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The Ewing Family of Belmont NC

Updated July 5, 2007

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Belmont - Gaston County - North Carloina - USA

- From 1750 Scotland, To The Colonies, To The Present -

North Carolina was a British colony in 1750 when a Scottish carpenter, George Ewing set sail for the New World from Edinburg, Scotland. In that new world he began a new life as he would soon marry and have a son who would grow up to be a brave young man with a true Patriots heart. Hugh (Ewen) Ewing fought alongside Major William Chronicle in the Battle of Kings Mountain as a member of the local militia that Chronicle called his "Southfork Boys". They rode on horse back in a cold October rain to join the Over Mountain Men near Kings Mountain where they met and soundly defeated the highly trained Loyalist Army of British General Lord Cornwallis under the command of Major Patrick Fergusen. Later, Thomas Jefferson would refer to the battle as the "turning point of the Revolution".
We are profoundly blessed to have our family's great historical heritage so well documented in history books and we are equally proud to live on ancestral land that has been in our family continuosly since the days of Colonial North Carolina. That was so long ago many folks do not grasp the span of time. To help put it in perspective, our family had been here, established and settled, over 100 years before the Civil War began, being some of the earliest white settlers west of the Catawba River.

 
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