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Rowan County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina that was formed in 1753,as part of the British Province of North Carolina. It was originally a vast territory with unlimited western boundaries,but its size was reduced to 524 sq mi after several counties were formed from Rowan County in the 18th and 19th centuries. As of the 2020 census,its population was 146,875. Its county seat,Salisbury,is the oldest continuously populated European-American town in the western half of North Carolina. Rowan County is located northeast of Charlotte,and is considered part of the Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia,NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The first Vandalia was an 18-gun sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the Second Seminole War and the American Civil War. She was named for the city of Vandalia,Illinois.
The third USS Alligator was a schooner in the United States Navy.
The Governor Ames was the first five-masted schooner. In the late 19th century,she was the world's largest cargo vessel.
Fort Edward is a National Historic Site of Canada in Windsor,Nova Scotia,and was built during Father Le Loutre's War (1749-1755). The British built the fort to help prevent the Acadian Exodus from the region. The Fort is most famous for the role it played both in the Expulsion of the Acadians (1755) and in protecting Halifax,Nova Scotia from a land assault in the American Revolution. While much of Fort Edward has been destroyed,including the officers' quarters and barracks,the blockhouse that remains is the oldest extant in North America. A cairn was later added to the site.
Sydney Cove was the Bengal country ship Begum Shaw that new owners purchased in 1796 to carry goods to Sydney Cove,and renamed for her destination. She was wrecked in 1797 on Preservation Island off Tasmania while on her way from Calcutta to Port Jackson. She was among the first ships wrecked on the east coast of Australia.
Arthur Dobbs was a British colonial official who served as the seventh governor of North Carolina from 1754 until 1764.
Griffith Rutherford was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War,a political leader in North Carolina,and an important figure in the early history of the Southwest Territory and the state of Tennessee.
HMS Tyger,often spelled Tiger,was a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy,built by Peter Pett II at Woolwich and launched in 1647. The term 'frigate' during the period of this ship referred to a method of construction,rather than a role which did not develop until the following century. Tyger was the third ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name,and by successive rebuildings she served for almost a century until she was wrecked in the Dry Tortugas in 1742. The ship's crew was stranded on Garden Key for 56 days,fighting off Spanish attempts to capture them,and then spent another 56 days sailing in small boats 700 miles (1,100 km) to Port Royal,Jamaica. Remarkably,only five crew members died during this period:three killed by the Spanish,and two others of natural causes. Six crewmen were captured and imprisoned by the Spanish. The captain and three of his lieutenants were court-martialed over the wreck and subsequent events.
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HMS Porpoise was a 12-gun sloop-of-war originally built in Bilbao,Spain,as the packet ship Infanta Amelia. On 6 August 1799 HMS Argo captured her off the coast of Portugal. Porpoise wrecked in 1803 on the North coast of what was then part of the Colony of New South Wales,now called Wreck Reefs,off the coast of Queensland,Australia.
American colonial marines were various naval infantry units which served during the Revolutionary War on the Patriot side. After the conflict broke out in 1775,nine of the rebelling Thirteen Colonies established state navies to carry out naval operations. Accordingly,several marine units were raised to serve as an infantry component aboard the ships of these navies. The marines,along with the navies they served in,were intended initially as a stopgap measure to provide the Patriots with naval capabilities before the Continental Navy reached a significant level of strength. After its establishment,state navies,and the marines serving in them,participated in several operations alongside the Continental Navy and its marines.
General Hugh Waddell was an Irish-born American military officer in the Province of North Carolina prior to the American Revolutionary War. Waddell formed and led a provincial militia unit in Rowan County,North Carolina and the Ohio River Valley during the French and Indian War and the Anglo-Cherokee War,and supervised the construction of Fort Dobbs near the settlement of the Fourth Creek Congregation. His career was well-served by close connections to several provincial governors of North Carolina.
Captain The Hon. Robert Boyle-Walsingham was an Irish Royal Navy officer and member of parliament. He was killed in the Great Hurricane of 1780 while serving as a commodore in HMS Thunderer.
Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755),also known as the Indian War,the Mi'kmaq War and the Anglo-Mi'kmaq War,took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict,the British and New England colonists were led by British officer Charles Lawrence and New England Ranger John Gorham. On the other side,Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre led the Mi'kmaq and the Acadia militia in guerrilla warfare against settlers and British forces. At the outbreak of the war there were an estimated 2500 Mi'kmaq and 12,000 Acadians in the region.
Silvanus Cobb was a Massachusetts provincial army captain and later naval commander who fought for the British primarily in Nova Scotia in the 1740s and 1750s.
James Innes was an American military commander and political figure in the Province of North Carolina who led troops both at home and abroad in the service of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Innes was given command of a company of North Carolina's provincial soldiers during the War of Jenkins' Ear,and served as Commander-in-Chief of all colonial soldiers in the Ohio River Valley in 1754 during the French and Indian War. After resigning his commission in 1756,Innes retired to his home on the Cape Fear River. A bequest made by Innes upon his death lead to the establishment of Innes Academy in Wilmington,North Carolina.
The Battle of Blomidon took place on 21 May 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. The naval battle involved three armed U.S. privateer vessels against three Nova Scotian vessels off Cape Split,Nova Scotia. American Privateers caught two Nova Scotia Vessels. The first Nova Scotia vessel was re-captured by Lieut Benjamin Belcher. The second Nova Scotia vessel was overtaken by the captured crew under the command of Captain Bishop. The privateers were taken to Cornwallis and put on trial.
The Province of Nova Scotia was heavily involved in the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). At that time,Nova Scotia also included present-day New Brunswick until that colony was created in 1784. The Revolution had a significant impact on shaping Nova Scotia,"almost the 14th American Colony". At the beginning,there was ambivalence in Nova Scotia over whether the colony should join the Americans in the war against Britain. Largely as a result of American privateer raids on Nova Scotia villages,as the war continued,the population of Nova Scotia solidified their support for the British. Nova Scotians were also influenced to remain loyal to Britain by the presence of British military units,judicial prosecution by the Nova Scotia Governors and the efforts of Reverend Henry Alline.
The Sylph was a 19th-century pilot boat first built in 1834,by Whitmore &Holbrook for John Perkins Cushing as a Boston yacht and pilot-boat for merchant and ship owner Robert Bennet Forbes. She won the first recorded American yacht race in 1835. She was a pilot boat in the Boston Harbor in 1836 and 1837 and sold to the New York and Sandy Hook Pilots in October 1837. She was lost in winter of 1857 with all hands during a blizzard off Barnegat,New Jersey. The second Sylph was built in 1865 from a half-model by Dennison J. Lawlor. The third Sylph was built in 1878 at North Weymouth,Massachusetts for Boston Pilots. She was sold out of service in 1901,after 23 years of Boston pilot service.
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- ↑ "Rowan, Matthew". North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
- ↑ Cartwright, Steve. ""Grand Design" lured 18th century immigrants to a tragic end". The Working Waterfront Archives. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
