James Webb

Life and Orange County connections

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1. December 17, 1799 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.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 158
2. 1810–1846 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.In the index: Bank of Cape Fear (Wilmington, N.C.) Hillsboro Branch · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Webb, James
3. 1811 to 1819 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 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
4. 1817–1821 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 WebbSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Smith, James Strudwick
5. November 6, 1817 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: James WebbSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Burke, Mary ("Polly") Williams
6. 1819 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: James WebbSearch the index · NC State University Libraries, North Carolina Architects & Builders: Hancock, Samuel (1784-1848)
7. February 1822 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.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Hillsborough Recorder, February 20, 1822, page 3
8. February 1823 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.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 106
9. 1824 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 WebbSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 298
10. 1825 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, William Bingham (1835-1873)Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 131-132
11. 1829 An Orange County mass meeting calls for state aid to roads and river navigation A county meeting chaired by James Webb, with Dennis Heartt as secretary, adopted an address to the people of Orange in favor of internal improvements and had 500 copies printed for circulation in the county. People: James Webb, Dennis HearttSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 86
12. 1831 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: William Polk, James WebbSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 334
13. 1834 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: James WebbSearch the index · NC State University Libraries, North Carolina Architects & Builders: Hancock, Samuel (1784-1848)
14. 1835 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.Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Webb, James
15. about 1837 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.Search the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 142
16. 1837 Polly Burke's Queen Street house passes to Dennis Heartt's family On May 4, 1837, Mary W. Burke, then living in Alabama, gave Dr. James Webb power of attorney to dispose of her remaining Hillsborough property. Her East Queen Street house was sold that year to the family of Recorder editor Dennis Heartt, who named it Heartsease and added a Greek Revival wing about 1840. People: James Webb, Dennis HearttSearch the index · Open Orange: Heartsease
17. 1840 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 SmithBurwell 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
18. November 1–December 11, 1842 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.Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Webb, James
19. April 1844 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: Cadwallader Jones, James WebbSearch the index · DigitalNC: Hillsborough Recorder, April 11, 1844
20. 1849 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: James WebbSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 159
21. February 17, 1855 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.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Hillsborough Recorder, February 21, 1855, page 3 (obituary)