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Marker Text:\u00a0DEMPSEY\u00a0BURGESS\u00a0\u00a0 Member of provincial congresses, 1775-1776; lieutenant colonel of militia in Revolution; Congressman, 1795-99. Grave\u00a0is 7 miles S.E.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dempsey Burgess, Revolutionary War political leader, was born in 1751 in Pasquotank County, the son of John Burgess, a Baptist minister.\u00a0 His mother\u2019s name remains unknown.\u00a0 Little is known of Burgess\u2019s early life, although presumably it was spent in agricultural pursuits.
\nBurgess entered politics in 1773 as a member of the Colonial Assembly representing Pasquotank County.\u00a0 In 1775-1776 he served in the provincial congresses held at Halifax and Hilllsborough alongside his friend Isaac Gregory<\/a>.\u00a0 When Camden County was formed in 1777, Burgess joined Gregory on the committee to design and lay out the new courthouse and county jail.
\nBurgess\u2019s Revolutionary War military career consisted of appointments as major and lieutenant colonel of the Pasquotank County militia.\u00a0 After the war, Burgess returned to farming.\u00a0 Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1795, Burgess held office for two consecutive terms.\u00a0 In 1799 he retired to his plantation where he died on January 13, 1800, leaving a widow and four children.<\/div>\n
References: William S. Powell, ed., Dictionary of North Carolina Biography<\/i>, I, 271\u2014sketch by Elmer D. Johnson Biographical Dictionary of the American Congress<\/i> (1971) John H. Wheeler, Historical Sketches of North Carolina<\/i> (1851)<\/div>\n

Location: US 158\/NC 34 at Camden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marker Text:\u00a0DEMPSEY\u00a0BURGESS\u00a0\u00a0 Member of provincial congresses, 1775-1776; lieutenant colonel of militia in Revolution; Congressman, 1795-99. Grave\u00a0is 7 miles S.E. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dempsey Burgess, Revolutionary War political leader, was born in 1751 in Pasquotank County, the son of John Burgess, a Baptist minister.\u00a0 His mother\u2019s name remains unknown.\u00a0 Little is known of Burgess\u2019s early life, although presumably it … Continue reading “Dempsey Burgess”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Yemh-A7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}