William Whitfield II (May 20, 1715 in Chowan County, North Carolina – March 31, 1795 in Bertie County, North Carolina) was a Captain of the 6th Virginia Regiment during the American Revolutionary War and a planter. He was a son of William Whitfield I, the patriarch of the Whitfield family. He purchased Seven Springs, North Carolina from Buckskin Williams, the father of Benjamin Williams, the Governor of North Carolina.
==Background==
He married Rachel Bryan, and his sons, Needham Whitfield and William Whitfield III were in the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge during the revolutionary war. The former was a clerk to Colonel Caswell and the other a private in the Light Horse Cavalry, taking prisoner General McDonald, who was the Commander of the Tories.
William was a Dobbs County member to the 1761 and 1762 North Carolina General Assembly held in Wilmington. In 1779 he was a member of Governor Richard Caswell’s Council held in New Berne, and a Justice of Peace for Johnston County, North Carolina. He was later a Colonel.
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