Orange County NcArchives News.....Rev. War Soldiers at State Convention 1840
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Patriot  (Greensboro', N. C.) 1840
Tues, Oct. 20, 1840
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT THE STATE [ELECTION] CONVENTION:
--- ARCHIBALD GORDON, 55 years a resident of Granville County; has been but 
once married; his wife is  still living, in good health, and has borne him 27 
sons, of whom three were presented at one birth, twins.
--- WILLIAM WEAVER, aged 81, also of Granville.
---RICHARD POPE, aged 85, NATHAN STEDMAN,, 78, JOSHUA ADCOCK,  79, all of 
Chatham.
---ALEXANDER GATTIS, aged 78, of Orange, who walked in the procession through 
all its evolutions, bearing in his hand a flag that was in the Battle of 
Guilford Court House, and was there perforated with a bullet from the British -
- device American Eagle, Motto, "Victory."
---COL. LEWIS of Bladen
--- JOHN LUMSDEN and JOSEPH SHAW of Cumberland
---SMITH ABERNATHY, aged 77, JOSIAH BROWN, 76, JAMES BROWN, 90, and JAMES 
HUGHES of Wake.


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