Susannah Spratt

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1. 1755

   In 1755, surveyor Thomas Polk built his home at the spot where two Indian trading paths crossed -- a site that decades later became "the Square," the intersection of Charlotte's Trade and Tryon Streets. That same year he married Susannah Spratt, of the Spratt settler family.

   Independence Square (Trade & Tryon)Thomas PolkWilliam Tryon

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