![]() James Love to join in as partners in this venture. In 1804 he invited Martin Phiffer, George Barnhardt, and neighbor Rev. At any rate, John Reed returned home and began mining in earnest in what became the first gold mine in America. This article also states he later traveled to “Raleigh,” not Fayetteville, where he sold the gold for very little. So he hid the rock until he learned more about its worth. And as a first generation Hessian living among those he had enlisted to fight against, John Reed was fearful that the find of something valuable might somehow be used against him. This article agrees stating that John Reed did not know what he had. ![]() He used the rock as a door stop before selling it three years later to a jeweler in “Fayetteville.” And yet, in another account twenty years prior to that of Barnhardt, the Carolina Observer published in Fayetteville offered a subtly different view. As per an affidavit filed in 1848 by George Barnhardt, Conrad’s father John Reed was at first ignorant of the precious metal. But this all changed when in 1799 the young Conrad Reed discovered a large gold nugget while bow fishing along the banks of Little Meadow Creek. Deed and court records account for what must have been a typical early American settlement. Acquiring land in the big bend of Rocky River, his neighbors included the families of Reed, Garmon, Little, Kiser, Tucker, and others. ![]() James Love settled in Mecklenburg/Cabarus County NC in the last decade of the 1700’s. ![]()
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