. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. yourself that Captain Polk should be equallyinterested and concerned with you in the undertaking. From you will learn the orders that are to be observed by theMecklenburg Detachment which I expect to see greatly animated bythe zealous and spirited conduct of the several officers of the Corpsin so necessary and essential a service. Colonel Alexander immediately set about to procure theammunition and supplies needed, at Charleston, South Car-olina. While the supplies of powder and camp kettles werebeing car
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. yourself that Captain Polk should be equallyinterested and concerned with you in the undertaking. From you will learn the orders that are to be observed by theMecklenburg Detachment which I expect to see greatly animated bythe zealous and spirited conduct of the several officers of the Corpsin so necessary and essential a service. Colonel Alexander immediately set about to procure theammunition and supplies needed, at Charleston, South Car-olina. While the supplies of powder and camp kettles werebeing carried through that part of Mecklenburg, which isnow Cabarrus, James Ashmore, James White, John White,Jr., William White. Robert Caruthers. Robert Davis, Ben-jamin Cochran, Joshua Hadley and William White, sonof the Widow White, all disguised as Indians, went to Cap-tain John Phifers old muster ground, where they foundand stopped the wagons and enquired for the powder thatwas being carried to General Waddell; and in the wagonbelonging to Colonel Alexander, they found the pow-. MONUMENT COMMEMORATING THE McINTYRE SKIRMISH,,OCTOBER 3, 1780. (See Vol. I., Page 62.) This monument is seven miles from Charlotte, on the BeattysFord road, and near by is the oldest house in Mecklenburg County,and in the house are imbedded some of the bullets fired in the skir-mish. The inscription is: In Commemoration of the MclntyreSkirmish, October 3, 1780. Erected by Mecklenburg Chapter Daught-ers of the American Revolution, 1901. BLACK BOYS OF CABARRUS. 6l ?der and took it out of the wagons, broke open the hogsheadsand kegs that contained the powder and set the same on fire,and destroyed some blankets, leggins, kettles and otherthings, and then dispersed soon after. This is the accountof the transaction as sworn to by James Ashmore, beforeCapt. Thomas Polk, June 22, 1771, Ashmore says, inregard to the incipiency, that he with a number of others,were together at Andrew Logans old plantation in conse-qu
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