Online Book: Caswell Connections: Genealogy of the Friends and Relatives of Richard Caswell
2008 Dig: Caswell Family Cemetery, located on the Caswell State Historic Site, in Kinston. including updates and photographs.
2000 Dig: Caswell Cemetery at Vernon Hall including updates and photographs.
Governor Richard Caswell Document Collection in the Lenoir County, NC Archives
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Richard Caswell was the first Governor of the independent state of North Carolina. He was the only one ever to serve for six one year terms, and the only one ever from Lenoir (then Dobbs) County. Caswell was distinguished also among governors of the newly independent states for having directly participated in the Revolutionary battles. While serving in the militia with rank of colonel in 1771, Caswell saw action under Governor Tryon in the Battle of Alamance. Three years later the First Provincial Congress met at New Bern to name delegates to the First Continental Congress, opening in Philadelphia on September 5, 1775. In May 1775, whileenroute to the Continental Congress, Colonel Caswell learned of the April 19th battles at Lexington and Concord. By the time he returned to North Carolina, Colonial Governor Josiah Martin had fled the Royal Palace, Tryon, at New Bern, taking refuge on a British warship at the mouth of Cape Fear River. Military preparations increased throughout North Carolina and Caswell was named commander of the militia in one of the six military districts. Then, at the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge on Feb. 27, 1776, Caswell led some 1,100 Whig troops who ambushed the Tories, upset British invasion plans and made him a hero of the Revolution.
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George Washington to Richard Caswell, March 28, 1778 on Dobbers
Searching For Richard Caswell's Grave: The Evidence By Ted Sampley Olde Kinston Gazette |
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