11 Nov. 1775–29 Dec. 1821
The census of 1820 indicated that he was engaged in "commerce" and that his household consisted of himself and four females aged ten, sixteen, twenty-six, and forty-five. His will, dated ten days before his death, left his home, farm, and other property to his wife, Margaret, during her lifetime and afterwards to his son, John. He also left his son twenty-five volumes of "British poets," his "congressional books," a silver watch, a number of people he had enslaved, and goods that appear to have been the stock in his store, as well as people he enslaved to his wife during her lifetime. Nineteen enslaved people were mentioned by name. In addition to land in North Carolina, he bequeathed 1,000 acres in South Carolina and 160 acres in Illinois (which had been admitted to the Union only three years previously). He also mentioned his daughters—Ann McInnis, Margaret McQueen, Mary, and Penelope. He was buried in the Old Stewartsville Cemetery near Laurinburg.