Notes for: Charles Lewis HINTON, Sr.

Major of Militia
Member of the House of Commons
Senator from Wake County
Trustee of the University of North Carolina 1832-1860
Commissioner for the building of the State Capitol
Commissioner for the building of the State Hospital
Commissioner for the sale of the Cherokee Lands
Treasurer of North Carolina 1839-1848

In his social actions, kind and conciliatory. He was a good man. He dispensed a liberal and generous hospitality and has left a name worthy of universal adulation, for unswerving integrity and honor, and public virtue. A bright exemplar of a high toned country gentleman.