Charity Alston Cain

Personal and political papers of Willie Person Mangum, the Whig senator from Orange County, together with papers of Arthur Mangum and Charity Alston Cain Mangum. Correspondents include Daniel Webster, William A. Graham, David L. Swain, John Chavis and Abraham Lincoln, and other topics include plantations at Hillsborough, the estate called Walnut Hill, state politics, agriculture and education.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Waddell, Hugh, 1799-1878 -- Correspondence.

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Reports from the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the case of the contested election in the district of Orange.

North Carolina · 1849 · S. Gales

Senate committee reports from 1849 on the contested election for Orange County's seat in the 37th Senatorial District of North Carolina, fought between Hugh Waddell (1799-1878) and John Berry (1798-1870). The committee split, and the pamphlet prints both parts' reports, the Senate resolutions and the committee's proceedings. Printed in Raleigh by S. Gales, 32 pages.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Waddell, Hugh, 1799-1878.

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  1. Hugh Waddell begins practising law in Hillsborough Waddell, an 1818 graduate of the university, began to practise law in Hillsborough and Orange County in 1823 and kept his practice there until 1867, when he moved to Wilmington.Search the index · NCpedia: Waddell, Hugh (1799-1878)
  2. Orange County sends Hugh Waddell to the House of Commons Waddell was elected to the House of Commons from Orange County for the 1828-29 session and again in 1835, and then served Orange in the state senate in five sessions between 1836 and 1848, as president of the senate in 1836.Search the index · NCpedia: Waddell, Hugh (1799-1878)
  3. Orange County elects James Mebane to the Senate and John Stockard and Hugh Waddell to the Commons Orange County voters chose James Mebane for the state Senate and John Stockard and Hugh Waddell for the House of Commons, while the borough of Hillsborough returned Frederick Nash by 42 votes to 40. Polls were held at Hillsborough, Mason Hall and about nine other places across the county. People: James Mebane, Hugh Waddell, Frederick NashSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 20, 1828, p. 3
  4. Hillsborough elects John Scott magistrate of police and seven town commissioners Hillsborough's annual town election chose John Scott magistrate of police and James S. Smith, John U. Kirkland, William H. Phillips, Hugh Waddell, William Nelson, George M. Johnston and Samuel Child commissioners for the year. People: James Strudwick Smith, John U. Kirkland, Hugh Waddell, William Nelson, George JohnstonSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 8, 1833, p. 3
  5. Orange County railroad meeting names fifteen delegates to the Hillsborough convention A meeting at the Hillsborough court house, with James Mebane in the chair and Dennis Heartt as secretary, heard Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, Willie P. Mangum and Hugh Waddell and named fifteen Orange delegates to the internal improvement convention called for Hillsborough in September. The speakers rejected the Raleigh convention's view that state money should go only to works that begin and end inside the state. People: James Mebane, Dennis Heartt, Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, Willie P. Mangum, Hugh WaddellSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), September 3, 1833, p. 2
  6. Six enslaved women are baptized into Hillsborough Presbyterian Church The Rev. S. J. Price baptized six women held by the Nash, Watters, Scott and Waddell households, and Frederick Nash and William J. Bingham received them as members. In the twenty years that followed under Robert Burwell, the church took in only one communicant of color. People: Frederick Nash, William James Bingham, Hugh Waddell, Robert Armistead BurwellBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 56
  7. Hillsborough celebrates the Fourth of July with an oration and a dinner at the Masonic Hall Citizens went from the court house to the Presbyterian church, where Hugh Waddell read the Declaration of Independence and Allen C. Jones gave the oration, then dined at the Masonic Hall with Alfred Moore presiding and drank thirteen regular toasts and many volunteer toasts, several aimed at Jackson and Van Buren. A court house meeting on June 18 under Maj. Allen J. Davie had named the committees. People: Hugh Waddell, Cadwallader Jones, Dennis HearttSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, July 9, 1834, p. 3
  8. Orange County's candidates for the Assembly and sheriff take the field By July 12, 1834, the candidates for Orange County's August 14 election were William Montgomery and Hugh Waddell for the state Senate; Joseph Allison, John Stockard, William McCauley and William R. Hall for the House of Commons; William A. Graham for the Hillsborough borough seat; and James C. Turrentine and William Nelson for sheriff. Earlier lists that summer had named Thomas D. Crane and, briefly, Burrhus Cheek for the Senate. People: William Montgomery, Hugh Waddell, William McCauley, William A. Graham, James C. Turrentine, William NelsonSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), July 12, 1834, p. 3
  9. Hillsborough citizens meet to mourn university president Joseph Caldwell A town meeting chaired by Frederick Nash resolved to wear crape for thirty days in memory of Dr. Joseph Caldwell and asked the university's executive committee to have an alumnus deliver a eulogy at Chapel Hill before the next commencement. William M. Green offered the resolutions and Hugh Waddell spoke. People: Frederick Nash, William Mercer Green, Hugh Waddell, Joseph CaldwellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 6, 1835, p. 3
  10. The Recorder prints a county meeting's warning to abolitionists An Orange County meeting adopted a report warning "northern fanatics" not to stir up the enslaved and predicting lasting hostility between the sections if abolitionists pressed on. Its fourteen-man committee included Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, John U. Kirkland, Dr. Edmund Strudwick and the paper's own editor, Dennis Heartt, as a secretary. People: Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, John U. Kirkland, Edmund Strudwick, Dennis HearttBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 49
  11. Orange County supporters of Hugh L. White meet at the court house More than a hundred Orange County opponents of Martin Van Buren met at the Hillsborough court house during county court week, endorsed Hugh L. White for president, John Tyler for vice president and Edward B. Dudley for governor, and named James Mebane, Dr. Edmund Strudwick and Harrison Parker to meet Granville and Person delegates and choose a district elector. James S. Smith, Hugh Waddell and James Mebane spoke, and the meeting adjourned to the Wednesday of superior court week to name candidates for the legislature. People: James Strudwick Smith, Hugh Waddell, James Mebane, Edmund Strudwick, Dennis HearttSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 26, 1836, p. 3
  12. Orange's White ticket names Hugh Waddell for the state Senate and William A. Graham, N. J. King and Harrison Parker for the Commons Supporters of Hugh Lawson White for president settled on their Orange County candidates for the 1836 legislature: Hugh Waddell for the Senate, and William A. Graham, N. J. King, Harrison Parker and a fourth man for the House of Commons. People: Hugh Waddell, William A. GrahamSearch the index · Columbian Repository (Chapel Hill), June 18, 1836, p. 3
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  1. Hugh Waddell of Orange serves as Whig Speaker of the state Senate Waddell, who represented Orange in the Senate for three sessions between 1836 and 1846, was elected Whig Speaker of the Senate, 24 votes to 22 over William D. Mosely of Lenoir, when the 1836-1837 session opened on November 21, 1836.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 88
  2. The Van Buren party takes three Orange seats from the Whigs In the August election Orange voters sent Joseph Allison to the state Senate over Hugh Waddell and elected Van Buren men to the Commons, a loss of three seats for the Whigs, while Willie P. Mangum missed a Commons seat after some of his votes at Chapel Hill were thrown out because the voters had not lived twelve months in the county. People: Hugh Waddell, Willie P. Mangum, William A. GrahamSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 23, 1838, p. 3
  3. Maria L. Spear heads the Hillsborough Female Seminary When the Hillsborough Female Academy's session opened on January 14, 1839, it was under its principal, Miss Maria L. Spear, whose work over several years past, the trustees said, had met their highest expectations. Her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, taught music, drawing and painting. William M. Green's last announcement for the school had run in 1838. People: James Strudwick Smith, Cadwallader Jones, Hugh Waddell, William Mercer GreenLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 136
  4. Whig district convention at Hillsborough nominates William A. Graham, who declines, and then George W. Haywood Delegates from Wake, Person and Orange met at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough on May 31, 1839, with Weston R. Gales in the chair, and unanimously nominated William A. Graham for Congress against Dr. William Montgomery. Graham declined for private and domestic reasons, and the convention then chose George W. Haywood of Wake, who accepted by letter from Raleigh. People: W. R (Weston R.) Gales, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, Giles Mebane, William MontgomerySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 6, 1839, p. 3
  5. Orange Whig convention nominates Willie P. Mangum and William A. Graham for the legislature Delegates from every captain's district met at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough and nominated Willie P. Mangum for the state Senate and William A. Graham, Nathaniel I. King, Col. James Graham and Dr. Michael W. Holt for the House of Commons. The nominating committee also named Sheriff James C. Turrentine, but withdrew him after Hugh Waddell argued that ministerial officers should not depend on party politics. People: Willie P. Mangum, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, James Strudwick Smith, James C. TurrentineSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 28, 1840, p. 3
  6. Orange voters elect Hugh Waddell to the state Senate and Col. James Graham to the Commons At a special election to fill the seats left by Willie P. Mangum and William A. Graham, Orange County elected Whig Hugh Waddell to the state Senate and Col. James Graham to the House of Commons by what the Recorder called handsome majorities. People: Hugh Waddell, William A. Graham, Willie P. MangumSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 10, 1840, p. 3
  7. Hugh Waddell buys Job at auction as Stephen Moore's business fails As the merchant Stephen Moore's business failed, Job was sold to the highest bidder and bought for $800 by the Hillsborough attorney Hugh Waddell, who made him his personal servant at Twin Chimneys on West King Street. When Waddell was away at court, Job was hired out, painting for John Berry, and his wages went to the Waddells. People: Hugh Waddell, John BerrySearch the index · News of Orange County: Rev. Job Berry's legacy rooted in faith, marriage, education (Betty Eidenier, March 25, 2022)
  8. Hillsborough's female seminary engages Moses Ashley Curtis as superintendent The trustees of the Hillsborough female seminary, among them James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones, William Cain, Hugh Waddell, Stephen Moore, Nathan Hooker and P. H. Mangum, engaged the Rev. M. A. Curtis as superintendent, kept the same women teachers, and set the next session to open on July 15. People: Moses Ashley Curtis, James Strudwick Smith, Cadwallader Jones, Hugh Waddell, Stephen MooreHillsborough Recorder, June 24, 1841, p. 3
  9. Frederick Nash and Hugh Waddell open a law school in Hillsborough Frederick Nash and Hugh Waddell gave notice on November 1, 1841 that they would open a school at Hillsborough to prepare young men for the bar from January 1, 1842, if at least eight students enrolled. People: Frederick NashSearch the index · NCpedia: Waddell, Hugh (1799-1878)
  10. Orange County sends Democrat Joseph Allison to the state Senate while voting for Whig governor John M. Morehead Orange voters gave Governor John M. Morehead, the Whig, 1,576 votes to 1,172 for Louis D. Henry, yet elected Democrat Joseph Allison to the state Senate over Hugh Waddell and returned only one Whig, Henry K. Nash, to the House of Commons with Democrats John Stockard, Julius C. Bracken and Cadwallader Jones Jr. The Whig Recorder blamed poor Whig turnout and alleged illegal votes, and some Whigs spoke of contesting the result. People: Hugh Waddell, John Motley MoreheadSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 11, 1842, p. 3
  11. Andrew M. Steel is convicted of manslaughter in the shooting of his mother At the fall superior court, Judge Manly presiding, Andrew M. Steel was tried for murder in the death of his mother, Nancy Steel, whom he had shot on April 19. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to be branded and imprisoned for twelve months. People: Hugh Waddell, William A. Graham, John Wall NorwoodSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 21, 1843, p. 3
  12. Orange elects its whole Whig ticket Orange voters returned the entire Whig ticket, sending Hugh Waddell to the state Senate and Giles Mebane, Chesley F. Faucett, Loftin K. Pratt and John B. Leathers to the House of Commons by an average majority of 157, and re-elected Sheriff James C. Turrentine over William Nelson. The county also gave its own William A. Graham a majority of nearly 200 over Michael Hoke for governor. People: Hugh Waddell, Giles Mebane, James C. Turrentine, William A. GrahamSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 8, 1844, p. 3
  13. Sidney Smith is elected to the House of Commons for Orange County Orange County's 1846 election sent Giles Mebane, Chesley F. Faucett, John B. Leathers and Sidney Smith to the House of Commons, with Hugh Waddell in the state Senate. People: Giles Mebane, Hugh WaddellSearch the index · Documenting the American South: R. D. W. Connor, ed., A Manual of North Carolina (1913), p. 741
  14. The legislature incorporates the Caldwell Institute at Hillsborough The General Assembly passed a bill, taken up in the Senate on the motion of Hugh Waddell, to incorporate the Caldwell Institute in Hillsborough. The school's spring session opened on January 7 with eighty-nine students, and the trustees' executive committee authorized hiring a teacher for an English department. People: Hugh WaddellHillsborough Recorder, January 21, 1847, p. 3
  15. The Whig district convention at Hillsborough nominates John Kerr for Congress Delegates from Orange, Chatham, Granville, Caswell and Person met at Hillsborough with Hugh Waddell in the chair and Henry K. Nash as secretary, and unanimously nominated John Kerr of Caswell for Congress. William K. Ruffin, who had announced himself a candidate, withdrew the same day. People: Hugh WaddellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 11, 1847, p. 3
  16. Orange Whig convention nominates Hugh Waddell and a Commons ticket Meeting at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough on Tuesday of May court with Dr. Edmund Strudwick presiding, the Whig county convention nominated Hugh Waddell for the state Senate and Giles Mebane, Josiah Turner Jr., Isaac Holt and John B. Leathers for the House of Commons; when Leathers withdrew days later, a court-week meeting of Whigs named William W. Guess in his place. People: Hugh Waddell, Edmund Strudwick, Giles Mebane, Josiah Turner Jr.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 31, 1848, p. 3
  17. Sheriff's casting vote sends Hugh Waddell to the state Senate When the official count in Orange's state Senate race left Whig Hugh Waddell and Democrat John Berry tied, the sheriff cast the deciding vote for Waddell; within days Berry's friends charged that the return from John R. Holt's precinct had credited Waddell with five votes too many. People: John BerrySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 9, 1848, p. 3
  18. Hugh Waddell resigns his disputed Senate seat and asks for a new election Unable to settle whether the Holt's precinct return had wrongly given him five votes, Hugh Waddell sent the governor his resignation of the Senate seat that the sheriff's casting vote had given him and offered himself again to the freeholders; the governor ordered a new election for November 7. People: John BerrySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 27, 1848, p. 3
  19. Hugh Waddell contests John Berry's election to the state Senate After the November 7 special election, in which returns from Faucett's precinct were made under an inspector's protest and the sheriff declared Democrat John Berry elected, Hugh Waddell petitioned the state Senate to unseat Berry, claiming a majority of the legal votes; in early December the Senate debated how evidence would be taken in Orange. People: John BerrySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 6, 1848, p. 3
  20. Orange Superior Court sentences an enslaved man named Ellick to hang At the fall term of the Orange Superior Court, Judge Matthias E. Manly presiding, a jury convicted Ellick, an enslaved man, on a charge of raping a white woman, and he was sentenced to hang on October 18. Hugh Waddell, John H. Bryan and James S. Amis defended him by appointment of the court; the same term ordered thirty-nine lashes for James Mitchell, a free Black man who pleaded guilty to grand larceny. People: Hugh WaddellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 18, 1850, p. 3
  21. Lawyer Priestley H. Mangum dies at Hillsborough Priestley H. Mangum, the oldest member of the Orange bar, county solicitor and a former member of the House of Commons for Orange, died at his home near Hillsborough after a brief illness. The Orange bar met at the court house during the November term to adopt resolutions in his memory. People: John Wall Norwood, Hugh Waddell, Thomas WebbSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 18, 1850, p. 3
  22. Whigs hold a Scott and Graham mass meeting and barbecue at Hillsborough During Superior Court week some 2,000 to 2,500 people marched to a grove on the Chapel Hill road south of Hillsborough for a free Whig barbecue and speeches. William A. Graham, home after resigning from the cabinet to run for vice president, thanked the people of Orange and Alamance, and Willie P. Mangum said he would retire from public life at the end of the next Congress. People: Willie P. Mangum, Hugh WaddellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 22, 1852, p. 2
  23. Hillsborough meeting resolves to build a plank road to Milton Citizens of Orange and neighboring counties met in Hillsborough during court week and resolved to build a plank road from Hillsborough to Milton, naming committees to sell stock in $50 shares and to ask the next legislature for a charter and state aid. Hugh Waddell urged a branch to Haywood by way of Chapel Hill. People: Giles Mebane, Hugh Waddell, Josiah Turner Jr., John U. KirklandSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 8, 1854, p. 3
  24. Joseph Brockwell's murder case is moved to Chatham and ends in a manslaughter verdict Orange Superior Court moved the murder case against Joseph Brockwell, charged with killing James Davis at Chapel Hill in March, to Chatham County on the prisoner's plea that he could not get a fair trial in Orange. At Chatham Superior Court the next week he was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to be branded and imprisoned six months. People: Hugh Waddell, John Wall Norwood, Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips, Josiah Turner Jr.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 27, 1854, p. 2

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