-----Original Message----- From: Susie <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 7:04 am Subject: [NCROWAN] Look up Please Hello Jan, I would like the following names please. McCaule, 118 Plunging into the stream, nearly five hundred yards wide, and waist deep, the British soon reached the Mecklenburg shore, where they were received by General Davidson and his three hundred militia with a galling fire. The guide having deserted the British at the first shot of the sentinel, they missed the ford, and came out a considerable distance above the place where General Davidson was stationed. Davidson at once led his men to that part of the bank which faced the British. But by the time of his arrival, the light infantry had reached the shore, and quickly forming, they soon dispersed the handful of patriots. General Davidson was the last to leave the ground, and as he was mounting his horse to make his escape, he received a mortal wound. Dr. Caruthers states that General Davidson was killed by a shot fired by Frederick Hager, a German Tory, who piloted the British across the river, but this statement does not agree with the generally accredited story, that the pilot deserted at the sentinel’s first fire. He was killed in Dr. Samuel E. McCorkle’s great coat, which he had borrowed the day before. The Rev. Thomas H. McCaule, another Presbyterian minister, with Col. William Polk accompanied General Davidson to the river that morning. McCullo chs, 34 But the Scotch-Irish were probably the most numerous and the leading people of the settlement. The old records of the Court here show the names of many of these old families, some of them now extinct, such as the Nesbits, Allisons, Brandons, Luckeys, Lockes, McCullochs, Grahams. Cowans, McKenzies, Barrs, Andrews, Osbornes, Sharpes, Boones, McLauchlins, Halls, with many others whose names are as familiar as household words. McCulloh, 161, HON. SPRUCE MACAY As early in the year 1762 we have accounts of the Macay family in Rowan County. In that year James Macay obtained from Henry 161 HISTORY OF ROWAN COUNTY McCulloh a grant of four hundred and thirty acres of land on Swearing Creek, near the Jersey Meeting-house. This was part of a vast body of land, amounting to one hundred thousand acres, which George II, in 1745, granted to Henry McCulloh, Esq., of Turnham Green, County of Middlesex, England. These lands are described as situated in the Province of North Carolina, lying on the “Yadkin or Pee Dee River or branches thereof,” and called Tract No. 9. This tract lay in Earl Granville’s division of land, but the Earl and his agents recognized McCulloh’s title, and the fact is recited at large in many old grants. On this tract James Macay settled and reared his family. 166 CHAPTER XXIII OLD FAMILIES OF ROWAN While the territory now comprehended in Rowan County was a part of Anson County, or further back still, while it was a part of Bladen County, there were settlers in this region. It was in 1745 that Henry McCulloh obtained his grant of one hundred thousand acres of land on the Yadkin and its tributaries. This was probably about the beginning of the settlement. The deeds and grants between this date and 1753, if recorded, would be registered in these counties. Hence it is not always possible to determine the date of the settlement of a family by the date of its oldest deed, since the oldest deeds may have been registered elsewhere. McCullough, 85 mere mention of the name, no data