The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-12

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into the Tiber, will eventually be re-
covered, is it too wild a fancy to indulge
in that modern science may yet BRING
to light this golden table which for
more than a century has rested undls-
turbed beneath the placid waters of the
old Cape Fear?
The church was completed in 40,
and among others who contributed to
that object the name of Col. James
Inniss is Conspicuous. 1t is a matter
of great regret that so little appears to
be known of the life and character OF
that distinguished gentleman. tie was
amounted one of his Majesty's Council
in North Carolina, November 9th,
1875. He lived At a place called Point
Pleasant. situated on the Northeast
branch of the Cape Fear river about
eight miles from Wilmington, and was
possessed of considerable property.
When Governor D%inwiddie, of Virginia,
applied to President Rowan, then act
ing Governor of North Carolina, tor
assistance to check the movements OF
the French and Indians on the Ohio,
Col. Innis marched at the head OF the
North Carolina troops to Winchester,
Va. where he assumed command OF all
the forces designed for that object.
En NoH,~cfa
saws. "news came of the death OF Col.
Fry at Mills Greek, and that he was to
be succeeded in the command OF the
expedition by Col. 1nnis, OF North
Carolina, who was actually at Winches-
ter with three hundred and fifty North
Carolina troops. Washington, who
was then but twenty-five years old, and
who had been sent by Gov. Dinwiddie
as Commissioner to expOstulate with
the French Commander on the Ohio
for his aggressions upon the territory OF
his Britanic Majesty, felt the increasing
responsibilities and difficulties of his
situation, and rejoiced at the prospect
of being under the command of an
experienced officer who had served in
company with his brother Lawrence at
the siege of Carthagena. 1t is sup
posed that Col. Innis died at Winches-
ter en- route for Wills Greek. His will,
done at Winchester, Va, and witnessed
by John Carlyle, VIM. Cucks and Caleb
Granger, and proven by the latter be-
fore Gov. Dobbs, at Newbern, the ninth
day of October, 1859, is recorded in the
Registers Office of this county.
He must have been a man of mark
in his day and generation, or he would
not have received the appointment of
Colonel of hat expedition nor would
Washington, whom he ~Outranked, have
r%ejoiced at his appointment. 1t is
clearly evident that even SO early in the
history of the country as l754 there
were men of prominence in this colony ;
that one of these was selected to COM
| mand a dangerous and distant expedi-
ton, %outranking ever Washington him
| self; and this, taken in connection with
the additional fact that Robert Howe,
of the adjoining county of Brunswick,
was appointed by the Continental Con-
gress during the revolution a General
wei the head of Patrick Henry, serves
- c1orr that <hrc cnp ,ocCaccoI ~
those troubled times the materials out
of which soldiers are made, and that
this was known abroad.
In the year 1888 an Irish gentleman
with his wife and two young children
| sailed from Ireland for America. Land
ing first in Charleston they sciourned
in that city for a brief period only, and
then removed to Wilmington. Not
long after their arrival here, the father
sickened and died, and was buried in
the old church-yard of St. James, that
common receptacle of the dead for so
many years gone by. One of those or
phaned children, but five years old
when deprived of the watchful guardi-
anship and tender care of his parent,
was johnson Blakely. He who item
pers the wind to the shorn lamb" watch
ed over that helpless boy and raised up
a friend in the person of Edward Jones,
himself an Irishman, and possessing all
the generous impulses SO characteristic
of his race.
Edward Jones was no ordinary man.
He came to Wilmington in 1856, en-
barked in business but was unsuccess-
full. He then turned his attention to