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OLD HICKORY TAVERN
BIRTHPLACE OF HICKORY
TO THE REAR OF THIS SPOT STOOD A LOG
HOUSE KNOWN IN 1799 AS HICKORY TAVERN.
THIS TRACT OF 640 ACRES WAS SURVEYED
BY COL. CHRISTOPHER W. BEEKMAN ON JUNE
8, 1779 AND WAS GRANTED TO WILLIAM
McMULLEN OCT. 26, 1783. ON THE SOUTH SIDE
OF THIS TAVERN RAN THE FOLLOWING ROAD
"ON MAY 10, 1769 THE WORSHIPFUL
COURT OF ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. MET:
PRESENT
WILLIAM TEMP. COLES JOHN FORD
JOHN OLIPHANT, ESQUIRES"
ON PETITION OF SUNDRY INHABITANTS OF
THE UPPER PART OF THE CATABA RIVER FOR
TO VIEW AND LAY OFF A ROAD FROM THE
COVE ON THE NORTH FORK OF THE CATABA
RIVER THE BEST WAY TO SALISBURY BY
SHERRILL'S FORD. THE FOLLOWING JURY
BE APPOINTED, TO WIT,
CAP: ADAM SHERRILL
JAMES McLANE
MICHAEL LITTON
JACOB SHERRILL
JOHN BRIDGES, SRNR.
WILLIAM SIMPSON
PETER LOWRANCE
UTY SHERRILL
| RICHARD LEWIS
SAMUEL BROWN
BOSTON CLYNE, JUNR.
AQUILLA SHERRILL
JOHN McDOWELL
JOHN McPEETORS
GEORGE CATHEY
ROBERT PATTON
| FRANCIS PATTON
WILLIAM MOORE
ABRAHAM SCOTT
ANDREW KILLIAN
JOHN PEARSONS
JOSEPH WHITE
WILLIAM RICHEY
ROBERT BRANCH
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OVERSEERS
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WILLIAM DEAVOR | SIMON JONAS | ROBERT BIGHAM PERKINS |
SPONSORED AND ERECTED BY
THE HICKORY TAVERN CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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