Founder of Bruce's Crossroads (now Summerfield) and Revolutionary War Patriot.
Died, at the house of his son-in-law, Maj. Abraham Peeples, in Guilford county, on the 21st January last, Charles Bruce, Esq. aged 90 years and 10 days. Mr. Bruce was a native of Westmoreland county, Va. whence he emigrated to North Carolina, and in the year 1769 settled in Guilford county, at a place which he called Summerfield, where he has resided ever since. He was a member of the Convention that formed the State Constitution in 1776; for several years, about the close of the Revolutionary war, a member of the State Legislature, and for the last thirty years, a member of the Baptist church in which connexion he died. He possessed to an eminent degree the esteem and confidence of all who knew him…Ral. Reg.
—Published in North-Carolina Free Press (Tarborough, Edgecombe County, North Carolina), Tuesday, March 20, 1832, p. 4.
Died, at the house of his son-in-law, Maj. Abraham Peeples, in Guilford county, on the 21st January last, Charles Bruce, Esq. aged 90 years and 10 days. Mr. Bruce was a native of Westmoreland county, Va. whence he emigrated to North Carolina, and in the year 1769 settled in Guilford county, at a place which he called Summerfield, where he has resided ever since. He was a member of the Convention that formed the State Constitution in 1776; for several years, about the close of the Revolutionary war, a member of the State Legislature, and for the last thirty years, a member of the Baptist church in which connexion he died. He possessed to an eminent degree the esteem and confidence of all who knew him…Ral. Reg.
—Published in North-Carolina Free Press (Tarborough, Edgecombe County, North Carolina), Tuesday, March 20, 1832, p. 4.
Founder of Bruce's Crossroads (now Summerfield) and Revolutionary War Patriot.
Died, at the house of his son-in-law, Maj. Abraham Peeples, in Guilford county, on the 21st January last, Charles Bruce, Esq. aged 90 years and 10 days. Mr. Bruce was a native of Westmoreland county, Va. whence he emigrated to North Carolina, and in the year 1769 settled in Guilford county, at a place which he called Summerfield, where he has resided ever since. He was a member of the Convention that formed the State Constitution in 1776; for several years, about the close of the Revolutionary war, a member of the State Legislature, and for the last thirty years, a member of the Baptist church in which connexion he died. He possessed to an eminent degree the esteem and confidence of all who knew him…Ral. Reg.
—Published in North-Carolina Free Press (Tarborough, Edgecombe County, North Carolina), Tuesday, March 20, 1832, p. 4.
Died, at the house of his son-in-law, Maj. Abraham Peeples, in Guilford county, on the 21st January last, Charles Bruce, Esq. aged 90 years and 10 days. Mr. Bruce was a native of Westmoreland county, Va. whence he emigrated to North Carolina, and in the year 1769 settled in Guilford county, at a place which he called Summerfield, where he has resided ever since. He was a member of the Convention that formed the State Constitution in 1776; for several years, about the close of the Revolutionary war, a member of the State Legislature, and for the last thirty years, a member of the Baptist church in which connexion he died. He possessed to an eminent degree the esteem and confidence of all who knew him…Ral. Reg.
—Published in North-Carolina Free Press (Tarborough, Edgecombe County, North Carolina), Tuesday, March 20, 1832, p. 4.
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