Saturday, September 20, 2014

DAR Meeting on October 8th

The next meeting of the Brunswick Town Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution will be held on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, at the Trinity Methodist Church in Southport, NC at 10 AM. The program will be on the American Gold Star Mother, Inc. given by Norma Luther and Vivan Sharver. For more information contact regent, Jackie Craft  at (910-755-7563) or registrar, Cindy Sellers  at (910-457-6988.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Grave Marking






Machpelah Presbyterian Church, Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina
  
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GRAVE MARKING CEREMONIES AT MACHPELAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND PLONK FAMILY CEMETERY, LINCOLN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY, SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION HONOR LOCAL PATRIOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
 
The North Carolina Society
 Sons of the American Revolution
 
The Mecklenburg & Catawba Valley Chapters
of the North Carolina Society, SAR
invite you to attend a Patriot Grave Marking Ceremony honoring
General Joseph Graham
and Captain Alexander Brevard
 
 
Historic Machpelah Presbyterian Church
Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina
 
The church's address is:
 
Joseph Graham enlisted as a Private in the 4th Regt. NC, Continental Line. While at Bladensburg, Maryland, and hearing of the Battle of Monmouth on June 11, the 4th NC was sent south in late 1778 to meet the British threat in Georgia and South Carolina. He later served as Adjutant, Captain, and then Major in command of the Mecklenburg Country Dragoons from 1779-1781. Graham and his men fought in 15 engagements across North Carolina and in South Carolina during the American Revolution. He served as a Brigadier General with the North Carolina militia in General Andrew Jackson's "Creek Indian Campaign" during the War of 1812. Afterward, he was Major General of the 5th Division, North Carolina Militia. Graham Street, a major thoroughfare in Charlotte, is named in his honor. He is an ancestor of the Rev. Billy Graham.
 
Alexander Brevard served as Ensign in the 4th North Carolina, and later First Lieutenant in the 1st North Carolina, Continental Line, from 1776-1778, until ill health while at Valley Forge forced him to return to North Carolina. He served as Captain of the 1st North Carolina and Quartermaster to Gen. Gates, participating in the battles of Camden and Eutaw Springs, where he was cited for gallantry. Brevard had a total of 84 months of Continental service, and was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati.
 
Both men were leaders of iron manufacturing in Lincoln County after the Revolution, partnering with their father in law, Major John Davidson, a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.  
  
Grave Marking and
Highway Marker Dedication
Honoring
Patriot Jacob Plonk II
Sponsored by:
Mecklenburg Chapter, NCSSAR, and
Lincoln County Historical Association

 Plonk Family Cemetery
1550 Old Lincolnton Crouse Rd.
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Lincoln County Historical Association
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE


“I______do acknowledge the United States of America to be Free, Independent and Sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance  or obedience to George the Third, King of Great Britain; and I renounce, refute and abjure any allegiance or obedience to him; and I do swear that I will to the upmost of my power support, maintain and defend, the said United States, against the said King George the Third, his heirs and successors, and his and their abettors, assistants and adherents; and will serve the said United States in the office of ____”

Those words were sworn to on May 30 1778 at Valley Forge by officers and soldiers in the Continental Army.  The oath was deemed a necessity to ensure that only those loyal to the cause of creating a new country were serving in the army.  Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord some states began forming state militias requiring all able-bodied men, usually beginning at age 16-21, and to drill on a regular basis. 

Earlier the Minute Men had sworn this oath:
“We trust in God that should the state of our affairs require it, we shall be ready to sacrifice our estates and everything we hold dear in life, yea, and life itself, in support of the common cause.”

Most states began requiring their own oaths in 1777.  They required everyone to take an oath of allegiance promising to defend the revolutionary cause with arms. Refusal often met with fines, prison sentences and confiscation of property.  Loyalists fled back to England or into Canada rather than take the oaths and members of pacifist religions struggled to hold onto their property.
Records of those who took the oath survive in many states and some court records show suits brought after the war to regain confiscated property.
Taking the oath of allegiance can be used as proof of a patriot for DAR.

Posted by Diane Price