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Hillsborough court riot, September 1770

Regulators storm the Hillsborough court and beat Edmund Fanning, documented across the collections of twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina.

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    Looking for the original language used in library catalogs? The Complete Subject Index contains all 26,205 subject headings connected to these records. Related headings, such as spelling variants of a person’s name or headings that share a common beginning, are grouped into 13,544 browse terms.

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    People

    Mackie, Ernest Lloyd, 1893-1972 (1)

    MacLachlan, Emily S. -- 1908- -- Interviews (1)

    Maclaine, Archibald, 1728-1790 (7)

    MacNider, William de Berniere, 1881-1951 (2)

    Macon, Nathaniel, 1758-1837 (1)

    MacRae, Amy, 1958- (1)

    MacRae, Duncan, 1891-1980 (1)

    MacRae, Rebecca Kyle, 1893-1980 (1)

    Maddry, Charles Edward, 1876-1962 (1)

    Madry, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1897-1955 (1)

    Maier, Robert H (1)

    Mallett, Peter, 1744-1805 (3)

    Maner, Virginia Stanard Forbes, 1921-2000 (1)

    Mangum, A. W. -- 1834-1890 (1)

    Mangum, Charles S. (Charles Staples), 1870-1939 (1)

    Mangum, Charles S., Jr. (Charles Staples), 1902-1980 (1)

    Mangum, Ellison Goodloe, 1792-1868 (1)

    Mangum, Hugh, -- 1877-1922 (2)

    Mangum, Marcus Harris -- Family (1)

    Mangum, Willie Person, 1792-1861 (7)

    Manire, G. Philip (George Philip), 1919-2010 (1)

    Mann, W. Robert (William Robert), 1920-2006 (1)

    Manning, Isaac Hall, 1866-1946 (3)

    Manning, Joseph Alonzo, 1832-1860 (1)

    Mansfield, Jayne, 1933-1967 (1)

    Martin, Alexander, 1740-1807 (34)

    Martin, Charles F., 1843- (1)

    Martin, Clarence Dudley, 1844-1864. (1)

    Martin, Joseph, 1740-1808 (2)

    Martin, Josiah (73)

    Martin, Wayne, 1956- (1)

    Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678 (1)

    Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. To his coy mistress (1)

    Marvell, George Ralph, 1869-1941 (1)

    Mason, James Pleasant, 1827-1893 (1)

    Mason, Matthew, 1911-2002 (2)

    Mathewson, Christy, 1880-1925 (1)

    Maverick, W. H., Active 1866-1867 (1)

    Mayes, Frances -- Homes and haunts (2)

    McAdams, Wm. (William), 1835-1895 (1)

    McAlister, John Worth, 1874-1909 (1)

    McCall, Adeline, 1900-1989 (3)

    McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005 (1)

    McCauley, Matthew, -- 1750-1821 -- Family (2)

    McCauley, Matthew, Jr., 1803- (1)

    McClinton, Hortense, 1918- (1)

    McCorkle, Jill, 1958- (2)

    McCorkle, Samuel Eusebius, 1746-1811 (1)

    McCoury, Del, 1939- (1)

    McCrindle, Joseph F. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions (1)

    McCulloch, Alexander (8)

    McCulloch, Eustace (3)

    McCurry, John G. (John Gordon), 1821-1886 (1)

    McDonald, Ralph Waldo, 1903-1977 (1)

    McGavran, Edward G., -- 1902-1972 (3)

    McGillivray, Alexander, approximately 1740-1793 (1)

    McGuire, Frank, -- 1913-1994 (6)

    McHenry, Lawrence C., 1929- (1)

    McIntosh, C. E. (Charles Eugene), 1881-1972 (1)

    McIntyre, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Murchison), 1917-2009 (1)

    McIver, Alexander, 1822-1902 (1)

    McIver, George Willcox, 1858-1947 (1)

    McIver, Helen Howard Smedberg, 1869-1953 (1)

    McIver, Sarah Witherspoon Ervin, 1826-1897 (1)

    McKenzie, John, 1951- (1)

    McKenzie, John, Active 1765-1766 (1)

    McKethan, William R., 1839-1861. (1)

    McKie, George, 1873-1941 (2)

    McKinney, Bones, 1919-1997 (1)

    McKinney, Horace Albert "Bones" -- 1919-1997 (1)

    McKissick, Floyd B. -- 1922-1991 -- Interviews (13)

    McKnight, R. B. (Roy Bowman), 1893-1985 (1)

    McLauchlin, Archibald, -1861 (1)

    McLaurin, Tim -- Childhood and youth (1)

    McLeod, Randall A. (1921-2017) (1)

    McNeill, Ann, Active 1852-1854 (1)

    McNeill, Daniel C., Active 1852-1854 (1)

    McNeill, Hector James, -1860 (1)

    McNider, William de Berniere, 1881-1951 (2)

    McPheeters, William, 1778-1842 (1)

    McPherson, Holt, 1906-1979 (2)

    McVaugh, M. R. (Michael Rogers), 1938- (2)

    Mebane, Benjamin Franklin, 1823-1884 (1)

    Mebane, Frances Kerr, 1840-1912 (1)

    Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 (2)

    Meymandi, Assad, 1936- (1)

    Michie, William Cochran, 1840- (1)

    Micklejohn, George, -1811 (1)

    Miller, Arthur Selwyn, 1917-1988 (1)

    Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 (1)

    Miller, Beth, 1946- (1)

    Miller, Larry (Lawrence James), 1946- (3)

    Miller, Wes -- Diaries (1)

    Mills, Caesar, Active 1865-1880 (1)

    Milton, John, -- 1608-1674 -- Portraits -- Exhibitions (1)

    Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857 (17)

    Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857 Knowledge Botany (1)

    Mitchell, James Billingslea, 1844-1891. (1)

    Mitchell, Rosetta Polite Jones, 1914-2006 (1)

    Moeser, James, 1939- (5)

    Montagu, Charles (3)

    Montfort, Joseph (1)

    Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863 (2)

    Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863. Night before Christmas -- Bibliography (1)

    Moore, Daniel Killian, 1906-1986 (2)

    Moore, John W. (John Wheeler), 1833-1906 (1)

    Moore, Maurice (5)

    Moore, Peter Weddick, 1858-1934 (1)

    Moore, Phillips, 1771-1840 (2)

    Moore, Stephen, 1734-1799 (4)

    Morehead, John Lindsay, 1884-1964 (1)

    Morehead, John Motley, 1870-1965 (1)

    Morehead, John Motley, III, 1870-1965 (2)

    Morgan, Edward P., 1910-1993 (1)

    Morgan, Robert, 1944- (2)

    Moritz, Alan R., 1899-1986 (1)

    Morley, Margaret Warner, 1858-1923 (1)

    Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019 (2)

    Morrow, Mary Lee, 1944-2000 (1)

    Morton, Nelle, 1905-1987 (1)

    Moseley, Frank, 1911-1979 (1)

    Moseley, William Dunn, 1795-1863 (1)

    Moses, Edward P. (Edward Pearson), 1857-1948 (1)

    Moss, William Dygnum, 1866-1932 (1)

    Mott, Frank Luther, 1886-1964 (1)

    Mullins, William Sidney, 1824-1878 (1)

    Murat, Lucien, 1803-1878 (1)

    Murdock, A. C., Active 1852-1856 (1)

    Murfree, Hardy, 1752-1809 (3)

    Murphy, Robert Thomas, 1839-1866. (1)

    Murray, James, 1713-1781 (5)

    Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985 (9)

    Myer, Harold D. (Harold Diedrich), 1892-1974 (1)

    Myrdal, Gunnar, -- 1898-1987 (1)

    These headings come from Library of Congress and local vocabularies used by the participating libraries. Counts show linked works in Orange County Indexed. Related headings are grouped automatically, and the People section combines common name variants. Report corrections through the contact form.

    About Orange County Indexed

    Orange County Indexed brings together records about Orange County from twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina, the Digital Public Library of America, DataCite, and Crossref. This page searches the full index, including books, maps, archival collections, government documents, campus materials, digitized primary sources, and published research about the county.

    Filters and browse terms are derived from source catalog headings, which remain available in the Complete Subject Index. Every result links to its source record. Use Advanced options to narrow the results, browse books held by OCPL, or download the index as a spreadsheet.

    Automated grouping makes broad discovery possible but may not resolve every ambiguity. Corrections and additions are welcome through the contact form.

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