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LI-CENTENNIAL EDITION , ' - . . KENANSVILLE, NORTH) CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 16, 1949 SECTION No. TWO : First Settlers were of Scotch-Irish Descent - - Formed Churches and Schools In Various Pails of the Country. ooft By A T OUTLAY Kenansville d ft wwoofrwoow Colonial Militia nerly, and others. Their principal places of wor- Colonel Routledge in the Grove settlement for INTRODUCTION? t This paper represents a lot' Colonel John Sampson (for whom Sampson ship were at the Golden Grove near the present several days. The old site of the battle at Rock- & tiresome research and careful study It is in- County was named was in charge of the militia of KenansviUe, Rockfishnear Wallace, and fish has been appropriately marked by the State. .MJ stU(T " B m- in this part of New Hanover County and about place near Goshen in the Faison community. General J ames Kenan and General J oseph Thom- tended" to stimulate interest in local history, and Qne bundred 0f 0ur militiamen 'were with him Their church at the Grove is generally accepted as Rhodes are generally regarded as the County's Vjlsmy centaon to DupUn's 200th Anniver- Upon the 'alarm' (Spanish) at Wilmington" in as the oldest Presbyterian organization in the most outstanding military leaders of that time. " observance AT 0 .September, 1748. The reading of their names State. This old church and the home site of Mc- General Kenan was head of the Duplin militia w.f,?Ce'.,.i-,-v-- ., '. reveals the fact that they are the ancestors of a .Aden, the first regular minister, have been ap- and performed conspicuous service in various yVdoofrooftooo large part of our population today, including propriately marked by the State. Anjong the parts of the country. General Rhodes was an l$:M34f ' ' ' '; ' vf-the. names James Fiussell, WMiams,Carr; Boney, ministers of the Baptist denomination in the early officer in the regular army and served in the v-:t'!V'-- ;!4,"Jl,i?i days we find the Reverends William Goodman, north, locally,.and in battle at Eutaw Springs fjii 2 . .-v" a ton, Rhodes, Thomas, Muler, oavm, llollings- j . . . ,. , .. , , , A, The' history of '.this old County,, formed in WOrth Dickson, JCenan, Routledge,' and many Charles Hines, Francis Oliver, Silas Carter, Will- where he and his company were highly commend ?l744u&?fiil Sir book therefore many others! Then themilitia list of officers six years iam Wells, Jacob Williams, Job Thigpen, Hiram ed for bravery in action. Other Revolutionary ; :--- T.S'' . -: .' later, included Colonel John: Sampson, Captains Stallings, and others. Their principal places of leaders who have been mentioned for conspicuous I interestmgiandimportaht points cannot at this Joseph Williams and1 William McRee, Jr., Lieu- worship were at Bear Marsh, Nahunga, Concord, service include Majors Shadrack Stallings and itim& plaW be nSSar However, a brief tenants John Dickson and Robert McRee, En- Island creek, Muddy Creek, Limestone and Pros- James Gillespie, Captains Daniel Williams, Geo t of the CISUoS The first Methodist minister was the Rev- S noMffiS'5 ;Wofs T SSSS . M"' tTie public records reveal that a large num- Wilmington was then the County seat of ministers. They organized churches at Maxwell, 1776. A company of minute men under Captain ber of our citizens of today are of the same Hood jyew Hanover County and on account of the long Rockfish and Island Creek. For some years they James Love was in active service. Young John - as our first' settlers who promptly set out to es- distance and inconvenience to the people in the were under care of Reverend Peter Carlton, Grady, a private in that company, lost his life iablish churches and schools in various parts of up they made several efforts to create a native of the County, and other local ministers, in the battle and h untyThosturay ptoneeo early new county. FinaUy the new county-the S?? Nor cfroTnf 'fmuS to memor? dayV would have been a credit and a blessing to Count of DupUn md Saint Gabriel Parish-was Duplin County, the old Grove Academy m the gtands on battlefield Later m the War bra any-part of the country and their, good, works are, established by an Act of the Colonial Assembly fJiT Captain Lbye and a group of patriots were taken to a large extent respoDsible for the fact that at New Bern in March, 1749. It was named for by an Act of Anap Aeeatabhs by FsurpriseXand brutally murdered by the British ' - ourTcounty of today is one that is largely made1 Lord Duplin an English nobleman The Act pro- SVSSaS at Alexander Rouse's tavern near bridg9 . upf Mgoanoblejn ColtvState J$5l Rouse was a for- eountry affords. The hfctory.of any section is WUliam McRee, Sr., -of the Goshen Settlement. sevesSootoaStoS mer resident of DuPlin County- Britisn in" UtOLioailiig'mM flUM'fliaVoCitaeople ancTURee bad rod for Myoal ye member JJJJSemHem vasion of Duplin County was marked by much - the spirit of the forefathers Is clearly reflected in of the Court in the mother county of New Han- SXStS- cruet burnin of homes stealing' etc' and for tha nM nt hir. AanrAnte Tt1p w should over. The officers of the new county were as fol- various places m ine neignoornooos oi notK. . . troublesome. A com- miSSiSA and lows: Sheriff, William McRee, Jr; Clerk of the mZ mon Ptice with the T-ies was t0 terrorize i uu u.-...f 4 r .. rnnrt Rnhrt MpRee: Register. John Samnson: beginning oi tne puDiic scnooi sybiem in ioti me . nlnnHr nnHr nmr nf thp Harknpss Zlbeo k it e AsnUjD, WiUuun HU JZ?S Colonel STkTu of General 'lothosewhoshancomeru, .. JJ-SMSl! fStS-S nan, was one of their vic,im, I wu- m "1VT" .i?""- in all in addition to the free school svstem. It has The Railroad r - . a josepn wuiiams, ur. wuiiam xiousion, viunei.-; - "j AT r IJ- j J j i ' ' The first settlers ixi Duplin County (then John Sampson, Captain Frederick Gregg," An-r The RaiU,was startedby the,fath o a w tj tu CofXv, TicV, dror Thomson. Georee Meares. John Turner, acuities compares iavoraDiy wun mai oi au , Cit zens of Wilmmeton and was first meant from northern Ireland. They came to America John Herring, Nathaniel Hill, William McRee, county in the btate. t0 connect Wilmington and Raleigh and bore the under the patronage of one Henry McCulloch Roger Snell, and others. , Doctor Houston and the Stamp Act name of those two cities. The course was later about the year 1736. According to Captaih Ma- . vestrymen of parish uded Will. During the early part of the year 1765 the 'Z SwiU J5eS 5 BBnSeB? fUrSij iam McRee, Charles Gavin, Colonel , Sampson, British Pariiament passeda law known as the ad a weS Aflanttc by one captam ure ana mat some oi tne.iree ton John Herrmg, Anthony Cox, Mark. Phillips, bonds, notes required heavy stamp tax. The said mount f into the stock of this railroad passengers onthe ship, bound for Charleston, Gerge Meares,' John Turner and Thomas Suggs. Act contained other ruinous and unpopular re- amo 1fi SSdJfa were persuaded I to remain here. McCuUoch was Theerends William Miller and HobartBriggs quirements and the people were aroused. How- s sad to bloiJS?SinS S a wealthy merchant of Ixnddn and received from were only ministers of the parish under the J all of the disturbance over the Act was dur- !"fa and was Sald t0 be i0nger man any m the. King (GeorgeIV several grants for large oM gi system of joint operation, of county w a short period of time and the resistance to it "P- tracts of land in the Carolinas. ' He persuaded righ ? wg stron enough to bring about an early repeal. Ap issue of the old Wilmington News, dated the King that he could place colonists on the lands T . In London Dr WUliam Houston who lived at Sa-August, 1838, carried the following story: "The in large numbers and the King was, of course, .: The County &eaw had inted stamp Distributor for Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is now open anxious to colonize the New World; The colon- County Court was held at the MeRee Nortn Carolina without his solicitation and on to the depot at Mrs. Teacheys 42 miles north of isfs came and; occupied the land of McCulloch . piace m Goshen settlement for only a short time, account 0f the extreme unpopularity of the law Wilmington, and the cars will run regularly to r upon certain conditions as to title and McCulloch ggibiy three or four years, and was then moved he was subjected to considerable embarrassment, that point. Within three weeks ten more miles f Jnade certain promises to the King as to the num- a more centrai location on land given to the He resigned without ever attempting to execute will be thrown open to travelers. The bridge per; to be settledand the number of acres to .be County by Captain Joseph Williams near the duties In various places images of him were across Neuse River is ready for laying down the received. According to the evidence a number present Duplin-Sampson County line and near condemned, hanged and burned, and he complain- iron and every hour diminishes the distance to Of the promises were never fulfiUea and .toere t is now lmo Baltic a station ofthe ed of so much condemnation without a hearing. ' be traveled over the stages." Mrs. Teachey above : wai considerable dispute about the McCuUoch ciinton-Warsaw branch of the Atlantic Coast Careful study of the matter reveals that the in- referred to was Mrs. Mary Holmes Teachey, wid grants. The settlers were in, three groups, as fol- Line Railroad. This place remained the County dignation of the people was not against Doctor ow of Captain Daniel Teachey, and the depot lows: (1) Soracte (now Sarecta), on the North geat f0raperiod of about thirty years when Samp- Houston personally but against the principle of was what is now the town of Teacheys. ' East river where, according to Captain Rowan, County wa3 cut off from Duplin in the year stamp Act. All of these demonstrations did Another news report, dated February, 1839, ; ten, hos had already b buUt by John not m way affect the standing of Doctor ig as follows. We regret having been m&hle ww, jumi ri ler ai.u wiiuam xjcw, y, vxu- t County seat of Duplin was agam movea w Houston in his home county where nr was nigmy tQ attend the big ceiebration in Waynesboro on sheh, near tiie mouth at what is now ovn as a more central 1 on land given to the Coun- respected and honored by his fellow citizens. He February 22, in connection with the completion Miners bridge and near a rge tract of lahd t by Captain James Pearsall, the present site, was a man of unusual ability, a physician and of the railroad between Wilmington and Waynes-. Iha had already been granted to Rice Evans; m ta wftat M now the town of Kenansville, ' It is surgeon at Sarecta and was prominently identi- bor0 ig an portant event and will mean at he Goldea Grove near toe present town of daimed that PearsaU's "cool spring" was a de- fied with pubUc affairs for more than forty years. much tQ development 0f the State. Farmers eAansville. Other early settlements were at the dding factor in locating the Court House here, rector Houston's name has been appropriately near Waynesboro are now shipping their hogs ReJ House near? the present, town of ,Walla..aaMirto honored by the State with a highway-historical and ppoduce t0 Wilmington and the shipment is Teacheys; the neighborho of what is still stm running was first discovered years before marker about tWo mUes north of KenansvUle at lesg an a da in transit." Old Waynesboro here known as Beasley s -Mill in Magnolia township; by one Barbara' Beverett, wife of a sea captain a where the Sarecta road enters the high- referred to wa3 0n the Neuse River just south on JurKey branch where the Kenans lived; and who was at gea) after his death she mar- wa7; r . west of the present city of Goldsboro. By March, on tDDer Goshen which Is now the town of Faison. j t k n.. .n. tk. intAr : ' rr -j uljwu-j : I -- - " . . nea iiweim wui puu mmuk v -j , , The Revolution low, tne raiiroaa was iuuy cumpieiu au me way t McCuUoch claimed four thousand acres at large and prominent family in Duplm County. . r . . . between Wilmington and Weldon. Within a short the Golden Grove in 1735. About the sazhe time The present Court House is, the third building - in the, Revolutionary War a large majority timfi after adVent of the railroad the towns , f a he McCulloch settlers, or soon thereafter, on the same site. The town was laid put on the of the people of this-County were enthusiastic of Wallace (formerly: Duplin Roads), Teacheys, i -y other families came Jnto the section from public land during the year 1818 and; was named American patriots and played an important part Hill, Magnolia (formerly Stricklandville), osylvania. New Jersey, Virginia, the Albe- for the Kenan family. ; froirf beginning to end, Two British armies in- Warsaw "(formerly- Mooresville and Duplin De-, section of this State, and from nearby coun- ? . Earlv Churches and Schools vaded me County during the War, the fu-stu cf Dobbs (now Lenoir and Wayne), Craven, 1 ' ' y vnurtnes ana oc Urd Cornwallis in his march from WUmuigton d territory ong raaroad soon became, jw and New Hanover. TJiey were settied e first settlers were Scotch-Iriph Presby- to Virginia during the month of May, 1781, ana populated and the County as a whole was ly along the North East, river and-its prin- terians and wherever they settled, their log chur-, the second under Major James H. Craig in ms rated among the best irt the Stated, 1 tributaries, to-wit: Roc'ifish, Island Creek, ches. and schoolhouses went up witVas much .march from Wilmington to New Bern during e. . . ,acM,ir.. nf to , J I t lC "'-r. :"-Jtw of vali-ce space. Then.too.'thisbrief and hurriedly written ' - ' rover only the hist"'-
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