Welsh Tract
Inscription
About 1730 a group of Welsh from the colony of
Pennsylvania settled in this
area, between the Northeast
and Cape Fear rivers.
Location
Sources
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Alexander Lillington
Rocky Point, NC
Revolutionary leader, Whig colonel in the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, 1776.
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Confederate breastworks were constructed in this vicinity in 1862 to pro- tect Wilmington from an attack from the north and for...
Timothy Bloodworth
U.S. Senator, 1795-1801; member, U.S. House, in First Congress, 1790-91.
Hinton James
First student to enter the University of North Carolina, 1795.
S. S. Satchwell
Burgaw, NC
A founder of State Medical Society, 1849, head of Confederate Hospital at Wilson, 1st president State Board of Health, 1879.