Francis Locke Sr.
Francis Locke was born in 1722 in Ireland. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Locke. When he was still young, the family emigrated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania Colony, where Locke grew up. After his father died in 1744, his mother married John Brandon, who eventually moved the family to Anson County, North Carolina Colony. That area of the county was later split off as Rowan County, North Carolina.
Matthew Locke (U.S. Congress)
Locke was named treasury commissioner of the Province of North Carolina in 1771, and elected a member of the safety committee of Rowan County on August 8, 1774; and to the committee of secrecy, intelligence, and observation of Rowan County on September 23, 1774. He was the paymaster of troops in the Salisbury District in 1775. Locke was a brigadier general of the North Carolina militia during the American War of Independence.