- Title
- North Carolina historical review [1961 : October]
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- Date
- October 1961
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina historical review [1961 : October]
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The North Carolina
Historical Review
Volume XXXVIII October, 1961 Number 4
NATHANIEL ROCHESTER IN NORTH CAROLINA
By Durward T. Stokes*
Nathaniel Rochester spent more than one-third of his life
in North Carolina. Coming to Granville County as a child, he
later went to school and spent his early years in Orange
County. Before he left North Carolina at the age of thirty-
one, he was a successful merchant, a high ranking officer in
the Continental Army, a statesman during the formative
years of the State of North Carolina, and a local, county, and
State official. With his associates, he played a prominent role
in all phases of the important events between 1765 and 1780.*1
Forced to leave North Carolina because the bitterness of
the Tories against the Patriots actually endangered his life,
he continued to be associated with men of high ideals and
worthy character and continued his record of personal ac¬
complishment and public service.
The Rochester family were known residents of the County
of Essex, in England, as far back as 1558. They removed to
the County of Kent at a later date, and Nicholas Rochester,
grandfather of Nathaniel, was born there about 1640. He
came to Virginia in 1689, 23 establishing his home on a 100-
acre tract which he purchased from John Jenkins. This farm
* Mr. Durward T. Stokes lives in Graham, where he is a merchant and
realtor.
1 Nathaniel Rochester, A Brief Sketch of the Life of Nathaniel Rochest¬
er, Written by Himself for the Information of His Children (Rochester,
New York: The Rochester Historical Society, Volume III of the Publication
Fund Series, reprinted from the original private printing, 1924), 305-314,
hereinafter cited as Rochester, Sketch.
3 Nathaniel Rochester, Rochester Family Charts (Rochester, New York:
The Rochester Historical Society, Volume III of the Publication Fund Se¬
ries, 1924), 340-342, hereinafter cited as Nathaniel Rochester, Charts.
Nathaniel Rochester, compiler of these charts, was a lineal descendant of
the first Nathaniel Rochester and completed his work in Buffalo, New York,
in 1882.
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