Thomas ROBESON

                   Birthdate could have been 1739/1940. Held the rank of Col. in the war of the revolution, and account of his war record will be found in the record of the "Battle of Elizabethtown, N.C." just after the record of Capt. Peter Robeson(brother). Robeson County N.C was named after Col. Thomas Robeson and his brother Capt Peter Robeson in recognition of their services during the Revolution. He was a member of the Provincial Congress at Halifax N.C. 1776, and was a member of the first Assembly of patriots at New Berne N.C. 1778. The descendents are mostly of the Presbyterian faith.

Robeson County, in the southeastern section of North Carolina, was established in 1787, carved from Bladen, but settlers lived here before that. The earliest verifiable records show settlers as early as 1747, when Henry O'Berry applied for two tracts west of Raft Swamp, when the area was part of Bladen County.

The county bears the name of Col. Thomas Robeson, a hero from the Battle of Elizabethtown, fought in Sept 1781 during the Revolutionary War. According to Judge Henry McKinnon, a charter member of the Robeson County Historical Society: "Col. Robeson is said to have demanded that the new county be names for him as condition for supporting its creation. But Robeson died in 1785, so he could not have had a final say. Robeson never lived in the area that bears his name."

Robeson County is bounded by the state of South Carolina and Scotland, Hoke Cumberland, Bladen and Columbus counties,

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Kings Meadow has his death as 1784.

Col. Thomas Robeson held the rank of Col. in the war of the Revolution, an account of his war record will be found in the record of the "Battle of Elizabethtown, N.C., just after the record of Capt. Peter Robeson (39).
Robeson County, NC, was named after Col. Thomas Robeson and his brother Capt. Peter Robeson in recognition of their service during the Revolution; Col. Robeson was delegate to Hillsboro, NC 1775, and appointed Col. for Bladen COunty, NC 1775. He was a member of the Provincial Congress at Halifax NC, 1776, and member of teh first assembly of patriots at New Berne NC 1778. See Wheeler's "North Carolina" (Bladen County)
We are indebted to the notes of the late Mrs. Mary M. Harris and to Mr. Hamilton McMillan for the greater portion of the information concerning Col. Robeson. Mrs Harris also stated that all of the "Robesons" of the South were true patriots during the Revolution, not one of them joining the Tories.