Name: The Hillsborough Recorder begins publication, 1820
Location: Orange County, North Carolina

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Death and Marriage Notices From the Hillsborough Recorder, Published 1820-1879, Hillsborough, North Carolina, and the Hillsboro Recorder, Published 1887-1888

Mallard, Shirley Jones · 1997 · S.J. Mallard

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Marriage and death notices from the Hillsborough Recorder : Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina

Munson, E. B. · 2001 · B. Munson

Vol. 1. 1820-1836. -- vol. 2. 1837-1845. -- vol. 3. 1846-1853. -- vol. 4. 1854-1859. -- vol. 5. 1860-1865.

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Death and marriage notices from the Hillsborough Recorder ... 1820-1879 ... and the Hillsboro Recorder ... 1887-1888

Mallard, Shirley Jones · 1997 · S.J. Mallard

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Death and marriage notices of The Hillsborough Recorder, 1820-1879, Hillsborough, North Carolina

Mallard, Shirley Jones · 1997 · Mallard

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References to Chapel Hill and to the University of North Carolina appearing in the available issues of the Hillsborough recorder, from 1820 through 1879, located in the North Carolina Room of Wilson Library, U.N.C.

Allen, Helen D. · 1970

UNC

Marriage and death records from the Hillsborough recorder : dates, 1820-29, 1834-58, 1860-69, 1873, 1877 (though not entirely complete), also a few odd issues

Fuller, Marian Camper · 1946 · Greensboro Public Library (attributed)

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Prospectus of the Hillsboro' recorder

Cameron, J. D. (John Donald), 1820-1897 · 1872 · J.D. Cameron

UNC

The Hillsborough recorder.

1820 · Dennis Heartt

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Hillsborough Recorder

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February 1820 The Hillsborough Recorder begins publication Dennis Heartt began publishing the weekly Hillsborough Recorder in February 1820, at three dollars a year. The paper ran until 1879, and its surviving issues a… People: Dennis HearttDigitalNC: The Hillsborough Recorder, March 1, 1820 (Vol. 1, No. 4)

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NC LIVE: Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection NC LIVE The Hillsborough Recorder itself, digitized from 1820 and searchable page by page
NC LIVE: DigitalNC NC LIVE The Recorder’s title page on DigitalNC, with every digitized issue by date
NC LIVE: prepared search for The Hillsborough Recorder begins publication, 1820 NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read

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Context: NCpedia: Dennis Heartt NCpedia The printer who founded the Recorder in 1820 and ran it for nearly fifty years
Context: Documenting the American South: Dennis Heartt, 1783-1870 Documenting the American South Related to the chronology entry “The Hillsborough Recorder Begins Publication” (February 1820).
Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC: The Hillsborough Recorder DigitalNC The Recorder from 1820, issue by issue
Read contemporary evidence: Internet Archive: The Hillsborough Recorder Internet Archive Issues of the Recorder from 1820 scanned by the Internet Archive, readable page by page
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form

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Held in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection. Selected because their titles or catalog subjects provide wider historical context for this event; they may not discuss the Orange County event directly.

Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection A History of Printing in North Carolina: A Detailed Account of the Pioneer Printers, 1749-1800 and of the Edwards & Broughton Company, 1871-1946, Including A Brief Account of the Connecting Period Paschal, George Washington · 1946 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Edwards and Broughton Company (Raleigh, N.C.); American newspapers -- North Carolina; Printing -- North Carolina -- History

Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Marriage and Death Notices From Raleigh, N.C. Newspapers, 1796-1826 1977 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Marriage records -- North Carolina; Obituaries -- North Carolina; Marriage records -- South Carolina

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Friends of the Orange County Public Library. “The Hillsborough Recorder begins publication, 1820.” Orange County Indexed, https://focplnc.org/orange-county-books/topics/hillsborough-recorder-1820/. Accessed September 19, 2026.

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The Hillsborough Recorder begins publication, 1820