Carteret County NcArchives Photo Tombstone.....Thomson, Col. William 
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Cemetery:           Old Burying Ground, Beaufort, NC
Name:               Col. William Thomson
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(18)  Col. William Thomson (1732-1802) - The highest ranking officer 
from Beaufort to serve in the American Revolution lies in a grave 
marked by a simple stone. Declared "the most influential merchant of 
his day," he served the town, county and province in many offices and 
was a delegate to the Provincial Congress at Halifax (1776) and to the 
Constitutional Convention at Hillsborough (1788).

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