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10 de jun. de 2020 · Richard Caswell. By the time the Revolutionary War began, Richard Caswell had spent almost two decades serving in the North Carolina Colonial Assembly. Up to this point, Richard was best known for promoting public education, including a scheme which unsuccessfully attempted to put a free school in every county.
2 de abr. de 2021 · Richard Caswell (August 3, 1729- November 10, 1789), militia officer and governor of North Carolina, was born at Joppa, then a flourishing seaport and the county seat of Baltimore County, Md. His parents were Richard Caswell and Christian Dallam. Their plantation home, Mulberry Point, stood on a promontory north of the town, overlooking the ...
Richard, then age sixteen, was made an apprentice to the surveyor general, James Mackilwean. For the next two years he lived with the Mackilwean family on their 850-acre plantation, Tower Hill, located at Stringer's Ferry on Neuse River, near present Kinston. During the rest of his life, Richard Caswell resided in that vicinity.
In 1780 he was made a major general in charge of the state militia and fought at the Battle of Camden (S.C.). After the war he served as state controller and again as governor under the revised constitution. Caswell died of a stroke at age 60 in 1789, while attending the state convention in today’s Fayetteville to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Richard Caswell was governor of North Carolina, 1776-1779 and 1785-1787, general in the state forces during the Revolutionary War, state comptroller, and speaker of the state senate. The collection is primarily correspondence relating to North Carolina and United States military and political issues of the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary periods.
Glimpses into two of our nation's most pivotal wars can be found within the city of Kinston at two different historic sites. At the Governor Richard Caswell Memorial, located on Vernon Avenue, you will explore the celebrated life of Richard Caswell, the first governor of the independent state of North Carolina, and his role in establishing North Carolina as part of the United States.
Richard Caswell war seit 1746 in der damaligen britischen Kolonie North Carolina ansässig. Nach der Grundschule studierte er Jura und wurde Rechtsanwalt in Hillsboro. Von 1752 bis 1754 war er Angestellter beim Gericht im Orange County. Seine politische Karriere begann 1754, als er Mitglied der kolonialen Delegierten Versammlung der Kolonie ...
