Person:Joseph McDowell (4)

Land Acquisitons in NC

• 1778, Land Entry Book, Burke County, NC; No. 98. Joseph McDowell enters in Burke County Six hundred and forth acres of land Joyning on Main French broad river beginning the Norwirtlede and including the mouth of the South fork and a Clen? brake lying in the forks including the Mill Seat on the South Fork with a tree marked IMD and running up both sides the main River for Complement February the 2d 1778.

• 1778, Land Entry Book, Burke County, NC: No. 105. Joseph McDowell enters in Burke County 300 acres of land on French Broad River lying on the first large Bottom above James Greenlees Entry including both Sides of said River running up for Complement. Entered Janry 2d. 1778.

• 1778, Land Entry Book, Burke County, NC: No. 125. Joseph McDowell enters in Burke County 640 Acres of Land Johns River Joining James McKenys lines and running up both sides of the Creek and Joining John Perkins Lines and including said McDowells improvements for complement. Febuary 5th 1778.

About Joseph McDowell

In July of 1776 when only 20 years of age, he was named a major and helped defend a fort containing 120 women and children with his brother Charles and nine other men against the Chorokee's. In 1779 he fought in Stono expedition. In the revolutionary forces he served under his brother, Charles, Commander of the district, and fought in all the battles of western North Carolina that followed the invasion of the British in 1780, including Ramsour's Mill, Earle's Ford on the Pacolet, Musgrose's Mill. His brother's troops having disbandedd, Joseph was made Major and commanded the Morth Carolina Militia in the battle of King's Mountain. He was subsequently made General of militia. Entering the service of the state at the close of the war, he was sent to the house of commoins in 1787, serving until 1792. In 1788 he was a delegate to the North Carolina consitutional convention, in which he was a leader of the opposition that rejected the federal constitution. He passed from the house of commons to congress in 1797, where for seven years he was an active opponent of teh federalists, serving in 1787 as a commissioner for settling the boundary line between Tennessee and North Carolina. He wielded a strong influence as a Republican leader in this section of the state. Will: 16 March 1801. Wife Margaret McDowell. My two sons Hugh Harvey McDowell and Joseph Jefferson McDowell. Lots in the city of Raleigh. Lands in Tennessee and Kentucky. Exec. wife Margaret, Henry Hilard, William W. Erwin. Wit. John Erwin, Henry Hilard, W. W. Erwin. source: LaGroon Redmond via internet

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Col. Joseph MCDOWELL BIRTH: 08 MAR 1756, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia DEATH: 11 AUG 1801, North Carolina BURIAL: , John's River Plantation, Burke County, North Carolina Father: Joseph MCDOWELL Mother: Margaret O'NEILL

Family 1: Margaret MOFFETT

MARRIAGE: 1783

Sarah MCDOWELL

Elizabeth MCDOWELL

Margaret MCDOWELL

Hannah MCDOWELL

Hugh Harvey MCDOWELL

Celia MCDOWELL

Clarissa MCDOWELL

Joseph Jefferson MCDOWELL

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

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