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Sometime ago I received a letter from Major Graham Daves, asking for information about Major Howell Tatom, the last secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati in North Carolina- Many of the facts at my command were’ traditions I had received front my mother. A few days ago I i^ceived the following from Major W. C. Tatom, who did gallant service in the Cuban War and is now editor of the American, Nashville, Tenn. Major Tatom writes rae:••Briefly this is an account of the otlicial career of your great uncle. Major Howell Tatom. Many of the facts are secured from the Alabama Historical Society, Vol. II. You can verify it in the Congressional Library at Washington. Major Howell Tatom was probably born in North Carolina. Particulars of his early life were unknown. The fallowing is a summary of his Revolutionary War service in that State: Ensign. Sept. 1, 1776:Second Lieut., Jan. 4, 1776: Lieut., March 28, 1776; Captain, April 3, 1777; captured in battle of Charleston May 12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781. He was breveted Major. Elected Secretary North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati 1781, and is supposed to have held that oflice when he removed to Tennessee about 1790. Known to have hold the following oflices in Tennessee: Treasurer Western District (Middle Tennessee) 1794-1796; Attorney General of same; Supreme Court Judge, May 12, 1/37, to Sept. 21, 1798; and afterwards (about 1807) one of the commissioners to adjust land claims between Tennessee and North Carolina. Gardner's Dictionary, Army U- S., (1850) gives his record in War of 1812; Principle topoo-. engineer (Major) of Tennessee Volunteers, under General Jackson, from September, 1813 to May, 1814; and again in the defense of New Orleans, and distinguished himself tn battle of 6th of January, 1815. Little is known of his family. He died in 1823, as appears from a statement in Tennessee reports. An effort is being made to collect material for a full biographical sketch. He helped to form the Watauga Constitution before Tennesseo was a State. He then lived in what is now Last Tennessee. Hare more information concerning him, but not here, as my library isstill in Knoxville.The following facts are matters oi record: Major Howell Tatom was the son of Howell Tatom ap Tatom, Esq-, who owned a large plantation near Oxford, Granville ooanty, Norih Carolina. He was a Welsh royalist
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The Gold Leaf
Henderson, North Carolina, US
Thu, Sep 26, 1901
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