The address recounts the life and service of Colonel Edward Buncombe, born in 1742 on St. Kitts, who settled in North Carolina in the late 1760s. It traces his family origins, the building and hospitality of Buncombe Hall, civic duties as a county magistrate, and his leadership of the Fifth North Carolina Continental Regiment during the Revolution. The narrative describes his capture and death while a wounded prisoner in Philadelphia, offers contemporary letters and local reminiscences, and notes the geographic and familial legacy that preserved his name.