John Pyle

Escapee from Two Disasters

Biography

Photo of pavement ending at a gravel road toward thick woods — Likely site of Pyle’s Defeat (AmRevNC photograph)

John Pyle was born in 1723 to a doctor in Pennsylvania and trained as a doctor in London. He moved to N.C. with his wife Sarah and their eight children in 1767, to farm and practice in what became northwest Chatham County.