History of Mecklenburg County [Nc]

The history of a State or a county writes author J. B. Alexander is almost entirely the history of the people who constitute the inhabitants. Indeed Alexander devotes a substantial portion of his History of Mecklenburg County from 1740 to 1900 to biographical sketches of former citizens of the county often giving such information as date and place of birth parents' names date of arrival in Mecklenburg County education profession military service and names of spouse and children. Many of these Mecklenburg residents descended from the Scotch-Irish immigrants who populated the early settlements of the county which was formed in 1762 and originally encompassed a large area that included what is now Union Cabarrus Gaston Lincoln Cleveland and Rutherford counties as well as the upper portions of present-day South Carolina. Later waves of immigration brought settlers from Maryland Pennsylvania Germany and Ireland to the area.