Record #:

9384

Author(s):

Perkins, Betty

Abstract:

John Grady of Duplin County, the first North Carolinian casualty in the Revolutionary War, died at the Battle of Moore's Creek. Grady's remains have been exhumed from his monument in Wilmington and shall be re-interred with full military honors at the 199th anniversary celebration at Moore's Creek.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 42 Issue 8, Jan 1975, p17-18, 55, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783