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James Webb

Dr. James Webb (1774–1855) was Hillsborough's pioneer physician, a merchant, and for decades the town's agent of the Bank of Cape Fear. He underwrote Polly Burke's school and the Burwell School, served as a UNC trustee for thirty-eight years, and helped found the State Medical Society.

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StorylineHillsborough’s courthouse, jail, pillory and stocks, 1752–18371752–1837 · 43 events · From 1752 to 1837 the county and the Assembly built, lost and rebuilt Hillsborough's courthouse and jail. Until a frame courthouse was ready in December 1756 the court met in private homes, and in 1757 the sheriff was ordered to provide stocks, a pillory and a whipping post. The second county jail burned, a fire in March 1790 took the courthouse, and that year the Assembly ordered a new one where the burned one had stood. Henry Harris, a Black man jailed as a runaway because he could not prove his freedom, was charged with setting fire to the county jail. John Berry completed a two-story stone jail, set at no more than $4,000, in 1837. StorylineHillsborough Presbyterian Church, 1815–18371815–1837 · 12 events · The first pastor of Hillsborough's Presbyterian church strained relations with his congregation by advocating religious education, Sunday schools and preaching for enslaved people. The brick church on West Tryon Street was built with money from a lottery the state authorized, and in September 1816 Mary W. Burke, eight others and the Rev. John Knox Witherspoon organized the church. In 1823 the session admonished two members for trading in enslaved people without punishing them. Witherspoon ended seventeen years as pastor in 1833. In 1834 six enslaved women were baptized, and in 1835 Robert Burwell began a thirteen-year pastorate; the church bought a manse, and a Sessions House was built for the Sunday school. StorylineThe University’s debts and the sale of its Tennessee lands, 1830–18371830–1837 · 11 events · With debts of about $37,500 and only some 82 paying students in 1830, the University's trustees refused the General Assembly's terms for help and sold property instead. The Assembly offered a $25,000 loan only as a lien on all University property, with the legislature free to take over the charter, and the trustees refused. They sold the Grammar School lot and, in 1833, their Bank of Newbern stock. In 1835 a new executive committee sent Treasurer Charles Manly to Tennessee, where 42,345 acres plus the 20,000 Smith acres went to Orme and Gifford of Boston. In 1837 the endowment went into Bank of the State shares, whose dividends, with tuition, made up the University's income until the Civil War.

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  1. Hillsborough's Dr. James Webb helps organize the first state medical society Dr. James Webb, the leading physician in Orange, was among the small group who organized the North Carolina Medical Society at Raleigh on December 17, 1799; its charter was dated December 23. Webb served as one of its censors, who examined men wishing to practice. Place: RaleighSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 158
  2. The court appoints James Webb treasurer of public buildings After naming David Ray, John McKerall and John Cameron to settle Sterling Harris's accounts as treasurer of public buildings, the court appointed James Webb treasurer, and he gave bond. It also named Webb to take the list of taxables in Hillsborough. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Sterling Harris, David Ray, John McKerall, John CameronSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1807
  3. The court lets the treasurer of public buildings hire a keeper for the courthouse The court authorized the treasurer of public buildings to employ a proper person to take care of the courthouse and the public lot on which it stands. At the same term it appointed Dr. James Webb treasurer of public buildings, and he gave bond with John Taylor and David Ray. People: James Webb Place: Hillsborough (courthouse and public lot) · Also named: John Taylor, David RaySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1809
  4. The court names a committee to draft rules for the patrols The court appointed Samuel Benton, Abner B. Bruce, James Webb, Frederick Nash and William Norwood to draft rules and regulations for governing the patrols and to report at the next term. At the same term it again levied one shilling on each Black poll outside Hillsborough to pay the patrols and allowed forty shillings each to patrollers for the past year. People: James Webb, Frederick Nash, William Norwood Place: Orange County · Also named: Samuel Benton, Abner B. BruceMark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1809
  5. Dr. James Webb serves as Hillsborough agent of the Bank of Cape Fear In 1810 Dr. James Webb was appointed Hillsborough agent, or cashier, of the branch of the Bank of the Cape Fear, a post he held until 1846. The branch rented a small building on West King Street, and many of its stockholder lists, dividend records and at least one ledger survive. Place: Hillsborough, West King StreetIn the index: Bank of Cape Fear (Wilmington, N.C.) Hillsboro Branch · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Webb, James
  6. The Strudwick heirs' enslaved people are hired out under Dr. James Webb's guardianship After Col. William F. Strudwick died in 1810, Dr. James Webb managed the estate for his widow and younger sons and hired out the people it held, listing them by name year after year. In 1819 two of those assigned to young Edmund Strudwick, Jim and Nelly, were sold or leased for $533 and $500. People: James Webb, Edmund Strudwick Place: Hillsborough · Also named: William F. StrudwickBurwell 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. 28-29
  7. The court orders a new bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough and levies a tax for it The court ordered a bridge built across the Eno at or near Hillsborough, named Dr. James Webb, James S. Smith, Thomas Clancy, Samuel Child and John Young a committee to contract for building it and keeping it in repair for seven years, with bond from the builder, and levied a tax of ninepence on each poll, each 100 pounds of town property and each 300 acres to pay for it. People: James Webb, James Strudwick Smith, Samuel Child Place: Eno River at Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas Clancy, John YoungSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1814
  8. The court orders an inquiry into the state of the register's records The court appointed John Street, James Webb and Thomas Clancy a committee to examine the state of the records in the register's office and to report at the next term which of them ought to be transcribed. People: James Webb Place: Register's office, Hillsborough · Also named: John Street, Thomas ClancySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1815
  9. Hillsborough physician James S. Smith serves in Congress James Strudwick Smith, an Orange County-born physician who had studied medicine with Dr. James Webb of Hillsborough, represented the Hillsborough district in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses from March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1821. He was defeated when he sought a third term. People: James Strudwick Smith, James Webb Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Smith, James Strudwick
  10. The court orders the bar and jury boxes in the courthouse rebuilt The court appointed William Norwood, Thomas Ruffin, James Webb, Thomas Clancy and John Taylor Jr. a committee to alter the form of the bar, the jury boxes and a table in the courthouse and to contract for the work, to be paid by the treasurer of public buildings. People: William Norwood, Thomas Ruffin, James Webb Place: Hillsborough, the courthouse · Also named: Thomas Clancy, John Taylor Jr.Search the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1817
  11. Dr. James Webb deeds land for Polly Burke's log schoolhouse On November 6, 1817, Dr. James Webb deeded to his neighbor Mary W. Burke a strip of his lot on East Queen Street, where a log schoolhouse was built for her to teach the Webb children. Known as Miss Polly Burke's School, it took neighborhood children from about 1818 to 1834 and is cited as a forerunner of the Burwell School. People: Mary “Polly” Burke, James Webb Place: Hillsborough, East Queen Street · Also named: Mary W. Burke · Also mentions: Burwell SchoolSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Burke, Mary ("Polly") Williams
  12. Samuel Hancock buys lots near the Eno for a brickyard With a $50 loan from Dr. James Webb, brickmason Samuel Hancock bought lots near the Eno River for a brickyard, which became known as the Webb-Hancock brickyard. Webb's 1842 bankruptcy papers say the two men ran it as partners. People: Samuel Hancock, James Webb Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Eno RiverSearch the index · NC State University Libraries, North Carolina Architects & Builders: Hancock, Samuel (1784-1848)
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  1. Dr. James Webb offers free smallpox vaccination in Hillsborough The Hillsborough Recorder announced in February 1822 that Dr. James Webb had fresh vaccine matter and would vaccinate anyone who applied, free of charge, at his shop every Wednesday from noon to two o'clock. The notice cited smallpox recently brought into the Tarborough area. Place: Hillsborough, Webb's medical shop (East Queen Street)Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 20, 1822, p. 3
  2. The synod forms the Education Society of North Carolina at Hillsborough During its session at Hillsborough the Synod of North Carolina formed the Education Society of North Carolina to help poor and pious young men study for the ministry, and adopted its constitution. Joseph Caldwell was chosen president, Frederick Nash a vice president, Dr. James Webb treasurer and Shepard K. Kollock secretary, with Elisha Mitchell among the managers. People: Joseph Caldwell, Frederick Nash, James Webb, Elisha Mitchell Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Shepard K. KollockSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 9, 1822, p. 3
  3. Dr. James Webb deeds Hillsborough's Methodists a lot and house on Tryon Street For ten shillings Dr. James Webb conveyed a 44-foot-square part of town lot 102 on Tryon (then Church) Street to trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, on condition that a meeting house be kept there. A house already standing on the lot became the congregation's first church. Place: Hillsborough Methodist Church (first church), Tryon Street, HillsboroughSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 106
  4. The Orange County Bible Society holds its first anniversary meeting The Auxiliary Bible Society of Orange County met at Hillsborough, heard its first annual report and re-elected Judge William Norwood president. The board reported that it had given out 110 of the 100 Bibles and 75 Testaments received from the American Bible Society in a county of 23,492 people, cut annual dues to one dollar, and moved future anniversaries to the first Monday in August. People: William Norwood, James Webb, Duncan Cameron, William Kirkland, James Mebane, William Huntington, John Witherspoon, Walker Anderson Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, July 16, 1823, p. 3
  5. Faculty and Orange County trustees expel two students who attacked professors Two students, drunk from the village grog shop and armed with a club and a pistol, went out after members of the faculty and assaulted two of them. The trustees living in Orange County were called to sit with the faculty, and the two were expelled. People: Elisha Mitchell, Duncan Cameron, Thomas Ruffin, James Webb, Francis L. Hawks Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 298
  6. The Orange County Sunday School Union asks the Assembly to fund its schools The Orange County Sunday School Union petitioned the General Assembly for 25 cents a year per pupil for its 22 Sunday schools, which taught 800 to 1,000 children, many from poor families, to read. John Scott of Hillsborough presented it in the House of Commons, which turned it down. People: James Webb, William Kirkland, William Norwood, John Knox Witherspoon, Dennis Heartt, John Wall Norwood, William Huntington Place: Orange County · Also named: John ScottSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 131-132
  7. The Orange County Sunday School Society reports nineteen schools across the county At its annual meeting the Orange County Sunday School Society chose Dr. James Webb president and heard its second annual report, which listed nineteen schools in connection with the society, from Hillsborough, Eno, Bethlehem and Cross Roads to Haw River, Mountain Creek and Chapel Hill. The managers said a lack of suitable teachers had kept them from meeting the county's needs. People: James Webb, John Witherspoon, John Wall Norwood Place: Presbyterian church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 14, 1825, p. 3
  8. An Orange County mass meeting calls for state aid to roads and river navigation Friends of internal improvement met at the court house in Hillsborough on April 20, 1829, with Thomas Clancy in the chair and Dennis Heartt as secretary. After the Rev. Joseph Caldwell spoke on the county's want of markets, Caldwell, Duncan Cameron and Cadwallader Jones were named to draft an address. At the adjourned meeting on May 25, chaired by Dr. James Webb, the meeting adopted the address to the people of Orange, which held that a fund for internal improvement must be raised by taxation, and had 500 copies printed for circulation in the county. People: James Webb, Dennis Heartt, Duncan Cameron, Joseph Caldwell Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas Clancy, Cadwallader JonesSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 86 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, April 22, 1829, p. 3; Hillsborough Recorder, June 10, 1829, p. 2
  9. The Orange County Bible Society finds a thousand families without a Bible Meeting at Salem meeting house, the Orange County Bible Society elected William Norwood president and reported that its agents had found about a thousand families in the county without a Bible; it resolved to supply every one through paid agents the next spring and then to join the state society's drive. People: William Norwood, Frederick Nash, James Webb, James Mebane, John Witherspoon Place: Salem meeting house, Orange CountySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 28, 1829, p. 3
  10. Trustees offer the university's Chapel Hill lands for sale Pressed by debt, the trustees named William Polk, James Mebane and James Webb to offer the unimproved university lands around Chapel Hill for sale. Only a small sum came in, from the sale of the Preparatory School acre; that school had been closed for more than ten years. People: James Webb, William Polk, James Mebane Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 334
  11. Commissioners open a subscription book for the Bank of North Carolina in Hillsborough Commissioners named by the governor under the act establishing the Bank of North Carolina opened a book for stock subscriptions at William F. Strudwick & Co.'s store in Hillsborough, to stay open sixty days. The commissioners were James S. Smith, Frederick Nash, Alfred Moore, James Webb and William A. Graham. People: James Strudwick Smith, Frederick Nash, James Webb, William A. Graham Place: William F. Strudwick & Co.'s store, Hillsborough · Also named: Alfred Moore, William F. StrudwickSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 8, 1833, p. 3
  12. Internal improvement convention meets at Hillsborough and elects Thomas Ruffin president Delegates from Orange, Granville, Person, Caswell, Wake, Warren, Rowan, Guilford and Cumberland met at Hillsborough on September 9 to promote a railroad from the Roanoke into the western counties. They chose Judge Thomas Ruffin president over Governor David L. Swain by 26 votes to 16, named Walker Anderson and Sandy Harris secretaries, sat in the Presbyterian church, and adjourned on September 11. People: David L. Swain, Walker Anderson, James Webb, Thomas Ruffin Place: Presbyterian church, Hillsborough · Also named: Sandy HarrisSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), September 10, 1833, p. 3
  13. The university treasurer reports the trustees nearly clear of bank debt Treasurer Charles Manly reported that the State Bank had sued the trustees in Wake County court for the rest of its debt, that the judgment was paid with a loan from the Bank of the United States at Fayetteville, and that Tennessee land money received from Samuel Dickens in October 1833 had paid off that loan. The board still owed the Bank of Newbern $1,500, due in April 1834. People: Charles Manly, James Webb Place: University of North Carolina (trustees' business) · Also named: Samuel DickensSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), January 9, 1834, p. 1
  14. Samuel Hancock goes bankrupt and Dr. James Webb buys his house and the enslaved man Abram In 1834 Samuel Hancock went bankrupt. Dr. James Webb bought the Hancocks' house and lot, their furniture and Abram, a man they enslaved, and rented all of them back to Hancock for $1 a year. People: Samuel Hancock, James Webb Place: Hillsborough · Also named: AbramSearch the index · NC State University Libraries, North Carolina Architects & Builders: Hancock, Samuel (1784-1848)
  15. The court binds Daniel Burnett to his uncle Zedekiah Husbands, a free millwright of color The county court bound Daniel Burnett, son of Jinny Burnett and 13 the next March, to Zedekiah Husbands to learn the millwright's trade, with Husbands giving bond of $1000 with James Webb as security. Affidavits filed in 1837 describe Husbands as a man of color and a millwright living about three miles from Hillsborough. People: James Webb Place: Orange County · Also named: Daniel Burnett, Jinny Burnett, Zedekiah HusbandsSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
  16. Dr. James Webb builds the Presbyterian Sessions House in the Old Town Cemetery In 1835 Dr. James Webb took a ninety-nine-year lease on the southeast corner of Hillsborough's Old Town Cemetery lot and built a frame Sessions House with a bell tower there. It served as the Presbyterian Sunday school room and later as a public library until 1934. Place: Hillsborough, Old Town CemeterySearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Webb, James
  17. Commissioners call for bids to build a stone jail at Hillsborough James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones and James Webb, acting as commissioners, asked builders for proposals for a two-story stone jail 45 feet long, showing the plan and specifications on request and taking bids until mid-March. People: James Strudwick Smith, Cadwallader Jones, James Webb Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 26, 1836, p. 3
  18. Dr. James Webb builds a house around Polly Burke's log schoolhouse About twenty years after the one-room log schoolhouse went up on his East Queen Street land, Dr. James Webb built a house around it, with the log room as its living room. People: Mary “Polly” Burke Place: 117 East Queen Street, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 142
  19. Polly Burke's Queen Street house passes to Dennis Heartt's family Mary W. Burke, daughter of Governor Thomas Burke, moved to Alabama in 1837. On May 4 of that year James Webb, acting as her attorney, sold her East Queen Street house for $750 to Caroline and Henrietta Heartt, daughters of the Hillsborough Recorder editor Dennis Heartt. The whole Heartt family lived there, the house came to be known as Heartsease, and the Heartts added the two-story west wing soon after the purchase. People: Mary “Polly” Burke, James Webb, Dennis Heartt Place: Hillsborough, Heartsease (East Queen Street) · Also named: Mary W. Burke, Henrietta HearttSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Heartsease, National Register nomination (OR0009), p. 5 · Also: Open Orange: Heartsease
  20. 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. Watts Place: Watts Hotel, Lot #13, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lucy WattsSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 75
  21. Hillsborough counts about 787 people, 333 of them enslaved Reading the 1840 census against William Bailey's sketch map of the town in 1839, the Task Force counted about 787 people in the mapped households: 434 white, 333 enslaved and 20 free people of color. Dr. James Webb's household was the largest, and Dr. James S. Smith held the most people, 41. People: James Webb, James Strudwick Smith Place: HillsboroughBurwell 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. 43
  22. Dr. James Webb counts 14 deaths in Hillsborough and its vicinity for 1840 Dr. James Webb's bill of mortality for Hillsborough and its vicinity recorded 14 deaths in 1840 in a population he put at about 1,000: nine white (six women, two men and an infant) and five Black (one woman and four children), from causes he listed one by one, among them dropsy, heart disease, apoplexy and consumption. Place: Hillsborough and vicinitySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 14, 1841, p. 3
  23. The wardens of the poor publish three years of poorhouse accounts The Orange County wardens of the poor reported that the county poorhouse had spent $3,440 between March 1838 and March 1841, about $1,150 a year, on thirty to thirty-five paupers, thirty-one at the time, under steward William Gattis and Mrs. Gattis. Two hired Black men worked the poorhouse farm and a Black woman washed and cooked, and the board had $1,053 on hand. People: James Webb, Cadwallader Jones Place: County poorhouse, Orange County · Also named: William GattisSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 6, 1841, p. 3
  24. Dr. James Webb counts 13 deaths in Hillsborough and its vicinity for 1841 Dr. James Webb's annual bill of mortality counted 13 deaths in 1841 among about 1,000 people in Hillsborough and its vicinity, besides about 153 pupils in the schools. He recorded 37 births: 15 white and 22 Black. Place: Hillsborough and vicinitySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 6, 1842, p. 3
  25. Hillsborough citizens adopt an address urging voters to reject a central division of Orange County A meeting of Hillsborough citizens chaired by Thomas Clancy adopted an address 'To the Voters of Orange County' written by a committee of six Democrats and seven Whigs. It argued that a central division would still leave western voters across the Haw River from a court house, would double county taxes and require new court houses, jails, poorhouses, bridges and roads, and would cost the eastern half a senator. People: James Webb, James Strudwick Smith, Edmund Strudwick, John Wall Norwood Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas ClancyHillsborough Recorder, July 28, 1842, p. 3
  26. Dr. James Webb is declared bankrupt and his goods are auctioned Dr. James Webb was declared bankrupt on November 1, 1842, and his possessions were sold at public auction on December 11. His friends and neighbors bought back nearly everything offered for him and his family. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Webb, James
  27. John U. Kirkland is elected a Warden of the Poor for Orange County At an election in April 1844 Orange County chose Cadwallader Jones, Dr. James Webb, Green Jordan, Nathaniel Bain, James Faucett, John U. Kirkland and Samuel N. Tate as Wardens of the Poor. People: John U. Kirkland, Cadwallader Jones, James Webb Place: Orange County · Also named: Samuel N. Tate, James FaucettSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, April 11, 1844
  28. Dr. Edmund Strudwick leads the revival of the state medical society Edmund Strudwick of Hillsborough proposed and helped call the 1849 meeting that revived the North Carolina Medical Society, and he became its first president. His teacher James Webb was made an honorary charter member. People: Edmund Strudwick, James Webb Place: RaleighSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 159
  29. Dr. James Webb dies in Hillsborough Dr. James Webb died in Hillsborough on Saturday morning, February 17, 1855, aged 81, after an illness of several years. The Recorder praised his integrity and charity, and he was buried with his wife in the Webb-Long plot of the Old Town Cemetery. Place: Hillsborough, Old Town CemeterySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 21, 1855, p. 3 (obituary)

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  1. L. E. Beard becomes chairman of the Hillsboro price panel of the county ration board The price panel of the Orange County war price and rationing board at Hillsboro was enlarged to nine members, and L. E. Beard succeeded Paul Collins as its chairman when Collins stepped down because of eye trouble. People: L. E. Beard, James Webb Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Paul CollinsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): price panel expanded, July 27, 1944, p. 1

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James Webb (1774-1855) Papers

Webb, James, 1774-1855 · 1781

Dr. James Webb was a Hillsborough physician, a university trustee and the local agent for the Bank of Cape Fear. Most of his papers, 1781 to 1846, concern the bank: letters of 1827 to 1846 with other agents, cashiers and State Bank officers about discounts, the value of currency, the bank failures of 1839 and daily business. Revolutionary War supply and land grant papers also appear. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.127.

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Bank of Cape Fear records, 1815-1846.

Bank of Cape Fear (Wilmington, N.C.). Hillsboro Branch · 1815

Seven volumes from the Hillsboro branch of the Bank of Cape Fear, covering 1815 to 1846, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 2926-z. Records and correspondence document branch banking in nineteenth century North Carolina and economic conditions at Hillsborough, with James Webb, 1774 to 1855, among the people represented. A master microfilm was made by the university's photographic service in 1995.

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