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Church in the Old Fields: Hawfields Presbyterian Church and Community in North Carolina
Turner, Herbert Snipes · 1962
Herbert Snipes Turner's history of Hawfields Presbyterian Church and its community from 1738 to 1960. Hawfields lies in what is now Alamance County, land that was part of Orange County until 1849, and the book gives a place to Henry Pattillo, the congregation's eighteenth-century minister. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1962, 297 pages with illustrations.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1963).
The Land Grant Atlas of Old Orange County
Chilton, Mark · 2012 · Hand Made Books
Mark Chilton's oversized atlas plotting eighteenth-century land grants across the original Orange County, which stretched well beyond today's boundaries into what became Alamance and Durham counties. Published in Carrboro by Hand Made Books beginning in 2012, the set was planned in four volumes: Henry McCulloh's great tract number 11 and the land north of it; the Saxapahaw old fields (volume 2); Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and the Johnston Tract; and Durham, Rougemont and McCulloh's tract number 12. Maps and color illustrations, 41 cm.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.
From Whence We Came: Cane Creek Meeting Sesquibicentennial Remembrance Book
Cane Creek Meeting of Friends · 2001
Cane Creek Meeting's remembrance book for its 250th anniversary in 2001, combining genealogy with church and Quaker history. Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, in southern Alamance County, was set off in 1751 when the area still lay in Orange County.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.
Cane Creek: Mother of Meetings
Teague, Bobbie T. · 1995 · Cane Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends ; North Carolina Friends Historical Society : North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends
Bobbie T. Teague's history of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, the Quaker meeting in what is now Alamance County that spawned many of the Piedmont's later meetings, hence the title. The meeting dates from 1751, when its ground still lay in Orange County. Published in 1995 by the meeting with the North Carolina Friends Historical Society and the Yearly Meeting, 160 pages with illustrations and maps.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Alamance County (N.C.) -- Church history.
Deed research and plats for: Orange and Alamance Co
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2012 · Stewart E. Dunaway
Stewart E. Dunaway's research notes, with plats, for deed records of Orange County, mostly from the eighteenth century, when the county still included the land that later became Alamance County; records in Alamance proper are added where he traced tracts across the line. Self-published in North Carolina in a revision dated October 31, 2012, 736 pages with maps. Subjects include land titles and real property in the two counties and Orange County genealogy.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.
Historical Sketch of Hawfields Presbyterian Church
Chalmers, Elizabeth · 1940
Elizabeth Chalmers's 74-page history of Hawfields Presbyterian Church, the old congregation in the Haw River country of what is now Alamance County, published in 1940 with illustrations. It includes Presbyterian experience of the Civil War. Hawfields lay within Orange County until Alamance was formed in 1849, linking the church to the county.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.
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North Carolina mortality census, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880,
Almasy, Sandra L. · 1994 · Kensington Glen Publishing
Sandra L. Almasy's transcription of the federal mortality schedules of 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 for Orange, Alamance, Caswell, Durham and Wake counties. Mortality schedules record the people who died in the twelve months before each census, with age, cause of death and place of birth. Published by Kensington Glen Publishing in 1994, 231 pages.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Census -- Mortality schedules -- North Carolina -- Alamance County.
Textile production in nineteenth century Orange, Alamance, and Durham counties, North Carolina
Wilson, Laurel E. Janke · 1986
Laurel E. Janke Wilson's study of textile production in Orange, Alamance and Durham counties during the nineteenth century, taking in hand weaving as well as mill work. One hundred twenty-seven leaves with illustrations and a bibliography, completed in 1986. Topics include hand weaving and the textile industry in North Carolina in the 1800s.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.
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