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Williams sat for Johnston County in the Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough in August and September 1775, where he was appointed a lieutenant of the second regiment. One of the University of North Carolina's first trustees from 1789, he took an active role in the 1792 selection of the university site and became president of its board of trustees in 1799.
Source: NCpedia: Williams, Benjamin
1751–1814 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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July 1808 correspondence of Benjamin Williams, from his second tenure as governor, in 47 images. Letters by Williams himself are included, and Hillsborough and Orange County are named.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Governor Benjamin Williams's letters of March 1802, in 30 images. Williams wrote some of them himself, and Hillsborough and Orange County appear.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
May 1808 correspondence of Governor Benjamin Williams, 64 images, with John Moore among the writers. Chowan, Lincoln, Randolph and Orange counties are named, along with Hillsborough.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Archibald Roane, then governor of Tennessee, is among the writers in Governor Benjamin Williams's correspondence for January 1802. The 35 images also concern Hillsborough and Orange County.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Letters to and from Governor Benjamin Williams in February 1801, in 28 images. Jesse Savage is among the writers, and the month's business touches Caswell, Gates, Guilford and Orange counties.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Governor Benjamin Williams's correspondence for April 1800, 48 images. Williams served as governor from 1799 to 1802 and again in 1807 and 1808. Martin Armstrong is among the writers, and Granville, Richmond and Orange counties and Hillsborough are named.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
August 1800 letters of Governor Benjamin Williams, 20 images, with Starratt Burnes among the writers and Orange County among the places concerned.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
John Drayton of South Carolina is among the correspondents in Governor Benjamin Williams's letters for September 1800. The 16 images also bear on Hillsborough and Orange County.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Reports and messages of joint select committees from August and September 1780, when the General Assembly met at Hillsborough after the defeat at Camden. Committees worked on supplies and provisions for the army and the adjustment of public claims. Horatio Gates, Richard Caswell, Abner Nash, William Hooper, hospitals, surgeons, cavalry and wagons all appear. 88 pages.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Reports and papers of the joint select committees of the North Carolina General Assembly from its April to May 1780 session, in 223 images. Items include a Virginia governor's letter on naval officers and duties at the Ocracoke channel, committee appointments, and Henry Mounger's petition on where Montgomery County's public buildings should stand. Orange County is among the many counties touched.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Bill of 6 September 1780 for a specific provision tax, a levy paid in goods such as corn, wheat, flour, pork, beef, rye, oats and rice for the Revolutionary war effort. The 26 images take in sheriffs, justices, oaths and the Quakers, Moravians, Mennonites and Dunkards, with Abner Nash, Archibald Maclaine and Benjamin Williams named. Hillsborough figures in the session.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Williams, Benjamin, 1751-1814.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
The State Archives' Miscellaneous Collection: letters, deeds, land grants, surveys, wills, leases and other single items dating from 1689 to 2017, some as photocopies or transcripts from other repositories. Writers and subjects vary widely, governors and generals among them, and Orange County figures among the many places touched.
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Picture: Benjamin Williams, 1814. Public domain. Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.; (Original text: Scan from www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us); via Wikimedia Commons
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