Note
The Hugh Torance House and Store, built at some point between 1780 and the early 1800s, is one of the few houses to survive from the eighteenth century settlement period of Mecklenburg County. Hugh Torance (1743-1816; also spelled Torrance and Torrence) emigrated to the American colonies from Ireland with his brother Albert around 1763. It is believed that the brothers came as indentured servants. Hugh lived in Pennsylvania for several years prior to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. After taking an oath of allegiance to the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Hugh joined the revolutionary forces and fought in North Carolina with the "Partisan Chargers," a light cavalry company led by Captain Galbraith Falls who was killed on June 20, 1780, at the Battle of Ramsour's Mill in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Records show that Hugh was a disbursing agent for Falls' militia and probably stayed in the army until 1781