William R Davie
American
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1780/07/30 | Major William Richardson Davie, with 40 dragoons and 40 mounted riflemen, attacks a garrisoned house near the British stronghold at Hanging Rock. He took about 60 horses and 100 stand of arms. | Patriot Major | Battle of Hanging Rock Historic Site | Heath Springs | Battle of Hanging Rock | ||
1780/08/06 | About 600 Patriot militia of the Carolinas led by Col Thomas Sumter destroy a British camp, killing and wounding over 200 British Regulars. The patriots had they not started looting the stores of the British Camp that included their stores of rum. | Patriot Commander | Battle of Hanging Rock Historic Site | Heath Springs | Battle of Hanging Rock | ||
1782/00/00 | General William Richardson Davie retires from the military and established a farm in Halifax, North Carolina. | Significant Home | William R Davie House | Halifax, NC | |||
1793/10/12 | Cornerstone of Old East is laid | Founder | Old East, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, NC | |||
1820/11/29 | William R Davie dies at his Tivoli estate in 1820. Lansford is the site of "Tivoli," the last home of Governor Davies. | Died | Landsford Canal | Landsford Canal State Park | |||
1820/12/00 | At sometime, William Richardson Davie is buried at Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery | In Memoriam | Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery | Lancaster |
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