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: Sketches of Western North Carolina Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg Rowan Lincoln and Adjoining Counties Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information Much of It Never before Published by Hunter C L

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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

ORIGINAL SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA AND CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE.

MECKLENBURG COUNTY

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence--A brief account of the Mecklenburg Centennial--The Grand Procession--Exercises at the Fair Grounds--James Belk, A Veteran Invited Guest--Signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence--Origin of the Alexander Families of Mecklenburg county--Jack Family--Captain Charles Polk's "Muster Roll,"--President James K. Polk--General William Davidson, General George Graham--William Richardson Davie--Battle of the Hanging Rock--General Michael McLeary--Major Thomas Alexander--Captain William Alexander--Elijah Alexander--Captain Charles Alexander--Joseph Kerr, "The Cripple Spy"--Robert Kerr--Henry Hunter--James Orr--Skirmish at Charlotte; or, First attack of the "Hornets"--Surprise at McIntire's, or, the "Hornets" at work--Judge Samuel Lowrie--The Ladies of the Revolutionary Period--Mrs. Eleanor Wilson--Queen's Museum.

CABARRUS COUNTY

The "Black Boys" of Cabarrus--Dr. Charles Harris--Captain Thomas Caldwell.

ROWAN COUNTY

Route of the British Army through Mecklenburg and Rowan Counties-- General Griffith Rutherford--Locke Family--Hon. Archibald Henderson-- Richard Pearson--Mrs Elizabeth Steele.

IREDELL COUNTY

Col. Alexander Osborn--Captain William Sharpe--Major William Gill-- Captain Andrew Carson, and others--Captain Alexander Davidson--Captain James Houston--Captain James Houston's Muster Roll--Rev. James Hall-- Hon. Hugh Lawson White.

LINCOLN COUNTY

Battle of Ramseur's Mill--Route of the British Army through Lincoln county--Gen. Joseph Graham--Brevard Family--Col. James Johnston-- Genealogy of Col. James Johnston--Jacob Forney, Sr.--Gen. Peter Forney--Major Abram Forney--Remarks--Genealogy of the Forney Family.

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