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Francis Nash ( c. 1742 – October 7, 1777) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Prior to the war, he was a lawyer, public official, and politician in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and was heavily involved in opposing the Regulator movement, an uprising of settlers in the North ...
- 1771, 1775–1777
- Continental Army
Born of Welsh immigrants in Virginia around 1742, lawyer Francis Nash moved to Hillsborough in 1766. He served as the clerk of court, which put him at odds with the protestors known as the Regulators : Nash was accused, but cleared, of taking illegal fees, one of their chief complaints against court clerks.
Francis Nash, lawyer and Revolutionary general, was born in Amelia (now Prince Edward) County, Va., the son of John and Ann Owen Nash. Between 1725 and 1730 his parents, both natives of Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, had immigrated to Virginia, where John Nash purchased five thousand acres at the confluence of the Appomattox and Bush rivers near ...
Brig. Gen. Francis Nash led the NC Brigade at the battles of Brandywine Creek, PA (9/11/1777) and Germantown, PA (10/4/1777). He was mortally wounded at the battle of Germantown and died on 10/7/1777. On 12/17/1777, the NC General Assembly created Nash County, which was named in honor of Francis Nash.
Francis Nash was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Prior to the war, he was a lawyer, public official, and politician in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and was heavily involved in opposing the Regulator movement, an uprising of settlers in the North Carolina piedmont between 1765 and 1771. Nash ...
FRANCIS NASH, SOLDIER AND PATRIOT. Linell Chenault Rogers. The one intimate touch which Nashville has had with the. life of the man for whom she was named, Brigadier Gen- eral Francis Nash, was the display at the old Centennial. Exposition, in 1897, of an officer's sash, with colors dimmed. by the years since the American Revolution.
Francis Nash (c. 1742 – October 7, 1777) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
