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From: "Stacy Wade Harris II" <>
Subject: Re: [NCFRANKL] WAS LORD CORNWALLIS' ARMY IN FRANKLIN CO NC??
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:08:38 -0400
References: <9f2db1520703180641h9db93a5x2d98ceb086917f38@mail.gmail.com>


http://news.webshots.com/photo/1011710527026816886IJQnlnAPGW
http://news.webshots.com/photo/1011710658026816886TQvaENmvmf
These links are to a newspaper article on Casine from "The State" written in 1949 . I got it from the library inLouisburg but I replaced the photos of the house with my own . I don't know where you would find proof of Cornwallis camping there or even if it exists . I am a decendant of Jeremiah Perry and live just 3 or 4 miles from Casine . I go by there but don't stop other than to take pictures , but I'll see what the caretaker knows after Church today and call T.H Pearce and see what he has to say about it since he is the County Historian . Actually we have the annual "First Flag" memorial at the courthouse at 2:00 and I'll see him there . I've always been shown the woods east of the house and told that this was a field then and that a detachment from Cornwallis' army camped there .
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From: "Sam West" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:41 AM
Subject: [NCFRANKL] WAS LORD CORNWALLIS' ARMY IN FRANKLIN CO NC??


> Hi,
>
> I am involved in a project actually documenting Revolutionary War Soldiers
> who
> were in Franklin Co NC, and so far I have documented nearly 300 Soldiers who
> there. There have been previous list compiled and published, but this is
> the first
> that the original records documents these men as being Revolutionary War
> Soldiers,
> and their connection to Franklin Co NC.
>
> I have been told that Lord Cornwallis and his army was at, or camped at the
> Casine
> Plantation in Franklin Co NC? I would like to add this information to my
> database,
> but I need the actual primary original documentation. Does anyone have this
> documentation
> and can share it with me? I have tried to follow Lord Cornwallis' route up
> to York, Virginia,
> and all references puts him and his army in the eastern parts of Nash and
> Halifax Counties,
> which would be away from Franklin. Can anyone help.
>
> Also, for those involved in the heritage book, if this list is something you
> would like to include
> in your book let me know. I have several narratives: Revolutionary War
> Activities in Franklin
> Counties [includes information about the report center, Louisburg, the
> Military Stores at Hill's
> Cross Roads, the County Rangers in search of Corwallis, the hanging of
> Captain Ricks, alias
> "Beard", Revolutionary War Soldiers in Franklin Co NC, and also one on The
> War of 1812. All
> of which are done in narrative form.
>
> Sam West
> e-mail:
>
> "Not all of us can do great things, but we all can do small things in a
> great way."
> author unknown
>
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