{"nrhp_refnum":"01001096","name":"Ashe, Gov. Samuel, Grave","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Farm Ln., from S side of NC 1411, 0.7 mi. E of crossing of Pike Creek","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rocky Point","county":"Pender County","state":"NC","lat":34.47839016800003,"lon":-77.85218491299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-10-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Law"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The grave of Governor Samuel Ashe (1725-1813), located near the center of the Ashe family cemetery on the former Neck plantation, near the Northeast Cape Fear River in rural Pender County, North Carolina, about five miles from Rocky Point.","why_significant":"Samuel Ashe was a prominent lawyer, Revolutionary-era leader, state judge and seventh governor of North Carolina. He handed down the 1787 Bayard vs. Singleton decision, an early instance of a state law being declared unconstitutional. His grave is the only identifiable resource directly associated with him, since his plantation house burned in the late 1800s.","narrative":"Governor Samuel Ashe, who died in 1813 at age eighty-seven, is buried in the Ashe family cemetery on the site of his former plantation, The Neck, in southeastern Pender County, North Carolina. The small fenced cemetery lies at the end of a faint farm lane about a mile from paved road, overlooking cultivated fields and swampland above the Northeast Cape Fear River. Ashe's grave sits near the center, marked by a large granite slab installed in 1967 after the original stone deteriorated. Ashe led resistance to British rule, helped draft the state constitution, served as speaker of the first state senate, and sat as presiding judge of the state court until 1795. In 1787 he took part in the Bayard vs. Singleton decision, an early assertion of judicial review over state law. He then served three one-year terms as governor and presided over the University of North Carolina's first trustees. Because his plantation house burned in the late 1800s, the grave is the only surviving resource directly tied to him.","period_of_significance":"1813","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Described as well-tended; the current granite slab marker was installed in 1967 by Ashe descendants, and the cemetery is fenced with chain link.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.981153-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/7217/47721722/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01001096.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721722","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gov._Samuel_Ashe_Grave","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19600250"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/pender-county/ashe-gov-samuel-grave-01001096/"}