Excerpt from Historical Papers: Series XV Most of Hillsboro District in 1792 was identical with the old county of Orange, out of whose spacious extent have come the present counties of Durham, Caswell, Person, Chatham, and Alamance besides parts of Guilford, Rockingham, Wake, and Randolph. Socially and politically it was typical of the state and yet it represented the West, as unlike the coast plantation districts in needs and desires as in geography. The hills through which the Haw River and its tributaries flow had their great forests yet unravaged, and where rhododendron and laurel still charm the eye there was virgin growth of the fertile soil of the Piedmont. It was a hill country, beloved of its peo ple and resorted to as a bracing climate in summer by those coast dwellers who had family connections or friends to visit in old Orange. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.