Francis Nash

Commander of N.C. Continentals

Biography

Photo of a white, wooden, two-story home with a first-floor front porch — The Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough (AmRevNC photograph)

Born of Welsh immigrants in Virginia around 1742, lawyer Francis Nash moved to Hillsborough in 1766 with his brother Abner. He served as the clerk of court, which put him at odds with the protestors known as the Regulators: Nash was accused, but cleared, of taking illegal fees, one of thei