The spot where Colonel Buncombe lies buried is not marked, but it is somewhere within the “additional church-yard” of the parish of Christ Church, on the corner of Arch and Fifth Streets, Philadelphia. In this enclosure are also deposited the remains of Benjamin Franklin, and other patriots; while not many miles off sleep Nash, Irwin, Turner, McCann, and their brave comrades, who counted not life above liberty. And North Carolina should little grieve that her sons are left on the soil of Pennsylvania. There they fell, fighting for the common cause of America; there let them rest. “The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle’s stirring blast, The charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din and shout are past; Nor war’s wild note nor glory’s peal Shall thrill with fierce delight Those breasts that nevermore may feel The rapture of the fight.” As a grateful tribute to the memory of Colonel Buncombe, the General Assembly of North Carolina, at its session of 1791, created a new county just westward of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and called it in his honor. This is a monument which will stand when the proudest memorials of our day have become misshapen masses of stone. For ages it will tell of the brave soldier who fought for his country’s freedom and now sleeps in a forgotten grave, awaiting the last summons when the earth and the sea shall give up their dead. Peaceful be his rest!--and may generations yet to come draw inspiration from the life he led. FOOTNOTES: [A] Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincey, Jun., by his son Josiah Quincey, pp. 120, 121. [B] Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. IX., p. 60. [C] These portraits were afterwards destroyed in a fire when the residence of Dr. Edward H. Goelet, of Goldsborough, N. C. was burned--M. DeL. H. [D] Mrs. Ann Booth Pollock Cox is interred in the old burial ground of St. Paul’s Church, Edenton, N. C. On her monument is an elaborate inscription relative to the military record of her grandfather Colonel Buncombe. [E] Colonial Records of N. C., Vol. VIII, pp. 705, 707. [F] Defence of North Carolina, by Jo. Seawell Jones, p. 314. [G] Defence of North Carolina, by Jo. Seawell Jones, p. 124. [H] Vol. I., p. 163. [I] Colonial Records of N. C., Vol. IX., p. 1041. [J] For full text of preamble and resolutions, see Colonial Records of N. C., Vol. X., p. 512; Defence of North Carolina, by Jo. Seawell Jones, p. 251. [K] Colonial Records of N. C., Vol. X., p. 205. [L] Colonial Records of N. C., Vol. X., p. 520. [M] American Archives (4th Series), Vol. V., p. 1698. [N] This account of the movements of Nash’s brigade is partly from narrative of Hugh McDonald in old series of North Carolina University Magazine (1853-’56, II., 466-470; IV., 158-162; V., 28-31, 208-211, 360-363), and partly from State Records. [O] State Records of N. C., Vol. XI., p. 733. [P] State Records of N. C., Vol. XI., pp. 562, 750. [Q] State Records of N. C., Vol. XI. page 621.