Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-15
ODD INCIDENTS IN AMERICAN
 HISTORY

An author of Sketches of North Caro- lima says that Massachusetts hss her Lady Arabella, Virginia her Pocahontas and North Carolina her Flora Macdonald The name of the pretty Scotch heroine is as inseparably linked with the history of North Carolina as with her own coun- try. It was Flora Macdonald who helped the pretender, Prince Charles Ed ward Stuart, to escape from Scotland after the battle ot Culloden, in waich the boyer of the Highland lairds was de- stroyed.
 For the part Flora played the pretty Scotch girl was imprisoned and after her release she married Allan Macdonald and they emigrated to America, settling in North Carolina in 1775. They had come to America to seek peace, but in stead found disturbance and war. After the termination of the Seven Years War nearly every one of the High land regiments, soldiers as well as of- ficers settled on grants of land in America. Many of the inhbitants of Northwestern Scotland, especially the clans /of Mac Donald and Macleod. listened to over lures from those who dad obtained con sessions of vast domains and migrated 1 to Middle Carolin.
 When Flora and her husband came ] to America they settled in the west of i Cumberland County, North Carolina. At | the time she was fifty five years of age and the mother of many children. Her husband was aged, but still with hair | jet black, of a stately figure, and s countenance that expressed intelligence 1 and steadfastness.
 l Shortly after their arrival in America the Colonial Governor summoned the Highland emigrants to support the royal cuse. On the 10th of January, 177s. 8 commission was issued to Allan Mac Donald, with other Scotchmen, to raise and array, and by the 18th of February march an the Kings loyal subjects iT a body to Brunswick, opposite to vii. mlngton. Donald MacDnold, one of tn. most influential men in the Cross Creek N. C. settlement, who was a kinsfnar of Flcra's was to command the army. Tse Scotch girl herself espoused tht cause of the English monarch. Sae ac. companied her husband when he wen to join the army. At the battle ot Moore's Creek the husband was taker l prisoner and was sent to Halifax, wheT'
 Flora found herself once more in th' condition of 9 fugitive and an outlaw. The MacDonalds, with other Highland CTS, suffered much from the plunering:
 and confiscations to which the royalist. were exposed It is said that F1ora'i
 house was pillaged and her plantation iravaged.
 Allan. after his release, finding hi
 prospects in America unpropitious, deter, mined to return to his native land. Flor; had previously embarked in a sfoop-of
 war, On her voyage home an inciden
 occurred illustrative of the character 0 this remarkable woman The sloop en
 countered a French vessel of war, an,
 an action ensued. The courage of tn Isailors appeared to fail and captur, seemed inevitable, when Flora ascendet
 the quarter deck in the feFeest of tn
 battle, and nothing daunted by a weun,
 received CT according to one account, al
 arm broken in the tumult she encourages
 the men to more desperate conflict.
 The enemy was beaten off and tn
 heroine safely landed on her native sod 4sfShe resi6ed Sfor. Saroe time at ,MItcr