Patrick "Paddy" Carr was a resident of Wilkes County, Georgia who served as a captain in the local militia regiment during the Revolution. He and other Patriot refugees from Georgia volunteered for service in North Carolina. He developed a reputation as an officer who gave no mercy to loyalists and was rumored to interrogate and murder loyalists in cold blood if they opposed him. He was present at the Battle of King's Mountain and may have murdered loyalists near Wrightsborough, Georgia along with Col. Josiah Dunn in 1781. After the war in 1790 he was found guilty of murder in Georgia, but later was broken out of jail and given a pardon by the governor. He died in about December 1802 when he was murdered by an unknown number of former loyalists or their descendants in Georgia.