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After the Regulators were defeated at Alamance, May 16, 1771, six of their number were hanged, 1/4 mile east, June 19, 1771.

Tory militia going to join Cornwallis's army destroyed by Lee's Legion Feb. 1781 nearby on Col. Michael Holt's land.

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.

Judge and local official. Target of Regulators who ransacked and destroyed his nearby home, 1770.

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.

Patriot general in American Revolution, was mortally wounded at Germantown, 1777. His home is 150 yds. W.

One of North Carolina's three signers of the Declaration of Independence. His home is 150 yds. W. Was buried a few yds. W.

Militia under Governor William Tryon defeated Regulators on May 16, 1771. Six miles S.W.