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STEELE, Gen. John, 211, 266; (Ill.), facing 267; member of North Carolina Legislature, 266; member of first United States Congress, 266; first Comptroller of the Treasury, 266; elected to House of Com- mons of North Carolina on day of his death, 267; singular coincidence, 267; married to Mary Nesfield, 267. -William, 210.
STICKLEY, Rev. V., 396.
STIERS, Rev. J. B., 476.
STINKING Quarter, 391. STOKES Family, the, 333.
-County, represented in Legis- lature by Hon. Nathaniel Boy- den, 303.
-Gov. Montford, 334; in Revo- lutionary Army, 334; taken prisoner near Norfolk, 334; confined in prison ship, 334; Clerk of Rowan Superior Court, 334; Clerk of State Senate, 334; elected to United States Senate, 334; removes to Arkan- sas, 334.
STOKES, Hon. John, Colonel in Revolutionary Army, 333; wounded at Waxhaw, 333;
United States District Judge, 280, 334.
-Montford S., major in War with Mexico, 334; Colonel in War between the States, 334; killed at Ellyson's Mill, 335.
STONE House, old (Il1.), facing 221; incidents at the, 221.
STONO, battle of, Gen. Wil- liam Richardson Davie wounded at, 187, 275; North Carolina militia at, 189.
STORCH, Rev. Carl August Gottlieb, 384, 391, 392. STROBEL, Rev. P. A., 392. -Rev. William D., 12, 394. STUART, Mary (see Banns).
SUMMERELL, Dr. J. J. (I11.), facing 375; ruling elder in Salisbury Church, 377; deacon in Salisbury Church, 377. SUMMERVILLE, Rev. J. N. H., 378.
SUMNER, Gen. Jethro, 189.
SUPERIOR Court, Judges of, 274, 299, 308, 310, 312, 419, 462; Clerks of, 321, 334. SUPERSTITION, Popular, 355. SUPREME Court of North Caro- lina, Judges of, 274, 299, 301, 303, 308, 309, 429, 462; Hon. Archibald Henderson declines appointment to, 301 ; Clerks of, 304, 447; Hamilton C. Jones Reporter for, 306.
SURRENDER of Charleston, North Carolina militia at, 189. -of Cornwallis, at Yorktown, 233, 235-
SUSPENSION of Non-Inter- course Act, 338.
SUTHER, Rev. Samuel, 68. SWANS on the Yadkin, 32. SWEARING Creek, 45; James Macay obtains lands on, 272.
SYNOD of North Carolina, Lutheran, ministers in, 388. SYSTEM, Borough, abolition of, 330.
TABLER, Rev. Mr., 394.
TABLET, Memorial, to Eliza- beth Maxwell Steele (I11.), facing 209.
TARLETON, Col. Banaster, de- feated by General Morgan, at Cowpens, 197; at John Louis Beard's, 216; orders child
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choked, 217; boys "play" bat- tle of Cowpens, in presence of, 220; at Dr. Anthony New- nan's, 220.
TAVERN charges, 71, 254. TAXATION, despotic, 128.
TAX imposed on glass, paper, painters' colors, and tea, 130. TAYLOR, Rev. Mr., 420.
TEA, tax imposed on, 130.
TECUMSEH incites Southern Indians, 342.
TENNESSEE, Bishop Otey of, 454.
-Gen. Griffith Rutherford dies in, 139.
TENTH Kentucky Cavalry (see Honor, Roll of).
-Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
-Virginia Cavalry (see Honor, Roll of).
TERRITORIAL Legislature, Tennessee, Gen. Griffith Rutherford appointed to, 139. TEST Oath, 418.
TEXAS Regiment, Fourth (see Honor, Roll of).
THEOLOGY, Indian, 38.
THIRD Creek Presbyterian Church, 370.
THIRTEENTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
THIRTIETH Regiment ( see Honor, Roll of).
THIRTY-FIFTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
THIRTY-FIRST Regiment (see Honor, Roll of)
THIRTY - FOURTH Regiment (see Honor Roll of).
THIRTY-THIRD Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
THOMAS, Rev. Bryant D., 378. THOMPSON, Rev. John, 365. THYATIRA (Cathey's) Church, 4, 9, 364, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370; rallying point of Presby- terians, 291; ministers of, 370; and President Polk's fore- fathers, 379 (see also under Polk); and Knox memorials (Ill.), facing 381.
-Churchyard, Monument to Col. Francis Locke in, 153; Rev. Dr. Samuel. Eusebius Mc- Corkle buried in, 369; me- morial stone to John Knox and wife in, 379; (Ill.), facing 381.
TIERNAN, Mrs. Frances Chris- tine Fisher (see Fisher). TILLINGHAST, Rev. John Huske, 459.
TOHOPEKA battle, Creek In- dians defeated at, 344.
TORIES defeated at Ramsour's Mill, by Col. Francis Locke, 1 53.
TORRENCE, Albert, 265; home at Heights of Gowerie, 265; one of the first bench of elders in Presbyterian Church, 266; buried in English graveyard, 266.
TORRENCE'S, 200, 201.
-Tavern, Major Francis Mc- Corkle at battle of, 294. TORY raider visits Salisbury, 229.
TOTERO Indians, 44.
TOWN Clerk of Salisbury, James McEwen elected, 25'2.
-Commissioners, 97.
-Council, records of, 252. of Salisbury, regulations of, 91; charter of, 94.
-Sapona, 43; island near, 33. TOWNE, Ithiel, 263.
TOWNS, Indian, 37, 43.
TOWNSHIP of Salisbury, 76; diagram of, 77; James Mc- Ewen elected Clerk of, 252. TRADE in slaves, resolutions against, 177.
TRADING Ford, 43, 46, 196.
-Ford Baptist Church, 476. -Path, 46.
TRAIL Marker, Boone (Ill.), facing 77.
TRAMPING out wheat, 239.
TRANSLATION of records of Organ Church, 389.
TREASURER of Rowan Com- mittee of Safety, Maxwell Chambers elected, 315. TREASURY, Comptroller of, Gen. John Steele appointed, 266.
TREATY of Paris, 235. -of peace signed at Ghent, 345. TREE, big sassafras, 230.
TREXLER, Rev. P. M., 470.
TRIPOLI, War with, 337.
TROOPS of North Carolina in Revolution, 187.
-of Rowan, in War between the States (see Honor, Roll of). TROY Family, the, 315.
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TRUSTEE of Davidson College, Rev. Jethro Rumple elected, 18. -of Union Theological Semin- Rev. Jethro Rumple
elected, 18.
-of United Congregation, James Macay elected, 272.
TRYON, Governor, 117,
125,
416.
TURENNE'S ravages, 54.
TWELFTH Virginia Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
TWENTIETH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
TWENTY - EIGHTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
TWENTY - FOURTH Diocesan Convention meets in St. Luke's Church, 451.
TWENTY - SIXTH Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
TWENTY - THIRD Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
UNION Theological Seminary, Rev. Jethro Rumple elected trustee of, 18.
UNITED Brethren purchase Wachovia tract, 57.
-Congregation, James Macay elected trustee of, 272.
-States Congress, Gen. John Steele a member of the first, 266; Rowan representatives in (see Congress).
-States District Judge, Hon. John Stokes appointed, 334. States, James Knox Polk, eleventh President of, born in Mecklenburg County, 379. States, Lutheran ministers in, 389.
-States, origin of slavery in, 348. -States Senate, Col. Francis Locke a member of, 153; Gov. Montford Stokes elected to, and declines to serve, 334; Alexander Martin a member of, 420.
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UNITY Presbyterian Church, 369, 370. UNIVERSITY of Princeton, Gen. William Richardson Davie a graduate of, 275. of North Carolina, Gen. Wil- liam Richardson Davie serves on Committee to locate, 276; cornerstone laid, 276; poplar at, 276; graduates of, 305, 308, 310, 316, 321, 330; Rev. Dr. Samuel Eusebius Mc-
Corkle elected Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy and History, 368; Rev. Thomas F. Davis, Jr., educated at, 454. UNIVERSITY of Virginia, Archibald Henderson a student at, 301.
UWHARIE River Baptist Church, 475.
VANHORN, Rev. Peter P., 474. VESTRYMÉN of St. Luke's elected by Presbyterians, 105, 415.
VILLA Franca, residence of Dr. F. N. Lucky, 201.
VIRGINIA, Tenth Cavalry (see Honor, Roll of).
-Twelfth Regiment (see Honor, Roll of).
-University of, Archibald Hen- derson a student at, 301.
VISIT of Col. David Fanning, notorious Tory raider, to Salisbury, 229.
-of Indians to Salisbury, 107. -of President Washington to Salisbury, 247.
-of Rev. John Morgan to Eng- land, 445.
-of Rev. Thomas F. Davis, Jr., to Europe, 455.
WACHOVIA Tract, purchased by Moravians, 57.
WADDELL, Col. Hugh, 109, 123.
WAKE, Miss Esther, 117. WALKER, Rev. C. B., 452. WALKUP, Gen. Samuel H., 278. WALL, Natural, of Rowan, 195. WAR between the States (see States, War between the).
-declared against England, 341. -of the Regulation, 115.
-of 1812, the, 337; Congress de- clares war, 341; treaty of peace signed at Ghent, 345 !. -paint, Indian, 42.
-with Mexico, Stokes a Major in, 334. Montford S. -with Tripoli, 337.
WARD, Captain, 341. WARS, Indian, 107.
WASHINGTON, George, North Carolina Continentals with, at battle of Brandywine, 188; Cornwallis surrenders to, 235 his
courage and patriotism avert military despotism, 236; his visit to Salisbury, 247; re- bukes adulation, 248; Rowan
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Light Horse escorts, 248, 251; furnished breakfast by Betsy Brandon, 249, 283; lodges at Capt. Edward Yarboro's, 250; and the Bucktail boys, 250; addresses the people of Salis- bury, 251; attends ball at Hughes' Hotel, 251 ; Valen- tine Beard fights under, 264; his birthday celebrated in
Rowan, 345.
WATCHMAN, The Carolina (see Carolina Watchman).
WAXHAWS, Hon. John Stokes wounded at, 333.
WAXSAW Feast, 40.
WEATHERFORD, Billy, leads Indians at massacre of Fort Mimms, 342.
WEAVER, Rev. Abram, 405. WEBSTER, Colonel, 198.
WEITZELL, Captain, at battle of Guilford Courthouse, 468. WELBORN, Col. James, 341.
WESTERN' Carolinian, The, Hon. Burton Craige editor of, 330.
WETMORE, Rev. George Bad- ger, 458.
WHARTON, Miss Jane Eliza- beth, married to Rev. Jethro Rumple, 19.
WHEAT, tramping out, 239.
WHEEL and cards, 241.
WHEELER, his account of set- tlement of Rowan, 50.
WHITE, Hon. Philo, 311.
WHITEFIELD, Rev. George,
474.
WHITSETT, John, Treasurer of Rowan County, 70.
WILEY, Rev. Philip B., 441, 442. -- S. H., Esq., 229. WILLIAMS, Gen. Otho, 197. -Roger, 473.
WILLIAMSBORO, Episcopal Diocesan Convention at, 431.
WILMINGTON Road, Old,
202.
WILSON, Rev. James, 405. -Rev. Lewis L., 402. -Rev. William C., 405. WINSLOW, Miss Dovey, 166, 167.
WINSLOW, Moses, 136, 162, 164; represents Rowan in
Provincial Congress, 133, 166. WISEMAN'S Mill, 201. WITCHES, Belief in, 356. WOCCON Indians, 37.
WOLF,
the great,
of
North
Carolina (Governor Tryon),
117.
WOMEN of the Revolution, 192, 193.
WOOD, Dr. D. B., 162. -Rev. Dr. William A., 378. WORSHIP, Indian, 41. WRIGHT, Rev. Thomas, 438,
439, 441, 442, 443, 444.
YADKIN, Forks of, Company from, 186.
-Circuit, 397.
-(Sapona) River, 32, 34; swans on the, 32; families living on the, one hundred years ago, 259.
YALE University, Archibald Henderson a student at, 301 ; Col. Charles Frederick Fisher a student at, 323.
YAKBORO, Capt. Edward, 264, 440; President Washington lodges at his house, 250. -House, Raleigh, 265. -Place, 264. YARRELL, Rev. Mr., 408. YEARGAN, Rev. Andrew, 397, 400.
YORKTOWN, Cornwallis sur- renders at, 233, 235.
YOUNG ladies' resolutions, en- dorsed by Rowan Committee of Safety, 192.
Samuel, 154; represents Rowan in Provincial Congress, 133, 135, 156, 157; Young's Moun- tain named after, 155; member Rowan Committee of Safety, 157; in North Carolina Legis- lature, 159; bequeaths his library, 161; his library, list of books in, 161.
-William, 159; and the panther, 159; feats of agility, 160, 232. YOUNG'S Mountain, 155.
ZION Parnassus Academy, 113; founded, 367.
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