Thomas Hadley

DAR Ancestor #: A049019

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He came to Bladen County, NC and settled in that part that became Cumberland County, NC in 1754; resided in Cross Creek, now Fayetteville, NC. On 12 Nov 1776 he represented Campbellton at the North Carolina Constitutional Convention. Cane Creek MM, Orange County, NC on 3 Feb 1776, Thomas disowned (for his activities in the Revolutionary War). Assassinated by a party of Tories under the command of Col. Hector McNeill at his home on Cape Fear River, 11 miles from Cross Creek, on the night following the Battle of Cross Creek in which he fought." [(Genealogical data per "Notes on the Quaker Family of Hadley" by Chalmers Hadley, 1916) taken from web site of Jerry F. Richmond, Quaker Collection: HADLEY Line.]

.Thomas Hadley was Captain of a troop of light horsemen and was killed while defending his home near Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1781..... Cross Creek, NC (later Fayetteville) was the home of Thomas Hadley. Farquar Campbell was a close friend of Thomas Hadley. After the Scotch Tories shot and killed Captain Thomas Hadley, Farquar Campbell swore revenge and reportedly chased the man who shot him away from the area. Farquar played both sides during the revolution and there is much misinformation about him.

GEDCOM Note

Became a captian in the Whig cause and died during the RevolutionaryWar.