The Davidson Family of Rural Hill, North Carolina: Three Generations on a Piedmont Plantation

by Ann Williams, Jim Williams, Ann Williams, et al.

John Davidson came to the North Carolina back country circa 1751 as a young man, with his sister and widowed mother. Typical of Scots-Irish settlers, they arrived with little more than basic farming tools, determined to make it on their own terms. Davidson worked hard, prospered, married well and built a plantation on the Catawba River he called Rural Hill. The Davidson's were loyal British citizens who paid their taxes and participated in colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476680485
• ISBN13: 9781476680484
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher