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James Hogg, Supporting Man</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "pegasus"; font-size: 14.6667px;">James Hogg was a tacks man, meaning "supporting man" from the Highlands who brought many new settlers into North Carolina. Large groups of emigrants left Scotland because of high rents from the lairds, reappointment of farm land (especially in Argyll) for sheep, and so many families falling into poverty. Eventually, an over-sweeping population of poor people in the Highlands created so great a burden on the country that the system of clan leaders and lairds no longer worked. From about 1720 to 1800, families jumped at the opportunity to migrate. During the 1770s, James Hogg, who had acted as a tacks man collecting rents for the lairds, also sought opportunity in America. He contacted ships captains and arranged passages for hundreds of persons. As new settlers arrive at Wilmington or Brunswick, they faced a laborious 90-mile trip up the Cape Fear River to Cross Creek where a great number of Scottish clans had settled on land grants from 1734 to 1737. The Scots spoke Gaelic and needed Hogg to arrange passages, etc. <a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countynewhanover.html">. . . more . . .</a></span><br />
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James Belk, 22 Children Later!</h2>
<img alt="Mecklenburg Signers of the Declaration of Independence" src="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/images/mecklenburgsigners.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="50%" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">When Mecklenburg County celebrated its Centennial on 20 May 1775, James Belk of Union County (formerly a part of Mecklenburg), attended. He was one hundred and ten years old! As recorded in a family Bible, printed in Edinburg in 1720, Belk was born on the 4th of February, 1765. He resided on the same tract of land upon which he was born and raised, his father being one of the original settlers of the country. Belk recollected the death of his father who was mortally wounded in the Revolutionary war, near the North Carolina Line, and knows that his mother, fearing the mournful result, visited the place of conflict, and finding him lying in the woods near th road-side, severely wounded. She assisted him to their home, but soon afterward had him transferred to the residence of his grandfather for better attention, where he died. James Belk <a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countymecklenburg.html">. . . more . . .</a></span><br />
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John Penn, North Carolina Patriot</h2>
<img alt="John Penn Home" src="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/images/thesolitude.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;">"The Solitude", home of John Penn. John Penn was born near Port Royal in Caroline County, Virginia, an only child of Moses Penn and Catherine Penn. He attended at common school for two years as his father did not consider education to be important. After the death of his father, when Penn was eighteen years of age he began to read law with his uncle, Edmund Pendleton and as a result, became a lawyer in Virginia in 1762. In 1774, Penn moved to the Williamsborough, North Carolina area, where he practiced law. At the onset of the American Revolutionary War, he was elected to the North Carolina Provincial Congress as well as to the Continental Congress in 1775 where he served until 1780. For the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence, he was part of the North Carolina delegation that included Joseph Hewes and William Hooper. In 1777, Penn was one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation. Penn also served on the Board of War until 1780, when he retired to practice law. He served as receiver of taxes for North Carolina in 1784. When Penn died in 1788, he was buried on his estate near Island Creek in Granville County. Penn was re-interred in Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in 1894, alongside fellow congressional delegate, Hooper. The remains of his home site in Granville County, with his <a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countygranville.html">. . . more . . .</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Captain Thomas Mann, an English merchant and commander of the vessel </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Edward & Francis</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;"> settled first in Charleston, South Carolina. His son, John Mann of Berkeley County, South Carolina sold the land which he inherited from his father and removed to Edgecombe County about 1738. Later, about 1745, when Edgecombe Parish was organized, John Mann served as a Clerk. The parish house no longer exists and it was known later as St. Mary's Parish.</span><br />
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<img alt="Site of Nathaniell Batts Home" src="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/images/nathlbattshome.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" title="Site of Nathaniell Batts Home" width="50%" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Nathaniell Batts was a fur trader who was employed by George Yeardley of the Lynnhaven River in Virginia to explore the Albemarle Sound (now in North Carolina). During 1653, Batt engineered an arrangement between Yeardley and Chief Kiscatanewh of the Pasquotank Indians for Yeardley to purchase a large tract of land at the mouth of the Pasquotank River. Part of the arrangement was that Yeardley would construct an English-style house furnished with English goods for Kiscatanewh. Hence, in 1655 Yeardley employed the carpenter, Robert Bodnam and five workmen to build this house. Also, they built a home for Nathaniell Batts in order for him to trade with the Indians. Bodnam spent five months in the Albemarle Sound and Yeardley died while the work was still in progress. A twenty foot log home for Nathaniell Batts was erected on the south side of Salmon Creek and, having two rooms and a chimney. Batts used the house mostly during fur-trading seasons. After 1655, he settled on the Lynnhaven River. Eventually, however, he resettled on the Albemarle Sound in Edenton where he owned land. Batts informed George Fox in 1672 that he was formerly a (proprietary) Governor in Carolina over a handful of settlers who occupied the land until they were driven off by the Tuscarora Indians. John Lawson visited the Batts log house on Salmon Creek in 1708. Source: A New Voyage to Carolina by John Lawson (1967); Nathaniell Batts: Landholder on Pasquotank River, 1660 by Elizabeth GHregory McPherson. <a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countychowan.html">. . . more . . .</a></span><br />
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The Brave General Isaac Gregory of Fairfax Hall</h2>
<img alt="Fairfax Plantation" src="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/images/fairfax.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" title="Fairfax Plantation" width="99%" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">It was General Isaac Gregory, one of the bravest officers who ever drew a sword, who protected the Albemarle region from the British during the American Revolutionary War. Before the long and bloody days began and he proved his worth as a soldier, he commanded a prominent place in the public affairs of his county. His name first appeared in the Colonial Records of North Carolina during 1773 when he was elected sheriff of Pasquotank. Then, in the same year he was appointed one of the trustees of St. Martin's Chapel in Indian Town (Currituck County), a settlement whose citizens were to serve bravely in the war. After the unsuccessful attempt of General Clinton to invade North Carolina in May of 1776, no further effort to place the State under British control was made until 1780. But during the intervening years the Carolina troops had not been idle. Their valor had been proved at Brandywine, Germantown and Stony Point, and during the winter at Valley Forge 1,450 of her soldiers shared with their comrades from the other States the hunger, cold and suffering that was the portion of the army of General George Washington throughout those dreary months. The North Carolina troops aided in the brave but unsuccessful attempt to drive the British from Savannah, 5,000 of her soldiers having been sent to prevent the capture of Charleston; but the patriot forces had been unable to repulse the invaders. Savannah fell, then Charleston, and by the last of May, 1780, both Georgia and South Carolina were in the hands of the enemy, and Cornwallis was threatening to invade North Carolina. Isaac Gregory, who in May of 1779, had been promoted to the office of Brigadier-General of the Edenton District, was ordered to join General Caswell in South Carolina. As soon as he could collect his men, Gregory marched towards the Piedmont section, en route to join the army of General Caswell; and by June he was with the Brigade of General Rutherford at Yadkin's Ford in Rowan. Near this place the Tories had collected, some 800 strong; and Rutherford hoped, with the assistance of General Gregory, to crush them. But to his disappointment, no opportunity emerged because General Bryan, the Tory leader, hearing of the defeat of the Loyalists at Ramseur's Mill a few days before, crossed the Yadkin River and united with General MacArthur, whom Cornwallis had sent on to Anson County. By July 31st, Gregory, with Rutherford and his brigade, joined General Caswell at The Cheraws, just across the South Carolina border. For several weeks there was much suffering among the men on account of the lack of food. Although corn was plentiful, the rivers were so high that the mills could not grind the meal. Meanwhile, the army of Lord Rawdon was stationed near Camden, South Carolina, and General Gates, who had joined Caswell on August 17th after having learned that the British general was daily expecting a supply of food and stores for his men, determined to intercept the convoy and capture the supplies for his own army. In the meantime Cornwallis, unknown to Gates, had joined Lord Rawdon. Gates, ignorant of this reinforcement of the troops of Lord Cornwallis, marched leisurely towards Camden to capture the coveted stores. The result of the historically wasted battle which followed is known only too well. The American militia, panic-stricken at the furious onslaught of the enemy, threw down their arms and fled and General Gates, after a vain attempt to rally his troops, lost courage and abandoned his forces and stores as well. As a result General <a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countycamden.html">. . . more . . .</a></span><br />
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Blackbeard in Beaufort</h2>
<img alt="William Teach" height="200" src="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/images/williamteach.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="150" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">When Spain threatened the colonists from St. Augustine, Florida (about 1740), pirates pilfered the shores of the Atlantic ocean. One in particular was William Teach, known as "Blackbeard." Teach was born ca 1668 in Bristol, England and died on 22 November 1718 on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. He was seen in the Carolina ports of Beaufort and Charleston. He was captain of the vessel "Queen Anne's Revenge." When he sailed into Charleston South Carolina during May of 1718, he blockaded the harbor and plundered nine ships. Also, he took prisoners and demanded that the city provide him with medical supplies. When they agreed, he sent a party ashore. When his men returned with the supplies, Teach released his prisoners. While in Charleston, Teach learned that Woodes Rogers had orders to </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">rid the Caribbean of its pirates. So he sailed north for the Beaufort Inlet of North Carolina, called "Topsail". Upon reaching the inlet, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Queen Anne's Revenge</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;"> struck a sandbar and was badly damaged. In the process of attempting to save that vessel, the ship, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Adventure</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;"> was also lost. He then <a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countybeaufort.html">. . . more . . .</a></span><br />
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Emigrants to North Carolina came from 2 Directions</h2>
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At this time, the Cherokee Indians, the most powerful of the Western tribes, still claimed the territory, as rightful "lords of the soil," and were committing numerous depredations and occasional murders. In 1756, Fort Dobbs about twenty miles West of Salisbury, was built for the protection of the small neighborhood of farmers and grazers around it. Even the thriving colony of Albemarle county on the seaboard now felt its growing importance was beginning to call for "more room," and seek new possessions in the interior, thus unconsciously fulfilling the truth of the poet's prediction, "Westward the course of empire takes its way." </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countyburke.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">Why Antrim Sent so Many Immigrants to America</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countyburke.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">The Trail of the Scotch-Irish into Burke County</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countycabarrus.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">The Great Wagon Road</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countyguilford.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">The Scotch-Irish in Guilford County</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countymecklenburg.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">The Irish Join the Fight for Freedom in America</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countybladen.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">The Tacksmen</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countyanson.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">The Influence of German Immigrants</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"></span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countyduplin.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">Seven Tory Prisoners Taken</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countyforsyth.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">The Origins of the Bethabara Colony</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countyhaywood.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">The Western Migration from Philadelphia to North Carolina</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countymoore.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">The Name of the Clan Aboard a Ship from Scotland</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countysurry.html" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.4px; text-decoration-line: none;">Migrants in the New County</a><br />
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Colonel Alexander Osborn</h2>
<img alt="Osborn Tombstone" height="300" src="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/images/osborngrave.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="320" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Alexander Osborn was born in New Jersey in 1709, and emigrated to the western part of Rowan county (now Iredell) about 1755. He was a Colonel in the Colonial government, and as such marched with a regiment of Rowan troops to Hillsboro in 1768 to assist Governor Tryon in suppressing the "Regulation" movement. He was married to Agnes McWhorter, a sister of Dr. Alexander McWhorter, president of Queens Museum College in Charlotte. His residence (called Belmont) was one of the earliest worshiping places of the Presbyterians of Rowan county before the present "Center Church" was erected, and became by compromise the central meeting-house of worship for a large extent of surrounding country. In the graveyard of Center Church, on a double headstone, are the following records:</span><br />
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"Here lys the body of Colonel Alexander Osborn, who deceased July y'e 11th, 1776, aged 67 years;" and, separated by a dividing upright line, this record appears:<br /><br />"Here lys the body of Agnes Osborn, who deceased July y'e 9th, 1776."</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">The son, Adlai Osborn, who graduated at Princeton College in 1768. He was Clerk of the Court for Rowan county under the Royal government, and continued in that office until 1809. He was a man of fine literary attainments, the warm friend of education, and one of the first Trustees of the State University. He died in 1815, leaving a large family, among whom were Spruce McCay Osborn, who graduated at Chapel Hill in 1806; studied medicine, entered the army as surgeon, and was killed at the massacre of Fort Mimms in the war of 1812; and Edwin Jay Osborn, who was distinguished as a lawyer of eloquence and learning, and was the father of the late Judge James W. Osborn, of Charlotte, one of Mecklenburg's most worthy, gifted and lamented sons. <a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/counties/countyrowan.html">. . . more . . .</a></span><br />
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<img alt="Squire Boone Grave" src="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/images/squireboonegrave.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="50%" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Squire Maugridge Boone died Jan 1777, buried in Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina (formerly Rowan County). He came to America in 1713 when eighteen years of age, having been sent along with two siblings to America by tgheir father, George Boone of the town of Bradninch near Exeter, England. Squire Boone is a name frequently used in the Boone families. They originally settled north of Philadelphia and were members of the Society of Friends. Another Squire Boone was found in the western portion of Virginia (Botetourt County) in the middle 1700s. This Squire Boone served in the militia and answered the call of Governor Dunsmore against the fierce Shawnee Chief, Cornstalk. Although all of the militia for the Colony had been called out, only two companies in Botetourt County answered the call. Chief Cornstalk awaited them at the falls of the Ohio River. A fierce battle was fought and many lives (on both sides) were lost. Although Cornstalk signed a Treaty after wards, he did not keep his word. This was about the that a cousin, Daniel Boone, was scouting through the mounts of western Virginia and Kentucky.</span><br />
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The Clan Names of Mac or Mc</h2>
<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Genealogy Tips by Jeannette Holland Austin</i><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><img alt="Genealogy Books by Jeannette Holland Austin" src="https://georgiapioneers.com/images/mybooks.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="30%" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Clan names usually began with Mac. It was not until after the Scots had been in America for one or two generations that they adopted the character Mc. Thus, generally speaking, one should search in Scotland and Ireland for the Mac. Large Mac clans ruled Scotland for generations. That is, until bonny Prince Charles (Stuart) found himself exiled by the English monarchy. From then on, the clans suffered persecution from English Lords. They certainly fell into poverty after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 (or the War of the British succession) when Scotland lost its right to rule. </span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Genealogy Tips by Jeannette Holland Austin</i><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><img alt="Genealogy Books by Jeannette Holland Austin" src="https://georgiapioneers.com/images/mybooks.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="30%" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">A long time ago, people from Scandinavian countries use a patronym which was based on the given name of a father or grandfather. When it was the mother, the term is matronymic. So, the ancestors of Skeds, the son of Vold, ultimately became a surname, Skedsvold. Anders, the son of Sen, became Andersen. And so on. Thus, while searching the ancient families, it is a good idea to review the familiar characters of certain families and research the meaning as well as the possibility of your particular ancestor's name fitting in there somewhere. A study of ancient names is certainly indicated.</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Genealogy Tips by Jeannette Holland Austin</i><img alt="Blue Ridge Mountains" src="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/images/bluerridgemtns2.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: right; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" width="99%" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">Philadelphia was a port city for many immigrants during the early 18th century. The first propriety was to settle amongst others who spoke the same language or dialect. After wards, a stream of people from Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland and the German palatinate began their adventures by trailing the old Wagon Road southwestward into North Carolina and Virginia. Some of them were Quakers and left relatives in Philadelphia. For this reason, Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of Quakers should be searched just to make certain. For the example, the prolific Boone family from whom Daniel Boone descends, were Quakers, and many of these families went into the Carolinas and Kentucky. The Blue Ridge Mountains capture a certain fantasy of the trails which our ancestors explored. Both the Scotch and the Irish preferred the spectacular views of isolated charm. These rugged settlers brought the rifle and beaver caps into a wilderness terrain. </span><br />
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<b>Aquilla Compton</b> was born 1724 in England and died 1805 in Orange County, North Carolina. The children were named in the family bible and the information is included in The Austin Collection, Vol. I, by Jeannette Holland Austin and is available to members of <a href="https://georgiapioneers.com/">Georgia Pioneers</a><br />
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"Here lys the body of Colonel Alexander Osborn, who deceased July y'e 11th, 1776, aged 67 years;" and, separated by a dividing upright line, this record appears:<br /><br />"Here lys the body of Agnes Osborn, who deceased July y'e 9th, 1776."</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Pegasus; font-size: 14.6667px;">The son, Adlai Osborn, who graduated at Princeton College in 1768. He was Clerk of the Court for Rowan county under the Royal government, and continued in that office until 1809. He was a man of fine literary attainments, the warm friend of education, and one of the first Trustees of the State University. He died in 1815, leaving a large family, among whom were Spruce McCay Osborn, who graduated at Chapel Hill in 1806; studied medicine, entered the army as surgeon, and was killed at the massacre of Fort Mimms in the war of 1812; and Edwin Jay Osborn, who was distinguished as a lawyer of eloquence and learning, and was the father of the late Judge James W. Osborn, of Charlotte, one of Mecklenburg's most worthy, gifted and lamented sons.</span><br />
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Site of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. The old colonial papers are not always easy to find. In Georgia, the Colonial Records of Georgia by Candler is a good bet, however, in North Carolina, try the North Carolina State Papers. Every State has some sort of State Papers, usually published in a number of volumes and found at the local State Archives. It is certainly worth it to scan these records because you find all sorts of things. For example, the North Carolina State Papers helped me to discover the entry of certain ships into the colony before and during the Revolutionary War. During wartime, the vessels having refugees had to ask permission of the governor to enter the State. Such is the case here of the Irish and Scots. Here is an interesting account. The Scottish clan of MacDonald laid anchor near North Carolina and petitioned for a large tract of land upon which to settle. On board was the famous Flora McDonald, the girl who hid the bonny Prince Charles (Stuart) from the English. We all know the story. The Scots were persecuted by English soldiers and driven into poverty. This clan settled in Moore County, North Carolina where the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge occurred. Interesting yet? The information from the state papers helped to fill in the puzzle. The McDonald family genealogy is found on <a href="https://northcarolinapioneers.com/" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration-line: none;">North Carolina Pioneers</a></div>
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_4ivDFMTYRrrcOiRaQ-3ljYwoBuwMfUtIp2swOF90OYgH4MDKZKsmVYDc9KLHgc4mBTeoB7g6FmVEMrQewCuhyphenhyphenj1kdL5OR_vo7g9z_Bs36Mx1o_9bvrik95l90CWlvReGGlwrHTgEwVWa/s1600/edwdteach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #6699cc; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_4ivDFMTYRrrcOiRaQ-3ljYwoBuwMfUtIp2swOF90OYgH4MDKZKsmVYDc9KLHgc4mBTeoB7g6FmVEMrQewCuhyphenhyphenj1kdL5OR_vo7g9z_Bs36Mx1o_9bvrik95l90CWlvReGGlwrHTgEwVWa/s1600/edwdteach.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="154" /></a>Edward Teach was one of the pirates who pillaged the eastern coast of the United States. He drew famous title of "Blackbeard". He was born ca 1680 and is believed to have died on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina. His splendid capture was <em>Queen Anne's Revenge,</em> equipped with 40 guns. He formed alliances with other pirates and blockaded the port of Charleston, South Carolina.<br /><br />After successfully ransoming its inhabitants, he ran <i>Queen Anne's Revenge</i> aground on a sandbar near Beaufort, North Carolina and parted company with Bonnet when he accepted a royal pardon and temporarily settled at Bath Town. But he returned to pirating and Governor Spotswood of Virginia arranged his capture on 22 November 1718. During a ferocious battle, Teach and several of his crew were killed by a small force of sailors led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.<br /><br />A search along the North Carolina coast and isles for his treasures has been ongoing since his death.</div>
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