The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1875-06-23
DUEL roUGBr 1908.

Mr.. EDITOR:
Ii may be interesting 10 sou, as also tie
readers Of your very valuable paper the
Recorder. 10 learn the incidents and par
ticulars of the duel fought in the year 1883
between Robert Faucet ahi the late AL
fred Jones' Therefore the writer viii! mar
rate them to sou 30 far as his recOllection
serves him at this late day. Cain and
Ray were merchants in Ilillsl'oluugl az
that time, and Faucet was their clerk,
and kept their store in the corher house
which Hayes now occupies. NJ drug stbre.
Child and Avis were also merchants IN
HIllsbofough at the time, and Jones was
their clerk; they kept their store where
the Messrs. Webb now oct'nples. Fafueett
aid Jones bsarsled with John Faddis
being the orly house Of entertainment for
l,oanlers This house was IN the rear al
Child aud Alvis's store These con-
veniences afford Faucet favorable OPP
porlunity for his malignity and insults
toward Jones At pleasure. Faucet WAS a
tall raw TONED man over seven feet high,
% very turbulent, overbeaHng dis
position, and very dissipated. Jones was
altogether the reverse, very small, spare
man, uuofiendimg, unassuniing, aud o.
Il mild disposition aud physically, III.
unequal. One cause, amongst others o.
this III feeling WAS a young lady, and
Faucet aud Jones, tile rivals The nam
of the lady, the writer forbears 10 mention,
n she afterwards married agrn.leman, q
merchant. Both Of them have hong sine,
passed away.
Paucett always sought 10 vent his spleen
and iaunt Jones as much as possible III
all public company, and especially at the
eating table, at the boarding house. With
fprbearlnce and In the hope that Faucet
would drsist, aud having no other al
tentative, he determined to challenge him
to mortal combat, which was reluctantly
accepted. Jones selecting the late Col. San
Child NJ his second aud Faucet, Robert
Lewis, childs' brother in-law, he having
married Lewis sister.
Tile selection 81 Lewis by Faucet n
second II was said was with the view Of d
compromise, as the seconds were cUn.
necicd by marriage aud through them al
adjustment could lie had, but neither oI
them would make any uver:urrs 20 Jones,
icing cognizant of the maiignity Of ia,
assailant. Battles paths, just oyer llie
North Carolina line la Virginia, noted
place seventy years ago. was the ,lesig
mated ground; and twenty PAGES the dis
lance.
The PARTIES lcft IIiIlsborough early III
the hight, Jones aud Child ahead. Being
osertaken IN y heavy rain storm near tll,
old Quaker meeting house two miles north
Of town. they took shelter therein and
whilst there, Faucelt aud lewis, passed
III d loud conversation
ON tile morning Of the duel, Faucet
drank sixteen mintJulips, by count, be-
fore breakfast. Faucets ball took effect
with Judgement under Jones' right Shout.
der blade. Jones' pistol failed To fire. A.
soon as Jones fell, Faucet ram across tile
creek, disappeared aud was never heard
Of afterwards This Hight was accounted
FOR, for two reasons; one was, That the
authorities would arrest him; the other,
fearful TINT Jones's wound was only slight
aud that Ire would have 20 stand another
slut which he dreaded aud conceived
would prove fatal 10 himself. lie was the
youngest son VI fs father, Robert Faucet,
whoupo hfs death beIueathed all his
properly read mud personal 10 him, his son
Robert, should lac ever return 10 this
Country.
This old man Roller: Faucet claimed to
I've subject 20 the King and when he
came 10 town, invariably Wore his' red
coat. Old man John Faddis, Young
Robcrt's lsfrlIord, WINS nnouIraycous whig
aud when faucett would come ~ town
Fai,lis would make for hmm When war
wuul,l lie proclaimed between them aud
frequently fights ensue. q. w. y.
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