Capt. James Outlaw

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA with the rank of LIEUTENANT. DAR Ancestor #: A084952

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Capt. Outlaw was the son of Edward Outlaw III and Patience Whitfield. On the 25th of April 1769, he married his cousin, Elizabeth "Betsy" Graddy, daughter of John Graddy and Mary Whitfield. They had the following children (in order of birth): Mary, Patience, Elizabeth, John, Edward, James Jr., Alexander, Charity, William, Lewis, and Nancy.

He was a soldier in the Revolution, serving in the Company of his brother, Captain Alexander Outlaw, in an "expedition against the insurgents", 1776, and later as a Lieutenant; Commissioner of the town of Sarecta (never developed), Duplin County's first established town; Captain in Duplin militia service 1787 and 1788, as shown by tax records from Captain Outlaw's District, and was for nearly thirty years, a Justice of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, serving a part of that time as Chairman of said Court. He built the crossing over North East River, which has since been known as Outlaw's Bridge, in Duplin County.