Chronicles of the Cape Fear River: Being Some Account of Historic Events on the Cape Fear River (Classic Reprint)

Preface There are what are called labors of love when men turn from their work in the business world and at great pains seek to accomplish something for the benefit and advantage of others. The present publication is the fruit of Mr. James Sprunt sdesire to collate information of general interest concerning the Cape Fear Eiver, because he has an abiding affection for the noble stream with which he is so familiar and is animated by a purpose to preserve in convenient form some account of local incidents that are worthy of being remembered. In the years just before the war, when I first began to know the active men of Wilmington, none stood higher in public esteem than Mr. Alexander Sprunt. He was a thorough man of business, whose intelligence and sterling worth commanded admiration, while his brother. Rev. James M. Sprunt, who was teaching the Grove Academy in Duplin, added to the credit of the name. These two brothers had come to the Cape Fear some ten or fifteen years earlier and had won what is most to be valued in life the good opinion of those who knew them. The passage of time has yearly added to the reputation of the name, until now it stands unexcelled in the business world. The father of these brothers, Laurence Sprunt, a farmer near the famous town of Perth, in 1812 married Christiana Mc Donald, daughter of a Highland family, whose brother, John Mc Donald, was a prosperous planter in Jamaica, and whose cousins, the Menzies, in Scotland, were prominent and wealthy. After his marriage Laurence Sprunt occupied a small farm known as Viewfield, near Perth, and there were bom his children, A lexander, James Menzies, and I sabella, all of whom were educated in Edinburgh. After graduating, Alexander became a partner in the firm of Reed, Irving Co.
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