Author: Steve Allen Vanpelt
Born Freiderick Hamprecht in Neunstetten, Germany, May 17, 1727 (d. May, 1817), eleven year old Frederick Hambright and family arrived in Philadelphia in 1738. The Hambrights’ traveled westward and settled in Lancaster County, PA.

In the 1750’s, Frederick traveled south to the Carolinas arriving in Anson County, later to become Tryon and later Lincoln County.

There are numerous references to Frederick Hambright’s civil and patriotic services in official North Carolina records. A signer of the Tryon Resolves in 1775, he was appointed as a representative for Tryon County at the Third Provincial Congress held at Hillsboro, August, 1775. He served as a captain in the 1776 campaign against the Cherokee Indians and was made Lt. Colonel in 1779. He entered the Revolutionary War in 1777 serving in several campaigns prior to distinguishing himself on October 7, 1780 as the Commander of the Lincoln County Militia at the Battle of Kings Mountain. Near the close of the battle, Hambright had already received three bullets through his hat, and was shot through his thigh. He was urged to quit the fight, but preferring to remain in his saddle, he encouraged his men to continue the fight, calling out in his German accent, “Huzza, my prave poys, fight on a few minutes more, and the battle will be over!”

In February 1781, the North Carolina General Assembly resolved, “ … that an elegant mounted sword” be presented to each of the senior officers who had been at Kings Mountain. By inadvertence, Hambright did not receive his sword. The sword which is displayed at the Kings Mountain National Park Museum is Col. Hambright’s personal sword that he used throughout his military career. In 1980, the N.C. General Assembly voted to present a replica of the Overmountain Men pistol to Hambright descendants.

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