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Subject: Re: [NCROWAN] Index C-D
Thank you so much Jan, my husband and I both suffer from disabilities too; so
going to do research is difficult...I will only ask for a few names at a time,
because I do not want to over whelm you or wear out my welcome:
Cash, Cline; Chamberes
Chambers
106,
This Committee of Safety began its sessions, according to these Minutes, on the
eighth of August, 1774, seventeen days before the assembling of the first North
Carolina Provincial Congress. This committee was probably chosen at the time
appointed for electing. members to the General Assembly of the Province, or it
may have come into existence before that time in obedience to the wishes of the
people. The members of the committee were chosen from all parts of this grand old
county, and numbered twenty-five. The following is a list of their names: James M,
McCay, Andrew Neal, George Cathey, Alexander Bobbins, Francis McCorkle,
Matthew Icke, Maxwell Chambers, Henry Harmon, Abraham Denton, William
Davidson, Samuel Young, John Brevard, William Kennon, George Henry
Barringer, Robert Bell, John Bickerstaff, John Cowden, John Lewis Beard, John
Nesbit, Charles McDowell, Robert Blackburn, Christopher Beekman, William
Sharpe, John Johnson, and Morgan Bryan.
109,
Having affirmed their political creed, the Committee adjourned until the
twen
ty-second of September, 1774. At the next meeting, William Kennon appears
as chairman and Adlai Osborne as clerk. Their first business was to read and
approve the resolves of the Provincial Congress that had met in the interval, and
take steps towards carrying them out. Maxwell Chambers was appointed treasurer
of the committee, and an order issued that each militia company in the county pay
twenty pounds (£2O), proclamation money, into his hands. As there were nine
companies of militia in the county, this would aggregate the sum of one hundred
and eighty pounds (£180), or between four and five hundred dollars. This money
was to be used by the committee at discretion, for the purchase of powder, flints,
and other military munitions. This conduct, as early as September, 1774, showed
that the idea of resistance was growing up rapidly in the minds of the patriots of
Rowan. This committee fixed the price of powder, and examined carefully into the
political sentiments of the people. If they were not satisfied with a man’s conduct,
they did not hesitate to declare him an enemy to liberty, and to put him under
suitable restraint. They also, in after days, took control of Court matters, allowing
some to enter suits against others, and forbidding some. No doubt many of their
acts were arbitrary in a high degree, and sometimes an infringement of the liberty
they proposed to protect. But when the storm of war was about to break upon the
country, the committee acted vigorously, awaking zeal, suppressing dis
affection,
embodying militia companies, providing ammunition, and doing all they could to
support the cause of freedom. Nor did they confine themselves to deliberation, but
they took the field. General Rutherford, Colonel Locke, Gen. William Davidson,
and others, won for themselves honorable names in many a march and skirmish,
and many a hard-fought battle.
115,
“Resolved, That this Committee present their cordial thanks to the said young
ladies for so spirited a performance, look upon their resolutions to be sensible and
polite; that they merit the honor, and are worthy the imitation of every young lady
in America.”
What a pity that we have not a copy of these spirited resolutions, and the names of
the fair signers! They were probably similar to those entered into by the
Mecklenburg and Rowan ladies four years later, including perhaps a resolution in
behalf of simplicity in dress, abstinence from luxuries, and sympathy with the
cause of independence, not yet declared at Philadelphia. And then the names! Who
were they? Daughters of the Brandons, Lockes, Youngs, Chamberses, Gillespies,
Osbornes, Davidsons, Winslows, Simontons, Brevards, Sharpes, no doubt; but the
dainty signatures to the “spirited performance” are lost, and the fair signers that
signed them have moldered away. For is it not one hundred and four years since all
this was done? A further illustration of matronly zeal and self-denial in behalf of
the cause of liberty will be recited in its proper place.
134,
Upon entering t
he town Lord Cornwallis took up his headquarters at the house of
Maxwell Chambers, a prominent and wealthy Whig, a merchant of Salisbury, a
former member of the Rowan Committee of Safety, and its treasurer. After the
war, Maxwell Chambers moved to Spring Hill, about three miles east of Salisbury.
His eldest son was named Edward Chambers, who was the next owner of “Spring
Hill.” The lath William Chambers, whose monument stands near the wall in the
Lutheran graveyard, was the son and heir of Edward Chambers. During the
Revolution, Maxwell Chambers lived on the west corner of Church and Bank
Streets—the corner now occupied by the stately and substantial mansion of S. H.
Wiley, Esq. The house of Mr. Chambers used by the British Commander remained
standing until about ten years ago, and its old-fashioned and quaint appearance is
familiar to everyone whose recollection can run back ten or twelve years. It is
surprising that none was found to show Mr. Lossing, in 1749, this relic of the
Revolution. During these two days of occupation the British buried some soldiers
on the spot known as the “English-Graveyard,” and from this circumstance it is
said to have derived its name. But it was a burying-place before that time. Near the
center of it, leaning against a tree, there is an ancient headstone of some dark material, that says
that Capt. Daniel Little, who died in 1775, lies buried there. It is more probable
that it was called the “English’? in distinction from the
Lutheran” or “German”
graveyard, on the eastern side of town. Colonel Tarleton stopped at John Louis
Beard’s, in the eastern part of town, the north corner of Main and Franklin Streets.
Mr. Beard, being a well-known Whig, was absent in the army at the time, and so
the entertaining devolved upon Mrs. Beard. But Colonel Tarleton, it seems, was
perfectly able to take care of himself, and made himself quite at home. When he
wanted milk he ordered old Dick-the negro servant-to fetch the cows and milk
them. Mrs. Beard had a cross child at the time, whose crying was a great
annoyance to the dashing colonel. Upon one occasion his anger overleaped the
bounds of gentlemanly courtesy, and he ordered the child to be choked to stop its
crying. Mrs. Beard was very much afraid of him, and we may well suppose that
she did all she could to please him.
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