. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. Militia;issued the call for the Convention of May 20, 1775; mem-ber of the Provincial Assembly during the Revolution, Col-onel of the Fourth Regiment in 1776; Commissary-Generalfor General Greenes Army in 1781; owned mills and storesafter the war; died in 1773 and is buried in the old married Susannah Spratt of Charlotte, and had severalchildren: Ezekiel, Charles, William, James, and Margaretwho married Dr. Ephaim Brevard. Polk. William, son of Thomas Polk, born July 8. 1757,educated in Charlotte, was pr
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. Militia;issued the call for the Convention of May 20, 1775; mem-ber of the Provincial Assembly during the Revolution, Col-onel of the Fourth Regiment in 1776; Commissary-Generalfor General Greenes Army in 1781; owned mills and storesafter the war; died in 1773 and is buried in the old married Susannah Spratt of Charlotte, and had severalchildren: Ezekiel, Charles, William, James, and Margaretwho married Dr. Ephaim Brevard. Polk. William, son of Thomas Polk, born July 8. 1757,educated in Charlotte, was present at the convention of May20, 1775. served as a lieutenant in Snow Camp campaign in1775; appointed Major of the Ninth Regiment November26, 1776, participated in the battles of Brandy wine and Ger-mantown after having served in South Carolina, spent thewinter at Valley Forge, served with Sumter at HangingRock and as Lieutenant-Colonel in South Carolina in 1781,was with Davie at the fight at Wahabs, represented Meck-lenburg in the General Assembly in and 1791,. LIEUTENANT E. C. DAVIDSON. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 8l moved to Raleigh and became president of a bank and diedthere January 14, 1834. Queary, John, signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration ofIndependence, was born in Scotland in 1743; migrated firstto Pennsylvania, and to Mecklenburg in 1767, lived anddied near Rocky river and was buried in what is now Unioncounty. Reese, David, signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration ofIndependence, born in Wales in 1710, came to America in1725; married Susan Polk, of Pennsylvania, moved toMecklenburg in 1750, acted as commissary during the war,lived near Poplar Tent and died in 1787. Robinson, Rev. John, born near Sugar Creek in in Charlotte, preached in Mecklenburg for morethan half a century, and died December 15, 1843. Robinson, Robert, born in Lancaster county, Pa., in 1751;moved to Mecklenburg while very young, served in the armyand in the battles at Hanging R
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