The epitaphs are as follows:

Historical Marker
Richard Dobbs Spaight
1758-1802
First native-born NC 
governor, 1792-1795; a 
signer of the US Constitution,
1787; killed in
a duel. Grave here.

The Family Sepulchre
of
Gen. Richard Dobbs Spaight

Are unreadable of the remains of
General Richard Dobbs Spaight
who departed this life
on the 6th of September 1802
Aged 44 years 6? months unreadable days

On this property, known as "Clermont" was erected by Colonel William
Wilson, about 1735, a colonial brick mansion which was destroyed by
the Federal forces in 1863.

Col. Wilson married Mary Vail, the widow of Frederick Jones esq.,
their daughter, Elizabeth, married in 1756, Richard Spaight, Secretary
of the Crown in the Province of North Carolina; Justice of the Supreme
Court and Member of the Council of Gov. Arthur Dobbs, 1757-1763.

Here was born in 1758 their son, Richard Dobbs Spaight, the first 
native Governor of North Carolina 1792-1795.

In this plot are interred the remains of

Richard Spaight, 1730-1763
"Madame" Mary Vail Moore, 1705-1764
Gov. Richard Dobbs Spaight, 1758-1802
Mary Jones Leech, 1765-1810, his wife
William Wilson Spaight, 1794-1812
Charles George Spaight, 1798-1831
Gov. Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr., 1796-1850
Margaret Elizabeth Spaight, 1800-1831, wife of Judge John R. Donnell
Margaret Elizabeth Donnell, 1828-1836
Col. Joseph Leech, 1720-1803, Treasurer of North Carolina, 1771 and 
President of the Council of State during the Revolutionary War
Mary Dorothy Vail, 1735-1775, his second wife

In this grove stood the family sepulchre of Gen'l Richard Dobbs Spaight

The tomb having fallen in ruins, this wall was erected by his Great,
Great Grandson, Charles Shepard Bryan, Colonel Ordnance U.S.A., A.E.F.
June, 1934





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