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James Abercrombie (1706-1781) was a British general. During the Seven Years War, he served as the commander-in-chief for the North American forces and led the British forces in a failed attempt to capture Fort Ticonderoga (formerly Fort Carillon). The disastrous result led to Abercrombie's recall in September 1758, Jeffery Amherst taking his place as commander-in-chief.

Abercrombie was the cousin of a colonial administrator of the same name. His name can be found spelled as "Abercrombie" or "Abercromby."

In December 1754, Robert Murden, a militia colonel, recommended William Martin to replace William Abercrombie, who had recently died, as a captain in the regiment of militia in Pasquotank County.

James Abercromby (1707-1775) was a British politician and colonial administrator. He served as attorney-general for South Carolina (1730-1745), agent for North Carolina (1747-1757), agent for the North Carolina Assembly (1758-1760), agent for Virginia (1754-1761), agent for the Virginia governor and Council (1761-1774), and deputy auditor general of plantations (1757-1765).

Abercromby was the cousin of a British general with the same name. His surname can be found spelled "Abercromby" or "Abercrombie."

Robert Lee Abernethy was born on March 2, 1872, in Catawba County, North Carolina. Abernethy was a farmer in the town of Hickory, North Carolina. He died in Hickory on June 9, 1952.

William Jackson Adams was born January 27, 1860, in Rockingham, North Carolina. Adams was a lawyer until his appointment to a judgeship of the Superior Court in 1908, a position he retained through elections until Gov. Cameron Morrison appointed him to fill a vacancy on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1921. He remained on the court as an associate justice, retaining his seat through elections, until his death on May 20, 1934. Adams, a Democrat, also had a short political career in the 1890s, representing Moore County in the House (elected 1892) and the Senate (elected 1894).

James Lewis Adkins was born on November 19, 1878, in South Carolina. Adkins was the assistant power house superintendent for the Tallassee Power Company at Badin, North Carolina. In 1919, he provided testimony during an investigation into the alleged abuse of Tallassee employees by management. He died in Badin on December 6, 1938.

James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey was born on October 18, 1875, in the Gold Coast Colony (now Ghana). A Livingstone College and Columbia University graduate, Aggrey was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church best remembered for his work promoting education and racial cooperation in Africa. In December 1918, he was serving as the secretary of the Western North Carolina conference of the AME Zion Church. He was a longtime resident of Salisbury, at which place he is buried. Aggrey died in New York City on July 30, 1927.

Cicero Pilades Albright was born on January 16, 1855, in Graham, North Carolina. Albright served Alamance County as Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners as well as a member of the board of education. In July 1920, he contacted the governor's office to request assistance in putting down a lynch mob. He died in Graham on January 23, 1942.

Jacob Oliver Alderman was born on May 7, 1862, in Sampson County, North Carolina. Alderman was a Baptist minister who served as the superintendent of Chowan County schools for twelve years. He died in Durham (Durham County) on November 5, 1953.

Henry Quincy Alexander was born on August 22, 1853, in Statesville, North Carolina. Alexander was a physician, farmer, and state legislator (elected in 1903 and 1905) who served as president of the North Carolina Farmers Union from 1908 to 1919. He died in Pineville (Mecklenburg County) on June 11, 1929.

Nathaniel Alexander (1736-1767) was a resident of Mecklenburg County who wrote to Arthur Dobbs in 1764 regarding militia commissions.

Will Winton Alexander was born on July 15, 1884 in Morrisville, Missouri. Alexander was a Methodist minister who served on the Commission for Interracial Cooperation, as vice president of the Rosenwald Fund, administrator of the Farm Security Commission (appointed 1937), and Atlanta-based divisional director of the Interchurch World Movement of North America. He died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on January 13, 1956.

Eleazer Allen (1692-1750) was a colonial official who was politically aligned with royal governor Gabriel Johnston. He served as Receiver General from 1735 to 1742 and 1742 to 1750.

John Allen was a resident in colonial North Carolina. Around 1763, he joined others in signing a letter of petition to royal governor Arthur Dobbs on behalf of William Strother, who had been accused of horse stealing.

Richard P. Allison was born in Statesville, North Carolina, on June 16, 1870. He was a businessman, Spanish-American War veteran, and Federal Prohibition Agent for the Internal Revenue Service. He died in Newberry, South Carolina, on June 18, 1926.

Richard Gold Allsbrook was born on December 13, 1874, in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. An attorney by training, Allsbrook was senior partner of the Allsbrook & Phillips law office in Tarboro, North Carolina, and was later a law partner of congressman Claude Kitchin. He additionally served as mayor of Tarboro from 1904 to 1905 and as solicitor for the fourth (later second) judicial district of North Carolina from 1910 to 1923. He died in Greenville, North Carolina on February 3, 1925.

John Alsop was a resident of colonial America who owned the sloop Fox in 1762.

Richard Alsop was a resident of colonial America who owned the sloop Fox in 1762.

Ama-edohi (died 1741) was chief of Great Tellico, or Telliquah, a Cherokee town that was situated in present-day Eastern Tennessee. In 1730, Sir Alexander Cuming, an unoffical envoy for King George II, visited Great Tellico and declared Ama-edohi, also known as "Moytoy of Tellico," Emperor of the Cherokee. While British officials regarded him as an emperor over the Cherokee Nation, it is doubtful that the Cherokee people themselves regarded Ama-edohi as such. Still, he held an important role in the community as something akin to a trade commissioner and strengthened trade relationships between his people and the English colonists. In 1741 Ama-edohi went to battle with South Carolina colonists against their enemies and was killed. By 1755 Concotocko of Chota, or "Old Hop" as he was sometimes referred by the British, had replaced Ama-edohi as "emperor."

Governor Arthur Dobbs's belief that Ama-edohi was still a Cherokee leader fourteen years after his death demonstrates not only Ama-edohi's important legacy, but also the value that the British government placed on the "emperor" role even though the Cherokee people did not tend to agree. Moreover, it demonstrates that Dobbs, like many colonial officials of his time, did not have enough information or did not care to learn about the true complexity of the governmental structures of various nations of American Indians during this period.

Established in 1886, the American Federation of Labor was a union organization that represented craftsmen, tradesmen, and industrial laborers. In 1955, it merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations and became known as the "AFL-CIO." 

During World War I, the American Red Cross mobilized relief efforts for soldiers and their families. Over in the war zone, Red Cross volunteers aided in the care and transport of sick and wounded soldiers and civilians, organized recreational programs at military bases and camps, and provided soldiers with snacks and entertainment items through their "canteen service."

Here in North Carolina, Red Cross chapters organized in most counties in the state. Volunteers raised money, produced bandages and surgical dressings, organized Christmas gift programs, and offered canteen services to soldiers traveling along the rails. During the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, they delivered meals to families affected by the virus and served more or less as ambulances, conveying the sickest patients from their homes to hospital facilities for care.

Allan Pepperell Ames was born on March 24, 1876, in Albany, New York. During World War I, Ames served as the publicity director for the League to Enforce Peace. He died in Pensacola, Florida, on July 28, 1961.

Jeffery Amherst (1717-1797) was a British army officer who served as royal governor of Virginia from 1759 to 1768. During the Seven Years' War, he was the commanding general of all British forces in North America. His military heyday occurred during the late 1750s, with the Portsmouth expedition in which he led a force of 14,000 along with Admiral Edward Boscawen's fleet of 151 vessels. Amherst and his men successfully took Fort Ticonderoga while General James Wolfe captured Quebec and General John Prideaux and Sir William Johnson seized Fort Niagara. In 1763, Amherst's military reputation was tarnished by his difficulties during Pontiac's War.

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Claudius Amyand (1718 - 1774) was a British government administrator who held several offices over the course of his career: undersecretary of state (1750-1760), commissioner of customs (1756-1765), and receiver of land tax (1765-1774).

Albert Anderson was born on October 18, 1859, near Eagle Rock (Wake County), North Carolina. A physician by training, Anderson served as the superintendent of the state mental hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1913 to 1932. He died in Raleigh on October 16, 1932.

James Anderson was the Captain of the Ocracoke Independent Company, where he was primarily responsible for protecting that portion of the North Carolina coast. In the summer of 1777 he apprehended William Brimage, a prominent co-conspirator in the Gourd Patch Affair, who had made his way to Ocracoke in the attempt to escape the state. Brimage briefly escaped again before being captured near Roanoke Island and brought to the Edenton Jail. In a letter from October 1777, Brimage complained that Captain Anderson was still in possession of Brimage's personal affects at Ocracoke.

John Anderson was a resident of Rowan County who signed a petition to Arthur Dobbs in 1762 requesting that he appoint a justice of the peace for Rowan County.

Joseph Anderson served as attorney general for the colony of North Carolina from 1741 to 1742 and from 1743 to 1747.

Ray Anderson was born on November 24, 1895, in Tarboro, North Carolina. Anderson was a farmer in Tarboro when he registered for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He was subsequently inducted into the service in May 1918 and served with the 156th Depot Brigade and the 317th Field Artillery. He served overseas from August 1918 to June 1919 and was honorably discharged on June 19, 1919. Anderson died in Greenville (Pitt County) on May 1, 1984.

Thomas Anderson was a resident of colonial Currituck County. In an undated petition, he joined other Currituck County magistrates in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs for relief from the "Emcumbrancys" of having the registers office located outside the county and at so great a distance from them.

William Anderson was a resident in colonial North Carolina. Around 1763, he joined others in signing a letter of petition to royal governor Arthur Dobbs on behalf of William Strother, who had been accused of horse stealing.

Robert McCants Andrews was born in Sumter, South Carolina, on April 1, 1891. Following his graduation from Howard University in 1915, Andrews went on to study law at Harvard, receiving his law degree in 1919. Shortly thereafter, Andrews took up a post as director of welfare work in Badin, North Carolina, working principally to better the conditions of the Black employees of the Tallassee Power Company at Badin, North Carolina. His "radical" ideas on social and racial equality resulted in his being run out of town by white authorities, resulting in correspondence to the governor's office and to the superintendent of the power plant at Badin. Andrews went on to pass the North Carolina bar in 1921 and opened his own practice in Durham, where he became the principal lawyer for North Carolina Mutual. Known as an impressive litigator and skillful agitator in the pursuit of civil rights, Andrews' promising career was tragically cut short when in July 1932 he developed a medical condition known as peritonitis. He died in Durham on July 5, 1932.

William Trent Andrews was born March 1864 in Sumter, South Carolina. Andrews was a graduate of Fisk (1890) and Howard Law (1892) and had completed one year of instruction at West Point (1885) at a time when very few Black cadets were permitted to attend. After relocating to Baltimore about 1917, he began the Daily Herald, a daily Black newspaper. After two years, it was reduced to semi-weekly and then weekly publication, but Andrews managed to keep it in print until 1931. During a particularly harsh heat wave in Baltimore in late July and early August 1940, Andrews was found unconscious in his car. He died two days later in the hospital.

George Anson (1697-1762) was a British naval officer and nobleman who served in the following conflicts: War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714), War of Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720), War of Jenkin's Ear (1739-1748), and War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748). During the Seven Years War, he became the First Lord of the Admiralty. He is the namesake of Anson County, North Carolina.

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Anthony Hutchins was a representative of Anson County in the colonial Assembly in 1760, 1762, and 1764-1765. In 1755, he joined other merchants, traders, and planters in petitioning the Board of Trade for relief on trade restrictions.

Mariot Arbuthnot (1711-1794) was a colonial administrator and high-ranking British naval officer. During his command of the ship Garland (or Guarland), Arbuthnot transported royal governor Arthur Dobbs from North Carolina to Virginia in 1754.