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In a battle on Sept. 13, 1781, John Butler's Whig militia failed to rescue Governor Thomas Burke from Col. David Fanning's Tories. Site 4 mi. S.W.
Eighteenth century town, named for John Williams, judge, state legislator, congressman, who lived nearby. Old St. John's Church is here.
Judge and local official. Target of Regulators who ransacked and destroyed his nearby home, 1770.
Congressman. A State legislator and political leader. Died in 1828 at the age of 42. His home and grave are here.
Leader of popular movements: Regulation, Revolution, and Antifederalism. His home in Goshen stood five miles north.
Governor of N.C., was captured in Hillsboro by David Fanning and his Tories, Sept. 12, 1781, and taken to Charleston, S.C.
Passed a few miles west, February, 1781. Greene followed, and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse resulted, March 15, 1781.
Pursued by Cornwallis, crossed into Virginia and forded the Dan River northeast of here, February, 1781.
First public meeting to promote railroads in North Carolina, Aug. 1, 1828, was at Wm. Albright's home, which stood 4 mi. S.E.
Was Minister to Spain, 1845-49; congressman, judge, and legislator. Lived 1/10 mile north.