Thomas Jefferson Hadley

Thomas Jefferson Hadley (1728-1 Sep 1781) was an American politician and soldier. He played a prominent role in the signing of North Carolina's constitution in 1776.[1][2]

Early Life

Thomas Jefferson Hadley was born in 1728, in New Castle, Delaware to Joshua Hadley, a Quaker originally from King's County, Ireland (Now County Offaly) and Mary Rowland of Chester County, Pennsylvania.[3]

Career

Hadley was disowned by the Cane Creek Quaker community due to his participation in the American Revolutionary War. During the war he reached the rank of Captain. He travelled with his father to North Carolina c1750, firstly settling in Bladen County, being a settler of Cross Creek. In 1776 he represented Campbellton at the North Carolina Constitutional Convention.[4]

Death

Captain Hadley was killed in 1781 by a party of Tories under the command of Col. Hector McNeill at his home on Cape Fear River, on the night following the Battle of Cross Creek.[5]

References
  1. Wheeler, John Hill (1851). Historical Sketches of North Carolina from 1584 to 1851: Compiled from Original Records, Official Documents, and Traditional Statements : with Biographical Sketches of Her Distinguished Statesmen, Jurists, Lawyers, Soldiers, Divines, Etc. Lippincott, Grambo and Company.
  2. "BB&T - Our History". BB&T. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  3. Confederate Veteran. 1917.
  4. Ashe, Samuel A'Court (1906). Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present. C. L. Van Noppen.
  5. Moffitt, Mrs E. E. (1906). The North Carolina Booklet. North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the Revolution.
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