The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-01

a proviso that the act Of creation should
not take effect until March II. 1171. Gov
ernor Tryon, for whose wife. nee Wake
and not Esther Wake"-it was named.
formally signed the charter on May %.
in the latter year.
The first court was held on the 4th of
June, iii, Theophilus Hunter was chair
man, and Joel Lane and his brother JOS
eph were among the members of this
tribunal The other justices were: Ben
jamin Hardy. James Martin. Hardy Sand
ers, Abraham Hill, Thomas Wooten.
James Jones, Tingnall Jones and Thomas
Crawford.
In the early spring of III, when Gov
ernor Tryon raised an army to suppress
the lnsurrection Of the Regulators. the I'm
cipai place of rendezvous for his forces
was Wake Cross Roads. where Raleigh
now stands. Colonel lot Hinton, Lanes
father-in-law then commanded the coun-
~ militia and marched under Tryon 10
the scene of action. in which he bore a
CONSPICUOUS part. OF Colonel Hinton's
conduct on this occasion, and afterwards
at the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge.
during the Revolution, Governor Caswell
says: In both instances | was an eye
witness and can venture to assert he be-
ia ' ~ bcCOilluS bravery ant itSOlu-
ton. At Alamance the Regulators were
routed in the battle fought on May 16.
I'LL. While waiting for reinforcements
during that campaign, Governor Tryon To-
Gated his headquarters near the present
Fayetteville road at Hunters Lodge. the
residence Of Theopilu Hunter. This was
some distance southeast of Spring Hill.
later the home of Theopilus Hunter. Jr.
For three days, from the 9th to the Stn
of May, the army remained there. AS
the old road was 100 rough to carry ar
tllery over, Tryon had q new cut in the
direction of the Regulators country. At
ter a town in Kent, England, he called it
'Ramsgate Road That classic locality
near Raleigh, now known as Ramcat, de-
rives its name from this circumstance.
When the army marched back from Ala
nance. Colonel Hinton's detachment was
disbanded at Wake court house on the
22nd Of June. On the day before this.
Governor Tryon babe his army farewell.
and left for New York. having been APP
pointed Governor of that Province. He was
succeeded, as Governor of North Carolina,
by JOSIAH Martin, who remained in office
until driven out during the Revol Lion.
Whether Joel Lane served in the Ala
nance campaign is not known. but he
probably did, for his name appears as
observation-disclosures of Colonel Hinton's
regiment on 4 roster made out in 1872.
For many years Colonel Lane was a
justice of the county court Of Wake; and
during the war for independence, he was
at one time its presiding justice. Through
out the entire conflict with Great Britain
he served with fidelity with many import
ant civil stations. Together with John
Hinton, Michael Rogers 1Eeophilus Hun
ter, John Hinton and Thomas
Hines, he represented Wake county in
the Provincial Congress at HillsbOrO
in August, 1775, and that body
on September 9, elected him a member
Of the Committee of Safety for the His
borough District. John Hinton and
Michael Rogers were likewise elected
members of this committee. On Septem-
Der 9, 1915, the above named Congress
also elected militia officers for Wake
county as follows: John Hinton, Colonel:
T~heophilus Hunter, Lieutenant-C Colonel:
John Hinton, Jr., First MajO"; Thomas
Hines, Second Major. When the militia
was reorganized, on April y, 1876, these
officers were continued in the came rank.
michael Rogers succeeded Hunter il
ITS; for, by the minute docket Cf the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions il
that year, it appears that OF the 1Htf
Of February, Michael Rogers, ESQ. pre-
duced into court a commission from Ills
Excellency Richard Caswell, Esd, Cove
nor, constituting him Lieutenant Colone-
for the county OF Wake; came mo court
and qualified agreeable to law Hardy
Sanders held that rank to a later period
and James Hinton was either a Cclone.
or a Lieutenant Colonel.
In the Provincial Congress .hich as
sembled at Halifax in April, no, Colone
Lane again represented Wake co ,nty-
His colleagues in this body were .Iohr
Hinton, John Rand, Tingnall cones, an
/ William Hooper. The last named, thougl
rut down as a delegate from Wafe, va;
not a resident of the county, tut cam
from the eastern part of tie State. He
was one of those, who, a few I nthf
/ later, made their names immortal b,
signing the Declaration of independence
, at Philadelphia. While a member of tli!
: Provincial Congress, Mr.. f)oper IS a'st
, a member of the Continental Congress-.
l Colonel Lane did not serve TIC Pro
vincial Congress which 1T PfGfa2
in November 1776. The delegates from
Wake county in that body were Tirgnal
Jones, Michael Rogers, James Jones, Brit
4 ain Fuller, and John Rice.
From February, ITS. till September
g 1779. Joel Lane was Entry Takcr: and
for thirteen terms, represented Wake
county IN the State Senate. At ii at tim,
0 the Legislature met annually, and some
times oftener. During the Revolution
, James Jones was the first to hold the If
0 flee of Senator, in TIT. The followin:
year. Michael Rogers succeeded him an
S held until 1882, when Colonel Lane wa
: elected Up to the year o. his dealt
with the exception of one term when ri
| brother-in-law, James Hinton, defeate'
| him in 1888, Colonel Lane continued I
serve. Those who represented Walk,
= county ii the House Of Comm ms Gurini
the Revolution were: Tohn Ran1. TINS
S nall Jones, Lodowick Afford, Hardy Sand
h orS, Thomas Hines, .fOhn hinton. Jr.
Nathaniel Jones, the elder (of Crabtree)
John HUMPHREYS, Burwell Pope, Jane
Hinton, and Theophilus Hunter.
ION June %, 1881, while the war wa
> raging with its greatest fury, the Legis
lature met at Wake Courthouse. Fo