Person:John Long (159)

Information on John Long

From "A History of Rowan County, North Carolina", by Jethro Rumple, pg. 183"

About six miles northeast of Salisbury, where Grant's Creek pours its yellow waters into the Yadkin, there was a large farm and spacious dwelling, owned by Alexander Long, Esq. Somewhere about 1756, there appeared in Rowan County a man who is designated in a deed, dated October 1757, as John Long, gentleman. He purchased a tract of land - six hundred and twenty acres - on the ridge between Grant's Creek and Crane Creek, adjoining the township land. In 1758, he received a title from the Earl of Granville for six hundred and eight acres on the "Draughts of Grant's Creek." Also six hundred and forty acres on Crane Creek, adjoining his own. Also six hundred and four acres on Second Creek; besides some town lots in Salisbury - altogether between twenty-five hundred and three thousand acres of land. According to records of the Inferior Court for 1756, pg. 400, John Long had some transactions with William and Joseph Long, of Lancaster County, Pa. - perhaps brothers, or other relatives of his. According to deeds and letters of administration, his wife's name was Hester. These were the parents of Alexander Long, Esq., of Yadkin. In the year 1760, the Cherokee Indians were on the warpath, and Col. Hugh Waddell was stationed with a regiment of infantry, at the new village of Salisbury, for the protection of the western settlements. Tradition says that John Long was killed by Indians in an expedition against a settlement of them in Turkey Cove, on the North Fork of the Catawba River, not far from Pleasant Gardens. The records of the Inferior Court of 1760, pg. 293, have this entry: Upon motion of Mr. Dunn, ordered that Hester Long, relict of John Long deceased, have administration of the estate of her late husband, John Long [and that] Martin Pipher, John Howard, and Thomas Parker be bound in six hundred pounds (£600). She took the oath of administratrix." Tradition states that Hester Long afterwards married George Magoune, by whom she was the mother of a daughter that became the wife of Maxwell Chambers. The Court records of April, 1763, pg. 461, have this entry: "William Long vs. George Magoune et uxor., administrator John Long." Alexander Long, probably the only child of John Long, was born January 16, 1758, and became heir to the vast area of fertile lands entered and purchased by his father.