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Author: R. E. Little

Captain Paddy Boggan and His Times 

(There were some handmade changes to this article, and I have enclosed them in 
*astericks *, as I do not know who made these changes. I proofread this 
article, and left the original abbreviations and misspellings intact.)

Affectionately Inscribed to F.A. Shepherd, by his old "Sis", K.S. Bennett 
(Mrs. R.T.) December 9, 1895

"Go little book and wish to all,
Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
A house with lawns enclosing it,
A living river by the door,
A nightingale in the Sycamore."

Capt. Paddy and His Times

Anson County was formed about the year 1749 from Bladen Co., which had been 
formed in 1734 from New Hanover, and extended from New Hanover and Bladen on 
the East to the Mississippi River on the West. The Court House during Colonial 
times and until about 1799 was at a place called Mt. Pleasant near Pee Dee 
River on what is now the Benj. Ingram plantation, thought the Magistrate's 
Courts were held in different places sometimes in private houses. 

The Colonial history of Anson is interesting. In 1768 a petition signed by 
many persons was sent up to Gov. Tryon complaining of wrongs done by Officers 
of the Crown, and saying that "no people have a right to be taxed but by 
consent of themselves or their delegates." In 1774, a Provincial Congress was 
held at New Bern which was the first movement of the people as a State adverse 
to the Royal Government. The delegates from Anson were Samuel Spencer and Wm. 
Thomas. This Congress elected delegates to the Continental Congress in Phila. 
In Aug. 1775, the Provinical Congress of N.C. met at Hillsboro. Anson's 
delegates were Thos. Wade, Saml. Spencer, David Love, Wm. Thomas and Wm. 
Pickett. This body placed the State in complete military organization. Wm. 
Pickett was appointed Capt. on 1st Regiment commanded by James Moore. Thomas 
Wade of Anson was chosen Col. of the "Minute Men" of Salisbury Dist. For Field 
Officers for Anson Co. Saml. Spencer was appointed with Waightsill army of the 
Salisbury Dist., on the "Provisional Council of Safety" which was the real 
Executive of the Province of N.C. during the interregnum between the 
abdication of Gov. Martin, Royal Governor in 1775 and the accession of Richard 
Caswell, the first Gov. under the Constitution in 1776.

Saml. Spencer was a man of fine education and undoubted talents, and had 
migrated to N.C. with his brother Calvin from Conn. He had not the confidence 
of the people as to honesty. Along about 1768, he was Clerk of the Court, an 
office of much profit, and he was much complained of in the petition sent up 
to Gov. Tryon during that year. The Sheriff Medlock, was accused of collecting 
a county tax to defray expenses, well known to be Province expenses. Afterward 
the Clerk Mr. Spencer, who was also member of the assembly, presented these 
same claims to Assembly for collection. The petition goes on to say, "As to 
the Clerk Mr. Spencer, his extortions are burdensome to all that fall in his 
power, as he takes double and sometimes, treble his due. He was one of the 
Judges of the Superior Courts first elected under the Constitution (1777). He 
was in the Convention assembled at Hillsboro in July, 1788, to consider the 
Federal Constitution (1777); was its able & active opponent, and contributed 
to its rejection by that body. He died in 1794 from a singular cause. A large 
turkey-gobbler, part wild, but a pet, became alarmed at a red cap he had on 
and flew at him. The shock was so great that he could not recover from it and 
soon died. The History says he was struck by the gobbler and severly wounded, 
but my version is correct and was told me years ago by Mrs. Hemby whose mother 
was his daughter.

Col. Thos. Wade was one of the most prominent citizens of Anson Co. and 
Wadesboro, the county seat was named in his honor. It was originally a hamlet 
called "Newtown". There is an old deed of 150 acres of land in "Newtown" from 
*Captain* Patrick Boggan to Thomas Wade also large body of land on Gould's 
Fork. He represented the county as Senator in 1782-83. He married Jane a 
sister of Capt. Paddy and had sons and daughters. He was a merchant and 
possessed of good estate. His will is dated June 18th, 1792 Jan. 12th, 1786, 
his wife and his friends. *Captain* Patrick Boggan and Jas. Boggan being ap. 
Executors. The will of his son Thomas Wade is dated June 18th, 1792 and 
records that he had the "infection of smallpox and would at once proceed to 
Cheraw Hill, for treatment. This will was probated before Christmas. Small pox 
probably proving fatal. Col. Thos. Wade's daughter Judy married a Dr. Coleman 
and moved to Ala. She inherited the land now occupied by the Town of 
Wadesboro. It is said that she and her children at one time thought of suing 
for certain lots for which a proper title had not been given but abandoned the 
idea. 

The name of Capt. Patrick Boggan does not occur often in the old records 
except in an occasional deed but according to tradition he was a famous 
character in Anson during the Colonial period. He was Captain of Militia. His 
granddaughter Mrs. Fanny (Coppedge) McCormich says he received his commission 
from Genl. Greene, tho' he probably belonged to Col. Wade's "Minute Men". It 
is said that he fought the Tories furiously. Mrs. Love, wife of old Dan'l Love 
who kept house of entertainment between Rockingham and Fayetteville, told Mrs. 
Anne Holl (or Hall) that Capt. Paddy B. went all thro' that country destroying 
the settlers and that he or his men killed her father in cold blood. These 
settlers were probably mostly Tories and simple Scotch folk who had been 
taught to "Serve God and honor the King" and who knew very little about the 
war. 

He married a young orphan girl named Dabbs (or Dobbs) from about Raleigh. They 
had two sons Dick and Paddy and seven daughters. Jane married Pleasant May, 
Mary married Jno. May, Fanny married Jimmy Cash, Peggy married Ingo Dozier 
Cash, Nelly *Eleanor* married Wm. Hammond, Flora married Jos. Pickett, and 
Lydia the youngest, married Moses Coppedge. All of the daughters made runaway 
marriages except Mrs. Coppedge tho' Moses Coppedge was probably the least 
successful of Capt. P's sons-in-law. Capt. Paddy owned much land, no 
doubt "entered" much of it all along on Gould's Fork, Jones's Creek, all of 
New Town aftereard Wadesboro, the Walter Leak place, Flat Rock. He bestored 
during his life land and negroes on his children. Pleasant May, who married 
Jane, lived at what is now Little's Mill of Jones's Creek, Jno. May and his 
wife Mary lived out West of Wadesboro--had mill, Jimmy Cash and wife Fanny had 
mill at Cedar Rock, Ingo D. Cash and wife Peggy had mill at "Old Mill Hut" 
near Flat Rock. In those days it was considered a sign of prosperity for every 
well to do farmer to have a Water-Mill.

Ingo Cash and Peggy also had land on the Lilesville road and they kept the 
old "Buck Tavern".

Capt. P. built the one story part of the house where Julius Little now lives 
and Wm. Hammond and his wife Nelly *Eleanor* lived there. He built for his 
daughter, Mrs. Pickett, Flora, the house known as "Old Pickett House." Moses 
Coppedge & wife Lydia lived somewhere out on Gould's Fork afterward termed 
Flat Rock. Capt. P's son, Paddy, married Martha Davidson, a sterling good 
woman and own aunt by the way, of Senator Harris of Tenn. (the Mrs. Patsy 
Boggan whom we knew.) She was early left a widow with three children, George, 
Adaline the 2nd Mrs. Absolm Myers, and Anne married to Rev. A.B. Smith. 

Dick, Capt. P's other son was lived When our parents first came to this county 
about 1921, they at first rented land west of town from Mrs. Patsy B. who 
lived near and proved a most excellent neighbor to our Mother and a life-long, 
friend. Dick, the other son -----------had a plantation out on Salisbury road, 
married, I don't know whom, ---------- I have heard our Mother say that she 
and Mrs. Patsy B. and Mrs. B's children were returning home in advance of a 
storm; to shorten the distance they cut thro' Dick Boggan's yard. The servants 
were whispering and cautioned them to make no noise as Dick and his wife were 
in a drunken sleep. So they crept silently along much alarmed. Dick Boggan 
died early and fortunately left no children.

Capt. Paddy's wife had been possessed of 40 negroes but her guardian had sold 
them and appropriated the money. They accidentally got possession of two of 
these negroes who told them where the others were. This was after most of 
their children had married. Mrs. Boggan had a habit of going just anywhere 
with her husband, riding horseback. So they mounted their horses and rode off 
seeking her former slaves. They got to Wake Co. and stopped at a man's house 
to spend the night. Mrs. Boggan was suffering with a bone-felon. The lady 
directed her to the cabin of an old negro-woman who could doctor her finger. 
Mrs. B. in talking with the old woman found that she had been her nurse in 
infancy. From her, she learned the whereabouts of the others and they 
recovered them all, whether or not by lawful proceedings, her G-daughter Mrs. 
McCormick did not tell me.

Capt. B. was kind, amiable man and very generous. Mrs. McCormick says that he 
told his brother-in-law Col. Wade to help himself to his land, and that he DID 
help himself, that he took all of "Newtown", sold lots and named it Wadesboro. 
The recorded deed does not say it was a deed of gift. At the time of his death 
he lived with his daughter Mrs. Nelly *Eleanor* Hammond where Julius Little 
now lives. He is said to have been a very robust and stout man, also athletic, 
that he could jump over a high-top wagon. This was a high jump and it seems to 
me a tall story. It is said that one day, his daughter Polly May went home 
crying. "What's the matter Polly?" said Capt. P. Jno. May had been treating 
her badly. "Well, go in the house and sit down with your Mother and I'll go 
over and thrash Jno. May." Polly stopped crying and said snappishly, "Would 
you thrash Col. Pickett? Col. P. had proven a prosperous man and was probably 
the great man of the family.

Capt. Paddy died at great age. he had gone out into the wood near the cemetery 
to feed his hogs and was found dead with basket of corn on his arm.

Most of the above information, I received from Capt. Paddy's grand daughter 
Mrs. Fanny (Coppedge) McCormick. Mrs. Glass tells me that to the day of his 
death, he had the most intense hatred for the Tories. Old Johnny Lindsay, who 
lived 5 miles out on what is now the Lilesville road, where his descendants 
now live, had been a Tory. Mrs. Glass has heard that he would capture horses 
and hide them in the swamps of Jones's Creek until he could trade them off to 
the Tory forces. After the peace, he was the object of Capt. Paddy's 
persecution. On public days when many were in town and liquor no doubt flowed 
freely, if he caught Old Johnny Lindsay in town, he would chase him out side 
after him out, ride after him perhaps armed, and old Johnny would go tearing 
home.

There were other Boggans, Capt. P. had a brother James who was father of Maj. 
James Boggan whom we knew. Mr. Norfleet Boggan who married Jane Hammond was a 
son of Johnathon B. who was probably a nephew of Capt. Paddy. They were of 
Irish decent. Capt. P and his brother were probably born in Ireland. Of his 
descendants, the Mays and some of the Cash family migrated to Ala. long before 
you were born. The Cash brothers came from S.C. The name INGO was probably a 
corruption of Inigo. Dozier was a respectable surname in S.C. Boggan Cash the 
duelist, was a grandson of Ingo Dozier and Peggy Cash, his father being named 
Boggan, his mother was a Miss Ellerbe of S.C. Thomas Cash was son of Ingo 
Dozier, was killed in a fight at Morven by a man named Tom Curtis over 50 
years ago. Curtis escaped to Texas and remained there 15 years when a relative 
of the man he had killed discovered him and brought him here for trial. He was 
convicted of murder in the second degree.

Col. Jos. Pickett and wife Flora at one time kept Hotel. The lawyers came 
mostly from other towns to attend Court and often stayed at his house. He 
talked much with them and was inspired to study law tho' no longer young. His 
wife encouraged him to do so and he became a successful lawyer,-------------. 
This couple raised 6 daughters and one son. Martha married Alex King, 
afterward a Mr. Morgan, Mary married Benj. Rutland, Frances married *Dr.* 
Thos. Bowze afterward Dr. Walter G. Jones, Ellen at 15 married John Bates a 
young lawyer of promise but very dissipated. She afterward married Atlas Jones 
Dargan, a prominent lawyer and most peculiar person. Glovinia, a Mr. Buchanan 
a worthy man. Evalina, the youngest daughter married Dr. Walter G. Jones a 
most excellent man. She died in a year at the birth of her son Jos. Pickett 
Jones. He afterward married Mrs. Howse, Frances, and they raised 6 children. 
There were two Howze children, Flora, who married Dr. Ed. F*ontaine* Ashe and 
Dr. Henry Y. who married Cornelia Marshall, both dead. None of Col. Pickett's 
descendants now left in this county except Flora's daughter Nelly Ashe, Mrs. 
Harris and Dr. Ed. S. Ashe, her son. Martin, Col. P's youngest child and only 
son married Ann Eliza, sister of Mr. Thos. S. Ashe. He had sold his plantation 
and was on the eve of moving to Ala. when he had a quarrel with a man named 
Boyd. He used very provoking language and Boyd shot him and he died in a few 
days. This terrible affair occured about the year 1851.

Col. Jos. Pickett accumulated a good estate and they lived in good style. His 
will is dated April 26th, 1828 (1838). (He was just leaving for the "Sweet 
Springs", Va. and I think died soon after.) It is a most reasonable and 
sensible document. Besides money and negroes, he left to his son Martin his 
large River plantation down at Mt. Pleasant. He was very considerate of his 
wife and daughters. Before his death there had been a double tragedy and two 
of his daughters became widows. Mr. King and Mr. Bates had quarreled when 
drunk and Mr. Bates shot and killed Mr. King and then out of remorse had taken 
landanum and killed himself at the age of 26.

Col. Pickett had a brother named Martin whose first wife was named Raiford. 
His daughter was the first of Absalom Myers. They had 4 children, Martin Myers 
and Mrs. Eliza Hicks long since dead and Mrs. Anne Sturdivant and Wm. R. Myers 
now living in Charlotte. Wm. Martin Pickett --- *son* by a later marriage 
still lives in this county.

Col. P. also had two sisters, Mrs. Mumford De Jarnette and Mrs. Tod Robeson, 
the latter quite wealthy. The De Jarnettes were well-to-do people and very 
overbearing *prominent*. Mumford De J. kept store in what was afterward 
Myers's store. He had a dispute with Richmond Davidson, who kept Hotel right 
where the present Court House now stands, got in a terrible passion and struck 
Davidson over the head with the handle of his gun and nearly killed him. The 
gun being loaded went off, and De Jarnette was shot dead right in his own 
store. All this many, many years ago.

The Tod Robesons had a daughter, Hannah who married a man named Caldwell of 
Mocksville. The late Tod R. Caldwell once -----Gov. of N.C. was her son. 
Cornelius, Tod Robesons's son was said to have been very handsome and 
charming. He was supposed to be a great catch and "there by hangs a tale." His 
aunt, Mrs. De J. and aunt-in-law Mrs. Pickett put their wise heads to-gether 
to keep him in the family, or at least prevent his being captured by a poor 
girl with a pretty face. They wished him to wait a few years and marry his 
little cousin Owan De Jarnette who was then at school at Salem and about 10 
years old. He went to live in Ala. on a plantation belonging to his father. 
Before leaving he became engaged to a worthy young lady named Harriet Davidson 
and corresponded with her. His aunts however, by some means managed to 
intercept his letters and she never received but one, and that one soon after 
she had married her cousin -----*George* Moore. She had waited a long time and 
had at last despaired of his love. The years rolled along and Cornelius R. 
during a visit home fell in love with Sarah Pegues. There were three of these 
Pegues girls, Sarah, Mary, afterward Mrs. George Dismukes and Elizabeth 
Marcia, Mrs. Hemby. They were orphans, all pretty and smart and lived with 
their aunt, Mrs. Richmond Davidson. The same meddling ladies interfered again 
and broke up this second engagement of the son and heir of wealthy Tod Robeson 
to a poor girl. Sarah Pegues heartbroken, moved to Ala. with her sister Mrs. 
Dismukes; don't remember whether or not she was married. In the mean time, 
Owen De Jarnette was kept at the Salem Academy. When about 16 years old she 
really married her cousin Cornelius Robeson. The above story I heard in my 
early days from my mother and Aunt H. Strong also from Mrs. Hemby.

Wm. Hammond, who married Nelly *Eleanor*, daughter of Capt. Paddy Boggan, was 
a very old man when I can first remember. He was a farmer, but had in old 
times been County Register. He had a pet horse, black, named "Old Joe" a small 
dog named "Tyler" and a pet gander. These last followed him always as he 
walked as he walked to and fro. Mrs. Hammond, sitting in her chair in the 
corner, is one of the most vivid pictures of my earliest years. She was a 
smart patient old lady, always gentle-spoken. Their children were two sons, 
Paterick and Hampton. Flora who died a young lady. Lydia married to Wright 
Cotton of Chatham Co, Jane married to Norfleet Boggan and Polly married to 
Lawrence Moore, all dead, some of them long ago. Mr. Norfleet Boggan was Clerk 
of the County for many years and until the day of his death. Their children 
were Rosa Elizabeth, married Dr. Jno. W. Bennett died in 1857. Harriet Eleanor 
married to Wm. O. Bennett died in 1862. Walter Jones, Wm., James and Lydia all 
these living in the far West. Hampton B. Hammond married Rosa E. daughter of 
Peter May, a planter of wealth who lived in S.C. just over the line. She had 
been finely educated for that day, in Columbia, S.C. and was an intelligent 
and interesting woman. She died during the war. They had a beautiful home near 
Wadesboro. After the war Mr. H. moved to Charlotte and died in a few years, 
his remains were brought here for burial. He was member of Epis. Church also 
his wife, a life-long Democrat and went heart and soul for the South. His 
young son Jos. Medley was killed at Charlestown, W. Va. while fighting 
bravely. Three daughters, Ella, Mrs. Jordan, Rosa May, 2nd Mrs. W.O. Bennett, 
Jane, Mrs. Bland are dead. Those living are Capt. Wm. M., Hugh, Eva, Mrs. 
Lewis Boggan and Fanny, Mrs. ?rezrant. 

Moses Coppedge and his wife died many years ago. Three of their children are 
living and reside here. Patrick James aged 80 married with family. Fanny, Mrs. 
McCormick, and John, married with sons and daughters. The widow & children of 
the late Dr. Chas. Coppedge a most worthy man reside here.

May Buchanan came originally from S.C. He married a Miss May, daughter of one 
of Capt. Paddy's sons-in-law of that name. She died early and left 4 children, 
Benj. May, Margaret, and Jane. He afterward married Mary Eliza Atkins, a 
pretty black-eyed young girl down in S.C. He went down courting her in great 
style and brought her home a bride in a coach and four and the tradition is 
that his small sons Ben and May ran out to meet their new mother having on 
only the ONE indispensible garment. Mr. Buchanan was a very good-natured 
person with pompous manners. He would often drink too much. Mr. P. Coppedge 
tells me that sometimes when he had taken too much he would walk about as if 
he owned the town and boast that "he had paid the National debt."

His plantation was 7 miles west of town. He was returning home on the evening 
of May 7th 1849 when he was set upon about dusk by a person or persons and 
most foully murdered, beaten to death. His cries were heard at his home but 
when help reached him he was quite dead. Edmund one of his own slaves was 
tried & hung. He confessed on the gallows that he did the deed. His son 
Augustus was also tried for his life and came very near being convicted. This 
most dreadful murder horrified the whole country. His children by the second 
marriage were Sarah, widow of the late Vincent Parsons. A good son lives with 
her at the old Pearson place and cherishes her tenderly. Augustus, John, Rosa 
widow of James McKorkie, Lizzie Mrs. Falkner, Fred, the only steady son, a 
good soldier, killed during the war, Judy Mrs. Scott, Henry, and Mary Eliza 
Mrs. Sturdivant now dead.

To return to Capt. Paddy, a member of his family who deserves mention is his 
grandson Dozier Cash, son of Ingo Dozier. He married Mary, daughter of Peter 
May. He died long since, was I have heard a man of very polite manners, too 
fond of drink and probably spent everything except his wife's property.

There were Bennetts in this county at an early day long before 1800. They came 
originally from England to Va. thence to this Co. There was a John George 
Washington Bennett also Wm. Bennett brothers, the latter my husband's great 
grandfather. He made a second marriage were Wm., Mr. B's grand-father, Neville 
and perhaps others. He, Wm. Jr., owned large body of land on Jones's Creek and 
built the large water-mill which is still standing and can be seen from Jno. 
Dunlaps front door. His home was 3 miles from town on Lilesville road, where 
his son Risden, lived and died. Wm. B. Jr. married Mary Dunn, only child, of a 
revolutionary lady who died during the Confed. war aged 109 yrs. I regret that 
I did not know that old lady and hear from her, tales of her youth. His 
children were James, Lemuel, Neville, C?rey, Risden, Mrs. Flake, Mrs. Joel 
Gaddy, Mary, Mrs. George Little, Susan and Mrs. Benj. Ingram, Nancy. Everyone 
dead except Mrs. Ingram. All of the above possessed good estates some of them 
quite wealthy. James Bennett was a man of large estate, was quite old. He 
owned the plantation where Jno. Dunlap now lives and built that house. 
Kilpatrick's bummers raided his home and destroyed much, guided by some 
traiterous servants, they found everything he had hidden his plate and several 
hundred dollars in gold and silver coin. When they left about sun down he was 
sitting sadly on his steps when a colored-woman said to a soldier, "You hasn't 
killed Marster." Where upon he fired and killed the old man on the spot. They 
said the soldier who did the cruel deed was drunk and it may be so but they 
were wicked enough to have done it sober.

Neville Bennett son of Wm. B. Jr. and Kitty Harris his wife had 12 sons and 
daughters. Susan, Mrs. Davis, A.E.B., Neville, Fanny (Mrs. Williams), Mrs. 
Ledbetter, Lemuel, (Mrs. Knotts, Mary), Wm. O. B., Ellen (Mrs. Williams), 
Melvina, (Mrs. Parker), Jno. G. and Risden Tyler.

I have heard my Father say that the Bennetts were among the best people who 
settled the Pee Dee country. They were generally farmers, very industrious, 
law-abiding stay-at-home people not meddling with others and without exception 
accumulated good estates. They also had the excellent habits of always paying 
their debts.

The Marshalls were here in the early days. As far back as 1792, Jas. Marshall 
g-grandfather of this present Jas. M., was Senator from Anson for 2 years, 
then beginning at 1800 for 7 successive years, also for the years 1811 and 
1812. Wm. Marshall his son, was Senator from 1818 to 1824, and Clement 
Marshall son of Wm., from 1828 to 1831. He was sometimes also member of the 
House of Repr. He married Eliza Leak sister of Messrs. Walter and James Leak. 
Mrs. Wm. B. McCorkle was Mary Marshall. Mrs. Betsy Wall, mother of Capt. Jas. 
M. Wall was daughter of Wm. Marshall.

I wrote of the Aulds in my paper about the Harrington family. Thro' the 
courtesy of the Clerk I have been permitted to look over the oldest records of 
this Co., deeds and wills. Unfortunately the book of marriage records was 
burned in the great fire of 1868. During the Colonial period, James Auld was 
often Magistrate also Clerk of the Court. His son John was long time Clerk, 
sometimes member of the Legislature. After him his brother Michael was Clerk, 
these being the only Clerks for many years. James A. was father of Mrs. Rosa 
Harrington. After the war he returned to Maryland, but his will is recorded in 
Anson, very sensible and to the point. He had a good estate on Pee Dee near 
Hugley's Ferry. Judging from their wills and their writing and spelling, these 
Aulds must have had more than the ordinary education. I looked over these 
ancient records with great interest, they contain many curious and quaint 
things, for instance, orders from the Court for charges against Crown Officers 
a prescribed list of prices is given in pounds, shillings, and pence, not 
greater than which could be charged for everything they would be likely to eat 
or drink, including Jamaica Rum, New England rum cheaper, Port wines, etc. 
Ordered also that every man should be furnished with feather-bed and clean 
sheets and have two kinds of meat set before him. The inventories are curious, 
long lists of everything, the most personal and trivial. I observed that while 
almost every old gent, would speak of his wife in terms of affection, 
his "dear" or "beloved", he would only leave property to her during her life 
or "widowhood" than to his children. Sometimes, "I lend to my beloved wife 
during her life or widowhood. The will of Mumford De Jarnette, the man who 
shot himself is an exception to the above. His will is dated Aug. 1823, very 
short. He devises his estate into 4 equal parts leaving one part each to his 
wife and 3 children absolutely. The will of Mrs. Rosa Harrington is dated Jan. 
1828, probated Jan. 1829. She makes a just and equal distribution of her 
estate which is considerable.

The will of Mr. Joseph Ingram interested me. He was possessed of large estate. 
He left their freedom and 40 acres of land to some of his man-servants, 
(nothing said about a mule), some in a few years others longer, if their 
conduct was good; the land in the hands of certain trustees. If any of these 
negroes proved incapable of making a living, they were to be remanded back 
into the hands of their former owners for support. This old gent had great 
house for that day on Pee Dee. According to Mrs. Anne Hull, his daughter was 
the first girl in the county sent away to boarding school, probably to old 
Salem, and for her the first Piano was bought. She married George Dunlap, and 
was Lawyer Jno. Bennett's great grandmother. 

I must speak of Mrs. Glass, who is now an old citizen, born at "Old Morven", 
Nov. 4th, 1818. Her father Vincent Parsons came to this country from Md. when 
about 21, with old Mr. Thomas of Cheraw about 1804. Mr. Thomas was a man of 
great wealth; had two sons spendthrifts, who tradition says, would sometimes 
light their pipes with a $5 bill. They must have killed themselves out early 
for Mr. T. left his large estate to his nephews in Scotland, Allan McFarland 
and his brother. Vincent Parsons was land manager of Mr. T's river 
plantations; he saved his money, bought land and settled at Old Morven. He 
became unfortunate later and before his death, everything he had was sold to 
satisfy some security debt, I think for Ben Pearson. He married a Miss 
Covington from Richmond Co. She was a daughter of Robert Hicks one of three 
brothers, Wm., Robert and George all very active from Pee Dee County during 
Rev. War, Wm. very prominent according to Bp. Gregg's History. Ellen Parsons 
married Mr. Wm. Henry Glass who came here from Caswell Co. She has a widow 
since.

When Mr. P. Coppedge can first remember Wadesboro there were very few good 
house. The Troy house (Montcalm), Mrs. Byrd's who was a Miss Troy, where Mrs. 
Glass now lives, house built by old Martin Pickett, where Elisha Hubbard 
afterward lived, when Judge Ashe, Dismukes house where Mrs. Dargan lived, old 
Buck Tarvern, Mrs. Harringtons next door, old Pickett house and a few others.

The county Jail was what was afterward Elisha Hubbard's store, a strong wooden 
building with floor of hewn-logs fastened with immense iron nails, burned in 
the great fire April 1868. the old wooden Court House at Mt. Pleasant, was 
torn down and made into the house where Jno. Q. McPerson lived, now occupied 
by Thos. Ingram. Mrs. McP. used to say that Andrew Jackson had appeared in 
cases in that house.

The Historical part of this paper, I got mostly from Wheeler's History of N.C. 
besides some general history, he gives special history of each Co., very 
interesting indeed.

This is all I can do now and it is probably more than you will care to read, 
but I thought the "odds and ends" I had picked up ought to be recorded. 

The above pamplet is recorded here by R.E. Little, Clerk of the Superior 
Court, for whatever interest it may be to the citizens of this County of today 
and tomorrow.

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