The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-03-20
From the Lincoln Courier.
SKETCHES OF NORTH CAROLINA.
NCOLN COUNTY.

From the Lincoln Courier.
SKETCHES or NORTH CAROLINA.
NCOLN COUNTY,.
There is no portion Of North Carolina
that Is more interesting than the County OF
Lincola. With climate salubrious, and
Of mild temperature, equally removed from
The chilling Of the Mountains and the cuer.
vatins warmth Of the lower part Of our
SIaIe-~ilh soh genial and fertile, and
lis hills containing rich beds Of iron aud
gold, il is well calculated 10 he q desirable
residence, and 4 proper place TO sustain a
beautiful, humorous, thrifty and cou.enied
population.
In the year l7GS, THE county was taken
from the then county Of MeckIenburg, and
vas called Tryon, in honor Of William Try.
on, who st that time was Governor Of the
Colony. Gov. Tryon was q soldier, devo
ted 10 the interests OF his government, and
his administration was active and notorious
10 history. He was blindly misguided as
to the true Interests Of his King, as he was
to the true interests Of the people, as his
affair with the Regulators on the banks Of
the Allemance, in May, liza, proves and
he received for his conduct on this and 9th
er occasions, from the Cherokee Indians of
the State, the name of " the Great " of Of
North Carolina" He was transferred in
III to the Governor ship Of the then Col
ony OF New York, and vas succeeded 10
his Office here by Josiah Martin, who was
forced 10 leave the country, and take re.
luge from the fury Of the revolution IN 1915,
- on board of His Maiesty's ship Cruiser,
in the Cape Fear River and thus and then
Terminated the royal rule Of England in our
State. While the galanlry Of our ances,
tors allowed the name Of Wake, (named in
compliment 10 the lovely sister of Lady
Tryon) TO remain as a name, in the Ian.
guage Of the historian Jones' to a terri.
tory consecrated to the genus OF beauty
aud virtue" their patriotism 10 1871 ex.
plunged the name Of the odlous Tryon, aud di.
vded the territory into the counties Of Lin
coin aud Rutherford. In ls42, this coun.
~ was again divided. and the present coun
ly OF Calaw ba was erected. The County
OF Lincoln was so called in compliment to
General Benjamin Llncola, who, at this
time was engaged with an inadequate force
OF American troops, IN defending Charles
ton against the British forces under Sir
Henry Clinton and Admiral Arbuthnot.
There IS no portion OF our State, whose
territory in our revolutionary struggles was
the scene OF more active exertlon in the
cause OF liberty. Oace a portion Of old
Meckenburg, II was q swarm of genuine
stock from "the hornets nest" of the south.
Ia August, 1913, the following associa.
ton was drawn up, and ordered to L" be
signed BY every free-h holder in the County
oil rryon." II was found among the pa.
pets OF Gen. William Graham Of Ruther
ford, and was published recently in the \.
Carolina Spectator, |, is preserved in
Jones Defence Of North Carolina" P.lsl:
IAN ASSOCIATION.
The unprecedented, barbarous and bloody
committed by the British troops on .
our American brethren near Boston, on the
/ oh April and 20h OF May last, together
with the hostile operations aud treacherous
designs now carrying on by the tools OF MIN
is,eria vengeance, for the subJugaton OF
all British America, suggest TO US the pain. |
fu necessity Of having recourse TO arms for |
the preservation OF those rights and llber. /
ties which the principles OF our Cous,itu-