Richard Dobbs Spaight, the Younger

Born 1790 – Died 1850

Graduate and for twenty-nine years a trustee of the University of North Carolina, member of the North Carolina House of Commons for one term, and of the State Senate for fourteen terms, member of the eighteenth ...

Richard Dobbs Spaight

Born 1758 – Died 1802

Educated in Scotland at University of Glasgow; Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Richard Caswell during the Revolution, and Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of Artillery after that war; representative of the Borough of New Bern for five terms and of the ...

Richard Dobbs Spaight

1758-1802

First native-born N.C. governor, 1792-1795; a signer of the U.S. Constitution, 1787; killed in a duel. Grave here.

Marker is on Brices Creek Road 0.2 miles south of State Road 1004, on the right when traveling west.

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