Halifax-Wake-Statewide County NcArchives News....."Trouble,"  Expulsions  at  N.C. University - 1799 October 17, 1799
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Wilmington Gazette   Oct. 17, 1799 October 17, 1799
   HALIFAX
   UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
  In consequence of information received from the faculty of the University of 
North Carolina, on Thursday the 19th of September 1799, by the Trustees 
residing at Raleigh and Hillsborough, MR. JONES, MR. HOGG, MR. POLK, MR. HILL, 
MR. HINTON and MR. HAYWOOD immediately repaired to the seat of the University.
They met on the 20th and appointed MR. JONES their chairman, and MR. HAYWOOD 
consented to act as secretary of the occasion; after having spent some days in 
deliberating on the measures deemed necessary to be adopted, they returned to 
their respective homes, having first requested of their chairman, that 
publication of the issue of the business of this meeting be made in the 
Raleigh and Halifax Gazettes.
   In complainance with the request of the Trustees, the public are hereby 
informed that the anarchy and confustion which lately prevailed among the 
students at the University have fortunately subsided. The students returned to 
order, and a decent demeanor, and resumed their several employments on Monday 
last.
   We are sorry to add, that the riotous and disorderly behavior of MR. 
WILLIAM BAKER, MR. SAMUEL McCULLOCH and MR. ROBERT ALSTON had been such as to 
lay the Trustees under the disagreeable necessity of ordering them to be 
expelled.
   The Trustees unanimously approved of the expulsion of MR. WILLIAM MARTIN, 
which had taken place previous to their arrival, for and on account of his 
disorderly conduct, and disrespectful and indecent behavior to the faculty.
   During the above disorder, several of the students possessed their mind 
entire amidst the tempest and conformed to order; in honour of them and to 
give satisfaction to their parents and guardians, we do, with pleasure publish 
their names as follows: JOHN HENDERSON, THOMAS HUNT, WILLIAM CHERRY, GEORGE 
THORNTON, FRANK DARCY, SOLOMON WILLIAMS, JOSEPH GILLISPIE, GEORGE PHIFER, 
MOSES LOCKE, JEREMIAH BATTLE, JOHNSTON BLAKELY, JOHN TOOMER, RICHARD CASWELL, 
ALEXANDER MARTIN, JOHN HUSKE, JAMES HENDERSON, HENRY MARTIN, RICHARD HILL, 
HENRY HILL, THOMAS NEAVES, JAMES BATTLE, and EDMUND HARVEY.
   All the other students at the University, at the commencing and during the 
existence of the disorder which prevailed there, were found to have behaved 
amiss, and were by the Trustees reprehended, censured or admonished, being 
first placed in three classes, according to the degree of their several 
demerits.
                                       WILLIE JONES
                                       JOHN HAYWOOD
Raleigh, Sept. 24, 1799
    

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