Henry Harrison Macon

Henry Harrison. Born in 1751. Died in 1795. He married Hannah Glenn in 1772. They had 9 children between 1773 and 1789. Henry served in the North Carolina militia during the Revolutionary war, under Col. Benjamin Seawell, (the same family Henry’s sister, Martha married into), with his brother, Maj. John. They participated in the battle of Camden on Aug. 10,1780. In this battle, Henry was wounded and captured by the British and sent to the prison at Charleston, South Carolina. He was a prisoner for several months. After Henry was out of prison, the state records of North Carolina quote a letter from the Hon. Thomas Persons to Governor Thomas Burke, dated July 26, 1781, stating that he had “granted leave, (from the military), to Capt. Henry Harrison Macon to ship tobacco to defray debt contracted whilst he was a prisoner at Charles Towne”. The Macon family was growing tobacco on Macon Manor plantation since about 1744. Henry also served in the House of Commons in North Carolina in 1783. After Henry died, Hannah and the children were listed in the 1790 census for Franklin County, North Carolina.