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PLANTATION NAME: | MYRTLE HILL (a.k.a. Robert Strange House) | ||
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ORIGINAL OWNER: | Robert Strange (1796-1854) | ||
BUILT: | about 1825 | ||
ASSOCIATED SURNAMES: | STRANGE | ||
HISTORY: | Robert
Strange, Jr.,(Sept. 20, 1796-Feb. 20, 1854) lawyer, judge, author, and U.S. senator, was born in
Manchester, Va., the son of James Strange, a native of Glasgow, Scotland,
who with his wife settled in Petersburg in 1783. The elder Strange was
trained as a physician but gave up his practice to become a merchant. In
Virginia young Robert attended schools in Lunenburg and Rockbridge counties
and at New Oxford Academy. In 1811 he was at Hampden-Sydney College but the
next year entered Washington College. In 1815 the family moved to
Fayetteville, N.C., where Strange studied law and was admitted to the bar.
He was elected borough representative from Fayetteville to the General
Assembly in 1821 and while still a member in 1826 was elected a judge of the
North Carolina Superior Court, where he served for ten years. In 1838
Strange and Senator Bedford Brown, the state's other senator, voted for
Thomas Hart Benton's resolution to remove the censure of President Andrew
Jackson from the journals of the Senate. After this action, the Assembly
passed a resolution taking a stand against the Jackson administration and
instructing the senators to follow more closely the wishes of the voting
majority in the state. Both senators resigned their seats in 1840, and
Strange was replaced by William A. Graham. |
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SLAVE POPULATION: | In
1840 Robert Strange had 21 Slaves; in 1850 he had 34 Slaves From
the Estate file of ROBERT STRANGE, 1854. |
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Names
BILLY, old |
Purchaser
JOHN WADDILL THOMAS A WADDILL J. A. WILLIAMS W.R. LOVE JOHN M. LAURIN N. A. STEDMAN |
Price
130
1100 |
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RESEARCH NOTES: | Have only found records with the names of 24 enslaved people for Robert Strange Researched & transcribed by Deloris Williams |
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MISCELLANEOUS: | National Register of Historic Places Application; Biography of Robert Strange Jr.; Cumberland Co. Will of Robert Strange 1854, Will Book C, Page 277, Estate of Robert Strange, 1854; 1840 U.S. Census for Cumberland Co.; 1850 U.S. Federal Census-Slave Schedules for Cumberland Co. |
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