Plundering Sam Brown

Draper's History of Kings Mountain and Its Heroes, page 134:

"In what was originally a part of Tryon County, now Lincoln County,
N.C., were many Loyalists. Among them was Samuel Brown, who had been
reared there, and proved himself not only an inveterate Tory, but a bold
and unscrupulous plundered. He had a sister, Charity Brown, who must
have been a rough, reckless, bad woman. For quite a period, the two
carried on very successful plundering operations-including hoses, bed
clothes, wearing apparel, pewter-ware, money, and other valuable
articles. "Sometimes they had confederates, but oftener they went forth
alone on their pillaging forays. About fifteen miles west of
Statesville, N.C., three miles above the Island ford, there is a high
bluff on the western side of the Catawba River, rising three hundred
feet high, at a place known as the Look-Out Shoals. "Sam Brown was once
married to a daughter of a man residing near the Island Ford, etc.

"He was known as plundering Sam Brown. Among the Tories, he was
designated as Captain Sam Brown. As early as the spring of 1778, he was
associated with the Tory leader, David Fanning; they were in hiding in
woods on Reaburn's Creek, now in Laurens County, S.C., for six weeks,
then made their way to Green River, in what is now Polk County, N.C.
"Brown was killed at Tiger River and his sister fled Westward to the
mountain region of what is now Buncombe and Haywood."

 Draper's History, pages: 134-139, 241, 317, 188.

"Charity Brown, sister of Sam Brown, presented for having bastard, see:
Vol. 2, N.C. Col. Records, pages 264 and 267.

--P. Cleveland Gardner

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