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- [S5698] Smith, Julie Campbell, Find a Grave - Ancestor (Campbell): CATHEY William, (Name: SmithLC.com;), CATHEY William Baines 1741-1812 (Veteran).
Cathey’s Fort was built by William Cathey in 1776. He had purchased land near Turkey Cove at the foot of the Mountains . It was raised to protect his family and his neighbors from the Cherokee. It played a part in the western campaigns of events leading up to the Battle of King’s Mountain on 7 Oct 1780
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196273471/william-baines-cathey
- [S603] Ancestry.com, 1800 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2010;), Year: 1800; Census Place: Morgan, Buncombe, North Carolina; Series: M32; Roll: 29; Page: 165; Image: 110; Family History Library Film: 337905.
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1800 United States Federal Census
Year: 1800; Census Place: Morgan, Buncombe, North Carolina; Series: M32; Roll: 29; Page: 165; Image: 110; Family History Library Film: 337905 |
- [S4094] Daughters of the American Revolution - Ancestors, CATHEY, WILLIAM - Ancestor #: A134804.
CATHEY, WILLIAM Ancestor #: A134804
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: BAPTISED 4-26-1741 AUGUSTA CO VIRGINIA
Death: POST 12- -1813 HAYWOOD CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source: HUGGINS, BURKE CO NC LAND RECS, VOL 1, P 45, ENTRY #474
Service Description: 1) SIGNED OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO MAKE LAND ENTRY, BURKE CO, OCT 1778
http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A134804
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- [S4149] Sons of the American Revolution - Patriots, William CATHEY -- SAR Patriot #: P-341188.
State of Service: NC Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A134804
Birth: 26 Apr 1741 West Augusta Dist / / VA
Death: Dec 1813 / Haywood / NC
Qualifying Service Description:
SIGNED OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO MAKE LAND ENTRY, BURKE CO, OCT 1778
Find-a-Grave notes that "Cathey’s Fort was built by William Cathey in 1776. He had purchased land near Turkey Cove at the foot of the Mountains . It was raised to protect his family and his neighbors from the Cherokee. It played a part in the western campaigns of events leading up to the Battle of King’s Mountain on 7 Oct 1780"
Additional References:
HUGGINS, BURKE CO NC LAND RECS, Volume 1, pg 45, ENTRY #474
The Overmountain Men (1986) by Pat Alderman
King’s Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King’s Mountain (1967) by Lyman C. Draper
Haywood County, NC Deed Book B, pg 255
Spouse: Rebecca Holeman
Children: Margaret; George;
https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/341188
- [S2648] North Carolina Historical Marker Program, (Name: North Carolina Office of Archives & History - Department of Cultural Resources; Location: North Carolina; Date: 2008;), Cathey's Fort Historical Marker.
CATHEY'S FORT -- A rendezvous for the North Carolina militia led by General Griffith Rutherford against the Cherokee in 1776, was one mile east.
-- Cathey’s Fort in northern McDowell County was a rendezvous point for the militia assembled by Griffith Rutherford in preparation for his expedition against the Cherokee in September 1776. Rutherford, brigadier general of the Salisbury District militia, that summer called for volunteers to conduct the expedition. With militia reporting from several western counties, Rutherford gathered about 2,500 men and enough supplies for forty days afield. From Davidson’s Fort (Old Fort) Rutherford and his men set out on September 1. Prior to their assembly at Davidson’s, men of the expedition gathered or camped at other points to the east and north, among those Quakers Meadows and at or near Cathey’s Fort.
Cathey’s Fort was on land around the headwaters of the North Catawba River. Pension statements of those who participated in the expedition reveal that some joined the party at Quaker Meadows, others at Cathey’s Fort, others at Pleasant Gardens and many at Davidson’s. The diary kept by William Lenoir remains the key primary source for documenting the course of the expedition. On the return trip Lenoir recorded: “On Friday 4th (October) we xd the Ridge though very slippery & the horses would slip sometimes 20 or 30 feet but all got over & Campt just below Cathey’s fort & Colo. Armstrong treated with 6 gals. Brandy.”
In 1777, the year after the expedition, Waightstill Avery instructed Gov. Richard Caswell on a route sending him by “Cathey Fort on Head of the Cataba River.” Lyman Draper in his book on Kings Mountain in 1881 wrote that the Overmountain Men in 1780 had visited many of the same camp sites used by Rutherford’s troops including the Cathey homestead and Pleasant Gardens.
Local historian Mary Greenlee assisted Archives and History in 1952 with identifying the general location of Cathey’s Fort by providing references to land grants placing William Cathey on tracts on the headwaters of the North Catawba River. By her account Cathey in 1781 transferred ownership of the property to William Wofford. In time her own family, the Greenlees, acquired the property. When she was writing, the Cathey-Wofford-Greenlee House was still extant, although removed from its original site.
-- Location: US 221/NC 226 north of Woodlawn
http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?MarkerId=N-26
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Historical Marker-Catheys Fort
CATHEY'S FORT - A rendezvous for the North Carolina militia led by General Griffith Rutherford against the Cherokee in 1776, was one mile east. -- Location: US 221/NC 226 north of Woodlawn + https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=77451 |
- [S9749] Smith, Julie Campbell, Find a Grave - Ancestor (Campbell): ARMSTRONG Martha Cathey, (Name: SmithLC.com;), ARMSTRONG Martha Cathey 1723-1765.
Martha Armstrong and Andrew Cathey married 1740 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60723996/martha_cathey
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