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
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SKETCHES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
DEDICATION.
TO THE DESCENDANTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOTS OF NORTH CAROLINA, WHETHER NOW ABIDING WITHIN HER BORDERS AND SHARING HER PROSPERITIES AND ADVERSITIES, OR SCATTERED ABROAD IN OTHER STATES OF THE AMERICAN UNION, BUT WHO STILL CHERISH A LASTING VENERATION FOR THE MEMORIES OF THEIR HEROIC FOREFATHERS; AND TO THE YOUNG MEN OF THE STATE GENERALLY, WHO WOULD DRAW LESSONS OF WISDOM, PATRIOTISM AND ENDURANCE FROM THE EXAMPLES HEREIN DESCRIBED, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
CHAPTER I.
MECKLENBURG COUNTY
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
DATE EVENTS.
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
ORIGINAL SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA AND CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE.
SKETCHES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
CHAPTER I.
MECKLENBURG COUNTY.
THE GRAND PROCESSION.
EXERCISES AT THE FAIR GROUNDS.
JAMES BELK—A VETERAN INVITED GUEST.
GENERAL WILLIAM DAVIDSON.
CHAPTER II.
CABARRUS COUNTY.
CHAPTER III.
ROWAN COUNTY.
CHAPTER IV.
IREDELL COUNTY.
CHAPTER V.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
CHAPTER VI.
GASTON COUNTY.
REV. HUMPHREY HUNTER.
DR. WILLIAM M'LEAN.
CHAPTER VII.
CLEAVELAND COUNTY.
CHAPTER VIII.
BURKE COUNTY.
CHAPTER IX.
WILKES COUNTY.
CHAPTER X.
MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTES
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