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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Private / Civil Service
The cemetery has wooden fence posts around it, and there used to be a stapled a picture of the old church on a tree, but it might be gone by now. The graves are Moravian, so they're all the same, simple stones. This makes the cemetery hard to find as it's hard to see from the road
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
It's located 500 feet north of the end of Copeland Road, just north of the intersection with US 158
Author: Dwayne Alton Meyer
Matthew Markland (Jr) (1727-1796) Patriotic Service / Soldier, North Carolina
Birth: 31 Aug 1727 in Prince George Parish Maryland, Death: 10 Mar 1796 in Hope, Stokes Co. NC Burial: Hope, Moravian Cemetery, Muddy Creek Station, NC
Wife: Ancible or Angel Crampton (widow) Birth: 1717 in Prince George Parish, Maryland, Death: 30 Jun 1800 in Hope, Stokes Co. NC Burial: Hope Churchyard, Muddy Creek Station NC
Matthew (Jr.) lived on his father’s plantation on the Potomac River across from the Hunting Creek Plantation, which was owned by Augustine Washington. The property is now known as Mount Vernon. Matthew (Sr.) and Augustine were friends as both served as vestrymen in their respective Episcopal churches. Matthew (Sr.) often held a small George Washington on his knees and taught him songs and stories during the four years that George Washington lived at this location.
After the death of his father, in 1774 Matthew Markland (Jr.) and his family joined the Carroll"s Manor Moravians who settled on Muddy Creek in Wachovia, NC. Matthew purchased about 325 acres (lots 62 and 80) in the English-speaking settlement of Hope (present day Clemmon.).
An old map of the Wachovia Tract shows two pieces of property belonging to Matthew Markland, one of 168 acres on Muddy Creek at the mouth of what was later known as Little Creek, and the other 154 1/4 acres, some distance from Little Creek.
Matthew had two exemptions from military service, one for being a Moravian Baptist and the second for being over the age of fifty. He still served on two occasions in the Upper Salisbury District militia and was paid for service as a soldier. Evidently his wife was the real Baptist in the family.
Militia of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina as allowed by the auditors of Morgan District as off Report 44 &45 Captain Henry Highland report #45, Matthew Markland,
Captain Henry Speers & company Serjeant Jacob Niell’s company Matthew Markland, (At that time this would be the Surry County Militia). There are also four more additional vouchers that show that Matthew supplied the Militia.
Surry County Court Minutes Vol. I & II 1768-1789 compiled by Mrs. W.O. Absher
pg. 8, Fri 13, 1778 Matthew Marklin ordered to attend court as juror 2nd Mon. in Feb pg. 42, 12 Aug 1782: pg. 45, 16 Aug 1782: pg. 92 11 May 1786: pg. 131 13 Feb 1788: pg. 156 13 May 1789: pg. 162-163 13 Aug 1789: pg. 166 11 Nov 1789:
Matthew also served as Road master for the English settlement of Hope, NC . Children: Robert Markland - b: 11 Jun 1752 in Maryland Mary Markland - b: 13 Oct 1754 in Monocacy, Fredrick Co. Maryland Jonathan Markland - b: 12 Jun 1757 in Frederick Co. Maryland Matthew Markland - b: 11 Mar 1761 in Prince George Parish, Maryland Joseph Markland - b: 15 Feb 1767 in Frederick Co. Maryland Nathaniel Markland - b: 16 Apr 1770 in Frederick or Prince Geo
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