William Whiteside (abt. 1710 - aft. 1777)

Born about 1710 in England [uncertain]

Husband of Elizabeth (Stockton) Whiteside — married about 1740 in Goochland (now Albemarle) County, Virginia

Descendants

Died after 4 Oct 1777 after about age 67 in Whiteside Settlement, Golden Valley, Tryon County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

William Whiteside

William Whiteside was born about 1710 in England or Ireland and died in 1777 in Tryon (now Rutherford) County, North Carolina. He married Elizabeth Stockton, a daughter of Davis Stockton of Albemarle County, Virginia.

William Whiteside performed Patriotic Service in North Carolina in the American Revolution.

William Whiteside is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A124553.

Tryon Resolves / American Revolution:
Generally, Whiteside genealogists [ … ] believe patriarch William Whiteside signed the Tryon Resolves with his son [Davis Whiteside]. However, William Whiteside [the patriarch] signed documents with his mark in 1767, 1768, and 1769, as well as his will in 1777. It is possible [Davis Whiteside] signed the Tryon Resolves for his father, but others signed the Resolves with their mark. William R. Whiteside [former professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville] therefore believes that it was William [… a son of patriarch William Whiteside] who signed the Resolves [ … ] .^[1]

William Whiteside of Virginia and North Carolina, by Jerry J. Stockton.

"The family name Whiteside originated in England. The earliest record is of a Robert Wyteside appearing in 1230 records in Warwickshire, England. Genealogist Don Whiteside believes most Whitesides throughout the British Isles are descended from Whitesides in the town of Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire County, England." Borderlands: The Goshen Settlement of William Bolin Whiteside, Ben Ostermeier. 2016-2020.^[2]

Dr. Donald Whiteside (1931-1993), the foremost expert on the Whiteside family, did not show parents for William Whiteside who married Elizabeth Stockton. Dr. Whiteside did show William was a brother of Thomas Whiteside who lived on Stockton's Branch of Mechum's River in Albemarle County, Virginia.

William Whiteside's exact date of birth is unknown and his place of birth is unknown. It appears that William was probably born in either England or Ireland in about 1710. It is also not known when William came to America. By March 15, 1741, William was in Goochland (now Albemarle) County, Virginia, but before that date nothing is known about where he lived.

William Whiteside married Elizabeth Stockton, a daughter of Davis Stockton (c.1685-1761) of Albemarle County, Virginia. Davis Stockton is known to have been living in Goochland (now Albemarle) County, Virginia, by June 10, 1737, and William Whiteside is known to have been living there by March 15, 1741.

William Whiteside appears to have been living in Goochland County before his March 15, 1741, patent. He married Elizabeth Stockton, a daughter of Davis Stockton who had settled in the Ivy Creek area of then Goochland County, Virginia.

Davis Whiteside is thought to be the first child of Elizabeth (nee Stockton) and William Whiteside and is thought to have been born in about 1741. William Whiteside and Elizabeth Stockton probably met and married in then Goochland County, Virginia, in about 1740. In 1744, this area became Albemarle County, Virginia.

Virginia Land Office Patent Book No. 20, 1741-1743, pp. 162-164, March 15, 1741.
"George the second . . . in Consideration of the Sum of Forty Shillings of good and Lawful Money . . . do Give Grant and Confirm unto William Whitesides One Certain Tract or Parcel of Land containing Four hundred Acres lying and being in the County of Goochland on both sides the South fork Mechums River . . . said William Whitesides . . . the Fifteenth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and forty one In the Fifteenth Year of our Reign . . . William Gooch"

Albemarle County in Virginia. Rev. Edgar Woods. 1901. pp. 362-363.
"Ivy Creek, March 29, 1747. Whereas it is agreed or proposed that ye Inhabitants of Ivy Creek and ye Mountain Plain Congregation joyn together with ye Congregation of Rockfish, to call and invite ye Reverend Samuel Black . . . to be our Minister and Pastor . . . do promise and oblige ourselves to pay yearly and every year ye several sums annexed to our names, for ye outward support and Incouragement of ye said Mr. Samuel Black . . . according to ye Rules and Practice of our Orthodox Reformed Presbyterian Church."

Among those who promised support for Reverend Samuel Black were: Richard Stockton, 12 shillings; Davis Stockton, 1 pound, no shillings; Adam Gaudylock, 10 shillings; William Whiteside, 10 shillings; Thomas Lockhart, 10 shillings; Michael Woods, 1 pound, 10 shillings; and Michael Woods Jr., 10 shillings.

Albemarle County in Virginia. Rev. Edgar Woods. 1901. p. 363.
"Albemarle Company of Militia, lately in actual service for the defence and protection of the frontier against the Indians, September, 1758. Hening's Statutes, VII, 203." Captain James Nevill, Samuel Stockton, William Stockton, Adam Gaudylock, William Whiteside, Henry Brenton and Michael Woods, Jr., were among the 56 men mentioned as members of the Albemarle Company of Militia in William Waller Hening's 1820 book. Samuel and William Stockton were sons of Davis Stockton. Adam Goudelock and William Whiteside were sons-in-law of Davis Stockton. Adam Goudelock married Hannah Stockton, a daughter of Davis Stockton. William Whiteside married Elizabeth Stockton, also a daughter of Davis Stockton. Either Henry or Robert Brenton might have been a son-in-law of Davis Stockton. A 1773 record shows "Sarah Branton (late Sarah Stockton)." Michael Woods, Jr., was a neighbor of Davis Stockton.

Albemarle County Wills & Deeds Book No. 1, 1748-1752, pp. 348-350, August 14, 1751.
This indenture made this March the Second day in the twenty third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second & c. Anno Dom 1750 Between Paul Abney of County of Albemarle, Planter, of one part & John Graves of said County, Planter, of other part . . . a certain parcel of land being in County of Albemarle containing One hundred acres . . . unto John Graves his heirs & assigns forever In Witness whereof Paul Abney to these present hath set his hand & seal in presence of us Davis Stockton, Adam Goudylock, Robert Brenton, Wm. Whiteside . . . Paul Abney . . . At a Court held for Albemarle County the 14th day of August 1751.

The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume IX. 1904. pp. 69-70.

• 1. July 7, 1767, William and Elizabeth Whiteside to Adam Dean, three hundred and seventy-three acres or thereabout. Witnessed by William Winston, William Grayson, William Stockton and Maryan Winston.
• 2. May 11, 1768, William Whiteside, bill of sale of mare, etc., to George Davidson. Witnessed by Michael Woods, Jr., and Samuel Davison.
• 3. September 19, 1769, William and Elizabeth Whiteside to Adam Dean, one hundred and eight-one acres. Witnesses: Samuel Stockton, John Davis, James Walker and Prudence Stockton. [Note: Prudence Stockton was the wife of Samuel Stockton, a brother of Elizabeth (nee Stockton) Whiteside.]
• 4. August 6, 1770, writ dispatched from Albemarle to Amherst to examine Elizabeth Whiteside as to whether her consent was freely given to the last mentioned transfer. Commission executed by Timothy Riggs and John Robinson, Esquires, of Amherst, and their return ordered to be recorded by Albemarle Court at the session of March, 1771.

Virginia Land Office Patent Book No. 32, 1752-1756, pp. 55, 56, April 4, 1753.
(William Whiteside, 300 acres on both sides Stocktons Fork of Mechums River) "unto William Whiteside . . . said William Whiteside . . . said William Whiteside . . . "

Land Office Patents Book No. 37, 1767-1768, pp. 272, 273.
William Whiteside, Grant of 181 acres on Stocktons Mill Creek in Albemarle County, Virginia, July 20, 1768, pages 272, 273.

Augusta County, Virginia, April 6, 1769. ". . . Wm. Whiteside 160 acres . . . unto William Whiteside . . . "

Annals of a Scotch-Irish Family: The Whitsitts of Nashville Tenn., The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1904, pp. 58-82.^[3]

"Whiteside Creek. - William Whiteside, the immigrant, found a home in the midst of the stout Scotch-Irish colonists, who, coming down the Valley of Virginia, had crossed the Blue Ridge into Albemarle at and after the year 1737. His entry called for "four hundred acres lying and being in the county of Goochland, on both sides the South Fork of Mechums River." He occupied that place from the 15th of March, 1741, until the 7th of July, 1767, when he sold it to Adam Dean for £250 "current money of Virginia." The most important memorial of his residence of six and twenty years in this home appears in the fact that the "South Fork of Medium's river" that ran through his farm acquired the name of Whiteside Creek, which it has carried ever since on the maps of Albemarle. Dr. Wood, the historian of Albemarle, in describing Medium's river, p. 17, ubi sup., says : "It receives on its north side Virgin Spring Branch, Stockton's, Beaver and Spring Creeks, and on its south Whiteside, Pounding Branch and Broadaxe Creeks." Whiteside Creek passes through the village of Batesville in the western section of Albemarle, and a goodly portion of its waters has been diverted in recent years by the celebrated Miller School of that neighborhood, and conveyed into a reservoir whence is supplied the power for running their large electric plant and various other kinds of machinery."

North Carolina:

William Whiteside, 250 acres on both sides of Green River, Mecklenburg (now Rutherford) County, North Carolina, August 8, 1765. This does not appear to be the William Whiteside who married Elizabeth Stockton. This appears to be the William who was the father of John Whiteside, Sr., who married Mary Underwood. Several members of the Whiteside/Underwood family are buried at the Buffalo Cemetery, Lake Lure, Rutherford County, North Carolina.

Rutherford County was formed from Tryon County in 1779. Tryon County was formed from Mecklenburg County in 1768. When William Whiteside arrived it was Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

Grant at Beaverdam (or Beaver Dam) Creek, a branch of the First Broad River in Tryon (now Rutherford) County, North Carolina. Beaverdam Creek is in Golden Valley, northern Rutherford County, and flows south into the First Broad River. This is near the First Broad Church and Churchyard, just north of Duncan's Creek Township.

Tryon Resolves, North Carolina, August 14, 1775. ". . . William Whiteside . . . "

[Note: It is unclear if the William Whiteside who signed the Tryon Resolves was William Whiteside [Sr.], age about 65, or his son William Whiteside [Jr.], age about 28. From William Whiteside [Sr.'s] 1777 will "Being very sick and weak in Body".]

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THE TRYON RESOLVES^[4][5]

Tryon Safety Committee Meeting, August 14, 1775.

Proceedings of the Safety Committee in Tryon County.
Met according to adjournment.

Andrew Neel was duly elected Clerk of the Committee.

Resolved, That Col. Charles McLean serve as Deputy Chairman in the absence of Col. Walker.

Resolved, That each Company elect three members of Committee for this County who on a Debate, are each man to have his vote.

Resolved, That this Association be signed by the Inhabitants of Tryon county, [viz]

An Association. The unprecedented, barbarous and bloody actions committed by the British Troops on our American Brethren near Boston on the 19th of April & 20th of May last, together with the Hostile operations & Traiterous Designs now Carrying on by the Tools of Ministerial Vengeance Despotism for the Subjugating all British America, suggest to us the painful necessity of having recourse to Arms for the preservation of those Rights & Liberties which the principles of our Constitution and the Laws of God, Nature, and Nations have made it our duty to defend.

We therefore, the Subscribers Freeholders & Inhabitants of Tryon County, do hereby faithfully unite ourselves under the most sacred ties of Religion, Honor & Love to Our Country, firmly to Resist force by force in defence of our Natural Freedom & constitutional Rights against all Invasions, & at the same time do solemnly engage to take up Arms and Risque our lives and fortunes in maintaining the Freedom of our Country, whenever the Wisdom & Council of the Continental Congress or our Provincial Convention shall Declare it necessary, & this Engagement we will continue in and hold sacred ‘till a Reconciliation shall take place between Great Britain and America on Constitutional principles which we most ardently desire. And we do firmly agree to hold all such persons Inimical to the liberties of America, who shall refuse to subscribe to this Association.

[Signed by]
John Walker, Charles McLean, Andrew Neel, Thomas Beatty, James Coburn, Frederick Hambright, Andrew Hampton, Benjamin Hardin, George Paris, William Graham, Robt. Alexander, David Jenkins, Thomas Espey, Perrygreen Mackness, James McAfee, William Thompson, Jacob Forney, Davis Whiteside, John Beeman, John Morris, Joseph Harden, John Robison, James McIntyre, Valentine Mauney, George Black, Jas. Logan, Jas. Baird, Christian Carpenter, Abel Beatty, Joab Turner, Jonathan Price, Jas. Miller, John Dellinger, Peter Sides, William Whiteside, Geo. Dellinger, Samuel Carpenter, Jacob Mauney, Jun., John Wells, Jacob Costner, Robert Hulclip, James Buchanan, Moses Moore, Joseph Kuykendall, Adam Simms, Richard Waffer, Samuel Smith, Joseph Neel, Samuel Loftin

Resolved, That we will Continue to profess all Loyalty and attachment to our Sovereign Lord King George the Third, His Crown & Dignity, so long as he secures to us those Rights and Liberties which the principles of Our Constitution require.

Resolved, and we do Impower every Captain or other Officer in their Respective Companies to raise sufficient force in order to detain and secure all powder and Lead that may be removing or about to be Removed out of the County; and that they do prevent any of such powder and Lead from being sold or disposed of for private uses; but to be under the direction of this Committee until the Delegates shall return from the provincial Convention; Provided nevertheless that this Resolution is not meant to hinder any persons Inhabitants of other County's from Carrying powder and Lead through this County to their respective abodes unless there is just Cause to suspect that they Intend such Powder and Lead for Injurious purposes; then and in such case notice is to be given to the Committee of the County in which such person resides, that they make such order thereon as to them shall seem proper.

Resolved, that Mr Daniel MeKissick do make application to the Council of Safety of Charles Town for 500 weight Gun powder 600 weight Lead, and 600 Gun Flints to be distributed under the direction of this Committee when it shall be judged necessary.

Resolved, That we do Recommend to the Captains of the Several Companies in this Regiment to call together their men in order to collect what money they can conveniently to provide powder and Lead, And that they make due return of what money is received to the Committee at next meeting.

Resolved, That this Committee meet at the Court House of this County on the 14th Day of September next there to Deliberate on such matters as shall be Recommended by Our Provincial Convention.

[Signed by] John Walker, Chairman.

Note: Davis Whiteside is the 18th name in the 1st column.
William Whiteside is the 9th name in the 2nd column.

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Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln & Rutherford Counties, North Carolina, 1769-1786, Tryon County Wills & Estates. Brent Holcomb. 1977 and 2015.

• Vol. 2, pp. 144-145 - William Whiteside witnesses a Tryon County land transaction on April 8, 1775. [Note: It is unclear if this is William Whiteside, Sr., or William Whiteside, Jr.]
• Vol. 2, pp. 80-81 - September 15, 1779, William Whitesides of Rutherford Co., To James Whitesides of same, for £125 -- 200 A on both sides Little Broad River, granted to Hugh Beaty, April 6, 1765, including sd. Wm. Whitesides improvement, Nathaniel Tracy and Elisabeth Whitesides their improvements -- William Whitesides (seal), Wit: Samuel Stockton, Thoas Whitesides, Thomas Evans. [Note: It appears that William Whiteside, Sr., died in 1777, so this would be William Whiteside, Jr. Elizabeth appears to be widow Elizabeth (nee Stockton) Whiteside.]

Last Will and Testament of William Whiteside:
In the name of God, Amen, I William Whiteside, of the County of tryon and State of North Carolina, Being very sick and weak in Body, But of perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto god, calling unto mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men out to Die, Do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend by Soul into the hands of almighty God that gave it and my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be Buried in Desent Christian Burial at the discretion of my Executer, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I Shall Receive the Same again by the mighty power of God, and as touching such worldly Estate Wherewith it has pleased God to Bless me in this life I give, Devise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form:

I Give and Bequeath unto my well Beloved wife Elizabeth, my household goods and moveable effects and also my plantation during her life and after her Decease all the Movables to be Equally divided between these my children, Davis Whiteside & Robert & James & John & Margaret and William, Thomas and Samuel & Adam, and if She should depart this Life before my Son Francis Whiteside comes of age my Children above mentioned to have the Benefit of the plantation and So Soon as my son Francis comes of age he may enter in possession of the same for I do bequeath my Land to him allowing him to pay twenty pounds to my Daughter Ann in Twelve months after he Enters into possession of my plantation and also to pay to my Daughter Elizabeth Twenty pounds of the Value of the land in Two years after he enters into possession of Said plantation and the Third year he Shall pay my Daughter Sarah Twenty pounds, all Lawful money of North Carolina. I also give and Bequeath my Son James Whiteside my Land on the South Mountain in Virginia, Augusta County, allowing him to pay fifteen pounds Virginia Currency towards the Discharging my Debts and the Remainder of my Debts to be paid out of moveables before Devided.

I also appoint and constitute my son William Whiteside and Thomas Whiteside to be my Executers of this my last Will and testament and I do here By utterly Disalow, Revoke and Disannul all and every other former testaments, wills, legacies, Bequests and all Executers by me in any Wise Before Named, Willed and Bequeathed, Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In Witness Whereof I have here unto Set my hand and Seal, this twenty fourth of October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven. Signed, Sealed, published, pronounced and Declared by the Said William Whiteside as his last Will and Testament in the presents of us who in his presents and in the presents of Each other have hereto subscribed our names.

. . . . . . His . . . . . .
William X Whiteside (Seal)
. . . . . . Mark . . . . .

Davis Whiteside
James Whiteside (Wits.)

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Don Whiteside, Ph.D., September 1969, Rough Draft, (Genealogical Connections): "Both William and Elizabeth are buried in the Family Cemetery (unmarked graves) County Road 1730, one-half mile north of Route 226."

The First Four (4) Generations of Descendants of William (c 1710-1777) and Elizabeth (Stockton) Whiteside of Ireland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. Don Whiteside. 1990.
"William and Elizabeth are buried on the home farm in Golden Valley Township."

Paul Whitesides, 2021, " . . . working with the Whiteside Family Association to try to determine the location of the Whiteside Family Cemetery in the Golden Valley area. Looks like its just across the river from 226 on county road 1730 - can see it on an old map."

This is next to Jonestown Road and the First Broad River in present northern Rutherford County, North Carolina. This is the location of the First Broad Baptist Church and Beaverdam Creek, a branch of the First Broad River. Duncan's Creek Presbyterian Church is about 3 1/2 miles south east as is Duncans Creek and Duncans Creek Township. Elizabeth and William Whiteside are buried in Golden Valley next to the First Broad River near the Township of Duncans Creek.

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Children of William and Elizabeth (nee Stockton) Whiteside:
Davis Whiteside m. Elizabeth Johnson
Robert Whiteside m. Elizabeth Coffey
James Whiteside m. Sarah Elizabeth McLafferty
John Whiteside m. 1. Judith Tolly, m. 2. Catherine Moore
William Whiteside (Jr.?) m. Mary Booth
Thomas Whiteside m. Isabella Elizabeth Chitwood
Margaret Whiteside m. William Monroe
Samuel Whiteside m. Elizabeth Brackett
Adam Whiteside m. 1. ___?___ , m. 2. Elizabeth Spruell
Anna Whiteside m. Richard Singleton
Francis Whiteside m. Mary Ann Clark
Sarah Whiteside m. Lewis Nolan
Elizabeth Whiteside m. Davis Stockton, a son of Prudence (nee unknown) and Samuel Stockton

William Whiteside, who married Elizabeth Stockton, is not shown on any documents as William Franklin Whiteside. There are several documents that show him as William Whiteside, but there are no known documents that show him as William Franklin Whiteside or William F. Whiteside. William was born about in 1710, a time when middle names were very uncommon. Elizabeth (nee Stockton) and William Whiteside had nine sons, none were named Franklin and none appear to have Franklin as a middle name.

The name of Franklin was used many years later as a middle name in the Whiteside family, however, that was probably for "Benjamin Franklin." The later use of the middle name of Franklin in the Whiteside family is not evidence that William Whiteside was William Franklin Whiteside. Several deed records, church records, military records show him as William Whiteside and his will shows him as William Whiteside three times. No documents show him as William Franklin Whiteside.

1782 Tax List Rutherford County, North Carolina.
Captain Whitesides Company
William Whiteside, 380 acres
Adam Whiteside, 350 acres
Thomas Stocton [sic], 150 acres
Elizabeth Whiteside, 193 acres
Samuel Whiteside, 150 acres
Samuel Stocton [sic], 200 acres
John Whiteside, 200 acres
Richard Singleton, 900 acres
Thomas Whiteside, 400 acres
James Whiteside, 400 acres

1790 census Rutherford County, North Carolina.^[6]
Eliza Whiteside, 16+ [column 1, name 1]

Elizabeth (nee Stockton) and William Whiteside are shown by some researchers as being from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The family of Elizabeth (nee Dawson) and William Whitsitt (sometimes shown as Whiteside) were from Lancaster County. They later located in Amherst County, Virginia, and then Orange County, North Carolina. The information that the Elizabeth (nee Stockton) and William Whiteside family were connected to Orange County, North Carolina, appear to be incorrect.

Whiteside and Whitsett Pioneers, And The Whitsett Family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Ronald N. Wall, In collaboration with William R. Whiteside.
Whiteside Family Association. 2008.
Dr. William Heth Whitsitt in his family history cites some Albemarle County, Virginia deeds and church records dated between 1754 and 1770 as evidence of the existence of Elizabeth Dawson Whitsitt, some of which contain her given name. One document in particular that Dr. Whitsitt references is dated in 1770. It tells of Elizabeth, wife of William Whiteside of Amherst County, being examined about her dower rights in the sale of land in Albemarle County by her husband William. This seemed to be good evidence that Elizabeth was alive as late as 1770. However, we can now show that these documents are in fact associated with Elizabeth Stockton and her husband William Whiteside later of Rutherford County, North Carolina. Significantly, 1770 is about the time this couple and their large family removed from Virginia to North Carolina. The Albemarle County records dated in the 1750’s would contradict our assertions that both William Sr. and William Jr. were in Pennsylvania during that decade. However, a careful analysis of these records show that almost without exception they refer to William and Elizabeth Stockton Whiteside, not William and Elizabeth Dawson Whitsitt. The records document the settlement on Ivy Creek and Mechum’s River by the Whiteside and the Stockton families. The Stockton name almost always shows up somehow with the Whitesides in these documents.

The Stockton relatives and in-laws of Elizabeth and William Whiteside witnessed several of the deeds involving William Whiteside of Albemarle County. A look at historical maps of Virginia, taking in account the changes in county boundaries does little to help us distinguish the William of Ivy Creek on Mechum’s River from either of the William Whitsitts who came to Amherst County from Pennsylvania during the 1760’s. Both of these families were in Amherst County at one time or another. However, the Amherst County records pertaining to the Pennsylvania family usually use the name "Whitsitt" rather than "Whiteside." We had one advantage over Dr. Whitsitt when we were doing our research. We knew about William and Elizabeth Stockton Whiteside. I feel certain that Dr. Whitsitt did not, or he probably would have noticed some of the discrepancies that indicate these were two separate families. I believe that we need a more thorough examination of Virginia Colonial records to help us clarify who was who, and who was where during the Amherst period of their lives.

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1. ↑ Borderlands: The Goshen Settlement of William Bolin Whiteside. Ben Ostermeier. 2016-2020.
2. ↑ Borderlands: The Goshen Settlement of William Bolin Whiteside. Ben Ostermeier. 2016-2020.
3. ↑ Annals of a Scotch-Irish Family: The Whitsitts of Nashville Tenn. The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly.
4. ↑ Tryon Resolves. Wikipedia.
5. ↑ Tryon County Patriots of 1775 and Their "Association". Hershel Parker. 2014. Journal of the American Revolution.
6. ↑ 1790 census Rutherford County, North Carolina. Ancestry.

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Acknowledgments

• Research of Don Whiteside, M.D. (1931-1993)