American Revolution Ancestor of James Rule Watson
Solomon Edward Long (1744, Cecil, Maryland-1786 Burke, N.C.) (buried at Burke, N.C.)
General Solomon as he was nick-named by his peers, served as a Corporal under Colonel Francis Marion in S.C. Marion was known as the swamp fox and Solomon fought from the swamp in raids upon the British until the time they were finally defeated at Eutaw Springs. Marion was made a Brigadier General. Later Solomon was designated a General in the Militia during the Indian wars. his children settled in Kentucky near the Tennessee border where his daughter married a Scott previously mentioned. Solomon married Catherine Julian of noble birth from England (1746 about-probably in the British Islands off Florida where her ancestor was a Lord Julian-1812 in North Carolina) in 1775 in Cecil, Maryland.