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SMITH, Benjamin, governor of North Carolina, born in Brunswick county, North Carolina, in 1750; died in Smithville, North Carolina, 10 February, 1829. He became aide-de-camp to General Washington in 1776, was with him in the retreat from Long Island, participated in the detente of Fort Moultrie, and served during the British invasion of South Carolina. In 1789 he gave 20,000 acres of hind to the University of North Carolina, whose trustees named a hall in that institution in his honor. He was fifteen times a member of the state senate from Brunswick county, served as major-general of militia in 1794-1810, and, when war with France was threatened in 1796, raised a regiment of North Carolina volunteers in his county. He was governor of the state in 1810-'12. A town and an island of North Carolina are named in his honor.
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