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Grave Marking for Colonel James Richardson
11456 NC-87, Tar Heel, NC 28392, USASave the Date
In 1768, James A. Richardson, a native of Stonington, Connecticut, built his home, Harmony Hall, on a large tract of land granted by King George III for his service in the French and Indian War, twelve miles from Elizabethtown, North Carolina, and one mile from the Cape Fear River. An owner of a West Indies shipping line, he had earlier been shipwrecked off Cape Hatteras, and while waiting for the arrival of one of his ships, had explored the area. He liked the Cape Fear River bottom lands so much that he decided to settle and make his home there. About the same time, he met and married a widow, Elizabeth O’Neal Purdie.
Colonel Richardson served in the Revolutionary War, was captured and later paroled. After learning of many British soldiers breaking their parole, he, too, broke his, and re-enlisted in the Continental Army.
Richardson died in 1810, and is buried in the Purdie Family Cemetery.
2025 NCDAR Annual Meeting
NORTH CAROLINA
State Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
May 1-4, 2025
Sheraton Imperial Hotel
Please go to the NCDAR Website for more details!
Annual NCSSAR Events
See the map below for the locations of annual commemorations that occur throughout the state on or around their anniversary date.
| 1 February 1781 | Battle of Cowan’s Ford | Huntersville, NC |
| 27 February 1776 | Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge | Currie, NC |
| 15 March 1781 | Battle of Guilford Courthouse | Greensboro, NC |
| 12 April 1776 | Adoption of the Halifax Resolves | Halifax, NC |
| 16 May | Battles of Alamance County | Burlington, NC |
| 20 May 1775 | Signing of the Mecklenberg Declaration of Independence | Charlotte, NC |
| 20 June 1775 | Adoption of the Liberty Point Resolves | Fayetteville, NC |
| 20 June 1780 | Battle of Ramsour’s Mill | Lincolnton, NC |
| 21 July 1780 | Battle of Colson’s Mill | Norwood, NC |
| 29 July 1781 | Attack at the House in the Horseshoe | Deep River, NC |
| 2 August 1781 | Battle of Rockfish Creek | Wallace, NC |
| 14 August 1775 | Issuance of the Tryon Resolves | Bessemer City, NC |
| 25-27 August 1774 | Issuance of the New Bern Resolves | New Bern, NC |
| 1 October 1780 | Crossing of the Catawba at Greenlee Ford | Morganton, NC |
| 7 October 1780 | Battle of Kings Mountain | Blacksburg, SC |
| 14 October 1780 | Battle of Shallow’s Ford | Huntsville, NC |