Temperance Smith Alston Chapter
Leah J. Brennan
 
House in the Horseshoe
House in the Horseshoe
Historic Home and Site
Photo Courtesy of Roger Kramer
The courageous lady, Temperance Smith Alston, saved the House in the Horseshoe during a Revolutionary battle in 1781. Her home was being attacked by the Tories and was about to be burned when she negotiated the surrender to save the house and the Patriots who were defending it. It is told that Temperance Smith Alston saved her home with a pillowcase! The siege began in the early dawn of August 5, 1781, when the followers of the dreaded Tory, David Fanning attacked Colonel Philip Alston and his Whig soldiers. Heavily barricaded in Alston's plantation home located on the bend in Deep River in the then Cumberland County, the Whig troops managed to beat back the onslaught for several hours. The Tories filled a cart located next to the house with burning hay and realizing the Tories meant to burn her home, Mrs. Alston tied a "pillowcase" to a broomstick, opened the front door and in exchange for the lives of the occupants of the house, offered surrender terms to Fanning.
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