Burgwyn family.

Members of the Burgwyn family of Northampton County, N.C., were descendants of John Burgwin (1731-1803), who came to North Carolina from Wales in 1751. The spelling of the family name was changed to Burgwyn by Burgwin's son John Fanning (1783-1864). The Burgwyns were prosperous planters in the northeastern part of the state. Henry King Burgwyn (1813-1877), son of John Fanning Burgwyn, was the owner of Thornbury, a plantation on the Roanoke River in Northampton County.

Henry King Harry Burgwyn, Jr. (1841-1863), known as The Boy Colonel, was the oldest son of Henry King Burgwyn and his wife, the former Anna Greenough (1817-1887). He was one of the youngest colonels in the Civil War. He studied at West Point from 1856 to 1857, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1857, and from Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., in 1861. At age nineteen he was elected lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment of the Confederate Army. This regiment, whose colonel was Zebulon B. Vance, was involved in battles in coastal and eastern North Carolina and in the Petersburg-Richmond area of Virginia. When Vance resigned to become governor of North Carolina in the late summer of 1862, Burgwyn was promoted to colonel. He was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, 1 July 1863.

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