Thomas D. Watts

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1. by June 18, 1822 Thomas D. Watts becomes sheriff of Orange County Thomas D. Watts succeeded Thomas Clancy as sheriff of Orange County and announced his summer rounds to collect the 1821 taxes at Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and some twenty other places in the county. People: Thomas D. WattsSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 19, 1822, p. 3
2. October 17, 1829 A Chapel Hill meeting sets out to make New Hope Creek navigable A meeting at Chapel Hill, with James Mebane in the chair, adopted Joseph Caldwell's resolutions to clear New Hope Creek for boats from Patterson's mill to the Haw, named committees to rally the people along the creek and to have it surveyed mile by mile, and raised a subscription toward the survey. People: James Mebane, Joseph Caldwell, Thomas D. WattsSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 21, 1829, p. 3
3. February Term 1833 The court takes Mary Revill, a child of color, from Thomas D. Watts and binds her to Mary Palmer The court rescinded its order binding Mary Revill, a young child of color, to Thomas D. Watts and bound her to Mary Palmer. In November 1834 it rescinded that binding too and bound Mary, nearly six and named as the daughter of Suckey Revill, to George Albright to learn spinning. People: Thomas D. WattsSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
4. by September 1833 Former sheriff Thomas D. Watts takes over Alsobrook's hotel Thomas D. Watts, once sheriff of Orange County, took charge of the hotel on Lot #13, which became known as Watts's hotel. His widow Lucy bought the property in 1839 and ran it until 1846. People: Thomas D. WattsSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 69 · Also: The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), September 3, 1833, p. 3
5. March 29, 1835 Former sheriff Thomas D. Watts dies at Chapel Hill Thomas D. Watts, lately sheriff of Orange County, died at Chapel Hill. People: Thomas D. WattsSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, April 3, 1835, p. 3
6. 1839 Lucy Watts buys the hotel on Lot #13 Lucy Watts, widow of Thomas D. Watts, bought the hotel lot and the western half of Lot #15 from Dr. James Webb and kept the house open as the Watts Hotel until 1846. People: James Webb, Thomas D. WattsSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 75