ISBN: 9781154632743

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 64 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 64 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: . . . to accumulate in provisions and set out with his merchandise from Providence, Rhode Island, for Charleston, South Carolina. On the voyage a storm arose, and it became necessary to throw overboard most of the cargo. He landed at Charleston with nothing, and walked from there to Augusta, Georgia. Here he lived for a year. Then he moved to Wilkes, after Oglethorpe, County, in that State, where he engaged in his business of hat making. He served as a member of the Legislature of that State for five years, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention held at Louisville about 1795. In the latter year he removed to Buncombe County, and settled in or near Asheville. Soon afterwards he married Caroline Lowrie, a widow whose husband had been killed by the Indians, and who was a sister of Joel Lane, the founder of the city of Raleigh, and of Jesse Lane, the father of Gen. Joe Lane, late United States Senator from Oregon and governor thereof, and Democratic candidate for vicepresident on the ticket with General John C. Breckenridge in 1860. General Joseph Lane himself was born in Buncombe County near Asheville, on December 14, 1801. In the early part of his residence in Buncombe, George Swain lived at the head of Beaverdam, on the place where the late Thomas Stradley resided and died. Here was born, on January 4, 1801, his second son. David Lowrie Swain, afterwards famous as judge, governor and University president in North Carolina. Here the future governor saw the first wagon which he had ever beheld, being the first ever in Buncombe County. It was brought to the house of his father, up the washed out channel of the creek, for there was then no road in Buncombe County large enough for a wagon to travel. Of this event the late Governor Vance says: The futur. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<