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Opposing Views

 "Leave off all opposition to British Authority.  If you do not, I shall march my army over the mountains, hang your leaders, and lay the country waste with fire and sword."

"I am on Kings Mountain, I am king of this mountain, and God Almighty and all the rebels in Hell cannot drive me from it."


   Colonel Patrick Ferguson, 71st Regiment, Highland Light Infantry, October, 1780		 "WE will decide who is to be hung!"

When asked, "How many are there of you?"
"Enough to whip Ferguson if we can find him!"

"Act as your own Officer." An exhortation to the Overmountain Men who were members of a militia with no set chain of command)


   Overmountain Men and Patriot militia under the commands of Isaac Shelby, John Sevier, Charles McDowell, William Campbell, and Benjamin Cleveland, October, 1780

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     Thomas Nathan Clark has had a long and prestigious relationship with the SAR, having held offices at all levels within the organization. Nat currently serves as the Registrar for the Alamance Battleground Chapter, NCSSAR, where he held the post of Founding President from 1990 to 1992. In the North Carolina Society, Nat currently chairs several committees: Constitution (Charter) and Bylaws, Resolutions/Memorials, and Parliamentarian. He has served as a Trustee to the National Society for North Carolina for 4 years and served at the National Society level as Vice President General for the Southeastern Region from 1997 to 1998.  He presently holds concurrent membership in  2 chapters.

     Nat Clark has been presented a total of 23 medals, awarded at every level of the SAR.  The most prestigious of these is the Minuteman Award, the highest award presented in the SAR as a whole.  He has also received the Florence Kendall award for sponsoring 150 new members to the SAR. Nat has registered 2 Supplementals, although he has recorded the genealogy for many more.

     Nat's most cherished memory while a member of the SAR was the day he received the Minuteman Award.  Since then, he's remarked that he's happiest while working at the Chapter level.  

     Edward Hale served in the American Army in the early period of the Revolution, and later, in 1779, came across the Alleghanies into the New River Valley and settled on Wolf Creek.  He was born about 1750, was a man of  rather small stature, fair complexion and blue eyes, was a man of information and intelligence, and became a prominent figure on the border in his day, engaging in the Indian wars, fights and skirmishes. 

     Edward Hale marched with Captain Shannon's company to North Carolina, in February, 1781, and was in the engagement at Wetzell's Mills, on the 6th day of March, and at Guilford Court House on the 15th day of the same month. 

    Years later, Edward was with a party under one Captain Matthew Farley that followed a band of Indians in the summer of 1783, after their attack on Mitchell Clay's family on the Bluestone at Clover Bottom; he was in the skirmish they had with a group of these Indians on Pond Fork of Little Coal River, in which he killed an Indian at the first fire. In 1785 Edward Hale married Miss patsy Perdue, a daughter of Uriah Perdue, then recently removed from what is now Franklin County, Virginia.

From A History of The Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory
 by David E. Johnston, 1906
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