MARRIED — In Orange County, on Thursday fe’nnight, Mr. A.D. MURPHEY, Attorney at Law, of Hillsborough, to Miss Jane SCOTT, daughter of Mr. John SCOTT, of that county.
Source: Raleigh Register & North Carolina Weekly Advertiser, November 17, 1801.
Category Archives: Orange
GROVE, William B. and SHEPHERD, Sally – (m. 1801)
MARRIED — On Tuesday last, William B. GROVE, Esq., Member of Congress for the district of Fayetteville, to Miss Sally SHEPHERD, daughter of Colonel SHEPHERD, of Orange county.
Source: Raleigh Register, and North-Carolina Weekly Advertiser, August 18, 1801.
CRAIG, Alexander & SRAYHORN, Jane – (m. 1801)
MARRIED — In Orange County, on the 11th inst., by the Rev. Mr. BOOMAN, Mr. Alexander CRAIG to Miss Jane SRAYHORN.
Source: Raleigh Register, June 30, 1801.
GIBSON, Wm. (d. 1857)
The Hillsborough Recorder states that John SHAW killed his son-in-law, Wm. GIBSON, in Alamance county, on Saturday last, by stabbing him twice and then breaking his skull with a stone. Both were drunk. SHAW was a peaceable man when sober. He is in jail.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
JONES, Willis S. (d. 1857)
Willis S. JONES committed suicide in Orange on Friday night, by cutting his throat and plunging into a mill pond. He was a young man about 23 years of age; was in good circumstances, but had met with some pecuniary losses which distressed his mind, and it is supposed was the cause of his committing the rash act.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
NASH, Shepherd K. (d. 1857)
DIED — In Hillsborough, on Tuesday night, on the 27th ult., Dr. Shepherd K. NASH, youngest son of the Hon. Frederick NASH, in the 35th year of his age.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 9, 1857
JONES Jr., Cadwaller — IREDELL, Annie (m. 1836)
MARRIED — In this city, 5th inst., by the Rev. George W. FREEMAN, Cadwallader JONES Jr., Esq., of Hillsboro, to Miss Annie IREDELL, daughter of Gen. James IREDELL.
Source: North-Carolina standard. (Raleigh, N.C.), 14 Jan. 1836. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042147/1836-01-14/ed-1/seq-3/>
Osborn – Run Away (1836)
Ran Away – From the Subscriber, on the night of the 3d October, a Negro man, by the name of Osborn, who was raised by Mr. Robert JEFFREYS, and was sold by a Mr. HUCKLAND to Allen DUNN, of Raleigh, from whom he was purchased by the subscriber. Said Osborn is about 5 feet 5 1/2 inches high, between 35 and 40 years of age, of yellow complexion, thin visage, and tolerably large forehead, had on a white hat, black jeans coat, and other clothing not recollected. Osborn has a wife at Mr. Thomas DEVEREAUX‘s and is lurking in the neighborhood of Wm. JEFFREYS‘ in Franklin county, he no doubt will try to pass as a free man, and endeavor to make his way for a free State.
A reward of twenty five dollars will be given for the apprehension and delivery of said Negro, or for his being lodged in Jail, so that I get him again. — John H. FAUCETT.
Hillsborough, Oct. 20, 1835
Source: The North-Carolina standard. (Raleigh, N.C.), 07 Jan. 1836. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042147/1836-01-07/ed-1/seq-4/>
New Post Office in Stokes County (1836)
Post Office — A new office as been established in Stokes county, called Pilotsville; and Thomas B. KING appointed Post Master. Asa BALLARD has been appointed Postmaster at Webb’s Stokes county; Wm. HORNER, at Cameron’s Mills, Orange county; and Wm. HIGHTOWER, at Hightower’s, Caswell County.
Source: North-Carolina standard. (Raleigh, N.C.), 07 Jan. 1836. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042147/1836-01-07/ed-1/seq-3/>
FAUCETT, John R. – FREELAND, Catharine S. (m. 1835)
MARRIED — In Orange county, 22nd ult., John R. FAUCETT to Catharine S. FREELAND, daughter of Charles J. FREELAND, Esq.
Source: North-Carolina standard. (Raleigh, N.C.), 07 Jan. 1836. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042147/1836-01-07/ed-1/seq-3/>