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About Gen. Robert Irwin
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16355150/robert-irwin
A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA with the rank of COLONEL. DAR Ancestor # A060569
William Irwin was one of the early Scotch-Irish settlers in West Pennsborough, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, a few miles southeast of Carlisle. His son, Robert, the eighth of thirteen children, was born August 26, 1740, and was reared with few advantages on his native homestead. When his father died, not long prior to May, 1763, the farm of one hundred acres was purchased of the heirs at 15 pounds each, by their elder brother, John Irwin, and with this Robert Irwin commenced life and wended his way to the Steele Creek settlement in Mecklenburg. He was soon after united in marriage with Mary Alexander, daughter of Zebulon Alexander, an early emigrant from Pennsylvania. About the period of 1767, Robert Irwin was one of the first bench of elders of Steele Creek Church. He was one of the members of the Mecklenburg Convention in May, 1775, and thenceforward proved himself one of the active leaders of the Mecklenburg people during the war... After having served as a member of the North Carolina Provincial Congress in April and May, 1776, he engaged in General Rutherford's campaign against the Cherokees during the summer and autumn of that year... On the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Phifer, he succeeded him in 1777 as second in command of the Mecklenburg militia.
General Irwin died at his residence in the Steele Creek settlement, in Mecklenburg Co., December 23, 1800, in his 61st year, and was interred in the Steele Creek burial ground, his wife's remains occupying the same grave. On his tombstone is engraved this beautiful and truthful delineation of his character, "Great, noble, generous, good and brave."
[THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, May 20, 1775, AND LIVES OF ITS SIGNERS; p. 110]
Brigadier General Robert Robert Irwin, the son of William Irwin, was born in Pennsylvania (Lancaster County) during 1738.
[AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR LEADERS: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY: P. 194]
Signer of Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
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Gen. Robert Irwin's Timeline
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August 26, 1738
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Carlisle, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1755 |
February 16, 1755
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Steele Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA
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| 1765 |
1765
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Steele Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA
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| 1769 |
1769
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Steele Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA
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| 1770 |
April 18, 1770
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PA, USA
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1770
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Steele Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States
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| 1771 |
October 25, 1771
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Steele Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA
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| 1773 |
March 17, 1773
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Steele Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA
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| 1775 |
September 18, 1775
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Augusta County, Augusta County, Virginia, United States
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