Samuel Ashe (North Carolina governor)

[3] During the American Revolution, Ashe served as lieutenant and paymaster of the 1st North Carolina Continental Regiment from September 1775 until he resigned on April 16, 1776.

Ashe was active in politics after his term as governor, serving as a member of the United States Electoral College in 1804, when his fellow Democrat-Republican, Thomas Jefferson, was reelected over Federalist Charles C. Pinckney.

[5] Ashe was a slave owner, and one such person, Amar, was a West African woman kidnapped and brought to America in 1735 aboard a ship called The Doddington.

In World War II, the United States liberty ship SS Samuel Ashe was named in his honor.

Samuel Ashe Grave near Rocky Point, North Carolina was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.