Born to a prominent North Carolina family, Blount served as a paymaster during the American Revolutionary War. He was elected to the North Carolina legislature in 1781, where…
John Sitgreaves (1757 – March 4, 1802) was a British-born American lawyer and jurist from New Bern, North Carolina. He was a delegate for North Carolina to the…
Thomas Burke (c. 1747{spaced ndash}December 2, 1783) was an Irish physician, lawyer, and statesman who lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina as a delegate to…
Richard Dobbs Spaight (March 25, 1758 – September 6, 1802) was the eighth Governor of the American State of North Carolina from 1792 to 1795.==Early life==Spaight was born…
Robert Burton (October 20, 1747 – May 31, 1825) was an American farmer, Revolutionary War officer, and plantation owner in what is now Vance County, North Carolina (then…
John Swann (1760–1793) was an American planter and statesman from Pasquotank County, North Carolina. He served as a delegate for North Carolina to the Continental Congress in 1788.Swann…
Richard Caswell (August 3, 1729 – November 10, 1789) was the first and fifth governor of the U.S. State of North Carolina, serving from 1776 to 1780 and…
James White (June 16, 1749 – October, 1809) was an American physician, lawyer, and politician. He was an early settler at Nashville, Tennessee and in Louisiana. He was…
William Cumming (1724–1797) was an American lawyer who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress for North Carolina in 1785.William was born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1724.…