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- "GENERAL GEORGE GRAHAM; Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historicaland Biographical
by C. L.Hunterhttp://www.fullbooks.com/Sketches-of-Western-North-Carolina-Historical2.html;Part 2 out of 6.
General George Graham was born in Pennsylvania in 1758, and came with
his widowed mother and four others to North Carolina, when about six
years old. He was chiefly educated at "Queen's Museum," in Charlotte,
and was distinguished for his assiduity, manly behaviour and
kindliness of disposition. He was early devoted to the cause of
liberty, and was ever its untiring defender. There was no duty too
perilous, no service too dangerous, that he was not ready to undertake
for the welfare and independence of his country.
In 1775, when it was reported in Charlotte that two Tory lawyers, Dunn
and Boothe, had proposed the detention of Capt. Jack on his way to
Philadelphia, and had pronounced the patriotic resolutions with which
he was entrusted, as "treasonable," George Graham was one of the
gallant spirits who rode all night to Salisbury, seized said offending
lawyers, and brought them to Mecklenburg for trial. Here, after being
found guilty of conduct "inimical to the cause of American freedom,"
they were transported to Camden, S.C., and afterward to Charleston,
and imprisoned.
Such were the open manifestations of liberty and independence in
different portions of North Carolina in 1775!
When Cornwallis lay at Charlotte in 1780, Graham took an active part
in attacking his foraging parties, making it extremely difficult and
hazardous for them to procure their necessary supplies. He was one of
the thirteen brave spirits, under Capt. James Thompson, who dared to
attack a foraging party of four hundred British troops at McIntire's
Branch, seven miles northwest of Charlotte, on the Beattie's Ford
road, compelling them to retreat, with a considerable loss of men and
a small amount of forage, fearing, as they said, an ambuscade was
prepared for their capture.
After the war, he was elected Major General of the North Carolina
militia. For many years, he was clerk of the court of Mecklenburg
county, and frequently a member of the State Legislature. He was the
people's friend, not their flatterer, and uniformly enjoyed the
confidence and high esteem of his fellow-citizens. He lived more than
half a century on his farm, two miles from Charlotte. He died on the
29th of March, 1826, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and is
buried in the graveyard of the Presbyterian Church at Charlotte."
1750 - American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
Name: George W. Graham
Birth Date: 1750
Birthplace: North Carolina
Volume: 66
Page Number: 47
Reference: Roster of soldiers from N.C. in the Amer. Rev. Comp. ByD.A.R. of NC. Durham, NC. 1932. (12,709p.):496
Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-BiographicalIndex (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The GenerationsNetwork, Inc., 1999.
1763 - "City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina -Incorporated 1768, named for Queen Charlotte.
The county was formed from Anson County in 1763 and named for thehometown of Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Germany whobecame the bride of England's King George III in 1762. When a townwas established within the county in 1768, founders named it"Charlotte Town" for Queen Charlotte. Historians report that thecounty settlement by immigrants began in the early 1700's primarilyfrom the North along the "Trading Path", an old Indian Trail, and fromthe South along the rivers from Charleston. Immigrants werepredominately Scotch-Irish and were not threatened by the nativeresidents, the Catawba Indians. By 1775, many settlements andchurches had been established by families such as Alexander, Polk,Latta, Selwyn, Davidson, Harris, Graham, and Torance, to name a few.Early churches included Hopewell, Rocky River, Sugaw Creek, SteeleCreek, and Providence, all established in the 1750's and '60's.Fiercely independent and wanting to remain that way, the leadingcitizens of Mecklenburg County drafted the Mecklenburg Declaration ofIndependence in 1775. Gold was discovered around 1800 and Mecklenburgsoon became the location for the Charlotte Mint and so it is onlyfitting that it is today the home of two of the top ten banks in theUnited States...etc...Located in the south central portion of NorthCarolina, the center of the county is at the intersection ofInterstates 77 and 85 and is bordered on the west by the CatawbaRiver, on the north by Iredell county, on the east by Cabarrus andUnion counties, and on the south by York and Lancaster, South Carolinacounties." Source: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncmeckle/
1790 - "U.S. Federal Census; http://persi.heritagequestonline.com
Series: M637 Roll: 7 Page: 350; BROTHERS
GRAHAM JOSEPH MAJ NC MECKLENBURG SALISBURY DIST 1790
1-free white male over 16 yrs, 1-free white male under 16 yrs, 2-freefemales, 0-other free persons,
8-slaves
GRAHAM GEORGE NC MECKLENBURG SALISBURY DIST 1790
1-free white male over 16 yrs, 2-free white male under 16 yrs, 2-freefemales, 0-other free persons,
4-slaves
GRAHAM JAMES NC MECKLENBURG SALISBURY DIST 1790
0-free white male over 16 yrs, 0-free white male under 16 yrs, 1-freefemales, 1-other free persons,
0-slaves" Note: I believe that their mother/step-mother was livingwith James & his wife per the census recording one other free personin the household.
Birth: 1758, USA
Death: Mar. 29, 1826
Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
North Carolina, USA
Revolutionary War North Carolina Militia Major General. He servedthroughout the Revolutionary War. He was among the MecklenburgPatriots, who, along with those from Rowan County, were some of theWar's most hostile forces. In 1780, he was among the 12 (or 14)Patriots who fought back a force of 400 British soldiers at McIntyre'sFarm. The incident became known as the "Battle of The Hornets."Charlotte then took the nickname "The Hornet?s Nest," a name it stilluses to this day. Graham achieved the rank of Major General.
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1757 - 1826 (68 years)