Note: This ia a monument to David Vance and not his actual burial site. His burial place, according to the Park Service, is in the Vance Cemetery across the street and atop the hill from the old Vance homesite of Zebulon B. Vance, former governor of North Carolina - see memorial 28756449 ([email protected]) - (this info from Judi Lancaster)
David Vance was born about 1750 in Frederick County, Virginia to Samuel Vance and Sarah (Colville) Vance. He married Priscilla Brank on September 21, 1775. They were the parents of Jane, Sarah (Sally), Samuel, Priscilla, Elizabeth, David, Robert Brank and Celia.
David moved into the Piedmont region of North Carolina with the tide of Scotch-Irish immigrants of the mid-eighteenth century. He reportedly settled in the Catawba River Valley in what is now known as Burke County.
According to Leslie Ann Johnson Hager, David joined the Continental Army and was later promoted to the rank of captain. He took part in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and was with Washington at Valley Forge. He also served in the battle of Kings Mountain.
Sometime between 1785 and 1790 Vance moved his family from the Catawba Valley to Buncombe County, on Reems Creek 12 miles north of Asheville. "There in 1795 he bought the land on which his noted grandson, Zebulon B. Vance (former governor of North Carolina), was born 35 years later."
In 1796 Captain Vance was appointed by the North Carolina General Assembly as one of three commissioners to settle the boundary line between North Carolina and Tennessee. He served four terms in the state legislature. He was appointed clerk of court for Buncombe, a position he filled faithfully until his death.
He died in 1813 in North Carolina.
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From Grace (Cronin) Schmitt - [email protected]
FAG 12500441 is confused as to his death date, giving both 1811 and 1813. The following will help.
Buncombe County, NC, Archives, Obituaries. . File contributed by Carolyn Shank, Nov. 7, 2008.
"Fri., Feb. 5, 1813, Raleigh Minerva. *** DIED, in Buncombe County, on the 13th, COL. DAVID VANCE, another Revolutionary Patriot, in the 64th year of his age. A pulmonary complaint terminated the useful and well-spent life of this worthy and intelligent citizen." ["on the 13th" = 13 January]
His burial place is also confused between the 'old Vance Cemetery" and the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, Buncombe Co., NC. According to the National Parks Service it was in the Vance Cemetery.∼Inscription: Soldier of the Revolution, Lieut 2nd N.C. Continental Rect, Brandy Wine, Germantown, Monmouth, Valley Forge, Kings Mountain. Member of General Assembly N.C. 1785-6-9. State Boundry and Land Coms. Colonel of Militia; Clerk of Buncombe Court.
David Vance was grandfather of N.C. Gov. Zeb. Vance. He moved to Reems Creek Valley about 1780 and built or bought the Vance House in 1795. Gov. Vance was born in the house across the highway from the cemetery.
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He and Robert Henry wrote the Henry-Vance narrative of Kings Mt. and the crossing of Cornwallis on the Catawba River.
Contributor: clyde holland (47437034) • [email protected]
David Vance was born about 1750 in Frederick County, Virginia to Samuel Vance and Sarah (Colville) Vance. He married Priscilla Brank on September 21, 1775. They were the parents of Jane, Sarah (Sally), Samuel, Priscilla, Elizabeth, David, Robert Brank and Celia.
David moved into the Piedmont region of North Carolina with the tide of Scotch-Irish immigrants of the mid-eighteenth century. He reportedly settled in the Catawba River Valley in what is now known as Burke County.
According to Leslie Ann Johnson Hager, David joined the Continental Army and was later promoted to the rank of captain. He took part in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and was with Washington at Valley Forge. He also served in the battle of Kings Mountain.
Sometime between 1785 and 1790 Vance moved his family from the Catawba Valley to Buncombe County, on Reems Creek 12 miles north of Asheville. "There in 1795 he bought the land on which his noted grandson, Zebulon B. Vance (former governor of North Carolina), was born 35 years later."
In 1796 Captain Vance was appointed by the North Carolina General Assembly as one of three commissioners to settle the boundary line between North Carolina and Tennessee. He served four terms in the state legislature. He was appointed clerk of court for Buncombe, a position he filled faithfully until his death.
He died in 1813 in North Carolina.
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From Grace (Cronin) Schmitt - [email protected]
FAG 12500441 is confused as to his death date, giving both 1811 and 1813. The following will help.
Buncombe County, NC, Archives, Obituaries. . File contributed by Carolyn Shank, Nov. 7, 2008.
"Fri., Feb. 5, 1813, Raleigh Minerva. *** DIED, in Buncombe County, on the 13th, COL. DAVID VANCE, another Revolutionary Patriot, in the 64th year of his age. A pulmonary complaint terminated the useful and well-spent life of this worthy and intelligent citizen." ["on the 13th" = 13 January]
His burial place is also confused between the 'old Vance Cemetery" and the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, Buncombe Co., NC. According to the National Parks Service it was in the Vance Cemetery.∼Inscription: Soldier of the Revolution, Lieut 2nd N.C. Continental Rect, Brandy Wine, Germantown, Monmouth, Valley Forge, Kings Mountain. Member of General Assembly N.C. 1785-6-9. State Boundry and Land Coms. Colonel of Militia; Clerk of Buncombe Court.
David Vance was grandfather of N.C. Gov. Zeb. Vance. He moved to Reems Creek Valley about 1780 and built or bought the Vance House in 1795. Gov. Vance was born in the house across the highway from the cemetery.
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He and Robert Henry wrote the Henry-Vance narrative of Kings Mt. and the crossing of Cornwallis on the Catawba River.
Contributor: clyde holland (47437034) • [email protected]
Note: This ia a monument to David Vance and not his actual burial site. His burial place, according to the Park Service, is in the Vance Cemetery across the street and atop the hill from the old Vance homesite of Zebulon B. Vance, former governor of North Carolina - see memorial 28756449 ([email protected]) - (this info from Judi Lancaster)
David Vance was born about 1750 in Frederick County, Virginia to Samuel Vance and Sarah (Colville) Vance. He married Priscilla Brank on September 21, 1775. They were the parents of Jane, Sarah (Sally), Samuel, Priscilla, Elizabeth, David, Robert Brank and Celia.
David moved into the Piedmont region of North Carolina with the tide of Scotch-Irish immigrants of the mid-eighteenth century. He reportedly settled in the Catawba River Valley in what is now known as Burke County.
According to Leslie Ann Johnson Hager, David joined the Continental Army and was later promoted to the rank of captain. He took part in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and was with Washington at Valley Forge. He also served in the battle of Kings Mountain.
Sometime between 1785 and 1790 Vance moved his family from the Catawba Valley to Buncombe County, on Reems Creek 12 miles north of Asheville. "There in 1795 he bought the land on which his noted grandson, Zebulon B. Vance (former governor of North Carolina), was born 35 years later."
In 1796 Captain Vance was appointed by the North Carolina General Assembly as one of three commissioners to settle the boundary line between North Carolina and Tennessee. He served four terms in the state legislature. He was appointed clerk of court for Buncombe, a position he filled faithfully until his death.
He died in 1813 in North Carolina.
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From Grace (Cronin) Schmitt - [email protected]
FAG 12500441 is confused as to his death date, giving both 1811 and 1813. The following will help.
Buncombe County, NC, Archives, Obituaries. . File contributed by Carolyn Shank, Nov. 7, 2008.
"Fri., Feb. 5, 1813, Raleigh Minerva. *** DIED, in Buncombe County, on the 13th, COL. DAVID VANCE, another Revolutionary Patriot, in the 64th year of his age. A pulmonary complaint terminated the useful and well-spent life of this worthy and intelligent citizen." ["on the 13th" = 13 January]
His burial place is also confused between the 'old Vance Cemetery" and the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, Buncombe Co., NC. According to the National Parks Service it was in the Vance Cemetery.∼Inscription: Soldier of the Revolution, Lieut 2nd N.C. Continental Rect, Brandy Wine, Germantown, Monmouth, Valley Forge, Kings Mountain. Member of General Assembly N.C. 1785-6-9. State Boundry and Land Coms. Colonel of Militia; Clerk of Buncombe Court.
David Vance was grandfather of N.C. Gov. Zeb. Vance. He moved to Reems Creek Valley about 1780 and built or bought the Vance House in 1795. Gov. Vance was born in the house across the highway from the cemetery.
______
He and Robert Henry wrote the Henry-Vance narrative of Kings Mt. and the crossing of Cornwallis on the Catawba River.
Contributor: clyde holland (47437034) • [email protected]
David Vance was born about 1750 in Frederick County, Virginia to Samuel Vance and Sarah (Colville) Vance. He married Priscilla Brank on September 21, 1775. They were the parents of Jane, Sarah (Sally), Samuel, Priscilla, Elizabeth, David, Robert Brank and Celia.
David moved into the Piedmont region of North Carolina with the tide of Scotch-Irish immigrants of the mid-eighteenth century. He reportedly settled in the Catawba River Valley in what is now known as Burke County.
According to Leslie Ann Johnson Hager, David joined the Continental Army and was later promoted to the rank of captain. He took part in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and was with Washington at Valley Forge. He also served in the battle of Kings Mountain.
Sometime between 1785 and 1790 Vance moved his family from the Catawba Valley to Buncombe County, on Reems Creek 12 miles north of Asheville. "There in 1795 he bought the land on which his noted grandson, Zebulon B. Vance (former governor of North Carolina), was born 35 years later."
In 1796 Captain Vance was appointed by the North Carolina General Assembly as one of three commissioners to settle the boundary line between North Carolina and Tennessee. He served four terms in the state legislature. He was appointed clerk of court for Buncombe, a position he filled faithfully until his death.
He died in 1813 in North Carolina.
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From Grace (Cronin) Schmitt - [email protected]
FAG 12500441 is confused as to his death date, giving both 1811 and 1813. The following will help.
Buncombe County, NC, Archives, Obituaries. . File contributed by Carolyn Shank, Nov. 7, 2008.
"Fri., Feb. 5, 1813, Raleigh Minerva. *** DIED, in Buncombe County, on the 13th, COL. DAVID VANCE, another Revolutionary Patriot, in the 64th year of his age. A pulmonary complaint terminated the useful and well-spent life of this worthy and intelligent citizen." ["on the 13th" = 13 January]
His burial place is also confused between the 'old Vance Cemetery" and the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, Buncombe Co., NC. According to the National Parks Service it was in the Vance Cemetery.∼Inscription: Soldier of the Revolution, Lieut 2nd N.C. Continental Rect, Brandy Wine, Germantown, Monmouth, Valley Forge, Kings Mountain. Member of General Assembly N.C. 1785-6-9. State Boundry and Land Coms. Colonel of Militia; Clerk of Buncombe Court.
David Vance was grandfather of N.C. Gov. Zeb. Vance. He moved to Reems Creek Valley about 1780 and built or bought the Vance House in 1795. Gov. Vance was born in the house across the highway from the cemetery.
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He and Robert Henry wrote the Henry-Vance narrative of Kings Mt. and the crossing of Cornwallis on the Catawba River.
Contributor: clyde holland (47437034) • [email protected]
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Born in Frederick County, VA of Scotch Irish Parentage about 1750. Died at Buncombe County, NC in 1811. He was a soldier at Kings Mountain in the Patriot Army in 1780. One of the earliest settlers of Buncombe County and the first clerk of its county court.
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