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Buncomb County was named in honor
of Colonel Edward Buncombe, a Revolutionary soldier, who was wounded and
captured at the Battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777, and in May, 1778,
died a paroled prisoner in Philadelphia.1
Asheville, named in honor of Samuel Ashe, Governor of North
Carolina, 1796-1798, is the county seat.1
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