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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Colonel / Patriotic Service
Birth: 1728 / Isle of Wight / VA Death: bef Feb 1798 / Halifax / NC
Qualifying Service Description:
Deputy Quartermaster General for the Southern Continental Army
DELEGATE TO PROVINCIAL CONGRESS
MEMBER OF COMMITTEE OF SAFETY
Additional References:
SAUNDERS, COL RECS OF NC
VOL 9, pg 1101
VOL 10, pg 604, 164-165
Spouse: (1) Mary Reynolds; (2) Mary McKinney Children: Richard Harrison; Gabriel; Nicholas; Lunsford; McKinney; John Joseph; Ann Maria; Lemuel; Mary M; William T;
Author: C. Kenith Wilson
Col. Nicholas Long was born in 1725 in Virginia, the child of Gabrael. Nicholas Long moved to North Carolina from Virginia around 1750. He was a wealthy planter who lived on Quanky Creek in North Carolina and was Commissary General of the North Carolina Revolutionary forces.
He married his first wife in 1752. On August 24, 1761, he married his second wife in Halifax, North Carolina. He and his second wife erected workshops for Revolutionary military equipment, clothes, and supplies on their plantation.
Service Source: SAUNDERS, COL RECS OF NC, VOL 10, PP 604, 164-165; VOL 9, P 1101 Service Description:
1) DEPUTY QUARTERMASTER GEN; DELEGATE TO PROVINCIAL CONGRESS 2) MEMBER OF COMMITTEE OF SAFETY
"The wife of Colonel Nicholas Long, Mary (McKinnie) Long was the daughter of John McKinnie who was born in 1688 and died in 1759. He was a member of the Colonial Assembly of North Carolina, 1734-35. In 1746 to 1758, he was Justice of County Court, appointed by Governor Johnstone."
He died on February 2, 1798, in Halifax, North Carolina, at the age of 73. He is burined in a cemetery on side of "Swanky " (Quanky) Creek, off Highway #301, south of Halifax
Source: North Carolina: A Guide to to the Old North State; From pg 196 of San Saba County History 1856-1983 ; NSDAR 1959-1960 Report.
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