Richmond Pearson married Miss McLinn.  He was never in public life, but was an active, enterprising man.  He left the following children:  1st, Sarah, who married Isaac Croom, of Alabama; 2d.  Eliza, who married W.G.  Bently, of Bladen county, N.C.; 3d.  Charles, who died without issue; 4th.  Hon. Richmond M. Pearson was born in June, 1805, educated at Statesville by John Mushat, and graduated at Chapel Hill in 1823.  He studied law under Judge Henderson, and was licensed in 1826.  He entered public life in 1829 as a member to the State Legislature from Rowan county, and continued as such until 1832.  In 1836 he was elected one of the Judges of the Superior Court, and in 1848 was transferred to the Supreme Court, which elevated position he now occupies; 5th.  Giles N. Pearson married Miss Ellis, and was a lawyer by profession.  He died in 1847, leaving a wife and five children; 6th.  John Stokes Pearson married Miss Beattie, of Bladen county.  He died in 1848, leaving four children.

The reader may be curious to know something of the fate of Colonel Samuel Bryan, who commanded the Tory regiment in the forks of the Yadkin, which was so roughly handled and cut to pieces by Colonel Davie and his brave associates, at the battle of the hanging Rock.

About the time Major Craig evacuated Wilmington in 1781, Colonel Bryan, Lieutenant Colonel John Hampton and Captain Nicholas White, of the same regiment, returned to the forks of the Yadkin, were arrested and tried for high treason, under the act of 1777, entitled “An Act for declaring what Crimes and Practices against the State shall be Treason,” &c.

Judges Spencer and Williams presided.  The prosecution was ably conducted by the Attorney General, Alfred Moore, and the defence by Richard Henderson, John Penn, John Kinchen and William R. Davie, truly a fine array of legal talent.

Public indignation was so greatly excited that Governor Burke found it necessary, after the trial, to protect the prisoners from violence by a military guard.

Colonel Davie’s defence of Colonel Bryan, in the argument made to the jury upon the occasion, was said to have been a brilliant exhibition of his forensic ability.  For many years afterwards his services were required in all capital cases, and as a criminal lawyer he had no rival in the State.  They were all convicted, had sentence of death passed upon them, were pardoned, and subsequently exchanged for officers of equal rank, who were at the time, confined within the British lines.

MRS. ELIZABETH STEELE.

The long, arduous and eventful retreat of General Morgan through the Carolinas, after the battle of the Cowpens, and the eager pursuit of Cornwallis to overtake him, encumbered with more than five hundred prisoners, on his way to a place of safety in Virginia, affords many interesting incidents.  General Greene having met Morgan on the eastern banks of the Catawba river, at Sherrill’s Ford, and directed his