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  2. Thomas Gillespie (North Carolina plantation owner) - Wikipedia

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    President James K. Polk (great grandson) Signature. Thomas Gillespie (c. 1719 – December 13, 1786) was a large plantation owner in mid-to-late 18th-century North Carolina and served as commissary of the Rowan County Regiment in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolution. He spent his early life in Augusta County, Virginia ...

  3. Jacob Brown Grant Deeds - Wikipedia

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    Jacob Brown was recipient of two other grants by North Carolina. The first, also in 1779 was recorded as Grant 995 for 640 acres. [23] The second was somewhat later for 200 acres entered as Grant 1156. [24] The total of all the grants by North Carolina to Jacob Brown was 1,480 acres. The three properties were adjacent and along the Nolichucky ...

  4. Granville District - Wikipedia

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    Granville District. The Granville District (or Granville's district) was an approximately 60-mile wide strip of land in the North Carolina colony adjoining the boundary with the Province of Virginia, lying between north latitudes 35° 34' and 36° 30'. From 1663 until 1779, the District was held under control of the descendants of Sir George ...

  5. List of land-grant universities - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of land-grant colleges and universities in the United States of America and its associated territories. [1]Land-grant institutions are often categorized as 1862, 1890, and 1994 institutions, based on the date of the legislation that designated most of them with land-grant status.

  6. Land grant - Wikipedia

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    Land grant. A land grant is a gift of real estate —land or its use privileges—made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service. Grants of land are also awarded to individuals and companies as incentives to develop unused ...

  7. Chapel Hill, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The Occaneechi Indians lived in the area of what is now Hillsborough, north of Chapel Hill, prior to European settlement. [6]The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres on the north and south side of "Lick Branch" [7] from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel ...

  8. Iredell County, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Iredell County (/ ˈaɪərdɛl / EYE-ər-del) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 186,693. [ 3 ] Its county seat is Statesville, and its largest community is Mooresville. The county was formed in 1788, subtracted from Rowan County.

  9. Rich Square, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Demographics. As of the 2020 United States census, the population of Rich Square was 894 people in 337 of the town's 414 housing units. The median age was 62.2 (± 7.4), with 44.5 percent (± 10.7%) of the town aged 65 or older, and only 9.1 percent (± 4.8%) under 18.