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			James Frederick Haworth
			birt: 10 OCT 1719 plac: Bucks Co., Pennsylvania deat: 10 OCT 1757 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia marr: 3 NOV 1743 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia
		George Haworth
		birt: 28 DEC 1749/50 plac: Frederick Co., Virginia Hopewell MM deat: 4 DEC 1837 plac: Vermillion Co., Indiana marr: 3 OCT 1807 plac: Center MM, Clinton Co., Ohio marr: 11 AUG 1773 plac: Frederick Co., Virginia Hopewell MM
			Sarah Wood
			birt: ABT 1720 deat: 20 JUN 1769 marr: 3 NOV 1743 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia
	Mahlon Haworth
	birt: 23 OCT 1775 plac: Newberry Co., South Carolina deat: 23 MAR 1850 plac: Clinton Co, Ohio marr: ABT 1793 plac: Greene Co., Tennessee
			Daniel Dillon
			birt: 4 SEP 1713 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina deat: 22 NOV 1805 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina marr: 1743 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina
		Susannah Dillon
		birt: 24 NOV 1755 deat: ABT 1804 marr: 11 AUG 1773 plac: Frederick Co., Virginia Hopewell MM
			Lydia Hodgson
			birt: 1724 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina deat: 29 MAY 1800 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina marr: 1743 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina
James Haworth
birt: OCT 1817 plac: Clinton Co, Ohio deat: AUG 1826 plac: Clinton Co, Ohio
		Ezekiel Frazier
		birt: 1752 deat: 1833 marr:
	Phebe Frazier
	birt: 27 JUL 1775 deat: 20 MAY 1853 marr: ABT 1793 plac: Greene Co., Tennessee
		Rebecca Thomas
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Richard M. Haworth

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				James Frederick Haworth
				birt: 10 OCT 1719 plac: Bucks Co., Pennsylvania deat: 10 OCT 1757 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia marr: 3 NOV 1743 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia
			George Haworth
			birt: 28 DEC 1749/50 plac: Frederick Co., Virginia Hopewell MM deat: 4 DEC 1837 plac: Vermillion Co., Indiana marr: 3 OCT 1807 plac: Center MM, Clinton Co., Ohio marr: 11 AUG 1773 plac: Frederick Co., Virginia Hopewell MM
				Sarah Wood
				birt: ABT 1720 deat: 20 JUN 1769 marr: 3 NOV 1743 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia
		Mahlon Haworth
		birt: 23 OCT 1775 plac: Newberry Co., South Carolina deat: 23 MAR 1850 plac: Clinton Co, Ohio marr: ABT 1793 plac: Greene Co., Tennessee
				Daniel Dillon
				birt: 4 SEP 1713 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina deat: 22 NOV 1805 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina marr: 1743 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina
			Susannah Dillon
			birt: 24 NOV 1755 deat: ABT 1804 marr: 11 AUG 1773 plac: Frederick Co., Virginia Hopewell MM
				Lydia Hodgson
				birt: 1724 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina deat: 29 MAY 1800 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina marr: 1743 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina
	Richard M. Haworth
	birt: 1 APR 1824 plac: Clinton Co, Ohio deat: 12 OCT 1902 plac: Hendricks Co., Indiana Elizabeth West marr: 23 MAR 1843 plac: Dover MM, Clinton Co., Ohio birt: 10 JUL 1822 deat: 1862
			Ezekiel Frazier
			birt: 1752 deat: 1833 marr:
		Phebe Frazier
		birt: 27 JUL 1775 deat: 20 MAY 1853 marr: ABT 1793 plac: Greene Co., Tennessee
			Rebecca Thomas
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Edith Hadley


			Joshua Hadley
			birt: 6 MAR 1703 plac: Kings Co., Ireland deat: 21 OCT 1772 plac: Orange Co., North Carolina marr: 22 SEP 1725 marr: 1735
		Jeremiah Hadley
		birt: 7 JAN 1741 plac: New Castle Co., Delaware deat: 3 NOV 1786 plac: Chatham Co., North Carolina marr: 2 MAY 1757
			Patience Brown
			birt: 12 MAY 1712 deat: 23 MAY 1783 marr: 1735
	James Hadley
	birt: 31 JAN 1774 plac: Chatham Co., North Carolina deat: 19 AUG 1845 plac: Clinton Co, Ohio marr:
		Mary Dickey
		birt: 2 JUN 1744 plac: Ireland deat: 1 JAN 1844 marr: 2 MAY 1757
Edith Hadley
birt: 17 JUL 1796 plac: Chatham Co., North Carolina deat: ABT 1857 plac: Clinton Co, Ohio George Dillon Haworth marr: 4 SEP 1817 plac: Newberry MM, Clinton Co., Ohio birt: 29 MAY 1797 plac: Greene Co., Tennessee deat: 27 JUN 1881 plac: Clinton Co, Ohio
			Samuel Underwood
			birt: 1712 plac: New Castle on Delware, Pennsylvania deat: MAR 1773 plac: Orange Co., North Carolina marr: 10 MAR 1738
		James Underwood
		birt: 2 MAY 1752 plac: Chatham Co., North Carolina deat: 24 MAY 1834 plac: Clearcreek, Highland Co., Ohio marr: marr:
			Ann Travilla
			birt: ABT 1721 deat: 1804 marr: 10 MAR 1738
	Ann Underwood
	birt: 16 FEB 1778 plac: Chatham Co., North Carolina deat: 19 MAR 1845 plac: Clinton Co, Ohio marr:
			Laughlin Campbell
			birt: deat: 22 JAN 1791 plac: Randolph Co., North Carolina
		Margaret Campbell
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Richard Haworth


		George Haworth
		birt: ABT 1682 plac: Rockcliffe, Bacup, Lancashire, England deat: 28 JAN 1724 plac: Bucks County, Pennsylvania marr: 1710 plac: Falls MM, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
	James Frederick Haworth
	birt: 10 OCT 1719 plac: Bucks Co., Pennsylvania deat: 10 OCT 1757 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia marr: 3 NOV 1743 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia
			John Scarborough
			birt: deat: 1727 marr:
		Sarah Scarborough
		birt: 4 APR 1694 deat: 4 MAY 1748 marr: 1710 plac: Falls MM, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
			Mary Pierson
			birt: deat: marr:
Richard Haworth
birt: 31 6M 1744 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia deat: 21 FEB 1813 plac: Jefferson Co., Tennessee Ann Dillon marr: 10 MAY 1765 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia birt: 3 OCT 1746 deat: ABT 1844
	Sarah Wood
	birt: ABT 1720 deat: 20 JUN 1769 marr: 3 NOV 1743 plac: Frederick Co, Virginia

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Anne Dillon


		Luke Dillon
		birt: 1691 plac: Killarney, Kerry, Ireland deat: 1717 plac: Hopewell MM, Frederick Co., Virginia marr: 1710 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina
	Daniel Dillon
	birt: 4 SEP 1713 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina deat: 22 NOV 1805 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina marr: 1743 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina
		Susannah Garrett
		birt: 1693 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina deat: marr: 1710 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina
Anne Dillon
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	Lydia Hodgson
	birt: 1724 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina deat: 29 MAY 1800 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina marr: 1743 plac: New Garden, Guilford Co., North Carolina

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Joshua Hadley

< Denny Porterfield Hadley birt: 17 JUN 1797 deat: 19 MAY 1872 plac: Brentwood, Tennessee marr: 15 JAN 1821
				Simon Hadley
				birt: 1675 plac: Moate, Co. Westmeath, Ireland deat: MAY 1756 plac: Chester Co., Pennsylvania marr: 1697 plac: Ireland marr: 22 JUL 1752
			Joshua Hadley
			birt: 6 MAR 1703 plac: Kings Co., Ireland deat: 21 OCT 1772 plac: Orange Co., North Carolina marr: 22 SEP 1725 marr: 1735
				Ruth Miller
				birt: 1677 plac: Ireland deat: marr: 1697 plac: Ireland
		Thomas Hadley
		birt: deat: JUL 1781 plac: Carvers Creek, Cumberland Co., North Carolina marr:
				Thomas Rowland
				birt: deat: marr:
			Mary Rowland
			birt: 1706 deat: marr: 22 SEP 1725
				Mary Mason
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	Joshua Hadley
	birt: 13 JUL 1753 plac: Virginia deat: 1830 Hannah Holmes marr: birt: deat:
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Cumberland County patriot fought hard By Roy Parker Jr. For combat experience in the American War of Independence, Joshua Hadley ranks among Cumberland County's top soldiers. As an officer in the Continental Army, Hadley fought under George Washington at the Battle of Germantown, Pa., in 1777, and under Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, S.C., in 1781. Hadley paid a price in both of these fierce engagements. He was listed among the wounded at Germantown and Eutaw Springs. Hadley was no sunshine patriot. He was in on the beginning of the War of Independence in 1775. And he was still in uniform months after most others had gone home as the war wound down in 1782. Hadley is among the 58 signers of "the association," the defiant anti-British statement circulated in the village of Cross Creek in the summer of 1775, soon after the war had erupted in New England. As such, his name appears on the stone listing those early patriots. The stone stands in a little park at the intersection of Old and Person streets in downtown Fayetteville. Hadley is one of two signers of the document who held commissions in the Continental Line. The other, Arthur Council, was a captain by 1776, who apparently died while in service in 1777. A volunteer first Hadley apparently saw military action first in a volunteer company of patriots raised by Robert Rowan, who circulated "the association," and commanded by Arthur Council. The unit may have been at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in February 1776, when a Patriot force smashed an "army" of Loyalists. Hadley was paid for 25 days service in the unit, and the Patriot government of North Carolina also reimbursed him "for one rifle taken by a party of Tories (Loyalists)." He was paid for 25 days service in Council's company. In addition, he was paid for guarding a Loyalist prisoner, James Hepburn, and "escorting" him first to Wilmington and then to the Patriot prisioner-of-war camp in Halifax. No other Cumberland County soldier of the War of Independence can match the scope and breadth of Joshua Hadley's record as a Continental officer. Yet, tracing more than the bare bones of a North Carolina military career in the War of Independence is always difficult because of the scarcity of records and conflicts in some records. Just the facts Despite his evident service over time and space in the long conflict, Joshua Hadley is no exception. We know the dates of his commissions in which North Carolina regiments of the Continental Line. We know he was wounded at Germantown and Eutaw Springs. He enlisted in the 6th North Carolina Regiment of the Continental Line on April 1, 1777, as a member of "Taylor's company" with a commission as lieutenant. In June 1788, he was transferred to the 1st North Carolina Regiment. He was commissioned captain in the 10th Regiment on June 13, 1779. This was a "shadowy unit" that never really existed as a coherent fighting force. Some facts missing But other questions must go unanswered. Was he at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78, when Washington's little army survived the hellish winter that followed the autumn campaign in New Jersey and Pennsylvania? Further, was Hadley among the North Carolina Continent- als who surrendered when British forces captured the South Carolina port of Charleston in 1780? What was he doing in the 46 months between his service with Gen. Washington and his role in the battle in the Southern theater of the war? The skimpy evidence seems to be that Hadley was not at Charleston, that he was back in Cumberland County for much of the time between the battles at Germantown, which took place on Oct. 11, 1777, and Eutaw Springs, which took place in September 1781. In 1779, for instance, Hadley appears in Cumberland County governmental records as captain of a tax district. By then, his father, Thomas Hadley, was Patriot sheriff of Cumberland County, in charge of tax-collecting. In 1780, he acquires property, including lots in Cross Creek, future Fayetteville, and near the Hadley family's principal seat of residence, between the Lower and Upper Little rivers near Carvers Creek in northeastern Cumberland County. The property is somewhat of a reward for the stalwart patriot. It is sold by the "commissioners of confiscated property," a group charged with disposing of lands and goods of Loyalists, those who refused to join the Patriot cause, who had fled or been banished from Cumberland County. Among the "commissioners" is Pat Travers, Hadley's brother- in-law. Bitter feelings Then, in January 1781, Hadley displays his Patriot credentials by going before a meeting of the Patriot county government where he "makes information against Farquhard Campbell for speaking words injurious against the state." Campbell, a wealthy and influential prewar neighbor of the Hadleys, was branded a Tory as early as 1775, but supposedly has been "rehabilitated" by the time Hadley makes his charge. That Hadley was moved to take such a step at the time reflects the bitter feelings that both Patriots and Loyalists harbored in a county where so many were not joining in the struggle for independence, while others struggled to provide succor for the war effort. The county government put off the case until a later court, issuing subpoenas for Thomas Green and Archibald Smith to testify. But then, however, county government was being overwhelmed by new events. When he was in military action, Joshua Hadley was apparently in the thick of it. At Germantown, where George Washington's Con- tinental Army was winning until his troops began firing on each other in a fog- shrouded Pennsylvania countryside, the North Carolina brigade saw its first action. The confusion among the Continentals set off a panic in which Gen. Francis Nash's North Carolina brigade found itself assailed from all sides by British troops as it tried to fall back in some order. Nash himself was mortally wounded and Joshua Hadley was listed among the lieutenants wounded in the fight. Washington was able to rally the scattered soldiers of his command and take his dwindling army into winter quarters outside Philadelphia at a village called Valley Forge. The 6th North Carolina Regiment was "reduced to a cadre," its survivors absorbed into other regiments of the tiny brigade. Roy Parker Jr. can be reached at [email protected] For Capt. Joshua Hadley, Cumberland County's most experienced Continental soldier of the American War of Independence, the year 1781 offered new battlefield experiences. Three and a half years earlier, Hadley fought with Gen. George Washington's Main Army at the Battle of Germantown, Pa., in the autumn of 1777, where he suffered the first of his two war wounds. Hadley seems to have spent much of the time between 1778 to 1781 back home in Cumberland County. But the late summer of 1781, the war had shifted to the South. Following a British invasion of South Carolina in early 1780, British Gen. Charles Cornwallis invaded North Carolina in early 1781. Suffering heavy casualties at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse near present-day Greensboro in March, he retreated through the village of Cross Creek and on to Wilmington. In April, he marched north toward an October rendezvous with destiny at Yorktown, Va. Meanwhile, Gen. Nathanael Greene's little army of Continentals and militia was pressing the last South Carolina contingents of the British invasion army back toward its bases at Charleston and Savannah, Ga. In a series of fights with Redcoat contingents, never winning a tactical victory, but always maneuvering to cause a British retreat, Greene harried remnants of the Redcoat invaders. By August 1781, the North Carolina forces in Greene's army consisted of a scratch brigade of about 350 soldiers under Gen. Jethro Sumner. By then, Hadley was a captain, holding a commission dated 1779, in the 10th North Carolina Continental Regiment. The two little armies joined battle at Eutaw Springs, S.C., on Sept. 8, 1781. It was a slugging match, with British and Patriot forces suffering heavy casualties from pointblank musketry. Again, the long list of battle casualties included Hadley among the wounded. Hadley's war record didn't end with his service under Greene. For although Cornwallis surrendered his British forces at Yorktown in October of 1781, the War of Independence had its own momentum in North Carolina, and especially in the Cape Fear area, where a British force held the port town of Wilmington, not evacuating until November of 1781. Spurred by the British presence, Loyalists, so-called Tories, rose up in arms in large numbers, their hard-riding bands overwhelming Patriot militia forces, taking virtual control of whole counties along the Cape Fear River. Among victims of this bloody civil war was Hadley's father, Thomas Hadley, at the time sheriff of Cumberland County. He was slain, probably in July 1781, at his home near Carvers Creek in northeastern Cumberland, by night-riding Tories. Still busy Even as Sumner's brigade joined Greene in August, Tories swept into Cross Creek and briefly captured the county's leading Patriot officers. Despite the departure of the British, the area seethed with civil war right on into 1782. And Capt. Joshua Hadley was still busy. He held a commission to round up Tories, as well as deserters and delinquents from the Patriot forces, throughout the river area. And because of that service, we have history's only contemporary assessment of Hadley's personal and military character. A Maj. McRae, writing to Gen. Sumner from Wilmington in February 1782, reported: "Capt. Hadley is invested with orders for this district. There is still a great prospect of success if he is active, which I believe is much his character." McRae urged Sumner to "assist him with some assiduous officers." In August 1782, Hadley was writing to Sumner, reporting that he had a commission in the 1st North Carolina Regiment and stood ready for the sort of duty that McRae had mentioned months earlier. Hadley wrote: "Now in Cumberland there are delinquents and deserters that with little trouble and some state horse this would be accomplished. I wait until I hear from you." But the war was soon over, even in the Cape Fear. Joshua Hadley returned to civilian life. But in 1787, the call of military service drew him again. He is listed among eight captains of volunteer companies that the North Carolina government proposed to raise "for the defense of western counties" in a time of lawlessness in that part of the state west of the Appalachians that was to become the state of Tennessee. The record does not show whether Hadley actually marched with any troops. Like his military career, the history of Hadley after the War of Independence has many gaps and mysteries. The Hadleys had been in Cumberland County since the 1750s, and his father established one of the first merchant stores in the village of Cross Creek as early as 1761. Move to Wilson County But they gradually moved away, many to what is now Wilson County. As late as 1922, a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution there was named for "Captain Thomas Hadley." Apparently, veteran Joshua Hadley lived at least for a time in Cross Creek, renamed Fayetteville in 1783. In 1785, he is one of seven "commissioners" presiding over the town government. His name appears periodically in county government records as a juryman and witness, and as a security of tavernkeeper Lewis Barge's license in Cross Creek. In 1786, he sells one of the lots that he owned in Fayetteville originally confiscated from John Cruden, a Loyalist during the late war. Postwar state government military pay records show that Hadley received money for the pay of his wartime company as late as 1786. He also shared in the land grants issued to Revolutionary War veterans. An early accounting showed he was entitled to 3,480 acres of western lands as reward for 84 months of commissioned service in the Continental Line. In 1791, a warrant for 1,089 acres made to Hadley was assigned to Abisha Thomas. In Cumberland County records, Hadley appears as late as 1790, successfully suing his brother-in-law, Pat Travers, in a dispute over land. Census no help Confusion about the later years of Hadley is compounded by the Census of 1790, which lists no less than four Joshua Hadleys, two in Chatham County, none in Cumberland County. A later accounting of Revolutionary War veterans claims he died on Feb. 8, 1830, more than 50 years after he first took up arms in the War of Independence. It seems more likely that this refers to another generation. While the postwar history of this battle-tested soldier of the War of Independence is obscure, his name is forever preserved in the list of 58 Patriot signers of "the association," the defiant anti-British petition circulated in the village of Cross Creek in the summer of 1775. Those names are engraved on a stone marker which stands in a little park at the intersection of Bow and Person Streets in downtown Fayetteville. In 1787 when we last saw Capt. Joshua Hadley, one of Cumberland County's fightingest soldiers of the American War of Independence, he was again in uniform. The Revolution had been over for five years, but the 33-year-old Hadley heard the bugle call again. He was one of eight volunteer militia captains of companies that the North Carolina government proposed to raise "for the defense of western counties" in a time of lawlessness in that part of the state west of the Appalachians that would become the state of Tennessee. In January, when I first wrote about Joshua Hadley, I knew little about his life after he left Cumberland County. I wrote that it was "obscure," and I even surmised that a Revolutionary War veteran named Joshua Hadley who died at 76 in 1830 in Sumner County, Tennessee, was "another generation" from the dashing young Continental officer who grew up in on the family farm across the Cape Fear River from the colonial village of Cross Creek, now Fayetteville. But descendants of Joshua Hadley quickly out me straight. "Obscure?" Not at all. Here is the "rest of the story." In that summer of 1787, Hadley led his small company on a march that took them across the Appalachians to the Cumberland Settlements of what is now east Tennessee. For more than a year, according to Tennessee history, Hadley's militiamen battled marauding Indians even as a stream of new settlers, . including many veterans of the Revolution, came to the rugged but fertile valleys of the rivers west of the Blue Ridge. His small command was part of a battalion known as Evans' Battalion, named for Major Richard Evans. A history of the state says: "This battalion remained in the settlements about two years andrendered good service in guarding the various forts and in pursuing the enemy when the latter had committed murders or stolen horses." Joshua Hadley was impressed with the Cumberland settlements. When he got his first glimpse of Nashville, later the capital of the state, he described it as "a half dozen frame and log houses and twenty or thirty log cabins." At the time, Nashville was the county seat of Davidson County, in the part of North Carolina that in 1790 would be ceded to the federal government. In the autumn of 1787, Hadley returned to Fayetteville and married 18-year-old Hannah Holmes, whose father would become a governor of Virginia. At the same time, as a veteran of the Continental Line, Hadley was eligible and became a longtime member of the Society of he Cincinnati, an organization open only to Continental officers. His name is listed among the first members of the Society's North Carolina unit. But the Cape Fear would not hold Hadley for long. By 1789, he was a citizen of trans-mountain Davidson County, appearing in the 1790 census as "Captain Joshua Hadley." And so for the remainder of his long life,, the young captain of the Revolution from Cumberland County would be a wellknown citizen of the state of Tennessee. Hadley's military service led to his status as a major landholder in the new state of Tennessee. Even as he arrived west of the Appalachians, he was granted 7,500 acres of public land in recognition of his military services, which he chose to take in Williamson and Sumner counties After permanently moving to Tennessee to take up the grant that was his because of his war service, he began to acquire grants from other Continental soldiers who failed declined to come to the state. A 20th-century state official familiar with such grants said that Hadley at one time owned half of what is today Williamson, Sumner and Davidson counties. Descendants think that is a stretch, but not too far. Hadley's children and other members of his family scattered throughout the South and Southwest, with one notable member becoming an early notable of the Texas Republic. The Hadleys have a widespread family organization, with many busy family- tree experts. There is a Hadley Society, and a web site. A portrait of Hadley in his later yesars, handsome with a full mane of white hair, is on the web site. While Tennessee claims his mature years, Cumberland County, North Carolina ranks him among its Revolutionary War heroes. As an officer in the Continental Army, Hadley fought under George Washington at the Battle of Germantown, Pa., in 1777, and under Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, S.C., in 1781. Hadley paid a price in both of these fierce engagements, He was listed among the wounded at both Germantown and Eutaw Springs. Hadley was certainly no sunshine Patriot. He was in on the beginning of the War of Independence 1775. And he was still in uniform months after most others had gone home as the war wound down in 1782. Hadley is among the 58 signers of "the association," the defiant anti-British statement circulated in the village of Cross in the summer of 1775, soon after the war had erupted in New England. As such, his name appears on the stone listing those early Patriots which stands in a little park at the intersection of Old and Person Streets in downtown Fayetteville. Hadley's war record didn't end with his service at Eutaw Springs. For although General Cornwallis surrendered his British forces at Yorktown in October of 1781, the war of Independence had its own momentum in North Carolina, and especially in the Cape Fear area, where a British force held the port town of Wilmington, not evacuating until November of 1781. Spurred by the British presence, Loyalists, so-called Tories, rose up in arms in large numbers, their hard-riding bands overwhelming Patriot militia forces, taking virtual control of whole counties along the Cape Fear River. Among victims of this bloody civil war was Joshua Hadley's own father, Thomas Hadley, at the time sheriff of Cumberland County. The Hadleys had been in Cumberland County since the 1750s. Thomas Hadley established one of the first merchant stores in the village of Cross Creek as early as 1761. He was slain, probably in July of 1781, at his home near Carvers Creek in northeastern Cumberland, by night-riding Tories. Despite the departure of the British, the area seethed with civil war right on into 1782. And Capt. Joshua Hadley was still busy. He held a commission to round up Tories, as well as deserters and delinquents from the Patriot forces, throughout the river area. And because of that service, we have history's only contemporary assessment of Hadley's young personal and military character. A Major McRae, writing to General Sumner from Wilmington in February of 1782 reported: "Capt Hadley is invested with orders for this district. There is still a great prospect of success if he is active, which I believe is much his character." The zeal that so impressed McRae was apparently the distinguishing attribute of Joshua Hadley as soldier, settler, and citizen, in his home state, and in his adopted state.

Hannah Holmes

< Denny Porterfield Hadley birt: 17 JUN 1797 deat: 19 MAY 1872 plac: Brentwood, Tennessee marr: 15 JAN 1821
			Hannah Holmes
			birt: deat: Joshua Hadley marr: birt: 13 JUL 1753 plac: Virginia deat: 1830

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Thomas Wickes

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		John Wickes
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	Thomas Wickes
	birt: deat: Ann Coles marr: birt: deat:
				Father Townsend
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			John Townsend
			birt: deat: 1668 plac: Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York marr:
				Mother Townsend
				birt: deat: marr:
		Rose Townsend
		birt: deat: marr: marr:
				Alexander Montgomery
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			Elizabeth Montgomery
			birt: ABT 1606 plac: Ireland deat: 1684 marr:
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Ann Coles

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			Ann Coles
			birt: deat: Thomas Wickes marr: birt: deat:

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Benjamon Wickes

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			John Wickes
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		Thomas Wickes
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				John Townsend
				birt: deat: 1668 plac: Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York marr:
			Rose Townsend
			birt: deat: marr: marr:
				Elizabeth Montgomery
				birt: ABT 1606 plac: Ireland deat: 1684 marr:
	Benjamon Wickes
	birt: deat: Alice Bennett marr: birt: deat:
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