He next entered the service under Captain Thomas Alexander, and was ordered to Charlotte for the purpose of guarding the public magazine in that place.  Captain Alexander succeeded in having it removed to a place of safety on the evening before the entrance of the British army into Charlotte on the 26th of September, 1780.

He again entered the service a short time afterward, in Captain William Alexander’s company, and Colonel George Alexander’s regiment.  The rendezvous of the regiment was about four miles south of Charlotte.  After this service, on account of severe local injury, he was honorably discharged by Colonel Alexander.

Henry Hunter had twelve children, ten sons and two daughters.  He was signally blest to see them all attain the age of maturity, and settle on comfortable homes around him.  His wife, Martha, the worthy partner of his joys and sorrows, and whose earthly pilgrimage was protracted beyond the usual bounds of life, died on the 30th of September, 1832, in the eightieth year of her age.

He was long a consistent member and ruling Elder of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.  Like a sheaf fully ripe in its season, he met his approaching end with peaceful resignation.  On his tombstone, in a private cemetery, on the old homestead property, is the following inscription: 

“In Memory of HENRY HUNTER, Who departed this life on the 18th of May, 1836, in the eighty-sixth year of his age, leaving a posterity of eleven children, and one hundred grand children, with thirty great-grand children to mourn his loss.”

JAMES ORR.

James Orr was born in Pennsylvania in 1750.  He early espoused the cause of freedom, and first entered the service in a company of riflemen, commanded by Captain Robert Mebane; marched to Cross Creek (now Fayetteville), and thence to Wilmington, to the assistance of Generals Ashe and Moore.  In 1776, he volunteered under Captain Thomas Polk, in Colonel Charles’ corps of cavalry, General Rutherford commanding, and marched against a body of Tories assembled at Cross Creek, but they were dispersed before the expedition reached that place.  Again, in 1776, he volunteered under Captain Mebane, and marched from Charlotte to the Quaker Meadows, at the head of the Catawba River, against the Cherokee Indians, committing murders and depredations on the frontier settlements.  In 1777 he served under Captain Elaby, Colonel Hicks’ regiment, in South Carolina.

In 1780 he served under Captain William Alexander, in Colonel William Davidson’s battalion, General Rutherford commanding, and marched against the Tories assembled at Ramsour’s Mill, in Lincoln county; but the battle had been fought, and the Tories subdued and routed, before the expedition reached that place.  This was his last important service.

SKIRMISH AT CHARLOTTE; OR, FIRST ATTACK OF THE “HORNETS.”