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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 Carolina piedmont between 1765 and 1771.
- 1771, 1775–1777
- Continental Army
On 9/1/1775, Francis Nash was commissioned as a Lt. Colonel under Col. James Moore in the 1st NC Regiment, considered to be "provincial troops" at that point in time. On 11/28/1775, this regiment was placed on the Continental Line. Lt. Col. Francis Nash was with Col. James Moore in the events leading up the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge on 2 ...
The Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough (AmRevNC photograph) 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 ...
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1742?–7 Oct. 1777. 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 ...
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, FrancisNASH, FRANCIS. (1742–1777). Continental general. Virginia and North Carolina. Born in Amelia County, Virginia, 1742, Nash moved to Halifax, North Carolina, with his brother Abner Nash in 1762, where he became a merchant and attorney. In 1763 he became clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions.
Jan 13, 2008 · Sunday, 13 January 2008 17:04. BRIGADIER-GENERAL FRANCIS NASH (1720-1777) Francis Nash was a native of Prince Edward County Virginia, pioneer citizen of Hillsborough NC, clerk of the Superior Court of Orange County NC, a popular and successful lawyer, legislator, and militia officer. His wife was Sarah Moore Nash, daughter of Maurice Moore of ...
