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-Old, of Rowan, 281.
-Salisbury, roll of, 252, 256. FAMILY of the McCorkles, the, 292.
FANNING, Col. David, 229; notorious Tory raider, 229;
visits Salisbury, 229; murder of Balfour, 229; captures Gov- ernor Burke, 420.
-Col. Edmund, 119; Associate Judge of Superior Court, 419. FARMING, old-time, 238. FAUST, Ensign, 343. -Mrs. Eleanor, 217; her favor- ite calf impressed for Corn- wallis' table, 219.
FEAST, Waxsaw, 40. FEATS' of agility, William Young excels in, 160, 232. FEES, exorbitant, for marriage licenses, 88.
FEMININE attire, old-time, 243. FERRAND, Dr. Stephen L., 457; member of General As- sembly, 462.
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HISTORY OF ROWAN COUNTY
FIFTEENTH Regiment (see
Honor, Roll of).
FIFTH Annual Diocesan Con- tion, Rev. Robert Johnstone Miller attends, 427.
-Regiment Infantry (see Honor, Roll of).
FIFTY-SECOND Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
FIFTY - SEVENTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of). FIGHT of Captain Bryan and Lieutenant Pearson, 185.
FIRST bench of elders in Pres- byterian Church, 266.
-Bishop of North Carolina, Rev. John Stark Ravenscroft elected, 430.
-Cargo of slaves brought from Africa, 348.
-Comptroller of the Treasury, Gen. John Steele appointed, 266.
-Constables, the, 69.
-Court, the, 67; acts of, 69.
-European settlers, the, 49.
-Juries in Rowan, 70.
-Manassas, Col. Charles Freder- ick Fisher killed at battle of, 21, 263, 324.
-Meeting of Rowan Committee of Safety, 175.
-Members Methodist Church in Salisbury, 407.
-Members Salisbury Presbyterian Church, 373.
-Methodist Conference in Salis- bury, Rev. Moses Brock pre- sides over, 407.
-Methodist school in section, 401.
-North Carolina Provincial Con- gress adopts resolutions, 133.
-Organ in Rowan, at Organ Church, 385.
-Presbyterian Church, Salisbury, 371; Rev. Jethro Rumple called to, 16; (Il1.), facing 17; or- ganized, 373; first members of, 373; elders and deacons of, 266, 377; ministers sent out from, 378.
-President of Barium Springs Orphan Home, Rev. Jethro Rumple elected, 18.
-Provincial Congress, North Carolina not represented in, I3I.
-Public meeting of Regulators, 119.
FIRST Regiment Engineers (see Honor, Roll of).
-Regiment Infantry (see Honor, Roll of).
-United States Congress, Gen. John Steele a member of, 266. -Years of peace, the, 235.
FISHER, Col. Charles Frederick, 232, 263, 453; volunteers at outbreak of War between the States, 263; killed at First Manassas, 21, 263, 324; student at Yale, 323; member of State Legislature, 323, 462; presi- dent of North Carolina Rail- road, 323; raises regiment in War between the States, 324; (Il1.), facing 325; buried in Salisbury cemetery, 325; con- firmed in St. Luke's Church, 45'3 ; married to Elizabeth Cald- well, 453; elected delegate to Diocesan Convention, 456.
-Family, the, 322.
-Frances C. (Christian Reid), writer of fiction, 325; author of "Land of the Sky," 325; (I11.), facing 327; confirmed in St. Luke's Church, 461.
-Hon. Charles, 263, 322; repre- sents Rowan in State Senate, 322; elected to Congress, 322; member of Constitutional Con- vention, 322; aids in reorgani- zation of St. John's Church, 393.
FISHING and hunting, 37, 238. FLAT Creek Baptist Church, 475.
FLAX growing and spinning, 243.
FOARD, Major Robert W., 291. FOIL, Professor, 470.
FOLKLORE, 35'5; popular
superstition, witches, 356; spells and 355; belief in charms, 358.
FORCES, British (see British
forces).
FORD, Beattie's, 198.
-Cowan's, General Davidson mortally wounded at, 199.
-Island, owned by Lewis Beard, 264.
FORKS of Yadkin Company, 186.
FORT Dobbs, erected, 109. -Meigs, defense of, 342.
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FORT Mimms, massacre of, 342; Dr. Spruce Macay Osborne killed at, 164, 342.
-Prince George, 110.
FORTY-EIGHTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
FORTY-FIFTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
FORTY-NINTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
FORTY - SECOND Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
FORTY - SEVENTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
FORTY-SIXTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
FOURTEENTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
FOURTH Creek Presbyterian Church, 364, 365, 367, 369.
-of July celebrations, 242, 346.
-Regiment Cavalry (see Honor, Roll of).
-Regiment Infantry (see Honor, Roll of).
-Texas Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
FRANCE, Gen. William Rich- ardson Davie appointed am- bassador to, 276.
FRANKLIN County, 423.
-Hon. Meshack, 275.
-Presbyterian Church, 370, 37 !. FRATERNITY, Masonic, Gen. William Richardson Davie, Grand Master of, 276; organize Fulton Lodge, 441.
FREEMAN, E. B., Clerk of Su- preme Court of North Caro- lina, 447.
-Rev. G. W., .46, 451.
-Rev. Jonathan Otis, M. D. 372, 446.
FROHOCK, John, 86. -Thomas, 86, 87. FROHOCK'S' (Macay's) mill-
pond, deadly miasma from, 94.
FROST, Rev. S. Milton, D. D., 404, 408.
FULTON, John, 321.
-Lodge organized by Masonic fraternity, 441; named after John Fulton, 321. GANO, Rev. John, 474.
GEER, Rev. Edwin, 455.
GENERAL Assembly of North Carolina, 63 (see also As- sembly, General).
GENERAL description of Rowan County, 29.
GEORGE III., Major James Smith serves as Ensign under, 140; portrait of, and General Greene, 209.
GEORGIA, William Kennon re- moves to, 172.
GERMAN Reformed Church, 465; Lower Stone, or Grace Church, 466, 471; Rev. Samuel Suther, 468; Mount Hope (St. Paul's) Church, 470; Shiloh Church, 470; St. Luke's Re- formed Church, 471; Mount Zion Reformed Church, 471; Mount Gilead Church, 472.
-Settlers, 53; names and char- acters, 56.
GERMANTOWN, Gen. Francis Nash at, 188; Col. Edward Buncombe at, Colonel Irwin at, 188, 334. 188;
GHENT, treaty of, 345. GIBSON, William, 286.
-Dr. Edmund R., 286. -James Brandon, 286.
GILES, Hon. John, 321; grad- uate of University of North Carolina, 321; Clerk of Rowan Superior Court, 321 ; elected to Congress, 321.
GILLESPIE, Richard, and Blind Daniel, menace British forces, 210.
-Lieut. James, 343.
-Miss Margaret, 210; married to Rev. Dr. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, 368.
-Robert, 42, 210. GIVENS, Ned, 292. GLASS, tax imposed on, 130. GOLD Hill Baptist Church, 476. GOODMAN, Rev. Joseph, 406, 408.
GOVERNOR'S Council, Archi- bald Henderson a member of, 302.
GOVERNORS of North Carolina, Royal, 50; Tryon, 117, 125, 416; Josiah Martin, 127, 218; Burke, 256; Gen. William
Richardson Davie, 275, 276; Nathaniel Alexander, 301; John W.
Ellis,
310,
453,
462;
Montford Stokes,
334;
Alex-
ander Martin, 420.
GOWERIE, Heights of, 35, 211; home of Albert Torrence, 265.
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HISTORY OF ROWAN COUNTY
GRACE · German Reformed
Church, 466, 471.
GRACY, Jean, 379; memorial stone in Thyatira churchyard, 379; (Ill.), facing 381.
GRADUATES of University of North Carolina (see Univer- sity).
GRAEBER, Rev. Henry, 392.
GRAHAM, Gen. Joseph, 343. GRANT of Charles II., 61.
GRAVE of John Dunn, 11, 171, 228.
GRAVES, Dunn's, 228.
GREAT Alamance, 43; battle of, 122.
-Wolf of North Carolina, the (Governor Tryon), 117.
GREEN, Bishop William M., of Mississippi, 439, 448. -Rev. Lemuel, 401. GREENE, Gen. Nathanael, in Rowan County, 195; takes com- mand of Southern army, at Charlotte, 196; his famous re- treat, 197; in Salisbury, 205; Dr. Read's account of, 207; Elizabeth Maxwell Steele re- lieves distress of, 208, 368; and portrait of George III., 209; at battle of Hobkirk's Hill, 218. GRIEVANCES, American, 128. GRIFFITH, Rev. R. H., 477.
GRIMES, British Army at, 201 ; GROSECLOSE, Rev. L. C., 394. GROWING and spinning flax, 243. GROWTH of Methodism in Rowan, 397 (see also under Methodism).
GUARDS, Rowan Rifle (see Honor, Roll of).
GUILFORD Courthouse, battle of, Gen. William Richardson Davie at, 276; Captain Weit- zell at, 468.
GWALTNY, Rev. W. R., 477, 478.
HALE, E. J., 441. HALL, Rev. Dr. James, 36;, 402.
HALLING, Rev. Dr., 421.
HAMPDEN-Sidney College, Rev. P. J. Sparrow president of, 375. HAMPTON, William, 256. HANGING Rock, Major Davie at battle of, 275.
HARRIS, Rev. Mr., 367. -Richard, 290.
HARRISON, Gen. William H., 342.
HARVEY, Col. John, 131; is- sues proclamation, 132. HATTERS, 241.
HAWKS, Rev. Dr. Francis L., 441, 454.
HAYNE, Col. Isaac, 167. HEADQUARTERS of Corn- wallis in Salisbury, 195, 215, 315.
HEIGHTS of Gowerie, 35, 211; home of Albert Torrence, 265. HENDERSON, Archibald (2), 267, 301; student at Yale, 301 ; student at University of Vir- ginia, 301; member of Gov- ernor's Council, 302.
-Leonard, Chief Justice of Su- preme Court of North Caro- lina, 274, 299, 301.
-Dr. Alexander, 304.
-Dr. Pleasant, 304.
-Family, the, 298.
-Hon. Archibald, 299; member of Legislature, 301 ; declines appointment to Supreme Court of North Carolina, 301 ; Repre- sentative in Congress, 301.
-Jane C., 302.
-John Lawson, Clerk of Su- preme Court of North Caro- lina, 304.
-John Steele (Il1.), facing 295; 302, 409.
-Judge Richard, 274, 299.
-Lieut. Leonard, killed at battle of Cold Harbor, 302. -Lieut. Richard, 302.
-Major Pleasant, 304.
-Samuel, 298.
-Tippoo Sahib, 304. HENDREN, Rev. L. L., 404. HENKEL, Rev. David, 388. -Rev. Paul, 387.
-Rev. Philip, 387.
HEROISM of Margaret Phifer, 288.
HEWES, Hon. Joseph, 134. HILL, Indian, 45.
HILLIAR, Richard, 70. HISTORY of a journey from Charleston to Pamlico Sound (Lawson's), 30.
of North Carolina (Lawson's), 32, 33.
of Presbyterianism in North Carolina, Rev. Jethro Rumple author of, 17.
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HISTORY, Rev. Samuel Euse-
bius McCorkle elected Profes-
sor of, 368.
HOBKIRK'S Hill, battle of, 218, 233, 276.
HODGE, Rev. Mr., 476.
HOLLIMAN, Ezekiel, 473. HOME mission work, Rev.
Jethro Rumple pioneer in, 16.
HONOR, Roll of, 483; Pay- master's Department, 484 ; Quartermaster's Department,
484; Second Regiment Cavalry, 484; Fourth Regiment Cavalry, 485; Ninth Regiment Cavalry, 485; First Regiment Engineers, 486;
Rowan Artillery, 486; First Regiment Infantry, 491 ; Second Regiment Infantry, 491 ; * Fourth Regiment Infantry, 491; Rowan Rifle Guards, 497 ; Fifth Regiment Infantry, 506; Sixth Regiment, 517; Seventh Regiment, 5'25; Eighth Regi- ment, 529; Tenth Regiment, 538; Eleventh Regiment, 538;
Old Bethel Regiment, 538;
Thirteenth Regiment, 538;
Fourteenth Regiment, 538;
Fifteenth Regiment, 539; Six-
teenth Regiment, 539; Twen-
tieth Regiment, 539; Twenty-
third hegiment, 540; Twenty-
sixth Regiment, 541 ; Twenty- eighth Regiment, 542; Thirtieth Regiment, 542; Thirty - first
Regiment, 542; Thirty-third
Regiment,
543;
Regiment, 543;
Thirty-fourth Thirty-fifth Forty-second
Regiment, 547;
Regiment, 547; Forty-fifth
Regiment, 559; Forty-sixth
Regiment, 559; Forty-seventh
Regiment, ₹65; Forty-eighth
Regiment, 565; Forty-ninth
Regiment, 566; Fifty-second
Regiment, 571; Fifty-seventh
Regiment, 571; Second Regi-
ment Junior Reserves, Eighth Battalion Junior Re- 584; serves, 586; Sixth Alabama Regiment, 536;
Tenth Ken- tucky Cavalry, 587; Fourth Texas Regiment, 587; Tenth Virginia Cavalry, 587; Twelfth Virginia Regiment, 588; Iron- clad Ram "Albemarle," 588. HOOPER, Hon. William, I34. -Rev. William, 436.
HOPEWELL Churchyard, Gen. William Davidson buried in, 199.
HORAH, Hugh, 25'I, 256, 267, 286, 345.
HORNE.S' Nest, I90, 195; Charlotte called, by Corn- wallis, 190.
HOUSE firing, Margaret Phifer pleads to avert, 288.
-of Commons, British, resolves in favor of peace, 233; North Carolina, Gen. John Steele elected to, on day of his death, 267; members of, 287, 308, 310, 312, 462.
HOWELL, Rednap, the 118.
poet, HUDSON, Rev. H. T., D.D., 397, 404.
HUGER, General, 197, 212. HUGHES, Joseph, 229; ball at hotel of, in honor of President Washington, 251.
-Hudson, 230. HUIE, Robert, 291.
HULL, Capt. Isaac, 342.
-Rev. Hope, at a Ball, 399. HUNT, Meshack, 274. HUNTING and fishing, 37, 238. HURON Indians, 37. HUSBANDS, Herman, 119, 123. HYDER Ali, son of Edward Jones named after, 304.
ILLUSTRATIONS:
-Archibald Henderson Boyden, facing 299.
-Boone Memorial Cabin, facing 71.
-Boone Trail Marker, facing 77. -Col. Charles Frederick Fisher, facing 325.
-Daniel Boone, facing 69.
-Dr. J. J. Summerell, facing 375. -Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Memorial Tablet, facing 209. -First Presbyterian Church, Salisbury, facing 17. -Gen. Andrew Jackson, at age of fifty, facing 277.
-Gen. John Steele, facing 267. -Hon. Burton Craige, facing 331.
-Hon. Kerr Craige, facing 333.
-Hon. Lee S. Overman, facing 139. -James Graham Ramsay, M. D., 136.
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ILLUSTRATIONS:
-John Joseph Bruner, facing 21.
-John S. Henderson, facing 295.
-Map of Rowan County, 28.
-Mrs. Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan (Christian Reid), fac- ing 327.
-Old Map of Salisbury, 77.
-Old Stone House, facing 221.
-President James Knox Polk, facing 379.
-Rev. Jethro Rumple, facing 15.
-Runaway slave, advertisement, 351.
-Thyatira Church and Knox Memorials, facing 381.
IMPOSITION of taxes on tea, glass, etc., 130.
INAUGURATION Day, corres- ponding to date British Parlia- ment resolved in favor of peace, 233.
INCIDENTS at the Stone House, 221.
-Revolutionary, 215!
INDEPENDENCE, Mecklen- burg Declaration of (see Meck- lenburg).
INDIAN Dances, 40.
-- Feast, Waxsaw, 40. -Hill, 45.
-King Blunt, III.
-Massacre at Fort Mimms,
342; Dr. Spruce Macay Os- borne killed at, 342.
-Mounds, 41, 42, 45.
Quiogozon, 41.
-Theology, 38.
-Towns, 37, 43.
-War paint, 42.
-Wars, the, 107.
-Worship, 41.
INDIANS, 37; character of, 37; number of, 37, 44; visit to Sal- isbury, 107.
-Catawba, 37; towns and num- ber, 37, 43.
-Cherokee, their country, 78; sue for peace, 110; John Long killed by, 260.
-Creek, Andrew Jackson oper- ates against, 343; defeated at Tohopeka, 344.
-Huron, 37.
-Iroquois, 37.
-Keyauwee, 37, 44.
-Occoneechee, 37, 44.
-Sapona, 44; mounds of, 42, 45; character of, 44.
-Seneca (Sinnager), 37.
INDIANS, Totero, 44. -Woccon, 37.
INFANTRY, Regiments, Rowan, in War between the States (see Honor, Roll of).
INGLE, Rev. John, 470, 471, 472.
INSTRUCTIONS of Mecklen- burg County, 417.
INTRODUCTION and Growth of Methodism in Rowan County, the, 397 (see also under Methodism).
IREDELL County, represented
in Legislature by Andrew Caldwell, 312; represented in House of Commons by David Franklin Caldwell, 312.
IRONCLAD ram, Albemarle (see Honor, Roll of).
IROQUOIS Indians, 37. IRWIN, Colonel, at German- town, 188, 334.
ISLAND Ford, owned by Lewis Beard, 264.
-near Sapona Town, 33. -of Akenatzy, 264.
IVES, Bishop L. S., 435, 443, 450, 452; ordains Rev. Thomas F. Davis, Jr., 454; ordains Rev. John Haywood Parker,
S. 457; ordains Rev. Oliver Prescott, 458.
JACK, Captain, brings Mecklen- burg Declaration to Salisbury, 158, 420.
JACKSON, Gen. Andrew (Ill., at the age of fifty), facing 277; born in North Carolina, 277; his early life, 277; at- tended Queen's Museum Col-
lege, 278; law student of Spruce Macay, 274, 278; lodged at Rowan House, 278; operates against Creek Indians, 343 ; de- feats Indians at Tohopeka, 344. JACOCKS, Rev. James G., 458. JEFFERSON, President Thomas, 3.38.
JENKINS, Rev. Daniel, 394.
JERSEY Church, 272, 474, 476. -Meeting House, Hon. Spruce Macay buried in graveyard of, 275.
JOHNSTON, Rev. R. Z., 378. -Rev. William H., 378.
JONES, Edward, names son after Hyder Ali, 304.
-Hamilton C., Esq., 305; grad- uate of University of North
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Carolina, 305'; member of Leg- islature, 306, 462; Reporter for Supreme Court of North Caro- lina, 306; founded The Caro- lina Watchman, 306.
JONES, Hyder Ali, 304.
JOPPA Presbyterian Church
(Mocksville), 371.
JORDAN, Rev. F. M., 478.
JOURNEY from Charleston to Pamlico Sound, Lawson's His- tory of a, 30.
JUDD, Rev. Bethel, 422.
JUDGES of Superior Court (see Superior Court).
-of Supreme Court (see Su- preme Court). JULIAN, Benjamin, 287. -Rev. Kiah P., 378.
JULY the fourth, celebrations of, 242, 246.
JUNIOR Reserves (see Honor, Roll of).
JURIES in Rowan, the first, 70.
KADAPAU (Catawba) Indians, 37, 43.
KAEMPFER, Rev. Jacob, 392. KEHUKEE Creek, William So-
journer establishes Baptist Church on, 474. KENNON, Col. William, 134, 168; represents Salisbury in Provincial Congress, 134, 168; member Rowan Committee of Safety, 168;
signs Mecklen- burg Declaration of Indepen- dence, 168; prime mover in abduction of Dunn and Boote, 168; removes to Georgia, 172. KENTUCKY, Tenth Cavalry (see Honor Roll of).
KERR, Rev. Mr., 369.
KETCHIE, Rev. W. R., 392. KEYAUWEE Indians, 37, 44. KILPATRICK, Rev. Joseph D., 369.
-Rev. Abner, 369.
-Rev. Josiah, 369. KIMBALL, Rev. Whitson, 396.
KINCAID, Miss Mary Ann,
married to John Joseph Bruner, 22.
-Thomas, 286.
-William Mortimer, Esq., 287.
KING Blunt, Indian Chief, III. -Charles II., grant of, 61. -George III., Major James Smith serves as Ensign under, 140; portrait of, and General Greene, 209.
KING, Lord Proprietors sell to the, 49.
KING'S Attorney, Waightstill Avery chosen, 271.
-Mountain, battle of, 191; Major Francis McCorkle at, 294.
KNOX, Jean Gracy, 379; me- morial stone in Thyatira churchyard, 379; (Ill.), facing 381.
-John, John Craig coadjutor of, 326.
-John (2), 379; memorial stone in Thyatira churchyard, 379; (Ill.), facing 381.
-Memorials and Thyatira Church (III.), facing 381.
KREISSON, Jacob, 388. KRIDER, Capt. Jacob, 344; punishes refractory soldier, 344; names of his Company, 345.
Rev. B. S., 370.
LADIES, Young, resolutions of, endorsed by Rowan Com - mittee of Safety, 192.
LaFAYETTE, Marquis de, visits Camden, S. C., 249; at battle of Brandywine, 420.
LAMBETH, Rev. William, 476, 477, 478, 479.
"LAND of the Sky," Christian Reid author of, 325.
LANTZ, Rev. John, 469, 470. LAW School, conducted by Richmond M. Pearson, 309. LAWS, Parish, 101.
LAWSON'S History of
a journey from Charleston to Pamlico Sound, 30.
-History of North Carolina, 32, 33.
LEE, Rev. Jesse, 397; chaplain to Congress, 399.
LEGISLATURE, North Caro- lina, 63; members of, 159, 266, 271, 287, 289, 301, 303, 306, 308, 310, 312, 322, 323, 330, 462; Gen. John Steele elected to, on day of his death, 267. LERCH, Rev. Dr. B., 469. LIBERTY, Sons of, 119. LIBERATION of slaves by Max- well Chambers, 318.
LIBRARY, Rev. John Morgan's, 445.
-Samuel Young's, 161; list of books in, 161; bequest of, 161. -Waightstill Avery's, 271.
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HISTORY OF ROWAN COUNTY
LIFE, Early, of Gen. Andrew Jackson, 277.
-of Author (see Rumple).
-of Editor (see Bruner). -Social, in Rowan, 107, III. LIGHT Horse, Rowan, escort President Washington, 248, 251. LILLINGTON, John A., mem- ber of General Assembly, 462. LINN, Rev. J. A., 396.
LIST of members of Rowan Committee of Safety, 175.
-of books in Samuel Young's library, 161.
LITTLE, Capt. Daniel, buried in English graveyard, 216.
LOCKE, Col. Francis, 295; de- feats Tories at Ramsour's Mill, 153; monument to, in Thyatira graveyard, 153; in United States Senate, 153.
-Family, the, 154.
-Hon. Matthew, 124, 149, 154; represents Rowan in Provincial Congress, 150; member of United States Congress, 152. -Lieut. George, 187, 190; killed by British forces, 152, 190. -Mrs. Moses A., 343. LOCKE'S (Beard's) Bridge, 263. LUNG, Alexander, Esq., 259, 260, 261.
-Bullet throwing, 279.
-Dr. Alexander, 262.
-John, killed by Cherokees, 260. LORD Cornwallis (see Corn- wallis).
-John B., Esq., 267; member of General Assembly, 462.
-North retires from British min- istry, 235.
-Proprietors, sell to the King, 49; names of, 61.
-Rawdon, 217.
LORETZ, Rev. Andrew, 467, 469.
LOSS of property, by deprecia- tion of Continental money, 286. LOVE, Hon. William C., 274, 321; Representative in Con- gress, 321.
LOWER Meeting-House, 364. -Stone (Grace) Church, 466, 471.
LOYALISTS, 236.
LUCKY, Dr. F. N., home at Villa Franca, 201.
LUTHERAN Church, Salisbury, 393; ministers of, 394.
LUTHERAN Ministers in Synod United States, 389. of North Carolina, 388; in -Missions, 388.
LUTHERANISM in Rowan,
381.
-Organ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 384, 385, 387, 389, 466 ; first organ in County con- structed, 385; translation of records, 389.
-St. John's Church, Salisbury, 393; ministers of, 394. LUTHERANS, Rev. Robert Johnstone Miller ordained by, 386, 424.
McADEN, Rev. Hugh, 80, 283, 366, 474.
McCAULE, Rev. T. H., 199.
McCONNAUGHEY, George, 291.
MCCORKLE, David, died in Confederate army, 298.
-Dr. John R., 297.
-Family, the, 292.
-James Marshall, 297.
-Major Francis, 293; member of Rowan Committee of Safety, 294; at battle of King's Moun- tain, 294; at battle of Ram- sour's Mill, 294; at battle of Cowpens, 294; at battle of Tor- rence's Tavern, 294; reported killed, 295; married to Eliza- beth Brandon, 297.
-Matthew, 292.
-Rev. Dr. Samuel Eusebius, 199, 210, 245, 367, 372; elected Professor of Moral and Politi- cal Philosophy and History, in University of North Carolina, 368; married to Margaret Gil- lespie, 368; stricken with palsy in the pulpit, 368; buried in Thyatira graveyard, 369.
-William B., 267.
MCCUTCHEON'S Creek, 290. McDONALD, Rev. Thales, 402. McEWEN, James, elected Town Clerk, 252.
McGEE Brothers, 402. McHENRY, Rev. Barnabas, 401. MCKENZIE, Charles, 290. -Montford S., Esq., 287, 290. McKOY, Hon. Allman A., Judge of Superior Court, 429.
McMORDIE, Rev. Mr., 366. McREE, Rev. Dr. James, 372. MCWHORTER, Rev. Alexander, 365, 366.
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MACAY, Alfred, 274, 461. -Family, the, 272, 274.
-Hon. Spruce, 272, 461 ; licensed to practice law, 273; law tutor of Andrew Jackson, 274, 278; appointed Judge of Superior Court, 274; buried in grave- yard of Jersey Meeting-House, 275.
-James, 237; trustee of United Congregation, 272 ; obtains lands on Swearing Creek, 272. -William Spruce, 274.
MACAY'S (Frohock's) Mill- point, deadly miasma from, 94. MacNAMARA, Col. Robert, 267. MADDOCK'S Mill, first public meeting of Regulators at, 119. MADISON, Bishop, 421.
-President, suspends Non-Inter- course Act, 338.
MANASSAS, Col. Charles Fred- erick Fisher killed at battle of, 21, 263, 324.
MAP of Rowan County, 28.
-Old, of Salisbury, 77.
MARCAND, Rev. Adam N., 386.
MARKER, Boone Trail (II1.), facing 77.
MARKET-House, 255.
MARQUIS de LaFayette, visits Camden, S. C., 249 ; at battle of Brandywine, 420.
MARRIAGE license, exorbitant fees for, 88.
MARRIAGES, common-law, 88. MARSHAL Turenne's ravages, 54.
MARTIN, Alexander, 419; col- onel in Continental Army, 420; fought under LaFayette at battle of Brandywine, _420; elected Governor of North Carolina, 420; elected United States Senator, 420.
-Gov. Josiah, 127; accompanies Cornwallis to Salisbury, 218.
-Hugh, Esq., 303.
-James, Jr., Judge of Superior Court, 462.
MARY, Queen of Scots (see Banns).
MASON, Rev. Richard, S., 436. MASONIC Fraternity, Gen. William Richardson Davie Grand Master of, 276; organ- ize Fulton Lodge, 441.
MASSACRE at Fort Mimms, 342 ; Dr. Spruce Macay Os- borne killed at, 342.
MATSON, Rev. Enoch, 401. MECKLENBURG County, Presi- dent James Knox Polk born in, 379.
-County set off, 50.
-County, instructions of, 417.
-County, President James Knox Polk born in, 379.
-Declaration of Independence, 12; reputed author of, 113; Captain Jack brings to Salis- bury, 158, 420; read in Rowan Court, 158; signers of, 143, 168, 289.
MEETING-House, Beale's, 400. -House, Jersey, Hon. Spruce Macay buried in graveyard of, 275.
-House, Lower, 364.
-of Rowan Committee of Safety, the first, 175.
MEIGS, Fort, defense of, 342.
MEMBERS and officers of Eliza- beth Maxwell Steele Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 3.
--- of First North Carolina Pro- vincial Congress, 133. -of Salisbury Presbyterian Church, the first, 373.
-of the General Assembly, 159, 266, 271, 287, 289, 301, 303, 306, 308, 310, 312, 322, 323, 330, 462.
-of the Methodist Church in Salisbury, the first, 407.
of the Provincial Congress, 133, 134, 135, 137, 147, 150, 156, 168.
of the Rowan Committee of Safety, 141, 144, 157, 168, 175, 294, 467.
-Rowan, of United States Con- gress, 152, 266, 301, 303, 308, 321, 322, 331, 462.
MEMORIAL Cabin, Boone (Ill.), facing 71.
-Tablet, Elizabeth Maxwell Steele (Il1.), facing 209.
MEMORIALS to John Knox and wife, in Thyatira grave- yard, 379; (Il1.), facing 381. MERCURY, newspaper, 255. METHODISM in Rowan, 397. -Bishop Asbury preaches in Salisbury, 399.
-Cokesbury,
first
Methodist
school in section, 401.
-Colored
Church in Salisbury,
479.
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HISTORY OF ROWAN COUNTY
METHODISM :
-introduction of, into Davie County, 400.
-Jesse Lee, 397; chaplain to Congress, 399.
-Methodist ministers born and reared in Rowan County, 403; Rev. Moses Brock, 403; Rev. Richard Neely, 404; Rev. John Rich, 404; Rev. S. M. Frost, D.D., 404, 408; Rev. L. L. Hendren, 404; Rev. H. T. Hud- son, D.D. 397, 404; Rev. Abram Weaver,
405; Rev. James F. Smoot, 405; Rev. S. D. Peeler, 405; Rev. Calvin Plyer, 405; Rev. William C. Wilson, 405; Rev. William C. Call, 405; Rev. Leonidas W. Crawford, 405 ; Rev. James Wilson, 405
-Rev. Robert Johnstone Miller connected with, 423.
-the approach of,
into the Rowan section, 397.
-the introduction and growth of, in Rowan County, 397.
-the Methodist Church of Salis- bury, 406.
-the results, 403.
METHODIST Church in Salis- bury, 406; organized, 407; first members of, 407; pastors of, 408.
-Church, colored, in Salisbury, 479.
-Churches, Northern, 479.
-Conference in Salisbury, the first, presided over by Rev. Moses Brock, 407.
-Episcopal Circuit, Salisbury, 397.
-Ministers in Rowan County, 403 (see also under Method- ism).
-Protestant Churches, 479.
-School, Cokesbury first in sec- tion, 401.
MIASMA, deadly, from Fro- hock's (Macay's) Millpond, 94. MICKLEJOHN, Rev. Mr., 420. MILAN decree, the, 337.
MILD character of slavery in Rowan County, 349.
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