Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present, Volume 7C. L. Van Noppen, 1908 - North Carolina |
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Alamance Alamance County Alexander Alexander Mebane appointed army Badger battle became Bern Bladen Bladen County born brigade brother Burke County Cape Fear Captain Charles Charlotte Church Colonel Colonel Avery command committee Company Confederate Congress constitution convention Cotton Mills court Creek daugh daughter death Democratic died distinguished Edwin elected entered Erwin father Fayetteville Federal Gaston George Governor graduated Gray Halifax Halling Hertford County Hill Hillsboro Hinsdale honor Hooper Isaac James John Johnston Jones Joseph McDowell Judge Lamb later Lieutenant lived Major married Miss Mary McDowell McNeill Mebane ment Michael Holt Morganton never North Caro North Carolina regiment party patriotic Person president prominent Railroad Raleigh Raney Robert Robeson senate sketch Smith soldier sons South southern Thomas Thomas Robeson tion Tories University of North Virginia Waightstill Avery Whigs wife William William Hooper Wilmington wounded
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Page 133 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 287 - That a declaration of rights, asserting and securing from encroachment the great principles of civil and religious liberty, and the unalienable rights of the people...
Page 287 - RESOLVED, That it be recommended to the legislature of this State that whenever Congress shall pass a law for collecting an impost in the states aforesaid, this State enact a law for collecting a similar impost on goods imported into this State, and appropriate the money arising therefrom to the use of Congress.
Page 283 - Resolved, That the delegates for this Colony in the Continental Congress be impowered to concur with the delegates of the other Colonies in declaring Independency, and forming foreign alliances...
Page 282 - Province, who entertain any religious or political Scruples, with respect to associating in the common Cause of America, to remove any ill impressions that have been made upo'n ; them by the artful devices of the enemies of America...
Page 335 - ... settlers, were quartered in the houses of the vicinity, the old log Waxhaw meeting-house itself being converted into a hospital for the most desperate cases. Mrs. Jackson was one of the kind women who ministered to the wounded soldiers in the church, and under that roof her boys first saw what war was. The men were dreadfully mangled. Some had received as many as thirteen wounds, and none less than three. For many days Andrew and his brother assisted their mother in waiting upon the sick men...
Page 144 - AN honest man here lies at rest, As e'er God with his image blest ; The friend of man, the friend of truth : The friend of age, and guide of youth : Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so inform'd : If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.
Page 30 - Convention, now here assembled, in the name and with the sovereign power of the people of North Carolina, doth, for the reasons aforesaid, and others, and in order to preserve the undoubted rights and liberties of the said people, hereby declare all connection of government between this State and the United States of America dissolved and abrogated, and this State to be a free, sovereign and independent State, owing no subordination, obedience, support or other duty to...
Page 236 - Seeing we may not come again to glean, But, losing, lose forever. Seeing how zealots, making choice of pain, From home and country parted, Have thought it life to leave their fellows slain, Their women broken-hearted; How teasing truth a thousand faces claims, As in a broken mirror, And what a father died for in the flames His own son scorns as error; How even they whose hearts were sweet with song Must quaff oblivion's potion, And, soon or late, their sails be lost along Oh, ask me not the haven...
Page 244 - He was a member of the first board of trustees of the Wilkes-Barre academy, which was incorporated March 19, 1807, and filled that position until his death in 1832.