Richard Dobbs Spaight, [Jr.]

(1796-1850)

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Richard Dobbs Spaight, [Jr.] was born in 1796, in New Bern, NC. He died on November 2, 1850.

Places of Residence

• New Bern, NC, from 1796 [1].

Occupations

• Governor, between 1835 and 1836 [1].

Relatives

• Parents: Richard Dobbs Spaight, [Sr.] (1758-1802) [1] and Mary Jones Leach [1].
• Other children: one daughter (Margaret Spaight [1]).
• Others: John Robert Donnell (son-in-law) [1], Margaret Shepard  (great-granddaughter) [1], Mary Shepard  (great-granddaughter) [1] and Mary Donnell (granddaughter) [1].

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).