. Historic towns of the Southern States. is not the history of the dwellers within its cor-porate limits alone. The owner of a houseand lot in the town could vote for its memberof the Assembly, though he left his house va-cant and lived in the country ; and the quali-fication of its representative was not residencein the town, but the ownership of town prop-erty. So it came about that many of themost prominent characters in its history, thosewho were actors in its most stirring scenes,and who are identified with its memories andtraditions, never resided within its were wealthy and
. Historic towns of the Southern States. is not the history of the dwellers within its cor-porate limits alone. The owner of a houseand lot in the town could vote for its memberof the Assembly, though he left his house va-cant and lived in the country ; and the quali-fication of its representative was not residencein the town, but the ownership of town prop-erty. So it came about that many of themost prominent characters in its history, thosewho were actors in its most stirring scenes,and who are identified with its memories andtraditions, never resided within its were wealthy and intelligent and public-spirited townsmen,—James Innes, Louis andMoses John de Rosset, William and GeorgeHooper, Archibald Maclean, Eagles, Quince,Lloyd, Davis, Hogg, Campbell and others;but the greater number of its most eminentnames are those of men living in the countryaround,—Ashe, Waddell, Moore, Burgwin,Harnett, Lillington, Moseley and of its notable citizens was Colonel JamesInnes, who, having been an officer in the. ^ .J ^ < O
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