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Act for establishing an Agreement with seven of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, for the Surrender of their title and interest in that Province, to his Majesty King George the Second.
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The revision and consolidation of the whole public statute law will cons'ti tute an important epoch in the legislative history of North Carolina. In pre senting this work to the public the undersigned, commissioners for Superin tending its publication, have thought that some facts, connected with and illustrating that history, might be neither an inappropriate nor uninteresting introduction. Their limits confine them to a brief summary, and compel them to omit much, both of detail and remark, that would be necessary to do justice to the subject.
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Frederick Nash was an American jurist from Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Background
Frederick Nash was born on February 19, 1781 in New Bern, North Carolina, United States during the governorship of his father, Abner Nash, whose death in 1786 left the cares of the family to the mother, Mary (Jones) Nash. Prominent family connections, a devout mother, religious training, the experience of exhortation from President Washington in 1791, and responsibility as the eldest of the children operated to make him from youth manly, serious, sensitive to duty, and lacking in humor.
Education
He was educated by the Rev. Henry Patillo at Williamsboro, at the academy of the Rev. Thomas P. Irving in New Bern, and at the College of New Jersey (Princeton), from which he was graduated with high rank in 1799.
Career
After studying law in the office of Edward Harris, he commenced practice in New Bern in 1801.
His public career began as a representative from New Bern in the House of Commons, in 1804 and 1805; but his later career was associated chiefly with Hillsboro, to which he moved in 1807. In an extensive law practice and in the House of Commons, as representative of Orange County in 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, and of Hillsboro in 1828 and 1829, he achieved reputation as an able advocate, a man of sturdy character and sound judgment, and an orator of pleasing voice, fine diction, lucid reasoning, and persuasive power.
He introduced bills in 1815 to prevent dueling and in 1817 to erect a state penitentiary.
He was particularly interested in judicial reforms, banking, and humanitarian legislation.
He was speaker in 1814. However, he attained chief distinction as a jurist. A notable career as superior court judge from 1818 to 1826 and again from 1836 to 1844 brought about his appointment in 1844, upon the death of William Gaston, to the supreme court, of which he remained a judge until his death, and in 1852 he was chosen by his associates as chief justice, succeeding Thomas Ruffin.
Though not so brilliant as Gaston, or so powerful in logic as Ruffin, he was a worthy successor and a sound and able judge, whose learning, industry, evenness of temper, character, courtesy, and respect for truth and justice brought distinction to him and greater popular respect to the court. His opinions are characterized by clearness of legal conception, terseness of style, and cogency of reasoning.
During his judicial career, he scrupulously refrained from public interest or activity in politics.
Achievements
He served on the North Carolina Supreme Court and was its chief justice from 1852 until his death.
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Religion
Intensely religious and devoted to the Presbyterian Church, he was, to a degree marked even in his generation, motivated by a sense of personal accountability to an ever-present God.
Politics
He vigorously opposed the popular anti-bank movement in the session of 1828-29.
In his political career he was a nominal Republican, though he voted against legislative resolutions praising the national administration in 1804 and 1815. He indorsed Jackson's nullification proclamation in 1832, but his opposition to the anti-bank policy of the administration and to what he considered a pronounced trend from republicanism toward pure democracy, led him into the Whig party.
Connections
On September 1, 1803, he married Mary G. Kollock of Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
