Map showing Fourth Creek area for Hugh Hall Farm

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Map showing "Fourth Creek" area for Hugh Hall Farm

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Settlement The British colonists who established themselves on the western edge of North Carolina almost all originated in Pennsylvania. Many began moving south in the mid-1730’s, some settling in western Maryland and Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley for several years before following the Great Wagon Road to western NC as early as 1749. The settlers were drawn by inexpensive, fertile land. North Carolina was also far removed from the threat of French-allied Native American attacks until the start of the French and Indian War in 1754. By 1755, 35 families had established themselves in what was called the Fourth Creek Settlement (present day Statesville.) These families lived along Third, Fourth, and Fifth Creeks. The descendants of many of these early settlers are still in the area today. Settlers continued to trickle in during the French and Indian War and Anglo-Cherokee War. After the Anglo-Cherokee War was concluded in 1761, settlers began to find their way to the Fourth Creek Settlement in large numbers. By 1765, the Fourth Creek Settlement had 119 landholders living within approximately ten miles of the Fourth Creek Meeting House (established in 1756). In addition to the white settlers, there were at least eleven enslaved people of African descent in the Fourth Creek Settlement by 1765. While most of the settlers were farmers, some skilled tradesmen can be documented. By 1765, there were three blacksmiths, a bricklayer, two carpenters, a clothier, a cooper, two cordwainers, four millers, nine planters, a reverend, a schoolmaster, a shoemaker, a silversmith, two surveyors, four tailors, and five weavers..

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Fourth Creek Settlement Property Owners 1749-1760 by Date of Land Grant ________________________________________ 1749 James MacIlwaine - Surveyor William Morrison – Miller and Planter 1750 James Hannah Henry Hendry - Schoolmaster Henry Huey - Weaver William Watt - Clothier 1751 Joseph Davidson – Daughter Rachel was born at Ft Dobbs on March 23, 1756. 1752 Andrew Allison - Tailor Robert Allison Thomas Allison Sr. - Planter James Hall Sr James Hemphill - Planter Richard Lewis James Miller - Tailor Andrew Morrison James Morrison - Tailor John Oliphant - Miller Moses Potts Alexander Reid Samuel Reid – Cordwainer. Richard Robinson Fergus Sloan James Stewart - Weaver 1753 James Brandon – Miller George Davidson John McElwrath - Planter Robert Simonton 1754 Henry Chambers John McKee Thomas Porter – Cooper 1755 Thomas Allison Sr. - Planter William Archibald Sr. William Eslavin – Weaver John Dobbins - Blacksmith Henry Potts – Planter Michael Robinson 1756 William Grant Patrick Campbell 1757 Mary Armstrong Patrick Duffey Thomas Hall - Weaver William Simonton - Planter Samuel Thornton John Wilson James Woods Robert Woods – Carpenter 1758 James King John Knox - Blacksmith William Ireland – Cordwainer Samuel Snoddy 1760 Allen Alexander George Elliot - Blacksmith Christopher Erwin Thomas Gillespie George Hall Walter Lindsay James Potts William White