Crossword-Solution: YADKIN 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina.

Shortly after the adoption of the constitution of the United States, he was promoted to the bench in the Federal Court--married Miss Pearson--and settled on the Yadkin river, where the county is called Stokes, after his name.

This movement into the fertile valley lands of the Yadkin and the Catawba continued unabated throughout the entire third quarter of the century.

Hunting is their chief occupation." Into the valley of the Yadkin in December, 1752, came Bishop Spangenberg and a party of Moravians, accompanied by a surveyor and two guides, for the purpose of locating the one hundred thousand acres of land which had been offered them on easy terms the preceding year by Lord Granville.

The former occupied the Yadkin Valley and the region to the westward, the latter the Waxhaws and the Anson County region to the northwest.