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He was also a member of the North Carolina state ratification convention.
He was also a member of the North Carolina state ratification convention.
==Death==
==Later life and death==
In 1795, after his term of governor was complete, he married Mary Leach who was of a prominent family from Holmesburg, Pennsylvania.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tjlEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA16 Sketch of the Life of Richard Dobbs Spaight of North Carolina]</ref> One of his sons, Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr., grew up to also be a governor for the state of North Carolina from 1835-1836.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9vpS7DEKrsUC&pg=PA132 The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution]</ref>
Spaight engaged in a duel with John Stanly, the man who had defeated him in his run for Congress in 1801; he was injured in this duel, and died of his wounds on September 6, 1802. He is buried in the family sepulcher near New Bern, North Carolina.
Spaight engaged in a duel with John Stanly, the man who had defeated him in his run for Congress in 1801; he was injured in this duel, and died of his wounds on September 6, 1802. He is buried in the family sepulcher near New Bern, North Carolina.