{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3639", "width": "2333", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Qass\\nBook-", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "BENJAMIN HAWKIN;\\n1754-1816.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "A BRIEF HISTORY\\nOF THE\\nNORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nON THE\\nCONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT\\nIN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION,\\nWITH A REGISTER OF OFFICERS OF THE SAME.\\nBY\\nCHARLES L. DAVIS,\\nCAPTAIN TENTH INFANTRY, BREVET MAJOR U. S. ARMY,\\nMember of Pennsylvania Historical Society Professor of Military Science, Bingham School,\\nAsheville, North Carolina.\\nALSO\\nA SKETCH\\nOF THE\\nNORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY\\nCINCINNATI\\nFROM ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1783 TO ITS SO-CALLED\\nDISSOLUTION AFTER 1790.\\nBY\\nHENRY HOBART BELLAS, LL.B.,\\nCAPTAIN U. S. ARMY,\\nMember of Pennsylvania Historical Society Honorary Member of Delaware and\\nNew Hampshire Historical Societies, etc.\\nPHILADELPHIA, PA.\\n1896.\\nA.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Hf^^s\\nC^hS^", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE\\nHistory of the North Carolina Troops of the Con-\\ntinental Army 3\\nRegister of North Carolina Officers of the Conti-\\nnental Army 34\\nPreface to Sketch of the North Carolina Society\\nof the Cincinnati 77\\nSketch of the North Carolina Society of the Cin-\\ncinnati 79", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "A HISTORY\\nOF THB\\nNorth Carolina Troops of the Continental Army,\\nWITH\\nA REGISTER OF OFFICERS OF THE SAME.\\nBy CHARLES L. DAVIS,\\nCAPTAIN TBNTH INFANTRY, BRBVET MAJOR U. S. ARMY.\\nRemonstrances and petitions being of no avail with the\\nBritish Crown, the people of North Carolina, in defence of\\ntheir rights and liberties, in common with the other colo-\\nnies, early in 1774, had taken measures to resist the oppres-\\nsions of their mother-country. William Hooper, writing\\nApril 26, 1774, to James Iredell, says, With you I antici-\\npate the important share which the colonies must soon\\nhave in regulating the political balance. They are fast\\nstriding to independence, and will ere long build an empire\\non the ruins of Britain. Safety committees were formed\\nin most of the counties, and, notwithstanding the opposition\\nof the Royal Governor, Josiah Martin, a Provincial Congress\\nmet at New Bern, August 25, 1774, of which Colonel John\\nHarvey was elected Moderator, and among its members\\nwere the eloquent and polished William Hooper and fiery\\nJohn Ashe, both from New Hanover, and the proud and\\nwealthy Samuel Johnston, with Joseph Hewes and Thomas\\nJones, of Chowan, and Robert Howe, of Brunswick (who\\n3", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "4 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nwas afterwards to acquire great military fame), together\\nwith many other honorable and patriotic men. This Con-\\ngress at once appointed delegates (William Hooper, Joseph\\nHewes, and Richard Caswell) to the Continental Congress,\\nto meet at Philadelphia in the ensuing month of September,\\nand, having passed resolutions expressive of the rights of\\nthe colonies, it adjourned November i, 1774.\\nThe first Continental Congress, meeting at Philadelphia\\non September 5, 1774, prepared an address to King George\\nIII., and passed a resolution to cease all commercial inter-\\ncourse with Great Britain in case of his refusal to redress\\nthe grievances of the colonies. It adjourned October 26,\\n1774, to meet again May 10, 1775.\\nUpon the call of Colonel John Harvey, and, notwithstand-\\ning the strong opposition of the Royal Governor Martin,\\nanother Provincial Congress met at New Bern, April 3,\\n1775, and, as an indication of the approaching struggle\\nshown in the selection of delegates, they were, in almost\\nevery instance, those who were members of the House of\\nAssembly under the Royal authority, and Colonel Harvey\\nwas elected the Moderator of one body and Speaker of the\\nother both bodies sitting at the same time and place, at\\none time performing the functions of one and then of the\\nother body.\\nThe House of Assembly was dissolved by Governor\\nMartin on April 8, 1775, and stern John Harvey, as Speaker\\nof that body, received the last address which the Royal\\nGovernor was to make to it, the last Royal Legislature that\\nmet in North Carolina. Without formal dissolution, it at\\nonce, with additional members, continued its functions as", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 5\\nthe Provincial Congress, and returned the same delegates to\\nthe Continental Congress to meet in Philadelphia in May,\\n1775. Governor Martin called his Council together and\\ndenounced the acts of the Provincial Congress. For defence\\nhe caused a few guns to be placed before his palace at New\\nBern but, while he and his Council were in session, these\\nguns were seized by a body of brave men, headed by Dr.\\nAlexander Gaston and Richard Cogdell, on April 24, 1775,\\nand carried away. The terrified Governor, with a few fol-\\nlowers, fled at once to Wilmington, and thence, soon after-\\nwards, to Fort Johnson, at the mouth of Cape Fear River,\\nfrom which he was driven on July 15, 1775, by Colonels\\nJames Moore and John Ashe,* with a body of troops, to\\nColonel John Ashe was born 1721. His father, John Baptista Ashe, the\\nfounder of the family, emigrated from England in the early part of 1727. He\\nwas a friend of Lord Craven, under whose patronage he came, with his family,\\nto seek his fortune in the Western world. He was a gentleman of liberal\\neducation, accomplished manners, and superior intellect, and in 1730 was one\\nof the Council of Governor George Burrington, of North Carolina. His two\\nsons, John and Samuel, as well as their sons, were distinguished in the field\\nof battle and councils of the State. Of this family there were in the Revolu-\\ntionary War seven officers Brigadier-General John Ashe, of the militia from\\nthe District of Wilmington, with his sons. Captains John and Samuel of the\\nContinental Army (the latter of whom was a member of the North Carolina\\nSociety of the Cincinnati) Paymaster Samuel Ashe, Sr., with his sons, Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonel John Baptista Ashe and Lieutenant Samuel Ashe, Jr., of the\\nContinentals and Captain Cincinnatus Ashe, of the Marines, the latter of\\nwhom was lost at sea. Lieutenant-Colonel J. B. Ashe was a member of the\\nNorth Carolina Society of the Cincinnati, a member of the Continental Con-\\ngress in 1787-8, and from 1790 to 1793 a member of the Congress under the\\nConstitution. In 1795 he represented Halifax in the House of Commons of\\nNorth Carolina, and was afterwards elected Governor of the State, but died", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\ntake refuge on board the Royal warship Cruizer, whence he\\ncontinued to fulminate proclamations forbidding the forming\\nof a provincial council of delegates from the counties.\\nIn April, 1775, the British Parliament, in order to punish\\nthe colonies, had passed an act restraining the American\\ncolonies from trade and commerce with Great Britain and\\nthe West Indies, excepting in its provisions the colonies of\\nNew York, Georgia, and North Carolina. North Carolina,\\nregarding this as an effort to seduce its people to desert the\\ncommon cause, refused to accept this advantage, and con-\\ntinued to adhere to the plans of the Continental Congress.\\nThe weight of this obnoxious law was falling only on the\\ncity of Boston, Massachusetts, which was held by General\\nGage in a state of siege. At length, on the 19th of April,\\n1775, came the affair of Lexington and Concord, Massa-\\nchusetts. News travelled slowly in those days, and it was\\nnot until May 19 that the intelligence of this bloodshed was\\nreceived at the village of Charlotte, in Mecklenburg, North\\nCarolina. The patriot sons of Mecklenburg County, com-\\nposed of two representatives from each militia company, as\\ndelegates to a county committee, in session at Charlotte,\\nNovember 27, 1802, before inauguration. His grandson, John Jefferson Ashe,\\nis now a distinguished citizen of Tipton County, Tennessee. Of the de-\\nscendants of Lieutenant Samuel Ashe, Jr., who was the last surviving officer\\nof the North Carolina Continentals, there are many distinguished persons\\nthroughout the country. His eldest son, John Baptista Ashe, was a member\\nof Congress from Tennessee and has a son, Captain Samuel S. Ashe, a distin-\\nguished citizen of Houston, Texas. A grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Ashe^\\nCaptain Samuel A. Ashe, is now a prominent lawyer and journalist of Raleigh,\\nNorth Carolina. Lieutenant Samuel Ashe died in the latter part of 1835.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL ASHE, jR.\\n1763-1835-", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.\\nreceived the news of this act of violence with horror, and,\\nthough far from the scene of bloodshed, they felt that the\\ncause of New England was theirs too.\\nThe famous Meck-\\nlenburg Declaration zL y ^iT) zO\\nof Independence was ^a^^^ ^i^^^^^w\\nresolved the next V^ __^^^\\nday, May 20, 1 77 5, to\\nthe maintenance of which they solemnly pledged their lives\\nfortunes, and most sacred honor. These resolutions were\\ndrafted by Dr. Ephraim Brevard, and signed as follows\\nAbraham Alexander,\\nChairman.\\nEphraim Brevard.\\nHezekiah J. Balch.\\nJames Harris.\\nWaightstill Avery.\\nRichard Barry.\\nNeil Morrison.\\nWilliam Graham.\\nDavid Reese.\\nHezekiah Alexander.\\nJohn Phifer.\\nZacheus Wilson, Sr.\\nJohn Ford.\\nJohn McKnitt Alexander,\\nSecretary.\\nMatthew McClure.\\nEzra Alexander.\\nJohn Flennikin.\\nRichard Harris, Sr.\\nThomas Polk.\\nAdam Alexander.\\nCharles Alexander.\\nWilliam Kennon.\\nBenjamin Patton.\\nHenry Downs.\\nRobert Irwin.\\nJohn Queary.\\nCopies of these resolutions were sent to the Provincial\\nCongress and to the Continental Congress, but it is believed\\nwere never presented to the latter body, as the act was re-\\ngarded as premature, for the colonies were not yet con-", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nvinced that reconciliation was impossible. The American\\ncolonies having been declared in Parliament to be in a state\\nof actual rebellion, it was conceived, in connection with the\\nMecklenburg Declaration of Independence, that all laws and\\ncommissions from Royal authority, so far as Mecklenburg\\nCounty was concerned, were annulled by these resolutions,\\nand the county committee in session at Charlotte provided\\nfor the exigency by a series of twenty resolutions, dated\\nMay 31, 1775, providing for the government and protection\\nof their county. Thus the county of Mecklenburg, North\\nCarolina, by these bold acts, was the first region to abso-\\nlutely dissolve the bonds of allegiance which had so long\\nconnected them with the British Crown.\\nThe Continental Congress met, according to adjournment,\\nin Philadelphia, May 10, 1775, and June 15, 1775, saw\\nWashington appointed Commander-in-Chief of the American\\nforces. A Provincial Congress was called to meet at Hills-\\nboro, North Carolina, against the meeting of which Gov-\\nernor Martin, from the deck of the British war-vessel Cruizer,\\nissued proclamations. They met, nevertheless, at Hillsboro,\\nAugust 21, 1775, and elected Samuel Johnston, of Chowan,\\nas President. The die was cast, and North Carolina was at\\nlast a self-governing commonwealth, with the people united\\nin opposition to Great Britain, and they proceeded to arm\\nfor battle.\\nMilitia companies had been organized in some of the\\ncounties as early as 1774. Before March 10, 177S, a regi-\\nment had been organized in Brunswick and Hanover\\nCounties under Colonel Robert Howe. Colonel John Ashe\\nhad given up a commission under the Royal Governor", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. g\\nMartin and appeared in Wilmington early in 1775 with four\\nor five hundred armed men. In Mecklenburg County the\\nmilitia had been organized under authority of the resolutions\\nof the County Committee of May 31, 1775. The regiment\\nunder Colonel Howe will hereafter appear as part of the\\ntroops organized for Continental service.\\nThe Congress at Hillsboro declared that North Carolina\\nwas bound by the acts of the Continental Congress, and\\nwould support its decrees to the extent of all its power, and\\nit was resolved that North Carolina would pay a proper\\nproportion of the burden incurred in support of a Continen-\\ntal army. A Provincial Council, composed of twelve men,\\nwas created by this Congress, which was to execute the\\npower of the colony, at the head of which was placed\\nCornelius Harnett, of New Hanover. Six battaHons of\\nminute-men were authorized, the county militia were en-\\nrolled and drilled, to be under the control of the Provincial\\nCouncil, and, in addition to these, two regiments of Conti-\\nnental troops were enlisted for the war, the first under Colo-\\nnel James Moore, and the second under Colonel Robert Howe.\\nThe Congress at Hillsboro adjourned September 10,\\n1775, and in less than sixty days thereafter Colonel Howe,\\nwith his regiment of Continentals and a battalion of militia\\nunder Colonel Benjamin Wynns, was near Norfolk, Virginia,\\ndefending that State against Lord Dunmore.\\nThe appreciation of his services in Virginia is shown by\\nthe following resolution of the Virginia Convention in\\nsession at WilUamsburg, December 22, 1775\\nResolved unanimously, That the thanks of this Convention are justly due\\nto the brave officers, gentlemen volunteers and soldiers of North Carolina, as", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "lO HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2well as our brethren of that province in general, for their prompt and generous\\naid in defence of our common rights against the enemies of America and of\\nthe British Constitution and that the President be desired to transmit a copy\\nof this resolution to Colonel Howe.\\nIt will be seen from this that North Carolina was prob-\\nably the first to send troops beyond her borders for common\\ndefence against the oppressions of Great Britain. Nor was\\nthis all, for, about the same time that Colonel Howe moved\\ntowards Norfolk, an important expedition, composed of\\nmilitia, was organized in Western North Carolina, under\\nColonels Griffith Rutherford, of Rowan, Thomas Polk, of\\nMecklenburg, and James Martin, of Guilford, to assist\\nGeneral Richardson and Colonel Thompson, commanding\\nthe South Carolina Whig forces, in suppression of a rising\\nof certain royalists, called Scovilites, at Ninety Six, in\\nSouth Carolina.\\nIn the autumn of 1775, upon the suggestion of Governor\\nMartin, a vigorous campaign against the colonies was at-\\ntempted by Sir Henry Clinton. As to North Carolina, it\\nwas expected there would be a strong co-operation by the\\nScotch and Regulators, royalists who were expected to\\nassemble in the upper region of the Cape Fear Valley under\\na General Donald McDonald of His Majesty s forces. A\\nshort and brilliant campaign of a month, under Colonel\\nJames Moore, of the First North Carolina Continentals,\\nassisted by the militia under Colonels Caswell and Lilling-\\nton and Captain J. B. Ashe, resulted in a battle at Moore s\\nCreek, February 27, 1776, with a complete destruction of\\nthe forces under McDonald, and prevented the junction of\\nClinton with the Scotch and Regulators. The Provincial", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "^^t^y^^^tTTTuu\\nOF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. II\\nCouncil, then in session at New Bern, in recognition of the\\nservices of Colonel Moore in this short campaign, and of\\nColonel Howe in the colony of Virginia, passed the follow-\\ning resolutions, March 4, 1776:\\nResolved, That the thanks of this Council be given to Colonel James Moore\\nand all the brave officers and soldiers of every denomination for their late\\nvery important services ren-\\ndered their country in effect-\\nually suppressing the late\\ndaring and dangerous insur-\\nrection of the Highlanders and Regulators, and that this Resolve be published\\nin the North Carolina Gazette.\\nResolved, That Colonel Robert Howe is justly entitled to the most honor-\\nable testimony of the approbation of this Council for his important services\\nwhile in the Colony of Virginia, rendered in the common cause of American\\nliberty, and that the President transmit the warmest thanks of this Board, in\\nthe fullest and most honorable terms, to Colonel Howe and all the brave\\nofficers and soldiers imder his command for their spirited conduct, having\\nacquitted themselves greatly to their honor and the good of their country.\\nColonels Robert Howe and James Moore were appointed\\nBrigadier-Generals in the Continental Army, March i, 1776.\\nHowe became a Major-General, October 20, 1777 served to\\nGeneral James Moore was born in New Hanover, North Carolina, in\\n1737, and died in Wilmington, North Carolina, January 15, 1777. He was\\nthe son of Captain Maurice Moore, of Charleston, South Carolina, and grand-\\nson of Governor James Moore, of the latter colony, who subsequently became\\nattorney-general, judge of the admiralty court, and Speaker of the South\\nCarolina Assembly. Governor Moore was himself the son of Colonel James\\nMoore, also Governor of South Carolina, 1719, and brother of Honorable\\nJohn Moore, Esquire, one of the most prominent and aristocratic men of the\\nprovince of Pennsylvania, and the head of the Moore family of that State, as\\nwell as of New York and Virginia.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nthe close of the war was a member of the North Carolina\\nSociety of the Cincinnati, and died November 12, 1785.\\nGeneral Moore died January 15, 1777.\\nOn the 4th of April, 1776, the Provincial Congress again\\nmet at Halifax, and on April 12, 1776, unanimously passed\\na resolution empowering the North Carolina delegates in\\nthe Continental Congress to concur with the delegates of\\nthe other colonies in declaring independence and thus, with\\nSir Henry Clinton and his forces still floating in the waters\\non her coast, North Carolina was in advance of all the\\ncolonies in proclaiming to the world her determination to\\nbe free and independent of the British Crown. North\\nCarolina, with just pride, bears this date, as well as that of\\nthe Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (May 20,\\n1775), upon her State flag.\\nOn April 13, 1776, this Congress ordered four additional\\nContinental regiments to be raised, the officers of which\\nwere appointed on the 15th and i6th, and arranged to\\nregiments on the 17th. Three troops of Light Horse had\\nalso been ordered by the same Congress on April 9.\\nBy a letter from Joseph Hewes, delegate to the Continen-\\ntal Congress, dated Philadelphia, May 16, 1776, to Samuel\\nJohnston, President of the Provincial Congress, it appears\\nthat the six regiments were accepted by the Continental\\nCongress, and the appointment of Colonel Nicholas Long to\\nbe Deputy Quartermaster-General was confirmed, but that\\nthe troops of Light Horse were not then accepted, though\\nthey appear to have been at a later period, for some of\\nthe officers deranged by the rearrangement of June i, 1778,\\nwere transferred to the Light Horse.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 13\\nGeneral Charles Lee, of Virginia, who had been appointed\\na Major-General as early as June 17, 1775, had been as-\\nsigned to the command of the Southern forces. On June\\nI, 1776, the fleet of Sir Henry Clinton, to which there had\\nbeen joined the command of Lord Cornwallis, left the\\nmouth of Cape Fear River and sailed for Charleston,\\nSouth Carolina. The first and second regiments, under\\ncommand of General Moore, were hurried off to Charles-\\nton, where they arrived June 11. On June 28, the British\\nfleet under Sir Peter Parker attacked Fort Moultrie on\\nSullivan s Island, the troops under Cornwallis attempting\\nto land on the island. Colonel Thompson, with the South\\nCarolina Rangers and a battalion of two hundred picked\\nmen of the First North Carolina Continentals, under Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonel Thomas Clark, handsomely repulsed this\\nattempt to land. The gallantry of the North Carohna\\ntroops is attested in General Lee s letter to Hon. Edmund\\nPendleton, of Virginia, under date of June 29, 1776, wherein\\nhe says,\\nI know not whicli corps I have the greatest reason to be pleased with,\\nMuhlenburgh s Virginians or the North Carolina troops. They are both equally\\nalert, zealous, and spirited.\\nFrom a letter of Colonel Jethro Sumner, of the Third\\nRegiment, to Lieutenant-Colonel Alston, dated Savannah,\\nGeorgia, September 3, 1776, it would appear that his regi-\\nment had also been sent South, and that it was not assem-\\nbled at Wilmington in July and August, as were the other\\nregiments.\\nThe resolution of independence of the colonies was in-", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\ntroduced in the Continental Congress, June 7, 1776, and\\nafter debate it was passed on July 2, 1776. On July 4,\\n1776, the formal Declaration of Independence of the thir-\\nteen colonies was unanimously adopted by that body, and on\\nAugust I, 1776, it was joyously proclaimed at Halifax\\namid military displays and a vast assemblage of people.\\nOn November 12, 1776, a Congress met at Halifax to\\nform a State Constitution. System was brought out of\\nchaos, and the executive functions were vested in a Gov-\\nernor and an Assembly consisting of two houses. Richard\\nCaswell was elected Governor, and he assumed his duties\\nDecember 23, 1776, upon the adjournment of the Congress.\\nUpon the defeat of Sir Peter Parker and Lord Cornwallis\\nat Sullivan s Island, June 28 and 29, 1776, the North Caro-\\nlina troops soon found no enemy in their presence. In July\\nand August, 1776, the regiments of the North Carolina\\nLine were concentrated at Wilmington, excepting the Third,\\nwhich probably did not arrive until some weeks later.\\nThey were drilled and rigidly disciplined in this camp until\\nabout the middle of November, when they were ordered\\nNorth to re-enforce General Washington s army. On\\nreaching Halifax they were halted for three weeks, and then\\ncountermarched to the vicinity of Charleston to meet the\\nBritish, who were near St. Augustine, Florida, threatening\\nGeorgia and South Carolina. At a pause on this journey\\nnear the boundary of South Carolina many of them claimed\\ntheir discharge, and several men deserted, among these being\\nthree free colored men. At the urgent request of the au-\\nthorities of Georgia and South Carolina, these troops were\\nretained for the defence of those States until March 15,", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 1 5\\n1777, when they were again ordered to join General Wash-\\nington, who was retreating through New Jersey with great\\nloss and in extreme danger.\\nThe route pursued by these troops was by Wilmington,\\nHalifax, Richmond, Alexandria, and Georgetown, and, as\\nthe story of their victorious deeds in the South preceded\\nthem, their progress through Virginia and Maryland was\\nan ovation. At Alexandria those who had not suffered with\\nthe small-pox were inoculated, with such success that not\\na man was lost from that disease thereafter. Some of these\\nregiments reached Washington s camp at Middlebrook,\\nNew Jersey, about the last of June, 1777; the others\\njoined near Philadelphia soon afterwards. All of them\\nwere placed in the command of Major-General William\\nAlexander (Lord Stirling), and there appears to have been\\nsome cavalry and artillery from North Carolina with them.\\nThe cavalry, consisting of two troops of light horse, was\\nreturned to the service of the State, by an order of the\\nBoard of War, dated November 24, 1778.\\nThe Congress, assembled at Halifax, November 12, 1776,\\nhad, on November 26, 1776, ordered three additional regi-\\nments Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth to be raised for the\\nContinental establishment; and, as other troops followed\\nfrom North Carolina to re-enforce Washington s army dur-\\ning the remainder of the year 1777, all these regiments joined\\nthat army before the battle of Germantown, and accompa-\\nnied Washington to his camp at Valley Forge. A tenth\\nregiment was organized in April, 1777, and it appears to\\nhave joined Washington after his going into winter camp\\nat Valley Forge.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "1 6 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nThe arrival of these re-enforcements from the South en-\\nabled Washington to resume the aggressive against the\\nBritish commander, Sir William Howe, who had transferred\\nhis troops by water to the Head of Elk, Maryland, with\\nthe design of moving on Philadelphia. General Washing-\\nton met the forces of Howe, September 1 1, 1777, at Chadd s\\nFord, on the Brandywine, where he was compelled to fight\\na battle and, although Howe won a victory and gained pos-\\nsession of Philadelphia, the success at Brandywine fell to\\nashes in his hands, for in less than a year his troops were\\nwithdrawn from Philadelphia, the possession of which had\\ncost the British the capture of Burgoyne at Saratoga. In\\nthe battle of Brandywine, the North Carolina troops found\\nthemselves under Stirling s command as part of the right\\nwing and in the command of General Sullivan. It fell to\\ntheir lot to oppose the flanking movement of Lord Corn-\\nwallis, and that the retreat of Stirling s and Stephen s\\ndivisions was effected with steadiness and repeated returns\\nto the offensive, notwithstanding the blunders of General\\nSullivan, is shown by the fact that they were able, in this\\ndisastrous affair, to bring off the field their artillery and\\nbaggage.\\nIt was, however, at Germantown, October 4, 1777, that\\nthe valor of the North Carolina troops was conspicuous.\\nThe enemy being weakened by detachments sent against\\nthe forts on the Delaware, General Washington seized the\\nopportunity to fall upon him at that place, and was only\\nprevented from complete success by a combination of un-\\nfortunate circumstances. Colonel Francis Nash, of the\\nFirst Regiment, had been promoted to Brigadier-General in", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "1759-1834-", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 1 7\\nthe Continental Army, February 5, 1777, and he led the\\nbrigade of North Carolina troops in this battle. It formed\\npart of the reserve under Major-General Stirling, and was\\nthrown into the attack on the right, where its conduct\\ngained the high encomiums of the Commander-in-Chief.\\nOf this battle, which ended in a disastrous defeat of our\\nforces. General Washington said, in a letter to the Conti-\\nnental Congress, three days afterwards, as follows\\nOur troops retreated when victory was declaring in our favor. The tumult,\\ndisorder, and even despair which, it is said, had taken place in the British\\narmy, were scarcely paralleled.\\nAnd a British writer bestows the following compliment\\nupon the American army in this affair\\nIn this action the Americans acted on the offensive, and, though repulsed\\nwith loss, showed themselves a formidable adversary, capable of charging with\\nresolution and retreating with order. The hope, therefore, entertained from\\nthe effect of any fair action with them, as \\\\sic\\\\ decisive and likely to put a\\nspeedy termination to the war, was exceedingly abated.\\nOf the North Carolina Continentals there fell on that day,\\nkilled on the field, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Irwin, of the\\nFifth, and Captain Jacob Turner, of the Third Regiments\\nmortally wounded. Colonel Edward Buncombe, of the Fifth,\\nwho was taken prisoner, and died in captivity at Philadel-\\nphia shortly afterwards, and Brigadier-General Francis\\nNash, who died three days after the battle. Major William\\nPolk, of the Ninth, was also badly wounded. A rehable\\naccount of the wounding of General Nash is as follows\\nWhile riding down the main street of Germantown, leading\\nthe North Carolina brigade into action, a round shot, fired", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "1 8 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nby the British, struck and fractured his thigh, at the same\\ntime killing his horse. The fall of the animal threw its\\nrider to the ground with considerable force. Retaining his\\npresence of mind, General Nash, covering his shattered\\nthigh with his hands, called to his men Never mind me.\\nI have had a devil of a tumble rush on, my boys rush on\\nthe enemy; I ll be after you presently. Human nature\\ncould do no more. He was borne fainting from the field,\\nfaithfully cared for, and after three days of terrible suf-\\nfering he died, and was buried with miHtary honors in the\\nMennonist graveyard at Kulpsville, Pennsylvania.\\nSoon after the serious check at Germantown, General\\nWashington took his army into winter quarters at Valley\\nForge (December 19, 1777), on the Schuylkill, about twenty\\nmiles above Philadelphia. At this distance of time, it is\\ndifficult to realize the privations and sufferings of Washing-\\nton s army in the hutted camp which he estabHshed at Val-\\nley Forge. They are dimly divulged in his order of March\\nI, 1778, every line of which breathes patriotism:\\nHead-quarters, March i, 1778.\\nThe Commander-in-Chief again takes occasion to return his wannest\\nthanks to the virtuous officers and soldiers of the army for the fidelity mani-\\nfested in all their conduct. Their fortitude, not only under the common hard-\\nships incidental to military life, but also under the additional sufferings to\\nwhich the peculiar situation of these states has exposed them, clearly proves\\nthem worthy the invaluable privilege of contending for the rights of human\\nnature, the freedom and independence of their country. The recent instance\\nof uncomplaining patience, during the scarcity of provisions in camp, is a fresh\\nproof that they possess the magnanimity of patriots. The few refractory indi-\\nviduals who disgraced themselves by murmurs, it is to be hoped, have repented\\nsuch unmanly behavior and resolved to emulate the noble example of their", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. I9\\nassociates upon every trial which the customary casualties of war may here-\\nafter throw in their way. Occasionally distress for want of provisions and other\\nnecessaries is a spectacle that frequently occurs in every army. There never\\nwas one which has, in general, been so plentifully supplied, in respect to the\\nformer, as ours. Surely, we, who are free citizens in arms engaged in a strug-\\ngle for everything valuable in society and partaking in the glorious task of\\nlaying the foundation of an empire, should seem effeminate to shrink, under\\nthose accidents and rigors of war which mercenary hirelings, fighting in the\\ncause of lawless ambition, rapine, and devastation, encounter with cheerfulness\\nand alacrity. We should not be nearly equal we should be superior to them\\nin every qualification that dignifies the man or the soldier in proportion as the\\nmotives from which we act and the final hopes that our toils are superior to\\ntheirs. Thank heaven our country abounds with provisions, and, with\\nprudent management, we need not apprehend want for any length of time.\\nDefects in the commissary department, contingencies of weather, and other\\ntemporary impediments have subjected, and may again subject, us to a deficiency\\nfor a few days. But, soldiers American soldiers should be above the\\nmeanness of repining at such trifling strokes of adversity; trifling, indeed, are\\nthey when compared with the transcendent prize which will undoubtedly\\ncrovsTi your patience and perseverance, glory and freedom, peace and plenty,\\nthe admiration of the world, the love of your fellow-countrymen, and the\\ngratitude of posterity will be your reward. Your General incessantly employs\\nhis thoughts on the means of relieving your distresses, supplying your wants,\\nand bringing your labors to a speedy and prosperous issue. Our parent\\ncountry, he hopes, will second his endeavors by the most vigorous execution,\\nand he is convinced the faithful officers and soldiers associated with him in the\\ngreat work of rescuing our country from bondage and misery will continue\\nin the display of that patriotic zeal which is capable of smoothing every\\ndifficulty and vanquishing every obstacle.\\nThe regiments composing the North Carolina brigade at\\nValley Forge, being greatly reduced by the casualties of\\nwar, were, on June i, 1778, under a resolution of Congress\\nof May 29, 1778, consolidated into four. The Tenth Regi-\\nment, then in camp with General Washington, appears to", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nhave retained its number, for a report of the camp equi-\\npage of the Northern army, made by General Nathaniel\\nGreene, Quartermaster-General, in June, 1778, gives the\\nNorth Carolina brigade as composed of the First, Second,\\nThird, and Tenth Regiments, under the command of Colo-\\nnel Thomas Clark, the senior officer on duty with it, for\\nBrigadier-General Lochlan Mcintosh, the former com-\\nmander, had been ordered on other duty May 26, 1778.\\nThe subsequent history of the Tenth Regiment is obscure,\\nfor it will appear later on that it was not surrendered with\\nthe other North Carolina regiments at Charleston, May 12,\\n1780. It seems to have disappeared to history, excepting\\nin the records of the State, where appointments to it are\\nshown, in each successive year, as late as 1782.\\nAfter spending the winter in Philadelphia in gayeties and\\nriotous living. General Howe had been superseded by Lieu-\\ntenant- General CHnton, and on the 18th of June, 1778, the\\ncity was evacuated by the British, who crossed the Dela-\\nware below the city, and, encumbered by a huge baggage\\ntrain, they hoped to reach New York safely.\\nGeneral Washington crossed the Delaware above Phila-\\ndelphia and overtook the enemy at Monmouth, New Jersey,\\nJune 28, 1778, where, notwithstanding the ill-timed retreat,\\ndisobedience, and treachery of General Charles Lee in the\\nearly part of the action. General Washington discomfited\\nthe British, although he did not prevent their retreat, with\\nall their baggage, to New York.\\nMy studies lead me to think that the North Carolina\\nbrigade was in General Stirling s division, forming the left\\nof the second line, which General Washington placed under", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 21\\nGeneral Lafayette, after the ignominious retreat of Lee but\\nfrom a Field Return of the Troops under the immediate\\ncommand of His Excellency, Genl, Washington, dated\\nJune 28, 1778, it seems to appear that there were but two\\nregiments in the North Carolina brigade on the day of that\\nbattle. These were, doubtless, the First and Second.\\nWhere were the Third and Tenth The North Carolina\\ntroops won high commendation for their conduct on this\\nfield of battle. The First and Second North Carolina Regi-\\nments took part in all the movements of Lafayette s division\\nfrom Valley Forge to the Hudson River, and were located\\nat Paramus, New Jersey, in March, 1779, the Third being\\nthen in Philadelphia undergoing inoculation. It appears\\nthat the First and Second were at West Point, New York,\\nlate in 1779, and were the last of the North Carolina Conti-\\nnentals to join General Lincoln in Charleston in the winter\\nof 1779-80.\\nThe sources of information in regard to the North Caro-\\nlina Continentals during the period of which I write are\\nvery meagre, but it is hoped that the forthcoming State\\nRecords of North Carolina, compiled and edited by Hon.\\nWalter Clark, in continuation of the series of Colonial\\nRecords, together with the publication of the records of the\\nRevolutionary War, now in the War Department at Wash-\\nington, for which there is reason to believe that provision\\nwill soon be made, will tell the story of their sufferings,\\nprivations, and gallant conduct.\\nThe most brilliant feat of arms that occurred during the\\nAmerican Revolution was that performed at Stony Point, on\\nthe night of July 16, 1779, by a select body of troops under", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "22 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nGeneral Anthony Wayne, in which there were two com-\\npanies of the Second North Carolina Continentals, led by\\nthe gallant Major Hardy Murfree.* Stony Point was a\\nrocky promontory on the west bank of the Hudson, about\\none hundred and fifty feet high, the occupation of which by\\nthe enemy was a menace to West Point and Washington s\\ncommunications with New England. The attack was made\\nin two columns, the right under Colonel Christian Febiger,\\nof Virginia, and the left under Colonel Richard Butler, of\\nPennsylvania, with which went Major Murfree s battalion of\\ntwo companies. They were to advance with absolute silence\\nand unloaded muskets, relying only on the bayonet. When\\nthe left column reached a certain point. Major Murfree s bat-\\ntalion was to open a furious fire on the front of the works,\\nMajor Hardy Murfree was bom in Hartford County, North Carolina, June\\n5, 1752, and was the son of William Murfree, a member from that county in\\nthe North Carolina Congress that convened at Halifax, November, 1776, and\\nframed the Constitution that, without amendment, continued to be the organic\\nlaw of the State from 1776 to 1835. The son entered the army at the age of\\ntwenty-three and served throughout the war. His brilliant service at the cap-\\nture of Stony Point is well known. The sword he wore on this occasion is\\nnow in the possession of the Tennessee Historical Society, and his descendants\\nretain the blood-stained sash he used in helping to bear General Nash from\\nthe battle-field of Germantown. After the war, Major Murfree resided on his\\nplantation on the banks of the Meherrin River, near Murfreesboro North\\nCarolina, In 1807 he emigrated to Tennessee and settled on Murfree s Fork\\nof West Harpeth, in Williamson County. He died in Williamson County,\\nTennessee, July 6, 1809. The town of Murfreesboro was named in his honor.\\nHis letters show he was well educated and intelligent. His descendants still\\nreside in the State, one Mary Noailles Murfree, his great-granddaughter\\nbeing quite celebrated as an authoress to-day, under the pen-name of Charles\\nEgbert Craddock.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "^^^;^^^2y(^^\\nc JC^\\nI748-I804.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 23\\nin order to draw attention from the flanking columns. The\\nright and left columns were to capture the outposts and,\\nattacking the defenders, force their way over and around the\\nabattis and enter the fort by the sally-port. The watch-\\nword, to be given in a shout as they entered the works, was\\nThe fort is ours\\nThe columns formed at the foot of the hill, each preceded\\nby one hundred and fifty determined men, twenty of whom\\nwere placed in advance as forlorn hopes, led by two\\nyoung Pennsylvania lieutenants. The advance guard fol-\\nlowed the forlorn hopes. The one on the left was led by\\nMajor Stewart, of Maryland; that on the right by Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonel Fleury, of the Engineers, where General\\nWayne, in person, directed the column. Major Murfree,\\nbeing in the centre, between these columns, advanced up the\\nslope. The right column was somewhat delayed by wading\\nthrough water. Meantime Major Murfree began, as a feint,\\na tremendous firing of musketry. The forlorn hope of each\\ncolumn rushed forward to its duty, and the columns fol-\\nlowed closely, amid a shower of grape-shot and musketry.\\nThe right column first entered the fort, led by Colonel\\nFleury, General Wayne being wounded in the head. So\\naccurately had the movements been timed and the plans\\nand orders been carried out, that both columns, as well as\\nMajor Murfree s two companies, reached the interior of the\\nfort almost simultaneously. Among the casualties at Stony\\nPoint were Lieutenant William Hilton killed and Lieutenant\\nJohn Daves wounded, both of Major Murfree s battahon.\\nGeneral Wayne s laconic despatch, announcing his suc-\\ncess, was as follows", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nStony Point, i6 July, 2 a.m.\\nDear Gen l,\\nThe fort and garrison with Col, Johnston are ours. Our officers and men\\nbehaved like men who are determined to be free.\\nYours most sincerely,\\nAnth y Wayne.\\nGenl. Washington.\\nIn a supplemental report to Congress on this assault.\\nGeneral Wayne writes as follows\\nWest Point, August loth, 1779.\\nSir:\\nYour very polite favor of the 17th ult., with the extract of an act of Con-\\ngress, I have just received. The honorable manner in which that respectable\\nBody have been pleased to express their approbation of my conduct in the en-\\nterprise on Stony Point must be very flattering to a young soldier but, whilst\\nI experience every sensation arising from a consciousness of having used my\\nbest endeavors to carry the orders of my General into execution, I feel very\\nmuch hurt that I did not in my letter of the 17th of July mention (among\\nother brave and worthy officers) the names of Lieut. Col. Sherman, Majors\\nHull, MuRFREE, and Posey, whose good conduct and intrepidity justly entitled\\nthem to that attention. Permit me therefore, thro your Excellency, to do\\nthem that justice now which the state of my wound diverted me from in the\\nfirst instance.\\nI am,\\nWith every sentiment of esteem,\\nYour Excellency s most obedient humble servant,\\nAnth y Wayne.\\nHis Excellency John Jay Esq.,\\nPresident of Congress.\\nThe officers of the North CaroHna Continentals who\\nwere deranged by the arrangement of June i, 1778, were\\nreturned to their State, to be assigned to other regiments\\n\\\\_ authorized to be levied there. Some were transferred to\\n(..^^^^State troops, and such as could not be retained were honor-", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 2$\\nably discharged. That many of them continued in service\\nis shown by the fact that, among the casualties, in General\\nJethro Sumner s brigade at Stone Ferry, June 20, 1779, we\\nfind, mortally wounded, Captain James Campbell, formerly\\nof the Second Regiment, and Ensign William Charlton\\nwounded, Colonel James Armstrong, formerly of the Eighth\\n(commanding at the time North Carolina Rangers), Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonel Archibald Lytle, formerly of the Sixth, Major\\nHenry Dixon, formerly of the Third, and Captain Joseph T.\\nRhodes, formerly of the Tenth,\\nIn the last days of 1778 the tide of war turned south-\\nward. The plan of the enemy was to subdue Georgia and,\\nsweeping through the Carolinas, to form a junction in Vir-\\nginia or Maryland with the troops from the northward, thus\\ncarrying out the so-called plan of the treacherous Charles\\nLee. On December 29, 1778, Savannah was captured, and\\nSir Henry Clinton was on his way by water from New\\nYork to Charleston with re-enforcements destined to the\\ninvestment and capture of that place. To General Ben-\\njamin Lincoln had been assigned the defence of Charleston,\\nand, in November, 1779, General Washington sent the North\\nCarolina Continentals to re-enforce him. They were under\\nthe command of Brigadier-General James Hogun, who, as\\nalso Jethro Sumner, had been promoted January 9, 1779;\\nHogun s promotion being based on his distinguished intre-\\npidity at Germantown. As the North Carolina Conti-\\nnentals passed through Philadelphia from their canton-\\nments on the Hudson, this gallant brigade numbered only\\nabout seven hundred men. It was a terrible winter jour-\\nney for them. The troops suffered greatly, and did not", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "26 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nreach Charleston until March 13, 1780. In writing to\\nLafayette, Washington said of this event as follows,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe extreme cold, the deep snows and other impediments, retarded the\\nmarch of the North Carolina brigade. The oldest people now living do not\\nremember so hard a winter. The severity of the frost exceeded anythmg of\\nthe kind that had ever been experienced in this climate.\\nClinton effected a landing on the islands south of Charles-\\nton, and, crossing the Stone and Ashley Rivers in the latter\\npart of March. 1780, proceeded to lay siege to the city\\nfrom the land side. The first parallel was completed April\\n9, and a surrender demanded the next day, which was\\npromptly refused. A bombardment was commenced and\\nkept up almost incessantly until May 9, when a second\\ndemand for surrender met with a second refusal A tre-\\nmendous cannonade ensued, which ended only when a\\ncapitulation took place, May 12, 1780.\\nThe defence of Charleston was undertaken for political\\nrather than military reasons, for it was deemed that the\\neffect of the evacuation of that principal Southern city\\nwould prove disastrous to the American cause. Never-\\ntheless, General Lincoln did intend to evacuate, but the\\ntardy plans of General Clinton changed his views, for he\\nhad been promised large re-enforcements, one-half to be\\nregulars. He also hoped for re-enforcements from the\\nSpanish West Indies.\\nWith the surrender of Charleston the whole of the North\\nCarolina Continentals became prisoners of war excepting\\nsome few officers and men who were then absent from their\\ncommands. North Carolina lost fifty-nine officers, belong-", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "^^y^ ^^c^J^\\nI756-I820.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARM.Y. 27\\ning to the First, Second, and Third Regiments and a bat-\\ntery of artillery, nearly all her regulars, and a thousand\\ndisciplined militia. At a time when the country could\\nilly spare any of her defenders, the veteran soldiers of the\\nCarolinas, penned in British prison-ships, were perishing of\\ndisease and despair; among the victims being the com-\\nmander of the North Carolina brigade, General James\\nHogun, who refused a parole that would separate him from\\nhis comrades in misfortune and died January 4, 178 1, in\\ncaptivity.\\nThat some of the North Carolina Continentals escaped\\nthe disaster at Charleston seems to appear from the names\\nof killed and wounded at Ramsour s Mills, June 20, 1780.\\nCaptains Dobson and Joshua Bowman were killed\\nand Captain William Armstrong (all of the First) was\\nwounded, while at King s Mountain, October 7, 1780, Cap-\\ntain James WilHams was killed and Captain Micajah Lewis\\n(both of the Fourth) wounded.\\nAlthough a small force of Maryland, Virginia, and\\nDelaware Continentals remained to defend the Carolinas,\\nthese States now largely depended on their militia for pro-\\ntection. The battles of King s Mountain, Cowpens, and\\nEutaw Springs tell of their valor under skilful leaders.\\nSoon after the surrender of General Lincoln at Charles-\\nton, General Washington sent General Horatio Gates to\\ncommand the Southern department. He assumed com-\\nmand July 25, 1780. The battle of Camden, fought Au-\\ngust 16, 1780, was a disaster, due to his over-confidence,\\nfailure to use his cavalry for exploring, and the bad conduct\\nof the militia, but the latter soon retrieved their reputa-", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "28 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\ntion at King s Mountain. Major-General Nathaniel Greene\\nshortly afterwards (December 3, 1780) followed Gates in\\ncommand of the South, and the battle of Cowpens, January\\n17, 1 78 1, illustrated the valor of militia well led. Guilford\\nfollowed March 15, 1781, and gave a turning-point to the\\ncareer of Lord Cornwallis, which terminated with his sur-\\nrender at Yorktown, October 19, 178 1.\\nShortly after the battle of Guilford, General Greene gave\\nhis attention to the re-establishment of the North Carolina\\nLine. There were in the State a few hundred men that had\\nbeen left behind or had escaped capture at Charleston, and\\nthere were also the supernumerary officers who had lost\\ntheir commands at the reorganization of June i, 1778.\\nGeneral Jethro Sumner was placed in charge of this matter.\\nIn August, 1780, he had been called to the command of\\nthe militia at Charlotte, but had withdrawn therefrom when\\nsuperseded by General Smallwood, and he then renewed\\nhis exertions to reorganize his brigade, appealing to the\\npatriotism of the people and exhausting every effort to\\nobtain arms, which he finally obtained from Virginia. The\\nLegislature of North Carolina met at Halifax, January 18,\\n1 78 1, and, complying with the resolves of the Continental\\nCongress, reduced the number of regiments of the Conti-\\nnentals, required to be furnished by the State, from six to\\nfour. Impressment by a draft became necessary, and an act\\nwas passed punishing refusal to perform mihtary duty as\\nfollows\\nThose persons who have been lawfully drafted and have neglected or\\nrefused to march and go into actual service on due notice, or find a substitute,\\nas is therein directed, shall be held and deemed a Continental soldier for", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 29\\ntwelve months and that those persons who have deserted their colors when\\nin actual service, shall be held and deemed a Continental soldier during the\\nwar.\\nGeneral Sumner met the officers then in the State who\\ncould convene, at Halifax January 23, 1781, to make an\\narrangement of the Continental line, but, finding a difficulty\\nin procuring the dates of commissions of those in captivity\\nwhose release was soon expected, a temporary arrangement\\nwas made.\\nBy a general exchange of prisoners, agreed upon in\\nApril, 1 78 1, between General Greene and Lord Cornwallis,\\nmany veterans who had been inactive since the fall of\\nCharleston were released. By the arrangement made at\\nHalifax, Colonel John B. Ashe, Major Hardy Murfree,\\nMajor Henry Dixon, and John Armstrong were to com-\\nmand the four regiments. Major Pinketham Eaton was at\\nthis time with Colonel Lee s Legion in command of a bat-\\ntalion formed from the militia who had fled from the battle\\nof Guilford to their homes, but he was yearning to be of\\nGeneral Sumner s command. He fell gallantly, at the head\\nof his battalion, in the moment of victory, beloved by all\\nthat knew him, in the attack on Fort Grierson, one of the\\ndefences of Augusta, Georgia, on June 5, 1781. Ninety of\\nhis men were subsequently absorbed in the Continentals of\\nGeneral Sumner s brigade.\\nHonorable David Schenk says of the men under Major\\nEaton as follows\\nThe splendid courage and dash of the command of Eaton, composed, as\\nit was, entirely of militia [note by the writer: soon to be absorbed in the Con-\\ntinentals] who had fled to their homes from Guilford Court-House, cannot", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "30 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nbe too lavishly extolled. Native courage was common to them all, but they\\nneeded discipline, drill, and experience to make them soldiers. It gives me\\nthe greatest pleasure to trace the history and march of these patriotic men\\ndirect from Guilford Court-House to this bloody baptism of fire at Augusta,\\nand this pleasure will be heightened by the continued observance of their\\nsubsequent glorious achievement at Eutaw Springs.\\nIt is of interest to note here that Captains James Read\\nand Edward Yarborough, and Lieutenant John Campbell,\\nof the Continentals, were in the command of Major Eaton,\\nand continued in the service upon the reorganization\\neffected under General Sumner.\\nThe First Regiment, under Colonel John B. Ashe, ab-\\nsorbed ninety of Major Eaton s command, being all that\\nMajor Armstrong could find of them, for they seem to have\\nbeen scattered in several detachments. He also absorbed\\nthe command of Major Armstrong, who had been wounded\\nin a duel with Major Lewis and was temporarily disabled.\\nFrom the 6th of April to the ist of August, 1781, North\\nCarolina had sent forward one thousand men to serve as\\nContinentals. Many of them, however, were forced Tories\\nwho deserted on receipt of the bounty, the number being\\nreduced, through this cause and by disease, to about eight\\nhundred men, whom we find, in August, 1781, under Colonel\\nJohn B. Ashe, Major John Armstrong, and Major Reading\\nBlount, as part of General Sumner s brigade of regulars\\nand militia, in General Greene s camp, at the High Hills of\\nthe Santee, receiving military training for the battle of\\nEutaw Springs.\\nGeneral Greene now felt strong enough to meet the\\nenemy in battle. He broke camp at the High Hills of the", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 3 1\\nSantee, August 23, 1781, and marched towards the enemy\\nat Eutaw Springs, then under the command of Colonel\\nStewart. The approach of General Greene was unknown\\nto the British, who were posted in an admirable position,\\nwhich it was not thought the Americans would attempt to\\nattack. Greene s advance guard surprised and captured a\\nforaging party gathering sweet potatoes. His order of bat-\\ntle was the same as at Guilford, the militia in the first and\\nthe Continentals in the second line, on the right of which\\nwas Sumner s brigade. In no battle of the war did the\\nmilitia perform more brilliant service. They seemed anxious\\nto make amends for all former failures and show that all\\nthey had needed were drill and discipline. Many of them\\nwere those who had abandoned the field at Guilford, but at\\nEutaw they behaved with such gallantry that nearly two-\\nthirds in action were killed or wounded. When, however,\\nthey were forced to retreat, Sumner s brigade was brought\\nforward to their support. Sumner s men came up gallantly\\nand, overpowered by numbers, the British line sullenly\\nretreated. As they fell back in sight of the North Carolina\\nContinentals, General Sumner gave the commond, Forward,\\nmy men, and give them the bayonet and the battalions of\\nAshe, Armstrong, and Blount were pushed forward so\\npromptly that the line was restored and the British left com-\\npelled to retreat. It was then that General Greene gave the\\norder to the Maryland Continentals Let Williams advance\\nand sweep the field with his bayonets. General Greene\\nreported of Sumner s brigade in this action as follows\\nThe North CaroHna brigade under Sumner, though not\\nabove three months raised, behaved nobly. I am at a loss", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "32 HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS\\nwhich most to admire, the gallantry of the officers or the\\ngood conduct of the men. And again he says of all his\\ntroops I cannot forbear praising the conduct and courage\\nof all my troops. Never did men or officers offer their\\nblood more willingly in the service of their country.\\nBy the gallantry of Major Majoribanks, a brave and skil-\\nful British officer, the tide of American victory was checked.\\nEach side could claim the victory, but the fruits of it fell to\\nthe Americans, for the British, after destroying their stores\\nand a thousand muskets, abandoned many wounded and\\nretreated to their sea-coast defences. The British power in\\nSouth Carolina was completely prostrated by this battle,\\nfor, independent of losses incurred, the enemy lost the\\ncharm of imputed invincibility in the field. The Americans\\nhad learned dependence upon the bayonet, to the full use of\\nwhich General Greene attributed this victory.\\nThe battle of Eutaw, the crowning exploit of the North\\nCarolina Continentals, is a fitting period to approach the\\nconclusion of this imperfect sketch, for on that field more\\nthan half the dead and wounded were North Carolinians.\\nBy the 15th of October, 1781, Greene s camp was re-\\nestablished at the High Hills of the Santee, Generals\\nPickens, Marion, and Hampton resuming their partisan\\noperations. On the 9th of November, 178 1, the news of\\nCornwalHs s surrender at Yorktown reached General\\nGreene s camp. That camp was abandoned November 18,\\nand numerous minor operations concluded the Southern\\nCampaign of 178 1. By an order of General Sumner, dated\\nCamp, Southern Army, Pompon, South Carolina, February\\n6, 1782, a Board of officers, of the North Carolina Hne, was", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 33\\nconvened to regiment the officers of said line. It pro-\\nvided for four regiments, and included, in the re-organiza-\\ntion, some officers who were prisoners of war in captivity or\\non parole and not yet exchanged. Official reports show\\nthat, on April 7, 1782, General Sumner s brigade then con-\\ntained one thousand one hundred and fifty-four men, and\\nthat the terms of service of one thousand of them would\\nexpire by January i, 1783. Upon the reduction of the\\narmy, January i, 1783, only one regiment was retained, and\\nmany of the officers were retired from service some were\\nfurloughed on waiting orders; but it was not until the\\nlatter part of 1783 that all of the North Carolinians were\\nretired and relieved from further service.\\nTo Major Graham Daves, of New Bern, North Carolina,\\nI am under great obligation for most valuable assistance in\\nthe compilation of this brief history.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "34 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nREGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nCONTINENTAL ARMY\\n1776 to 1783.\\nCompiled by BREVET MAJOR CHAS. L. DAVIS, U. S. A.\\n[Note. Those in italics continued to the close of the war or were deranged\\nby Acts of Congress. Those in small capitals were members of the North\\nCarolina Society of the Cincinnati.]\\nMAJOR-GENERAL.\\nHowe, Robert, Colonel, Second, September i, 1775\\nBrigadier-General, Continental Army, March i, 1776 Major-\\nGeneral, October 20, 1777; died November 12, 1785.\\nbrigadier-generals.\\nHogun, James (also spelled Hogan), Major, Georgia\\nMilitia, May, 1776; Colonel, Seventh North Carolina, No-\\nvember 26, 1776; Brigadier-General, Continental Army,\\nJanuary 9, 1779; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1 780;\\ndied January 4, 1 781, in captivity.\\nMoore, James, Colonel, First, September i, 1775 Briga-\\ndier-General, Continental Army, March i, 1776; died Jan-\\nuary 15, 1777.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 35\\nNash, Francis, Lieutenant-Colonel, First, September i,\\n1775; Colonel, April 10, 1776; Brigadier-General, Conti-\\nnental Army, February 5, 1777; died October 7, 1777, of\\nwounds received October 4, i j j j, at Germantown.\\nSumner, Jethro, Colonel, Third, April 15, 1776; Briga-\\ndier-General, Continental Army, January 9, 1779; died\\nMarch, 1785.\\nCOLONELS.\\nArmstrong, James, Captain, Second, September i, 1775;\\nColonel, Eighth, November 26, 1776, to June i, 1778;\\nColonel, North Carolina Rangers wounded at Stone Ferry,\\nJune 20, 1779.\\nBuncombe, Edward, Colonel, Fifth, April 15, 1776; died\\nin captivity at Philadelphia of wounds received October 4,\\n1777, at Germantown.\\nClark, Thomas, Major, First, September i, 1775; Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonel, April 10, 1776; Colonel, February 5, 1777;\\nprisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; retired January i,\\n1783; Brevet Brigadier-General, September, 1783; died\\nDecember 25, 1792.\\nCraick, Thomas, Deputy Commissary- General, November\\n23, 1776.\\nHawkins, Benjamin, of General Washington s staff; died\\nJune 6, 1 8 16.\\nHawkins, Joseph, died 1785.\\nLamb, Gideon, Major, Sixth, April 15, 1776; Lieutenant-\\nColonel, May, 1776; Colonel, January 26, 1777.\\nLillington, Alexander, Colonel, Sixth, April 15, 1776;\\nresigned May, 1776; Brigadier-General of Militia, 1776 to\\n1782; died 1786.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "36 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nLong, Nicholas, Deputy Quartermaster-General, May,\\n1776.\\nMartin, Alexander, Lieutenant-Colonel, Second, Septem-\\nber I, 1775; Colonel, April 10, 1776; resigned November\\n22, 1777; died November 12, 1807.\\nPatton, John, Major, Second, September i, 1775; Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonel, April 10, 1776; Colonel, November 22,\\n1777; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; retired January\\nI, 1783-\\nPolk, Thomas, Colonel of Minute-Men, December 21,\\n1775; Colonel, Fourth, April 15, 1776; resigned June 26,\\n1778; died 1793.\\nRochester, Nathaniel, Deputy Commissary-General, May\\n10, 1776; resigned November 23, 1776.\\nShephard, Abraham, Colonel, Tenth, April 17, 1777.\\nWilliams, John P., Captain, Fifth, April 17, 1776 Colonel,\\nNinth, November 26, 1776.\\nLIEUTENANT-COLONELS.\\nAlston, William, Lieutenant-Colonel, Third, April 15,\\n1776, to October 4, 1777.\\nArmstrofig, Jolin, Captain, Second, September i, 1775\\nMajor, Fourth, October 6, 1777; Deputy Adjutant-General\\nto General Gates, August 3, 1780; Lieutenant-Colonel,\\nFourth, July 17, 1782; retired January i, 1783.\\nAshe, John Baptista, Captain, First, April 16, 1776;\\nMajor, Sixth, January 26, 1777; transferred to First, June\\nI, 1778; Lieutenant-Colonel, November 2, 1778; died\\nNovember 27, 1802.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 37\\nBrewster, Lott, Lieutenant-Colonel, Third, October 25,\\n1777; resigned March 15, 1778.\\nDavidson, William Lee, Major, Fourth, April 15, 1776;\\nLieutenant-Colonel, Fifth, October 4, 1777; transferred to\\nFirst, June 9, 1779; Brigadier-General of Militia; killed at\\nCowan s Ford, February i, 178 1.\\nDavis, William, Captain, First, September i, 1775 Major,\\nApril 10, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel, February 5, 1777;\\ntransferred to June i, 1778.\\nDawson, Levi, Major, Fifth, April 15, 1776; Lieutenant-\\nColonel, First, February 5, 1777.\\nDixon, Henry, Captain, First, September i, 1775 Major,\\nThird, July 8, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel, Third, May 12,\\n1778; wounded at Stone Ferry, June 20, 1779; Colonel,\\nMilitia, August, 1780; in Second in 1782; died July 17,\\n1782.\\nHarney, Selby, Major, Eighth, November 26, 1776;\\nLieutenant-Colonel, Second, November 22, 1777; prisoner\\nat Charleston, May 12, 1780; in Third in 1782; retired\\nJanuary i, 1783.\\nIngram, James, Lieutenant-Colonel, Eighth, November 27,\\n1776; resigned, 1777.\\nIrwin, Henry, Lieutenant-Colonel, Fifth, April 15, 1776;\\nkilled at Germantown, October 4, 1777.\\nLockhart, Samuel, Major, Third, April 15, 1776; Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonel, Eighth, October 12, 1777; resigned October\\n19, 1777.\\nLuttrel, John, Lieutenant-Colonel, Ninth, November 27,\\n1776.\\nLytle, Archibald, Captain, Sixth, April i6, 1776; Lieu-", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "38 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\ntenant-Colonel, January 26, 1777; wounded at Stone Ferry,\\nJune 20, 1779; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; trans-\\nferred to First, February i, 1781 in Fourth in 1782.\\nMebane, Robert, Lieutenant-Colonel, Seventh, November\\n26, 1776; transferred to First, June i, 1778; Lieutenant-\\nColonel, commandant Third, June 7, 1779; prisoner at\\nCharleston, May 12, 1780.\\nMuRFREE, Hardy, Captain, Second, September i, 1775\\nMajor, February i, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel, April i,\\n1778; in First in 1782; died July 6, 1809.\\nTaylor, William, Lieutenant-Colonel, Sixth, April 15,\\n1776.\\nThackston, James Lieutenant-Colonel, Fourth, April 15,\\n1776.\\nWalker, John, Captain, First, September i, 1775 Major,\\nApril 26, 1777 Lieutenant-Colonel, Aide to General Wash-\\nington, February 17, 1777; resigned December 22, 1777;\\ndied December 2, 1809.\\nmajors.\\nBlount, Reading, Captain, Third, April 16, 1777; Major,\\nFifth, May 12, 1778; in Second in 1782; died October 13,\\n1807.\\nDoHERTY, George, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776;\\nCaptain, September 10, 1776; Major, July 17, 1782.\\nDonoho, Thomas, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776;\\nCaptain, September 10, 1776; Major, October 13, 1781 in\\nFourth in 1782.\\nEaton, Pinketham, Captain, Third, April 16, 1776; Major,\\nNovember 22, 1777; killed at Augusta, June 5, 1781.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 39\\nEmmett, James, Captain, Third, April 16, 1776; Major,\\nFirst, December 22, 1777; transferred to\\nFenner, William, Lieutenant, Second, September i, 1775\\nCaptain, May i, 1776; Major, Seventh, October 24, 1777.\\nGranger, Caleb, Captain, First, September i, 1775 Major,\\nFebruary 5, 1777; resigned April 26, 1777.\\nHogg, Thomas, Lieutenant, First, September i, 1775\\nCaptain, April 10, 1776; Major, Fifth, September 19, 1777;\\ntransferred to Third, June i, 1778; prisoner at Charleston,\\nMay 12, 1780; exchanged March, 1781 in Third in 1782;\\nBrevet Lieutenant-Colonel.\\nMcRee, Griffith John, Captain, Sixth, April 16, 1776;\\ntransferred to First, June i, 1778; prisoner at Charleston,\\nMay 12, 1780; Major, September 11, 1781 in Third in\\n1782; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, September 30, 1783;\\nCaptain, Artillerists and Engineers, June 2, 1794; resigned\\nApril 24, 1798; died October 3, 1801.\\nNelson, John, Captain, Fourth, April 16, 1776; Major,\\nFebruary 3, 1778; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780;\\nexchanged March, 1781 in First in 1782; retired January\\nI, 1783-\\nPolk, William, Major, Ninth, November 27, 1776;\\nwounded at Germantown, October 4, 1777 Colonel, Militia,\\n1777 to 1781 died January 4, 1834.\\nWhite, John, Captain, Second, September i, 1775 Major,\\nApril 10, 1776; Colonel, Fourth Georgia, February i, 1777;\\nwounded and a prisoner at Savannah, October 9, 1779;\\ndied of wounds soon afterwards.\\nWilliams, William B., Major, First, June 13, 1776.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "40 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nCAPTAINS.\\nAlderson, Simeon, Captain, Fifth, April i6, 1776.\\nAllen, Charles, Ensign, Second, October 20, 1775; Lieu-\\ntenant, June 8, 1776; Captain, 1777; transferred to\\nFifth, June i, 1778.\\nAllen, Thomas, Captain, First, September i, 1775 re-\\nsigned August 15, 1776.\\nArmstrong, Thomas, Lieutenant, Fifth, April 16, 1776;\\nCaptain, October 25, 1777; transferred to Second, June i,\\n1778 wounded and prisoner at Fort Fayette, June i, 1779\\nexchanged December, 1779; prisoner at Charleston, May\\n12, 1780; exchanged July, 1781 in Second in 1782; Brevet\\nMajor.\\nArmstrong, William, Ensign, First, January 4, 1776;\\nSecond Lieutenant, April 10, 1776; Lieutenant, January i,\\n1777) Captain, August 29, 1777; wounded at Ramsour s\\nMills, June 20, 1780; in Third in 1782; retired January i,\\n1783.\\nAshe, John, Jr., Captain, Fourth, April 16, 1776.\\nAshe, Samuel, Jr., Captain, Sixth, April 17, 1776; trans-\\nferred to Dragoons, March 7, 1777; to January i, 1781\\ndied 1 8 14.\\nBacot, Peter, Ensign, First, September 19, 1776; Sec-\\nond Lieutenant, February 8, 1777; Lieutenant, October 4,\\n1777; Captain, 1780; prisoner at Charleston, May\\n12, 1780; exchanged, June, 1781 died August 13, 1821.\\nBailey, Benjamin, Lieutenant, Fifth, October i, 1776;\\ntransferred to First, June i, 1778; Captain, September 8,\\n1781; in Third in 1782; retired January i, 1783.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 4I\\nBaker, John, Captain, Seventh, July 6, 1777; transferred\\nto Third, June i, 1778; Colonel, Militia; wounded at Bull-\\ntown Swamp, November 19, 1778.\\nBallard, Kedar, Lieutenant, Third, April i6, 1777;\\nCaptain, October 4, 1777; prisoner at Charleston, May 12,\\n1780; on parole, August, 1781 in Third in 1782; retired\\nJanuary i, 1783; Brevet Major; died January 15, 1834.\\nBarrot, William, Captain, Third, April 16, 1776.\\nBell, Green, Captain, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nBlount, James, Captain, Second, September i, 1775.\\nBoadley, George, Captain, Third, September 19, 1778.\\nBowman, Joshua, Lieutenant, First, September i, 1775\\nCaptain, September 18, 1776; killed at Ramsour s Mills,\\nJune 20, 1780.\\nBradley, Gee, Lieutenant, Third, May 1776; Captain,\\nSeptember 19, 1778; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780;\\nin Third in 1782,\\nBrevard, Alexander, Lieutenant, Fourth, December 9,\\n1776; transferred to First, June i, 1778; Captain, October\\n20, 1780; in Third in 1782; retired January i, 1783.\\nBrevard, Joel, Captain, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nBrickell, Thomas, Captain, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nBright, Simon, Captain, Second, September i, 1775\\nresigned April, 1776.\\nBrinkley, WiUiam, Captain, Third, April 16, 1776.\\nBrown, John, Ensign, First, November 15, 1775 Second\\nLieutenant, January 4, 1776; Lieutenant, July 7, 1776;\\nCaptain, April 26, 1777; transferred June i, 1778, to Dra-\\ngoons.\\nBudd, Samuel, Lieutenant, Second, November 11, 1777;", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "42 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nCaptain, 1779; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780;\\nexchanged June, 1781 in Second in 1782 as Lieutenant;\\nretired January i, 1783.\\nCallender, Thomas, Ensign, First, Juqe 6, 1776; Lieu-\\ntenant, July 8, 1777; Captain, May 12, 1780; prisoner at\\nCharleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June, 1781 in First\\nin 1782; retired January i, 1783; died August 20, 1828.\\nCampbell, James, Second Lieutenant, Second, April 19,\\n1777; Lieutenant, December 21, 1777; Captain, December\\n14, 1778; mortally wounded at Stone Ferry, June 20,\\n1779.\\nCarter, Benjamin, Lieutenant, Fourth, November 22,\\n1776; Captain, January i, 1779; in Second in 1782; died\\nJanuary 20, 1830.\\nCaswell, William, Ensign, Second, September i, 1775\\nCaptain, Fifth, April 16, 1776.\\nChapman, Samuel, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28,\\n1776; Captain, April 5, 1779; in Fourth in 1782.\\nChild, Francis, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776; Captain,\\nJanuary 26, 1777; transferred to Third, June i, 1778; pris-\\noner at Charleston, May 12, 1780.\\nClark, Thomas, Captain, Artillery, January i, 1777.\\nCleaveland, Benjamin, Ensign, Second, September i,\\n1775; Lieutenant, January, 1776; Captain, November,\\n1776; Colonel, Militia, August, 1778; died October, 1806.\\nColeman, Benjamin, Captain, Fifth, April 30, 1777;\\ntransferred to Second, June i, 1778; prisoner at Charleston,\\nMay 12, 1780; in Second in 1782; Brevet Major.\\nColes, William T., Captain, Fourth, April 16, 1776.\\nCook, Richard D., Captain, Ninth, November 28, 1776.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 43\\nCooke, James, Ensign, Second, September i, 1775 Cap-\\ntain, Third, April 16, 1776.\\nCotten, Josiah, Captain, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nCouncil, Arthur, Captain, Sixth, April 16, 1776; died\\n1777.\\nCouncil, Robert, Ensign, First, January 4, 1776; Second\\nLieutenant, July 7, 1776; resigned September 10, 1776;\\nEnsign, First, March 28, 1777; Second Lieutenant, July 8,\\n1777; Captain, Dragoons, July i, 1778.\\nCraddock,Joht, Ensign, Second, May 3, 1776 Lieutenant,\\nJanuary, 1777; Captain, December 21, 1777; prisoner at\\nCharleston, May 12, 1780; in Second in 1782; on parole\\nuntil retired, January i, 1783.\\nCrawford, Charles, Captain, Second, September i, 1775.\\nDarnall, Henry, Captain, Fifth, October i, 1776.\\nDaves, John, Quartermaster, Second, June 7, 1776; En-\\nsign, September 30, 1776; Lieutenant, October 4, 1777;\\nwounded at Stony Point, July 16, 1779; prisoner at Charles-\\nton, May 12, 1780; transferred to Third, January i, 1781\\nexchanged June, 1781 Captain, September 8, 1781 retired\\nJanuary i, 1783; died October 12, 1804; Brevet Major.\\nDavidson, George, Captain, First, September i, 1775\\nresigned February 5, 1777.\\nDawson, Henry, Captain, Seventh, December 19, 1776;\\nresigned October 11, 1777.\\nDayley, Joshua, Lieutenant, Seventh, December 19, 1776\\nCaptain, October 12, 1777.\\nDennis, William, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28,\\n1776; Captain, September 20, 1777.\\nDenny, Samuel, Captain.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "44 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nDixon, Tilghman, Lieutenant, First, October 20, 17/5\\nCaptain, February 15, 1777; prisoner at Charleston, May\\n12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781 in First in 1782; re-\\ntired January i, 1783.\\nDobson, Captain killed June 20, 1780, at Ramsour s Mills.\\nEly, Eli, Lieutenant, Seventh, December 11, 1776; Cap-\\ntain, October 12, 1777.\\nEly, Samuel, Captain, Seventh, December 17, 1776.\\nEnloe, John, Captain, Fifth, April 16, 1776.\\nEvans, Thomas, Ensign, Second, June 6, 1776; Lieu-\\ntenant, July 19, 1776; Adjutant, November 22, 1778; pris-\\noner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged March, 1781\\ntransferred to First, January i, 1781 Captain, June i, 1781\\nin Fourth in 1782.\\nFawn {or Farrow), William, Second Lieutenant, Third,\\nApril 15, 1777; Lieutenant, October 4, 1777; Captain,\\nLieutenant, March 30, 1780; prisoner at Charleston, May\\n12, 1780; Captain, retired January i, 1783.\\nFenner, Robert, Lieutenant, Second, January i, 1776;\\nCaptain, October 4, 1777; prisoner at Charleston, May 12,\\n1780; in Second in 1782; Brevet Major.\\nFerrebee, William, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28,\\n1776; Captain, July i, 1781 in Fourth in 1782.\\nGardner, James, Captain, Second, May 1776; resigned\\nMay 15, 1777.\\nGaston, Robert, Captain, Second, February, 1776.\\nGee, James, Lieutenant, Second, September i, 1775\\nCaptain, May 3, 1776; died November 12, 1777.\\nGee, Captain, wounded at Eutaw Springs,\\nSeptember, 8, 1781.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 45\\nGlover, William, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776; Cap-\\ntain, May 7, 1776.\\nGoodin, Christopher, Captain, Fifth, January, 1779; killed\\nat Eutaw Springs, September 8, 1781.\\nGoodman, William, Captain, Fourth, October i, 1776;\\nkilled at Eutaw Springs, September 8, 1781.\\nGranberry, George, Captain, Third, April 16, 1776.\\nGranberry, Thomas, Captain, Third, April 16, 1776; died\\nMay 20, 1830.\\nGray, John, Captain, Third, April 16, 1776.\\nGreen, William, Captain, First, September i, 1775 re-\\nsigned January 4, 1776.\\nGregory, Dempsey, Captain, Tenth, April 19, 1777; re-\\nsigned May 22, 1778.\\nGroves, William, Lieutenant, Fifth, April 15, 1776; Cap-\\ntain, August 17, 1777.\\nGurley, WilHam, Captain, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nHadley, Joshua, Ensign, Sixth, April 16, 1776; Lieu-\\ntenant, April I, 1777; Captain, June 13, 1779; wounded at\\nEutaw Springs, September 8, 1781; in First in 1782; died\\nFebruary 8, 1830.\\nHall, Clement, Lieutenant, Second, September i, 1775\\nCaptain, April 19, 1777; in Second in 1782; Brevet Major;\\ndied August 4, 1824.\\nHall, James, Captain, Ninth, May, 1777.\\nHargett, Frederick, Captain, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nHarris, Thomas, Captain, Fourth, April 16, 1776.\\nHenderson, Michael, Captain, Ninth, November 28, 1776,\\nHeritage, John, Lieutenant, Second, September i, 1775\\nCaptain, May 3, 1776; resigned May 15, 1777.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "46 REGISTER OE NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nHeron, Armwell, Captain, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nIngles, John, Lieutenant, Second, May 3, 1776; Captain,\\nOctober 24, 1777; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780;\\nin Second in 1782.\\nJames, John, Captain, Sixth, April 16, 1776.\\nJarvis, John, Captain, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nJones, Daniel, Captain, Third, May, 1776; omitted June,\\n1778.\\nJones, Samuel, Lieutenant, Sixth, January, 1777; Captain,\\n1781.\\nJones, Samuel, Lieutenant, Tenth, October 4, 1777 trans-\\nferred to Third, 1779; Captain, September 11, 1781 re-\\ntired January I, 1783.\\nKeais, Nathaniel, Captain, Second, September i, 1775.\\nKing, James, Ensign, First, June i, 1776; Second Lieu-\\ntenant, August 15, 1776; Lieutenant, April 3, 1777; Cap-\\ntain, March 30, 1780; prisoner at Charleston, May 12,\\n1780; died in captivity.\\nKingsbury, John, Captain, Independent Company Artil-\\nlery, July 19, 1777; prisoner at Charleston, May 12,\\n1780.\\nLewis, Micajah, Captain, Fourth, July 25, 1777; wounded\\nat King s Mountain, October 7, 1780; Major of Militia;\\nkilled, 1781.\\nLittle, William (spelled also Lytle), Lieutenant, Sixth,\\nApril 16, 1776; Captain, January 28, 1779; transferred to\\nFirst, January, 1781 in Fourth in 1782.\\nMaclaine, John, Captain, Fourth, April 16, 1776.\\nMacon, John, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28, 1776;\\nCaptain, December 11, 1776.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 4/\\n7J/\u00c2\u00ab^^\u00c2\u00abm,/(?/^\u00c2\u00ab, Lieutenant, Third, April 15, 1777; Cap-\\ntain, December 23, 1777; in First in 1782.\\nMartin, James, Lieutenant, Second, May 3, 1776; Cap-\\ntain, April 20, 1777; transferred to Fifth, June i, 1778.\\nMay, James, Jr., Captain, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nMcCrory, Thomas, Captain, Ninth, November 28,\\n1776.\\nMcGlaughan, John, Captain, Seventh, November 28,\\n1776.\\nMcNees,John, Second Lieutenant, Third, February, 1777\\nLieutenant, November 20, 1777; prisoner at Charleston,\\nMay 12, 1780; exchanged June, 1781 Captain, trans-\\nferred to First, January i, 1781 in Third as Lieutenant\\nin 1782.\\nMedici, Cosmo, Captain Light Horse.\\nMills, James, Captain, Tenth, June, 1779.\\nMitchell, George, Captain, Sixth, April 16, 1776,\\nMoNTFORDj Joseph, Lieutenant, Third, May, 1776; Cap-\\ntain, January 9, 1779; prisoner at Charleston, May 12,\\n1780; Captain, First United States Infantry, June 3, 1790;\\nkilled, April 27, 1792, by Indians, near Fort Jefferson,\\nOhio.\\nMoore, Alfred, Captain, First, September i, 1775 re-\\nsigned, March 8, 1777; died October 15, 18 10.\\nMoore, Elijah, Lieutenant, Tenth, October 12, 1777 trans-\\nferred to First, September, 1778; Captain, October 13,\\n1781 retired January i, 1783.\\nMoore, Isaac, Captain, Tenth, April 19, 1777; transferred\\nto First, June i, 1778; died July 10, 1778.\\nMoore, Roger, Captain, Fourth, April 16, 1776.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "48 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nNeale, Henry, Ensign, First, September i, 1775 Second\\nLieutenant, January 4, 1776; Lieutenant, March 28, 1776;\\nCaptain, February 5, 1777; resigned April 3, 1777.\\nNichols, C. or E., Captain, Third.\\nNixon, Thomas, Captain, Eighth, November 28, 1776;\\nresigned September 20, 1777.\\nPayne, Michael, Captain, Second, September i, 1775.\\nPearl, James, Ensign, Eighth, November 28, 1776; Lieu-\\ntenant, October 29, 1777; Captain, July 17, 1780; in First\\nas Lieutenant in 1782; retired January i, 1783.\\nPhifer, Martin, Captain, Light Horse, March, 1777, to\\nApril, 1780.\\nPhilips, Joseph, Captain, Fourth, April 16, 1776,\\nPickett, William, Captain, First, September i, 1775, to\\nJanuary 4, 1776.\\nPike, Benjamin, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776; Cap-\\ntain, April 28, 1777.\\nPope, Henry, Ensign, First, September i, 1775 Captain,\\nEighth, November 28, 1776.\\nPorterfield, Dennis, Captain, Fifth, February i, 1779;\\nkilled at Eutaw Springs, September 8, 1781.\\nPoynter, John, Captain, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nQuinn, Michael, Lieutenant, Third, January, 1777; Cap-\\ntain, Eighth, August i, 1777.\\nRaiford, Robert, Captain, Eighth, November 28, 1776;\\nin Second in 1782; Brevet Major.\\nRamsey, Matthew, Captain, Ninth, November 28, 1776;\\nin Fourth in 1782.\\nRead, James, Ensign, First, January 4, 1776; Second\\nLieutenant, July 6, 1776; Lieutenant, July 7, 1776; Cap-", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 49\\ntain, July 8, 1777 prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780;\\nBrevet Major.\\nReed, Jesse, Second Lieutenant, Sixth, October 20, 1776;\\nLieutenant, October 25, 1777] transferred to Second, June\\nI, 1778; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged\\nJune 14, 1781 prisoner at Eutaw Springs, September 8,\\n1781 Captain, October 15, 1781 in Third in 1782; retired\\nJanuary i, 1783.\\nRhodes, Joseph T,, Captain, Tenth, August i, 1777;\\nwounded at Stone Ferry, June 20, 1779; in Fourth in 1782\\nBrevet Major.\\nRice, Hezekiah, Lieutenant, First, 1775 Captain, Novem-\\nber 28, 1776; omitted January, 1778.\\nRochel, John, Captain, Ninth, November 28, 1776;\\nomitted January, 1778.\\nRolston, Robert, Ensign, First, September i, 1775\\nSecond Lieutenant, January 4, 1776; Lieutenant, March\\n28, 1776; Captain, March 8, 1777; resigned August 29,\\n1777.\\nRowan, Robert, Captain, First, September i, 1775; re-\\nsigned June 29, 1776.\\nSaunders, Jesse, Captain, Sixth, April 16, 1776; resigned\\nMay, 1776.\\nScull, John Gambier, Ensign, First, June i, 1 776; Lieu-\\ntenant, November 21, 1776; Captain, April 26, 1777; in\\nservice in 1780.\\nSharp, Anthony, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776;\\nCaptain, August 24, 1777, in Fourth in 1782; Brevet\\nMajor.\\nShephard, William, Captain, Tenth, January 20, 1778.\\n4", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "50 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nSimons, Peter, Captain, Fifth, April i6, 1776.\\nSlaughter John, Captain.\\nSmith, Robert, Lieutenant, Second, September i, 1775;\\nCaptain, Fourth, April 16, 1776; Colonel of Militia.\\nStandin, Thomas, Ensign, Second, October 20, 1775\\nLieutenant, May 3, 1776; Captain, resigned May 15,\\n1777.\\nStedman, Benjamin, Captain, Fifth, April 16, 1776.\\nStevenson, Silas, Captain, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nStewart, Charles, Lieutenant, Fifth, July 23, 1777; trans-\\nferred to Second, June i, 1778 prisoner at Charleston, May\\n12, 1780; Captain, May 18, 1781 in Second in 1782.\\nSummers, John, Ensign, First, March 28, 1776; Second\\nLieutenant, July 7, 1776; Lieutenant, February 5, 1777;\\nCaptain, July 10, 1778; prisoner at Williamson s Planta-\\ntion, July 12, 1780; in First in 1782; retired January i,\\n1783.\\nTarrant, Manlove, Ensign, Second, May 3, 1776; Lieu-\\ntenant, June 8, 1776 Captain, October 24, 1777 transferred\\nto June I, 1778.\\nTartanson, Francis, Captain, Eighth, January 16, 1777.\\nTate, Joseph, Lieutenant, Second, September i, 1775\\nCaptain, 1776; died June 2, 1777.\\nTatum, Absolom, Lieutenant, First, September i, 1775;\\nCaptain, June 29, 1776; resigned September 19, 1776.\\nTatum, Howell, Ensign, First, September i, 1775\\nSecond Lieutenant, January 4, 1776; Lieutenant, March 28,\\n1776; Captain, April 3, 1777; prisoner at Charleston, May\\n12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781 in First in 1782; on\\nparole to close of war; Brevet Major.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 5 1\\nTaylor, Philip, Captain, Sixth, April i6, 1776.\\nThompson, Lawrence, Lieutenant, First, September i,\\n1775 Captain, August 15, 1776; transferred to\\nTool, Henry Irwin, Captain, Second, September i, 1775 I\\nresigned April, 1776.\\nTurner, Jacob, Captain, Third, April 16, 1776; killed at\\nGermantown, October 4, 1777.\\nVail, Edward, Lieutenant, Second, September i, 1775\\nCaptain, August 21, 1776; cashiered December 21, 1777.\\nVanoy, Andrew, Captain, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nVaughan, James, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28,\\n1776; Captain, December 19, 1776.\\nWade, Joseph J., Captain, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nWalker, Joseph, Captain, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nWalsh, Johfiy Captain, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nWalton, William, Second Lieutenant, Seventh, April 20,\\n1777 transferred to First, June i, 1778 Lieutenant, August\\n15, 1778; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged\\nApril, 1781; Captain, August i, 1781 in First in 1782;\\nretired January i, 1783.\\nWard, Edward, Captain, Eighth, November 28, 1776;\\nresigned August i, 1777.\\nWard, William, Captain, Fifth, April 16, 1776.\\nWhite, Thomas, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776; Cap-\\ntain, January 20, 1777.\\nWilliams, Benjamin, Lieutenant, Second, September i,\\n1775 Captain, July 19, 1776.\\nWilliams, Daniel, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776;\\nCaptain, April i, 1777; transferred to Third, June i, 1778.\\nWilliams, James, Lieutenant, Fourth, June 7, 1776; Cap-", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "52 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\ntain, April 3, 1777; Colonel, Rangers; killed at King s\\nMountain, October 7, 1780.\\nWilliams, William, Lieutenant and Adjutant, First,\\nSeptember i, 1775 Captain, Invalid Regiment, April i,\\n1778; retired June, 1783.\\nWilson, James, Captain, Tenth, April 19, 1777; resigned\\nMay, 1778.\\nWood, Matthew, Lieutenant, Third, July 24, 1776 Cap-\\ntain, November 22, 1777.\\nYarbo ROUGH, Edward, Ensign, Third, May 8, 1776;\\nLieutenant, April 16, 1777; Captain, May 10, 1779; in\\nThird in 1782; retired January i, 1783.\\nlieutenants.\\nAlexander, Charles, Lieutenant, Fourth, January 20,\\n1777.\\nAlexander, William, Ensign, Tenth, May 10, 1781;\\nLieutenant, September 8, 1781 in Fourth in 1782.\\nAllen, John, Lieutenant, Fifth, October i, 1776.\\nAllen, Thomas, Lieutenant, Third, March 17, 1778;\\nprisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; died in prison,\\nAugust 26, 1780.\\nAllen, Walter, Ensign, Fifth, March 28, 1777 Lieutenant,\\nOctober 4, 1777.\\nAmis, Thomas, Commissary, Third, December 22, 1776.\\nAndrews, Richard, Ensign, Second, November i, 1777;\\nSecond Lieutenant, March, 1778; prisoner at Fort Fayette,\\nJune I, 1779; Lieutenant, May 10, 1780; exchanged March\\n26, 1781 wounded at Eutaw Springs, September 8, 1781\\nin Second in 1782.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 53\\nArmstrong, Andrew, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776.\\nAshe, Samuel, Jr., Ensign, Sixth, April, 1 779 Lieutenant,\\n1780; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; ex-\\nchanged June 14, 1781 in Ninth (Tenth?) in January,\\n1 78 1, and Third in 1782; died 1835.\\nBaker, Peter, Lieutenant, First, February 8, 1777.\\nBarber, William, Lieutenant, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nBarrow, Jacob, Lieutenant, Seventh, December 22, 1776.\\nBarrow, Samuel, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28,\\n1776.\\nBeeks, William, Adjutant, Seventh, November 22, 1777.\\nBell, Robert, Lieutenant, First, September 8, 1781 in\\nSecond in 1782.\\nBerryhill, William, Lieutenant, First, September i, 1775.\\nBlount, Jesse, Commissary, Eighth, December 11, 1776.\\nBlount, Thomas, Lieutenant, Fifth, April 28, 1777.\\nBlythe, Samuel, Ensign, First, March 28, 1776; Second\\nLieutenant, July 7, 1776; Lieutenant, February 5, 1777;\\nresigned May 16, 1778.\\nBrandon, William, Lieutenant, First, September i, 1775\\nresigned March, 1776.\\nBrevard, John, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nBrevard, Joseph, Lieutenant, First, before March, 1780;\\nLieutenant, Tenth, August i, 1781 in Third in 1782.\\nBrown, Morgan, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nBryan, Hardy, Commissary, Seventh, December 11, 1776.\\nBryant, John, Jr., Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28,\\n1776.\\nBuford, William, Ensign, First Troop, Dragoons, July 16,\\n1777, to January i, 1779.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "54 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nBullock, Daniel, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nBush, John, Adjutant, Eighth, August 7, 1781.\\nBush, William, Adjutant, Eighth, May 12, 1781.\\nCampbell, John, Lieutenant, Tenth, April 5, 1779; in\\nFourth in 1782.\\nCampbell, John, Second Lieutenant, Second, Continental\\nArtillery, June 29, 1781 to June, 1783.\\nCampen, James, Ensign, Second, December 11, 1776;\\nLieutenant, December 21, 1777; wounded and a prisoner\\nat Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781 in\\nSecond in 1782; Brevet Captain.\\nCannon, Lewis, Lieutenant, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nCarnes, Thomas J., Lieutenant, Artillery, January i, 1777\\nresigned March 8, 1779.\\nCarraway, Gideon, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28,\\n1776.\\nClark, Thomas, Ensign, Ninth, November 28, 1776;\\nLieutenant, February 10, 1779; in Fourth in 1782.\\nClendennin, John, Lieutenant, Third, December 23, 1777;\\nQuartermaster, December 14, 1779; prisoner at Charleston,\\nMay 12, 1780; exchanged, June 14, 1781 in Third in\\n1782.\\nCoffield, Benjamin, Adjutant, Sixth, May 17, 1777.\\nColeman, Theophilus, Lieutenant, Seventh, November\\n28, 1776.\\nColgrave, Arthur, Lieutenant, Second, March 26, 1776.\\n(See Cotgrave.)\\nColman, Charles, Quartermaster, Third, October 14, 1777.\\nConger, Stephen, Adjutant, First, January 29, 1778; re-\\ntired June I, 1778.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 55\\nCook, George, Second Lieutenant, Tenth, April 19,\\n1777; Lieutenant, July 10, 1777; transferred to First, June\\nI, 1778; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780.\\nCooper, Solomon, Lieutenant, Tenth, January 20, 1778.\\nCooper, William, Lieutenant, Fifth, April 16, 1776.\\nCoots, James, Lieutenant, Fourth, November 20, 1776.\\nCotgrave, Arthur (also called Anthony) Lieutenant,\\nSecond, March 26, 1777; prisoner at Charleston, May 12,\\n1780; exchanged June 14, 1781 in Second in 1782.\\nCovington, James, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nCovington, William, Adjutant, Fourth, March 28, 1777.\\nCowan, David, Lieutenant, Tenth, March 20, 1779.\\nCrafton, Benjamin, Adjutant, Sixth, April 15, 1776.\\nCraven, James, Ensign, First, June 12, 1776; Second\\nLieutenant, January i, 1777; Lieutenant, July 28, 1777;\\ndischarged November 20, 1779.\\nCnitches, Anthony, Ensign, Fifth, February 27, 1780;\\nLieutenant, May 18, 1781 in Second in 1782.\\nCurtis, John, Lieutenant, Fifth, October i, 1776.\\nDaniel, James, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nDavis, Abraham, Adjutant, Seventh, December 22, 1776;\\nresigned November 21, 1777; name also spelled Dawes.\\nDawes, Josiah, Quartermaster, Seventh, July 10, 1777.\\nDeKeyser, Lehansyus, Adjutant, First, November, 15,\\n1775; Second Lieutenant, January 4, 1776; Lieutenant,\\nFebruary 3, 1776; resigned December 10, 1776.\\nDent, William, Commissary, Ninth, December 11, 1776.\\nDickenson, Richard, Ensign, Sixth, April 2, 1777; Lieu-\\ntenant, October 10, 1777; transferred to First, June i, 1778;\\ndismissed November 20, 1779.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "$6 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nDickerson, Nathaniel, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28,\\n1776.\\nDiggs, Anthony, Lieutenant, Fifth, August 20, 1777.\\nDillain, John, Lieutenant, Tenth, February, 1779.\\nDillon, Benjamin, Lieutenant, Seventh, October 12, 1777.\\nDillon, James, Second Lieutenant, Seventh, January,\\n1777; Lieutenant, October 12, 1777; transferred to Second,\\nJune I, 1778; killed at Eutaw Springs, September 8,\\n1781.\\nDixon, Charles, Ensign, Sixth, April 2, 1777; Paymaster,\\nJanuary 19, 1778; transferred to Third, July i, 1778; Lieu-\\ntenant, February 8, 1779; wounded at Eutaw Springs,\\nSeptember 8, 1781 in Fourth in 1782; retired January i,\\n1783-\\nDixon, Wynn, Lieutenant, Tenth, July 5, 178 1 in Fourth\\nin 1782; died November 24, 1829,\\nDobbins, Hugh, Lieutenant, Ninth, 1777.\\nDouglass, William, Quartermaster, Fourth, February 10,\\n1777.\\nDudley, Thomas, Musician, Sixth in 1776; Ensign, Tenth,\\n1778; Lieutenant, June 20, 1779; wounded at Eutaw\\nSprings, September 8, 1781 in Third in 1782; retired\\nJanuary i, 1783.\\nEason, Seth, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nEborne, John, Lieutenant, Fifth, October i, 1776.\\nEborne, Thomas, Lieutenant, Fifth, April 16, 1776.\\nEwell, William, Lieutenant, Fifth, April 20, 1777.\\nFaircloth, William, Lieutenant, Tenth, January 20, 1778.\\nFenner, Richard, Paymaster, Second, June i, 1778;\\nEnsign, January 10, 1779; prisoner at Charleston, May 12,", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 57\\n1780; exchanged June 14, 178 1 Lieutenant, May 12, 178 1\\nin Second in 1782.\\nFerrebee, Joseph, Lieutenant, Tenth, May 5, 1777-\\nFerrell, Luke L., Lieutenant, Tenth, 1778.\\nFerrill, William, Lieutenant, Second, September 8, 1777;\\nalso in Tenth.\\nFinney, Thomas, Ensign, Second, November 12, 1777;\\nprisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; Lieutenant, January\\n23, 1781 exchanged June 14, 178 1 in Second in 1782.\\nFoakes, Yelverton, Quartermaster, First, February 3,\\n1776; resigned August i, 1776.\\nFord, John (also spelled Foard), Ensign, Third, Novem-\\nber 30, 1778; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; ex-\\nchanged June 14, 1781 Lieutenant, Tenth, January 23,\\n1781 in Third in 1782.\\nForeman, Caleb, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nGambelle, Edmund, Ensign, First, March 28, 1776;\\nSecond Lieutenant, July 7, 1776; Lieutenant, January 20,\\n1777; transferred to Dragoons, June i, 1778.\\nGardner, William, Ensign, Second, September i, 1775\\nLieutenant, October 20, 1775.\\nCatling, Levi, Lieutenant, Tenth, February 12, 1778;\\ntransferred to Second, June i, 1778; cashiered August 18,\\n1778.\\nGee, Howell, Ensign, Seventh, April 15, 1777; Lieu-\\ntenant, November, 1777.\\nGerald, Charles, Ensign, Fifth, April 30, 1777; Lieu-\\ntenant, September 19, 1777.\\nGerrard, Charles, Lieutenant, Second, June i, 1778;\\ntransferred to Fifth transferred to First, January", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "58 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nI, 1 781; wounded and prisoner at Charleston, May 12,\\n1780; exchanged June 14, 1781 in Second in 1782;\\nspelled also Garrard.\\nGillespie, Robert, Ensign, Fourth, 1777; Lieutenant,\\nAugust, 1777.\\nGodfrey, William, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28,\\n1776; resigned August 15, 1777.\\nGraham, Richard, Lieutenant, Second, June 8, 1776.\\nGrainger, John, Lieutenant, Second, September i, 1775.\\nGranberry, John, Lieutenant, Third, 1777.\\nGraves, Francis, Quartermaster, Eighth, September i,\\n1777; Ensign, Third, October 26, 1777; Quartermaster,\\nTenth, November 6, 1778; Lieutenant, July 14, 1779; pris-\\noner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June 14,\\n1781 in Third in 1782.\\nGreen, Joseph, Commissary, Eighth, December 11, 1776,\\nGreer, Robert, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28, 1776,\\nHair, John, Lieutenant, First, August 16, 1777.\\nHall, Thomas, Ensign, First, December 24, 1776; Lieu-\\ntenant, February 8, 1777; resigned April 3, 1777.\\nHandcock, William, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 28, 1777.\\nHargrave, William, Ensign, Tenth, January 16, 177^)\\ntransferred to First, June i, 1778; Lieutenant, March 30,\\n1780; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged\\nJune 14, 1781 in First in 1782 retired January i, 1783.\\nHarris, West, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nHarrison, William, Ensign, Seventh, December 11, 1776;\\nSecond Lieutenant, January, 1777; Lieutenant, July 15,\\n1777.\\nHart, Anthony, Ensign, Third, April 15, 1777; Lieu-", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 59\\ntenant, November 22, 1777; Adjutant, 1778; prisoner at\\nCharleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged, June 14, 1781 in\\nThird in 1782.\\nHart, John, Lieutenant, Sixth, May 7, 1776.\\nHart, Samuel, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nHart, Thomas, Commissary, Sixth, April 23, 1776.\\nHays, James, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nHays, Robert, Ensign, Fourth, August 16, 1777; Second\\nLieutenant, October 9, 1777; transferred to First, June i,\\n1778; Lieutenant, February 16, 1780; prisoner at Charles-\\nton, May 12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781 in First in\\n1782.\\nHenderson, Pleasant, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776.\\nHewell, WilHam, Lieutenant, Fifth, March 28, 1777.\\nHickman, William, Lieutenant, Fourth, 1777.\\nHill, John, Ensign, Tenth, April 4, 178 1 Lieutenant,\\nJuly 5, 1781 in Fourth in 1782.\\nHill, William, Lieutenant, First, September i, 1775.\\nHilton, William, Lieutenant, Sixth, April i, 1777; killed\\nat Stony Point, July 15, 1779.\\nHodges, John, Ensign, Fifth, May 4, 1776; Lieutenant,\\nOctober i, 1776.\\nHodgton, Alvery, Lieutenant, Third, 1777; Adju-\\ntant, 1777.\\nHolland, Spier, Ensign, Fifth, March 24, 1776; Lieuten-\\nant, October 25, 1777.\\nHollings worth, Charles, Lieutenant, Fourth,\\nHoUowell, Samuel, Lieutenant, Eighth, September 20,\\n1777.\\nHolmes, Hardy, Lieutenant, Tenth, 1781.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "6o REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nIvEY, Curtis, Ensign, Fifth, April 23, 1777 Second\\nLieutenant, October 10, 1777; Lieutenant, February i,\\n1779; in Fourth in 1782.\\nIvory, Curtis, Ensign, Third, December 19, 1777; Lieu-\\ntenant, 1778; was in service in 1780.\\nJacobs, John, Ensign, Second, June 6, 1776; Lieutenant,\\nNovember i, 1776; resigned March i, 1778.\\nJohnson, James, Quartermaster, Sixth, April 2, 1777.\\nJohnson, Joseph, Lieutenant, First, February i, 1779;\\nprisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; in First in 1782.\\nV Johnson, Joshua, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nJones, David, Lieutenant, Fourth, April 3, 1777.\\nJones, Maurice, Lieutenant, Sixth, June 15, 1776.\\nJones, Philip, Lieutenant, Artillery, July 19, 1777; pris-\\noner at Charleston, May 12, 1780.\\nJones, Philip, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nJones, Timothy, Lieutenant, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nJones, Thomas, Lieutenant, Seventh, April 17, 1777.\\nKennon, John, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776.\\nKennon, William, Commissary, First, September 23,\\n1776; resigned April, 1777.\\nKnott, William, Lieutenant, Fourth, 1777.\\nKoen, Caleb, Lieutenant, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nLackey, Christopher, Lieutenant, Third, 1777.\\nLamb, Abner, Ensign, First, 1780; Lieutenant,\\nJune I, 1781 wounded at Eutaw Springs, September 8,\\n1781 in First in 1782.\\nLangford, Alio way. Ensign, Eighth, February 8, 1777;\\nLieutenant, August i, 1777.\\nLassiter, Jethro, Ensign, Seventh, November 28, 1776;", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 6 1\\nSecond Lieutenant, January, 1777; Lieutenant, October 12,\\n1777.\\nLawrence, Nathaniel, Ensign, Second, June i, 1777;\\nLieutenant, Tenth, June i, 1778; prisoner at Charleston,\\nMay 12, 1780; exchanged April 18, 1781 in Second in\\n1782 as Lieutenant, January 23, 1781, with name spelled\\nNathan Lawrence.\\nLewis, Joel, Lieutenant, Tenth, August i, 1779; wounded\\nat King s Mountain, October 7, 1780.\\nLewis, Joseph, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nLewis, William, Lieutenant, Ninth, March, 1777.\\nLillington, John, Lieutenant, First, September i, 1775\\nresigned May, 1776; Colonel of Militia, 1779 to 1782.\\nLinton, William, Lieutenant, Third, July 24, 1776.\\nLockey, Christopher, Lieutenant, Fifth, May 3, 1776.\\nLong, Nehemiah, Lieutenant, Fifth, October 4, 1776.\\nLove, Amos, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776.\\nLowe, John, Lieutenant, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nLowe, Philip, Ensign, Second, September i, 1775; Lieu-\\ntenant, May 3, 1776; resigned February i, 1777; Major,\\nThird Georgia, June 18, 1778; Lieutenant-Colonel,\\nretired January i, 1781.\\nLuton, James, Ensign, Second, April i, 1777; Lieutenant,\\nOctober 4, 1777; resigned March 10, 1778.\\nLynch, John, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nLytle, Micajah, Lieutenant, Third, May 3, 1776.\\nMallett, Daniel, Commissary, Fourth, December 16, 1776.\\nMallett, Peter, Commissary, Fifth, April 23, 1776.\\nMarshall, Dixon, Ensign, First, March 28, 1777; Second\\nLieutenant, April 26, 1777; Lieutenant, July 1779;", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "62 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nprisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June 14,\\n1781 died August 22, 1824.\\nMartin, Samuel, Lieutenant, Second, June 8, 1776.\\nMason, Richard, Ensign, Second, September 4, 1778\\nLieutenant, 1780.\\nMcAlister, Neil, Ensign, First, September i, 1775; Sec-\\nond Lieutenant, January 4, 1776 Lieutenant, June 29, 1776\\nresigned January 20, 1777.\\nMcCanley, Matthew, Lieutenant, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nMcCann, John, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776.\\nMcGibbony, Patrick, Ensign, Fourth, November 27,\\n1776; Lieutenant, December 9, 1776.\\nMcllwaine, Stringer, Lieutenant, Second, 1777.\\n(See McKlewaine.)\\nMcNaughton, John, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28,\\n1776.\\nMcNeill, Hector, Lieutenant, First, September i, 1775;\\ndeserted February 3, 1776.\\nMcSheehy, Miles, Adjutant, Ninth, February 12, 1777.\\nMessick, Jacob, Ensign, Eighth, November 18, 1776;\\nLieutenant, April 24, 1777.\\nMilligan, James, Ensign, First, March 28, 1777; Second\\nLieutenant, April 23, 1777; Lieutenant, August 29, 1777;\\ndismissed July 13, 1778, by sentence of a court-martial.\\nMills Benjamift, Lieutenant, Eighth, January, 1777\\nresigned July 12, 1777 Lieutenant, Dragoons, July 15, 1777.\\nMoore, Dempsey, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776.\\nMoore, James, Ensign, First, 1780; Lieutenant,\\nJuly I, 1781 wounded at Eutaw Springs, September 8,\\n1781 in First in 1782.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 63\\nMoore, John, Lieutenant, Seventh, December 17, 1776.\\nMoorehead, James, Lieutenant, Tenth, March 23, 1779.\\nMoslander, Abel, Lieutenant, Fourth, January 25, 1777.\\nMyrick, John, Ensign, Seventh, November 28, 1776;\\nLieutenant, December 11, 1776.\\nNash, Clement, Lieutenant, Second, May 3, 1776; re-\\nsigned February i, 1777; Captain, Third Georgia, April 10,\\n1777; prisoner at Briar Creek, March 3, 1779; exchanged\\nprisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780.\\nNeal, William, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nNicholso7i, Robert, Lieutenant, Tenth, April 19, 1777;\\ntransferred to First, June i, 1778; resigned June 25, 1779;\\ndied May 21, 18 19.\\nNoblen, William, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28,\\n1776.\\nNuthall, Nathaniel, Ensign, Ninth, May 20, 1777; Ad-\\njutant, May 26, 1777.\\nO Neal, Charles, Ensign, Third, April 18, 1777; Lieuten-\\nant, July 20, 1777.\\nOwen, Stephen, Lieutenant, Eighth, August 15, 1777.\\nOwens, John, Lieutenant, Sixth, May 7, 1776.\\nParker, Kedar, Ensign, Sixth, May 7, 1776; Lieutenant,\\nSeptember 19, 1776.\\nParkinson, James, Lieutenant, Second, 1777 died March\\n26, 1778; spelled also Parkerson.\\nPasteur, John, Lieutenant, Sixth, July 7, 1776.\\nPasteur, Thomas, Ensign, Fourth, July 15, 1777; Lieu-\\ntenant, December 29, 1777; transferred to First, June i,\\n1778; Adjutant, June 26, 1779; prisoner at Charleston,\\nMay 12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781; in First by the", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "64 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\narrangement of February 6, 1782; Paymaster, Fourth,\\nOctober 19, 1782; Lieutenant of Infantry, United States\\nArmy, June 3, 1790; Captain, First United States Infantry,\\nMarch 5, 1792; in First Sub-Legion, September 4, 1792;\\nin First United States Infantry, November i, 1796; Major,\\nSecond Infantry, April 11, 1803; died July 29, 1806.\\nPolk, Charles, Lieutenant, Fourth, April 25, 1777.\\n,Polk, Thomas, Lieutenant, killed at Eutaw, Sep-\\ntember 8, 1 78 1.\\nPollock. Jacob, Lieutenant, Fourth, 1776.\\nPowers, James, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nPowers, James, Lieutenant, Third, April 20, 1777.\\nPyeatt, Peter, Lieutenant, Tenth, March 30, 1781.\\nRaiford, John, Lieutenant, Second, 1777; resigned\\nFebruary i, 1778; spelled also Radford.\\nRamsay, Allen, Lieutenant, Seventh, December 19, 1776,\\nRedpeth, John, Lieutenant, Fourth, August 20, 1777;\\nkilled October 13, 1777.\\nReese, George, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nRespess, Richard, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nRice, John, Adjutant, First, December 10, 1776; Ensign,\\nMarch 28, 1777; Second Lieutenant, April 3, 1777; First\\nLieutenant, First Continental Dragoons, June i, 1778.\\nRoberts, John, Lieutenant, Fifth, March 28, 1777; trans-\\nferred to Second, June i, 1778.\\nRochel, Lovick, Lieutenant, Third, November 28, 1776;\\nresigned November, 1777.\\nRogers, Patrick, Quartermaster, First, November 3, 1776.\\nEnsign, March 28, 1777; Lieutenant, April 3, 1777; died\\nApril 19, 1778.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 65\\nRolston, Isaac, Ensign, Second, June 8, 1776; Lieutenant,\\n1777; transferred to June i, 1778.\\nRoss, Francis, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nRoulledge, William, Lieutenant, Fourth, January 25,\\n1777; resigned August 20, 1777.\\nRountree, Reuben, Lieutenant, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nRushworm, William, Lieutenant, Third, April 16, 1777.\\nSalter, James, Commissary, Second, December 19, 1776.\\nSalter, Robert, Commissary, Second, April 23, 1776.\\nSaunders, William, Ensign, Sixth, April 2, 1777 trans-\\nferred to First, June i, 1778 Lieutenant, February 8, 1779;\\nin Fourth in 1782; retired January i, 1783.\\nSawyer, Levi, Second Lieutenant, Second, May 15, 1776;\\nLieutenant, 1777; resigned March 16, 1778.\\nScurlock, James, Lieutenant, Tenth, September 11, 1781;\\nin Fourth in 1782,\\nShaw, Daniel, Ensign, Sixth, April 2, 1777; Second\\nLieutenant, October 11, 1777; transferred to First, June i,\\n1778; Quartermaster, June 2, 1778; prisoner at Charleston,\\nMay 12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781.\\nSingleton, Richard, Lieutenant, Second, June 17, 1775.\\nSingleton, William, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28,\\n1776; resigned October 26, 1777.\\nSlade, Stephen, Quartermaster, Second, January i, 1778J\\nprisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; Lieutenant, January\\n23, 1781 exchanged June 14, 178 1 in Second in 1782.\\nSlade, William, Ensign, Fourth, January 2, 1777; Lieu-\\ntenant, May I, 1777; transferred to First, June i, 1778;\\nAdjutant, June i, 1778; resigned February 18, 1780.\\nSmith, Jabez, Lieutenant, Fifth, September i, 1777.\\n5", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "66 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nSnowden, Nathaniel, Lieutenant, Tenth, June 5, 1778.\\nSnowden, William, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28,\\n1776.\\nSouthall, Stephen, Second Lieutenant, Second, April i,\\n1777; also in Tenth; Lieutenant, First Continental Artil-\\nlery, 1780; retired January i, 1783.\\nSoutherland, Ransome, Commissary, Fourth, April 23,\\n1776.\\nSpratt, Thomas, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nSteed, Jesse, Lieutenant, Tenth, September 8, 1781; in\\nFirst in 1782.\\nStewart, George, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nStewart, Joseph, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nStewart, Nicholas, Lieutenant, Second, April 30, 1777.\\nSugg, George, Lieutenant, Fifth, 1776.\\nSwann, Nimrod, Quartermaster, Fifth, June 8, 1777.\\nTatu7n, James, Ensign, Ninth, August 12, 1777; Second\\nLieutenant, January i, 1778; Lieutenant, December 14,\\n1779; prisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged\\nJune 14, 1781 in Third in 1782 on parole to close of war\\ndied September 10, 1821.\\nThompson, Samuel, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 16, 1776.\\nTillery, John, Lieutenant, Third, 1777.\\nTurbee, WilHam, Lieutenant, Third, July 6, 1777.\\nTurner, Robert, Lieutenant, Tenth, 1778.\\nVance, David, Lieutenant, Second, April 20, 1776; trans-\\nferred to June I, 1778.\\nVance, John C, Second Lieutenant, Artillery, July 19,\\n1777; Lieutenant, July 8, 1779; prisoner at Charleston,\\nMay 12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 6/\\nVan Duyck, John, Lieutenant, Artillery, February i, 1777.\\nVarcase, James, Lieutenant, Tenth, March 17, 1778.\\nVarner, Robert, Ensign, First, March 28, 1776; Second\\nLieutenant, July 7, 1776; Lieutenant, March 8, 1777; cash-\\niered October i, 1779.\\nVerner, James, Lieutenant, First, May 8, 1777.\\nVerrier, James, Ensign, Fifth, August 20, 1777; Lieu-\\ntenant, June, 1778.\\nWalker, Solomon, Lieutenant, Sixth, April 20, 1777.\\nWalker, William, Lieutenant, Second, prisoner at\\nCharleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781.\\nWall, James, Lieutenant, Artillery, July 19, 1777.\\nWallace, James, Lieutenant, Tenth, November 30, 1778.\\nWalters, William, Ensign, First, September 19, 1776;\\nSecond Lieutenant, February 5, 1777; Lieutenant, Sep-\\ntember 19, 1777; transferred to cavalry, June i, 1778.\\nWashington, Robert, Adjutant, Third, April 15, 1776.\\nWatson, Thomas, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nWebb, John, Commissary, Third, April 23, 1776.\\nWhedbee, Richard, Lieutenant, Seventh, November 28,\\n1776.\\nWhite, Matthew, Lieutenant, Sixth, 1777.\\nWhitmel, Blunt, Lieutenant, Fourth, November 20, 1776.\\nWilkinson, Reuben, Ensign, Fourth, December 9, 1776;\\nLieutenant, January 9, 1779; in Third in 1782.\\nWilliams, John, Lieutenant, Second, April 21, 1777;\\ntransferred to June i, 1778.\\nWilliams, Nathaniel, Lieutenant, Tenth, January, 1782;\\nin Fourth in 1782, with commission dating January 23,\\n1781.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "68 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nWilliams, Nathaniel B., Lieutenant, Eighth, November\\n28, 1776; retired January i, 1783.\\nWilliams, Ralph, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nWilson, Whitfield, Quartermaster, Third, April 24, 1777.\\nWomack, William, Quartermaster, First, January, 1778;\\ndropped by rearrangement June i, 1778.\\nWood, Solomon, Lieutenant, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nWorth, Joseph, Ensign, Second, October 20, 1775; Lieu-\\ntenant, May 3, 1776; died April 6, 1777.\\nWright, David, Ensign, Tenth, April 19, 1777; Lieu-\\ntenant, February 15, 1778 transferred to First, June i, 1778.\\nYancey, Charles, Lieutenant, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nENSIGNS OR SECOND LIEUTENANTS.\\nAlderson, Thomas, Ensign, Fifth, May 3, 1776.\\nBertie, Thomas, Ensign, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\n^Bickerstaff, John, Ensign, Second, June 8, 1776.\\nBlanton, Rowland, Ensign, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nBrice, Peter, Ensign, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nBryer, Benjamin, Ensign, Seventh, April 27, 1777; Sec-\\nond Lieutenant, July 15, 1777.\\nCarpenter, Peter, Ensign, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nCaustariphen, James, Ensign, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nCawall, Butler, Ensign, Tenth,\\nCharlton, William, Ensign, Tenth, March 14, 1779; n^or-\\ntally wounded at Stono Ferry, June 10, 1779.\\nCheese, John. Ensign, First, June 12, 1776; Second Lieu-\\ntenant, January 20, 1777; resigned April i, 1777.\\nCheeseboro, John, Paymaster, July 3, 1777 Ensign,\\nSixth, April 25, 1779.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 69\\nChilds, James, Ensign, First, September i, 1775.\\nClinch, James (also spelled Joseph), Ensign, Second, Sep-\\ntember I, 1775.\\nColeman, John, Ensign, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nCrawford, David, Ensign, First, June 10, 1777.\\nCrawford, William, Ensign, First, January 4, 1776 Second\\nLieutenant, March 28, 1776; resigned August 15, 1776.\\nCrenshaw, Arthur, Ensign, Second, prisoner at\\nCharleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781.\\nCrutches, Henry, Ensign, Fifth, August 20, 1777.\\nCurtis, Joshua, Ensign, Fourth, July i, 1777; resigned\\nFebruary i, 1778.\\nCurtis, Reuben, Ensign, Second, 1777.\\nCurtis, Thomas, Ensign, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nDance, Ethelred, Ensign, 1781; died February 4,\\n1828.\\nDaniel, Stephen, Ensign, First, January 4, 1 776 resigned\\nJune 3, 1776.\\nDouglass, Robert, Third Lieutenant, Artillery, July 19,\\n1776.\\nEagle, Joseph, Ensign, Fourth, January 4, 1776; resigned\\nMarch 20, 1776.\\nErwin, John, Ensign, First, 1777.\\nFerrall, Micajah, Ensign, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nGibson, Thomas, Ensign, Tenth, February 20, 1780;\\nprisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June 14,\\n1781.\\nGraham, George, Ensign, First, September i, 1775\\nSecond Lieutenant, January 4, 1776; resigned April 15,\\n1776; Captain, North Carolina Rangers.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "70 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nGrant, Reuben, Ensign, Sixth, April i6, 1776.\\nGrant, Thomas, Ensign, Sixth, April 16, 1776.\\nHicks, William, Ensign, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nIrwin, John, Ensign, First, March 28, 1777; Second\\nLieutenant, April 4, 1777; resigned August 28, 1777;\\nColonel, Militia, in 1780 and 1781.\\nJohnston, Joseph, Ensign, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nJones, Samuel, Ensign, Second, died July, 1778.\\nKilleby, William Tyler, Ensign, Second, died April\\n6, 1777.\\nLacey, John, Ensign, Second, May 20, 1779.\\nLanier (or Lenear), James, Jr., Ensign, Eighth, November\\n28, 1776; resigned October 12, 1777.\\nLemmy, Joseph, Ensign, First, January 4, 1776; Second\\nLieutenant, January 18, 1776; died July, 1776. (See\\nMcLemmy.)\\nLiscombe, John, Ensign, Sixth, April 28, 1777.\\nLoomis, Abner, Ensign, Eighth, February 8, 1776; re-\\nsigned November 15, 1777.\\nMcCarthy, Florence, Ensign, Fourth, May i, 1777.\\nMcClammy, Joseph, Ensign, Second, October 20, 1775.\\nMcDouGALL, James, Cornet of Dragoons.\\nMcKinne, James, Ensign, Fifth, May 9, 1776.\\nMcKlewaine, Samuel, Second Lieutenant, Second, May,\\n1776; resigned October 24, 1777. (See Mcllwaine.)\\nMcLemmy, Joseph, Ensign, First, January 4, 1776;\\nSecond Lieutenant, January 18, 1776; died July, 1776.\\n(See Lemmy.)\\nMcRenolds, Robert, Ensign, Tenth, April 19, 1777.\\nMcRory, James, Ensign, Ninth, May 2, 1777.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 7 1\\nMercer, John, Ensign, Seventh, November 28, 1776; re-\\nsigned November 22, 1777.\\nMoore, Maurice, Jr., Ensign, First, September i, 1775;\\nSecond Lieutenant, January 4, 1776; killed January 18,\\n1776.\\nMorgan, Benjamin, Ensign, Third, 1776.\\nMossom, Richard, Ensign, Tenth, September 4, 1778.\\nMurray, William, Ensign, Fourth, April i, 1777.\\nNelson, Alexander, Ensign, Fourth, July i, 1777.\\nOliver, John, Ensign, Second, September i, 1775.\\nOrrell, Thomas, Ensign, Tenth, March 14, 1778.\\nOutlaw, Edward, Ensign, Sixth, April 16, 1776.\\nPalmer, Joseph, Ensign, Fifth, June 6, 1776.\\nPearce, George, Ensign, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nPicket, Thomas, Ensign, First, October 20, 1775.\\nPilley, John, Ensign, Second, December 11, 1776.\\nPugh, Whitmel, Ensign, Second, September i, 1775.\\nRespess, John, Ensign, Eighth, November 28, 1776.\\nRice, Jeptha, Ensign, Ninth, March 15, 1777.\\nRichardson, John, Ensign, Tenth, October i, 1777.\\nRobinson, Septimus, Ensign, First, March 28, 1776;\\nSecond Lieutenant, July 7, 1776; resigned August 10, 1776.\\nSawyer, William, Ensign, Second, May 15, 1776.\\nShute, Thomas, Ensign, Tenth, April 19, 1777; omitted\\nby arrangement of June i, 1778; died January 15, 1819.\\nSingleton, Robert, Ensign, Tenth,\\nSledge, Arthur, Ensign, Seventh, December 19, 1776.\\nSmith, John, Ensign, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nSutton, James, Second Lieutenant, Second, re-\\nsigned March 10, 1778.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "72 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS\\nTaylor, John, Ensign, First, September i, 1775.\\nThomas, John, Ensign, Ninth, November 28, 1776.\\nTochsey, William, Ensign, Second, May 3, 1776.\\nTriplet, Charles, Ensign, First, September 19, 1776; died\\nDecember, 1776.\\nTurner, Berryman, Ensign, First, September i, 1775.\\nVipon, Henry, Ensign, Second, September i, 1775.\\nWashington, William, Ensign, Ninth, August 15, 1777.\\nWatters, Samuel, Ensign, First, December 24, 1776;\\nSecond Lieutenant, March 29, 1777; resigned April 23, 1777.\\nWebb, Elisha, Ensign, Seventh, November 28, 1776.\\nWhitaker, Hudson, Ensign, Seventh, December 22, 1776.\\nWhite, William, Ensign, Seventh, April 17, 1777.\\nWilliams, Theophilus, Ensign, Sixth, April 2, 1777.\\nWoodhouse, John, Ensign, Second, September i, 1775.\\nWooton, Shadrack, Ensign, Fifth, 1776.\\nPAYMASTERS.\\nAlexander, Hezekiah, Paymaster, Fourth, April 16, 1776.\\nAshe, Samuel, Paymaster, First, September i, 1775 re-\\nsigned April 16, 1776; President of State Council of Safety,\\n1776; died 1843.\\nBlount, Jacob, Paymaster, State Troops, April 1 8, i yj^.\\nBlount, William, Paymaster, Third, 1777.\\nBradley, Richard, Paymaster, Third, March 5, 1777;\\nretired June i, 1778.\\nDuncan, Robert, Paymaster, Fourth, December i, 1777.\\nGuion, Isaac, Surgeon, First, September i, 1775 resigned\\nDecember, 1775 Paymaster, March, 1777, to July, 1778.\\nHarvey, James, Paymaster, Seventh, December 11, 1776.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. 73\\nLord, William, Paymaster, First, December 11, 1776;\\nresigned March 5, 1777.\\nMoseley, William, Paymaster, Sixth, December 11, 1776.\\nPasteur, William, Surgeon, Second, September i, 1775\\nPaymaster, Fourth, December 12, 1776.\\nRogers, John, Jr., Paymaster, Fifth, December 11, 1776.\\nSpicer, John, Paymaster, Second, December 11, 1776.\\nTaylor, John, Paymaster, Eighth, July 24, 1777.\\nSURGEONS AND SURGEONS MATES.\\nAlexander, Nathaniel, Surgeon, 1778 to 1782 died March\\n8, 1808.\\nBlythe, Joseph, Surgeon, First, July, 1776; prisoner at\\nCharleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781 in\\nFourth in 1782.\\nBoyd, Hugh, Surgeon, Fourth, April 17, 1776.\\nBrevard, Ephraim, Surgeon, First, prisoner at\\nCharleston, May 12, 1780.\\nCooley, Samuel, Surgeon, Fifth, April 16, 1776.\\nFergus, James, Surgeon, First, May 24, 1776; resigned\\nApril, 1777; also called John; spelled as Forgus, he\\nappears as Surgeon s Mate, Tenth, February 21, 1782;\\nSurgeon, August 20, 1782.\\nGeikee, James, Surgeon, First, December, 1775 re-\\nsigned May, 1776.\\nGreen, James W., Surgeon s Mate, Tenth, June 10, 1778;\\nSurgeon, December 7, 1779; prisoner at Charleston, May\\n12, 1780; exchanged June 14, 1781 in First in 1782.\\nHall, Robert, Surgeon, Third, April 17, 1776.\\nHailing, Solomon, Surgeon,", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "74 REGISTER OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICERS.\\nHamilton, Hanse, Surgeon, Seventh, April, 1777.\\nHelmburg, Frederick, Surgeon, First, March 13, 1778.\\nJohnston, Lancelot, Surgeon, Ninth, December 22, 1776.\\nLoomis, Jonathan, Surgeon, Eighth, November 26, 1776;\\nprisoner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June 14,\\n1781 in Third in 1782.\\nLove, David, Surgeon, North Carolina brigade, August\\n18, 1779, to August I, 1781.\\nMcClure, William, Surgeon, Sixth, April 17, 1776; pris-\\noner at Charleston, May 12, 1780; exchanged June, 1781\\nin Second in 1782.\\nParton, William, Surgeon, Second, September i, 1775.\\nRidley, William, Surgeon, Third, April 21, 1777.\\nUsher, William, Surgeon, Third, December 4, 1776; and\\nof Fourth, April 24, 1777.\\nWilson, Robert, Surgeon, Sixth, June 8, 1776.\\nBlackley, Ebenezer, Surgeon s Mate, Tenth, 1778.\\nBull, Thomas, Surgeon s Mate, Tenth, 1782.\\nMcLane (also McClaine and Maclaine), William, Sur-\\ngeon s Mate, Tenth, January i, 1783 died October 25, 1828.\\nMoore, William, Surgeon s Mate, Tenth, January 19, 1778.\\nCHAPLAINS.\\nAtkin, James, Chaplain, Fourth, April 5, 1777.\\nBoyd, Adam, Ensign, First, January 4, 1776; Second\\nLieutenant, March 3, 1776; resigned May, 1776; Chaplain,\\nSecond, October i, 1777; Brigade Chaplain, August 18,\\n1778, to June I, 1778; died 1800.\\nFoard, Hezekiah, Chaplain, Fifth, April 20, 1777.\\nTate, James, Q^xd. ^Xzm, First, October 13, 1775; Brigade\\nChaplain, June i, 1778.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "H K\\na a", "height": "3498", "width": "2158", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "A SKETCH\\nOF THE\\nNORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY\\nOF THE\\nCINCINNATI.\\n75", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nIn the following sketch the author does not pretend to\\noriginality. The nature of the subject renders it impossible.\\nThe history of the causes which led to the formation, as\\nwell as the institution itself, of the Society of the Cincinnati\\nhas been frequently written by abler pens than his, while\\nthe brief record of the North Carolina State Society has\\nbeen already narrated by one who was a sincere lover of\\nboth the Order and the old North State, Professor\\nEdward Graham Daves. For years it had been his earnest\\nwish and constant endeavor, as the grandson and represen-\\ntative of Major John Daves, one of the original members\\nof the North Carolina Society and himself an honored\\nmember of the Maryland Cincinnati, that the Society in his\\nnative State should be revived. But death terminated his\\nlabors ere their completion. His brother, Major Graham\\nDaves, of New Bern, has nobly taken up the task as far as\\npossible where it was relinquished, and it is sincerely hoped\\nmay yet, with others, be enabled to carry on the patriotic\\nwork to its full conclusion.\\nWith an earnest wish of assistance, the undersigned has\\ntherefore only endeavored, at the risk of repetition, to aid\\n77", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "^8 PREFACE.\\nin such good work by narrating, for convenience, in com-\\nbined form the brief history and record of this association\\nof patriots as already written by those who have preceded\\nhim. To these latter-named, rather than to the present\\nwriter, is the credit due for the preservation and rescue from\\noblivion of the following data,\\nH. H. Bellas.\\nOctober 31, 1895.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "A SKETCH\\nNORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.\\nBy HENRY HOBART BELLAS, LL.B.,\\nCAPTAIN U. S. ARMY.\\nOne hundred and twelve\\nyears ago was one of the most\\ncritical, by reason of its being\\none of the most uncertain\\nperiods in our country s early\\ncareer. It is true, the war of\\nthe Revolution had ended but\\nwith so much doubt and dis-\\ntrust prevailing everywhere\\nboth in the rank and file of\\nthe American army as well as\\nin all branches of civil life\\ncoupled with the exhausted\\ncondition of the nation and its\\nfinances; the situation ahead was one to daunt even a\\npatriot Washington.\\nWith that sense of possible coming danger, both to them-\\nselves and their beloved country for which they had fought\\n79", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "8o SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nand suffered eight long years, the officers of the American\\narmy, both to perpetuate the friendships they had formed\\nin the past under the pressure of a common danger, as well\\nas to aid each other in the future by substantial acts of\\nbeneficence, and to promote and cherish that union and\\nhonor between the States so vitally necessary for the pres-\\nervation of the new government, united themselves, before\\ntheir final disbandment, into a Society of Friends styled\\nThe Cincinnati, to endure as long as they shall endure, or\\nany of their male posterity, and in failure thereof, the col-\\nlateral branches who may be judged worthy of becoming\\nits supporters.\\nIt was the final embodiment of an idea originally con-\\nceived, it is authoritatively stated, as early as the winter of\\n1778, nearly five years before the termination of the war,\\nand announced then for the first time before Washington\\nand his brother-officers in a discourse by the Reverend\\nWilliam Smith, D.D., Provost of the College and Academy\\nof Philadelphia, from the pulpit of old Christ Church, in that\\ncity,t afterwards endorsed by Baron von Steuben and other\\nSee original Institution of the Cincinnati.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2j- On the feast of St. John the Evangelist s Day, December 28, 1778, the\\ncelebrated Dr. William Smith, at a service held in this church, at which the\\nCommander-in-Chief of our armies was present, referred to him as the Cin-\\ncinnatus of America, voicing then and there for the first time in public, it is\\nbelieved, the idea that nearly five years later took shape in the organization of\\nthe Society of the Cincinnati. See discourse by Rt. Rev. Wm, Stevens Perry,\\nD.D., LL.D., D.C.L., in Christ Church, Philadelphia, February 21, 1892.\\nIt has, however, it is but fair to state, been held by a recent authority that\\nthis reference was but an historical parallel between Washington and his\\nRoman predecessor in the relinquishment of domestic duties at the call of their", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "^^i/rtk^/- J^ai^^-i^\\n1732-1785-", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 8 1\\nleading officers of the American army, and the plan of final\\norganization drawn by General Knox and others at the\\nclose of the war.\\nOne of those to sign the original Institution as drafted\\nby the officers named was Major-General Robert Howe,*\\nof Brunswick County, of the State of North Carolina, and\\nwhose name appears among the first of the signatures to\\nthe instrument. The Society, first formed in cantonment\\nat Newburg, on the banks of the Hudson River, in May,\\n1783, and perfected during the following month, was grad-\\nually extended during the same year through the different\\nStates to the southward, in accordance with the recom-\\nmendation made at the formation of the Society, and by\\nthe close of the year Societies were in existence in all of the\\nthirteen States.\\ncountry, rather than enunciating the idea of the formation of a yet inchoate\\nSociety by those who at the close of the war followed the example of Cincin-\\nnatus by retirement to their private citizenship after the deliverance of their\\ncountry.\\nGeneral Robert Howe was born in Brunswick County, North Carolina, in\\n1732, and died there, November 12, 1785. Returning from England in 1766,\\nhe was appointed captain under commission of Governor Tiyon, and baron of\\nthe exchequer. He was a member of the Assembly in 1772-73, delegate to\\nColonial Congress of 1774, and chairman of committee to which the speech of\\nthe loyal Governor Martin was referred. His services in the Revolution are\\na matter of well-known history. He was one of the most uncompromising of\\nthe patriots of the Cape Fear region, for we find him honored by being ex-\\ncepted from the offer of pardon to the rebels by Sir Henry Clinton in\\n1776. He served to the close of the war, and was afterwards (1785) appointed\\nby Congress to treat with the western Indians. On his return to North Caro-\\nlina he was received with public honors and elected to the Legislature, but\\ndied soon after,\\n6", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "82 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nThe North Carolina Society was one of the last to take\\ndefinite shape, being organized at Hillsborough, in that\\nState, in the latter part of the month of October, with\\nBrigadier-General Jethro Sumner,* of Warren County, as\\nits first president, and Reverend Adam Boyd,t of Wilming-\\nton, as secretary, with sixty-one members, or (as we find\\nby comparison) over one-half of the entire number of offi-\\ncers of the late war who continued to the end thereof or\\nwere deranged by Acts of Congress.\\nThere is probably no military or other Order which\\nGeneral Sumner was a native of Virginia, and as early as 1760 was ap-\\npointed a pajmiaster in the provincial forces of that State and commander of\\nFort Cumberland. In 1776 he resided in North Carolina, was appointed colo-\\nnel of a regiment of Continental troops, and joined the Northern army, under\\nthe command of Washington. He was promoted brigadier-general in 1779,\\nand served under Gates and Greene in the Southern campaign. He died in\\nWarren County, North Carolina, 1785, and was buried near old Shocco Chapel\\nand Bute Court-House. The following inscription is upon his tombstone\\nTo the memory of General Jethro Sumner, one of the heroes of 76.\\n(See Wheeler s History of North Carolina, p. 425.)\\nGeneral Sumner s sword is deposited in the Tennessee Historical Society at\\nNashville.\\nf Rev. Adam Boyd was an ardent patriot from the beginning of the Revo-\\nlution, and was an active member of the Wilmington (North Carolina) Com-\\nmittee of Safety. He established and published the Cape Fear Mercury in\\nOctober, 1767. This was the paper that printed the celebrated Mecklenburg\\nDeclaration of Independence of May 20, 1775, and caused the royal Governor\\nof North Carolina (Governor Martin) to issue his proclamation of August 8,\\n1775, against the most infamous publication. See North Carolina Uni-\\nversity Magazine, May, 1895. Chaplain Boyd removed to Natchez, Mississippi,\\nabout 1787, where he died in 1800.\\nSee Washington Correspondence, Archives of Department of State,\\nWashington, D. C, Book llS.pp. 142^, 143.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 83\\noriginated in more historic surroundings or with more\\npatriotic purposes. Created to strengthen and perpetuate\\nthe ties formed in service on many a field of battle for their\\ncountry s cause, as well as to provide a fund for the in-\\ndigent and needy in after years, not only among themselves,\\nbut for their widows and orphans its very disinterestedness\\nand honesty of intention served, as has so often since been\\nthe case in the history of our country, to excite all the poHti-\\ncal passion, bitter hostility, and calumny of demagogism\\nwhich at that period swept the land. The very insignia of\\nthe Order a golden eagle, emblematic of their country,\\ntogether with their modest motto, Omnia relinquit servare\\nrempublicam, as an evidence of their self-denial, were cited\\nby those hostile to the Society as proofs of the danger to\\nthe new government from these self-created aristocrats,\\nas they were styled by their enemies. The principle of pri-\\nmogeniture was probably the most obnoxious of all the\\nfeatures of the Society to the people at large.\\nThe disbandment of the armies, both in the North and\\nSouth, and the consequent scattering of the officers belong-\\ning to the same, necessitated the division of the Society into\\nState Meetings for each State, which were to be held an-\\nnually, while the general body, comprising its general offi-\\ncers and delegates from each State, met triennially for\\nconsultation.*\\nGeneral John Cochrane, President of the New York State Society of the\\nCincinnati, has in a recent publication shown very clearly the difference be-\\ntween the original powers of the State Societies and the (so-styled) General\\nSociety, as well as proving conclusively that the former really constitute the\\nSociety of the Cincinnati, in accordance with the intention of the original In-", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "84 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nEach officer contributed one month s pay* to the forma-\\ntion of a permanent fund in each State Society, the interest\\nalone of which was available for the purposes already\\nindicated.\\nClaim to membership in the Society originally belonged\\nonly to all the officers of the American army, as well\\nthose who have resigned with honor after three years ser-\\nvice in the capacity of officers, or who have been deranged by\\nthe resolutions of Congress, upon the several reforms of the\\nArmy, as those who shall have continued to the end of the\\nwar, and as a testimony of affection to the memory\\nand the offspring of such officers as have died in the service,\\ntheir eldest male branches shall have the same right of be-\\ncoming members as the children of the actual members of\\nthe Society. Honorary members, eminent for their abilities\\nand patriotism, were also provided for in the different State\\nSocieties, in a ratio not exceeding one to every four heredi-\\ntary members. Officers who had served in the Continental\\nnavy, as well as such officers of State Troops (not Militia)\\nas had served in time and manner indicated, were afterwards\\nstitution, rather than the triennial General Meeting of the representatives\\nfrom the State Societies, as has been claimed. See second letter of General\\nJohn Cochrane to the New York Cincinnati, 1895.\\nThis month s pay was estimated as follows: Army: Major-Generals,\\n|i8o and ;S5l66, respectively. Brigadier-Generals, ^125. Colonels and Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonels commanding Artillery, ^100; Cavalry, $93.67 Infantry, ^^7 5.\\nLieutenant-Colonels, $60. Majors, Artillery and Cavalry, $62.45 Infantry,\\n$50. Captains, Artillery and Cavalry, $50 Infantry, $40. Captain-Lieu-\\ntenants and Lieutenants, Artillery, $33.30 Infantry, $26.60. Chaplains, $75.\\nSurgeons, $59. Surgeons Mates, $46. [With some variations.]\\nNavy Captains, $60. Lieutenants, $30.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 85\\nrecognized by resolution of the General Society, in its first\\nmeeting, as also eligible to membership in the Society.*\\nSuch were the principal characteristics of the Society of\\nthe Cincinnati as originally organized. At this day and in\\nthis generation it is difficult, if not impossible, for us to\\nrealize the hostility it aroused in the minds of the hostile,\\nthe evil-disposed, and the ignorant. Forgetful altogether of\\nthe character and the services of the men composing the\\nOrder, the very men who had saved the nation and created\\na new government, and who, of all others, should have been\\nfree from suspicion or criticism, a bitter attack was made\\nupon it in almost every State in the Union an attack led,\\nas is always the case, by those who for personal motives or\\nfor political gain hoped to reap advantage thereby.\\nFew occurrences of so little comparative importance\\nhave ever given rise to so much excitement as the establish-\\nment of the Cincinnati, says Johnson in his life of pen-\\neral Greene.f The hereditary principle and the badge,\\nthe alleged mimicry of royal orders, were the avowed object\\nof the attack but there can be but little doubt that the\\nexcluding rule, which shut all the rest of the world out of\\nthe Society, except commissioned officers of the United\\nStates, was the real object of offence. The exclusive\\nprinciple was the great ground of complaint. That the\\nhereditary principle or even the bauble at the button-hole\\nwere not the real cause of alarm, has since been satisfactorily\\nSee Proceedings of General Society of the Cincinnati, Philadelphia, 1784.\\nI Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Major-General Nathaniel\\nGreene, by William Johnson, Charleston, S. C, 1822, vol. ii., pp. 409-11.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "86 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nestablished, for the one was never relinquished (as sug-\\ngested), and the other has been silently resumed without\\ngiving any alarm or doing the least sensible injury.\\nThe people have since had the good sense to find out\\nthat they have the same right to form Societies and exclude,\\nif they will, the Cincinnati from them aye, and to wear\\nbadges and assert the honors of hereditary perpetuation, and\\nthey now bestow an unfeigned tribute of respect on the\\nhoary heads of the few venerable survivors of the Revolu-\\ntionary officers. When they shall have passed away, it is\\neasy to foresee what will be the fate of the Society.\\nThe writer himself believed it was an injudicious and\\ninjurious measure calculated to offend the popular side\\nAnd Moore, in his History of North Carolina, states that\\nin the grave and important issues before the people of the\\nState, there was unfortunately a struggle evolved between\\nthe lawyers and those who had filled important military\\ncommands in the army. There were, as a general rule,\\nstrenuous efforts made against the return of the Tories, and\\nthat popular prejudice was used as a lever to oust the influ-\\nence of some who had largely directed public opinion\\nduring the war.f The organization of the Society of the\\nSketches of the Life and Correspondence of Major-General Nathaniel\\nGreene, by William Johnson, S. C, 1822, vol. ii., p. 411.\\nf Surgeon James Tilton, President of the Delaware State Society of the Cin-\\ncinnati, had stated in the General Meeting of the Society in 1784, in response\\nto the request of Washington, the President-General, to declare the ideas\\nprevalent in the respective States regarding the Institution, that the prin-\\ncipal and indeed the only enemies of the Cincinnati in his State (Delaware)\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0were among the class of people denominated Tories. See Proceedings", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "GRIFFITH JOHN McREE.\\n1758-1801.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 8/\\nCincinnati by the late officers was viewed by many with\\ndistrust as to its aims. The Federal distresses were\\nincessant and increasing. To the wise and good men of\\nthat day, the future was full of painful uncertainty. The\\ngrand opportunities of America, seemed to be fading from\\nthe possibility of achievement by reason of divided councils,\\nignoble jealousies, and the insane selfishness of the in-\\ndividual States. Suspicion and detraction poisoned the\\npublic mind with unceasing calumnies. The Order of the\\nCincinnati was at best only a social brotherhood, but was\\ndenounced as a conspiracy against the people s liberties, and\\nthe very authors of American liberty were held up to scorn,\\nas conspirators against the best interests of the nation.\\nThe Patriotic Society was a rival organization which\\nsprung up in that day and became in effect greatly similar\\nto the movement under Governor Tryon, known as the\\nRegulation.\\nIn North Carolina but httle permanent interest was taken\\nin either of these organizations, which were soon to sink\\nfrom public observation. f\\nWashington, in order to placate the democratic opposi-\\ntion then prevalent, suggested at the first General Meeting\\nof the Society in 1784 that the original Institution be\\nof General Society in Winthrop Sargent s Journal of Cincinnati General\\nMeeting, 1784. Penna. Hist. Soc. Pub., vol. vi., p. 80.\\nFor account of the Patriotic Society Constitution, see History Dela-\\nware State Society of Cincinnati, by Captain H. H. Bellas, Wilmington,\\nDelaware, 1895 Delaware Historical Society s Publications, No. xiii., pp.\\n34, 35)-\\nt See Moore s History North Carolina, pp. 357-369.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "88 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\namended by abolishing the principle of hereditary succes-\\nsion that all interference with political subjects should be\\ndone away, and that the funds should be placed under the\\nimmediate cognizance of the several State legislatures, who\\nshould also be requested to grant charters for more effect-\\nually carrying our humane designs into execution.\\nHappily, these proposed amendments to the Institution\\nas originally adopted, were never fully carried out by all\\nthe States, and the principle of hereditary succession still\\nremains in full force to-day.f\\nIn an official letter to General Knox, the Secretary-\\nGeneral, from the Rev. Adam Boyd, Secretary of the North\\nCarolina Society, and dated Wilmington, North Carolina,\\nDecember 29, 1783, announcement is made of the formation\\nof the North Carolina State organization. A similar letter\\nby General Jethro Sumner (the President) to Major-General\\nBaron de Steuben, dated Halifax, North Carolina, October\\n28, 1783, together with one of the same date by the Secre-\\ntary, is also on file with the former letter in the archives of\\nthe General Society.^\\nAs these are the earliest appearing evidences of the\\nexistence of this honored Society in the old North State,\\nit may be of interest as well as value to give their contents\\nentire. General Sumner s letter, being of the earlier date\\nof the two, is first given, and is as follows\\nSee Circular Letter of General Society in Proceedings of General Meeting\\nof the Cincinnati, Philadelphia, 1784.\\nf See Report of Committee on Institution, Proceedings of General So-\\nciety of Cincinnati, Philadelphia, 1800.\\nSee Proceedings of General Society of Cincinnati, Philadelphia, 1784.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 89\\nHalifax, N. Carolina, 28th. October, 1783.\\nSir At the request of the officers of the Line of this State, I do myself\\nthe honour to return you their thanks my own for your favour, covering a\\nletter from his Excellency the Chevalier De la Luzerne, and other papers.\\nThe officers being highly pleased with the Institution, will most chearfuUy\\nconcur in any measures that shall be adopted for promoting its benevolent\\ndesigns. Not to support such an Institution betrays, in their opinion, a want\\nof public virtue.\\nIt appears to be the sense of the Societies to the Southward, that the first\\ngeneral meeting should be held at Fredericksburg, in Virginia.* That place,\\nThe suggestion in both this and the following letter of the Secretary of the\\nSociety that the first general meeting should be held in Fredericksburg, Vir-\\nginia, did not evidently meet the approval of the President-General, as appears\\nfrom a letter from him to General Sumner in the beginning of the following\\nyear. This letter, the original of which has been presented by the Honorable\\nDavid Schenck to the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association of North\\nCarolina, reads as follows\\nMount Vernon, Jany 5th, 1784.\\nSir After taking all the various circumstances into mature consideration,\\nI have thought proper to appoint the City of Philadelphia to be the place for\\nthe general meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati on the first Monday in\\nMay next, agreeably to the original Institution. The object of this letter is to\\ncommunicate timely information thereof, that proper notice may be given\\nto the Delegates of your State Society, whose punctual attendance will be\\nexpected at the time and place before mentioned.\\nHaving made this communication, I have only to suggest that it may\\nperhaps be preferable to give the necessary notice to your Delegates by letter\\nrather than by a public notification; I would, however wish that whatever\\nmode is adopted, measures may be taken to prevent a possibility of failure in\\nthe communication. j\\nSir\\nYour Ob t Hum. Serv t,\\nGo. Washington.\\nP. S. Be pleased to acknowledge the receipt of this letter.\\nBrigadier General Simmer,\\nNorth Carolina.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "90 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nit is tho t, is nearly centrical, and most convenient for the President-General.\\nThe compliance of the Northern Societies in this, will give us very great\\npleasure.\\nI shall always be extremely glad to hear from to correspond with you,\\nand have the honour to be, with great respect,\\nYour most obedient very humble servant,\\nJ^i /k^^f^iu/rhf 0^\u00c2\u00a3/jh^\\nBrig- Gen I and President,\\nHon. Major-General Baron De Steuben.\\nThe Secretary s letter, the first mentioned, is to the\\nfollowing effect\\nWilmington, Cape Fear, 29th. Dec r., 1783.\\nSir:\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nIn October a few officers of this State met at Hillsborough laid the\\nfoundation of a society upon the plan of the Cincinnati. Among other things\\nthey resolved that the president should acquaint the Secretary-General with\\ntheir desire, that the first general meeting should be held at Fredericksburg,\\nin Virginia. That place is tho t to be nearly centrical and more convenient\\nthan any other for the President-General. This last was most decisive with\\nthem.\\nThe president having been obliged to go home before any letters could\\nhave been written, I was desired to write to you on the subject. This I did\\nupon the spot, gave my letter to a gentleman coming directly here. Since\\nmy return to this place I find that letter was lost, and not knowing that Gen-\\neral Sumner has had an opportunity of conveying one to you, I again address\\nyou, lest the wishes of the N. Carolina Society should not reach you in proper\\ntime, and I should incur their censure, tho very undeservedly.\\nA pamphlet said to be the production of a judge Burke in So. Carolina,\\nhas created opponents to the Cincinnati. It has been in this town, but I have\\nnot yet got a sight of it. His objections, I am told, are founded upon a sur-\\nmise that the Cincinnati mean to establish a numerous peerage in direct con-", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 9 1\\ntradiction to the federal union of the States. This he has tortured out of the\\nhereditary succession. The whole appears to me altogether chimerical\\nbut there are swarms of Butterfly- statesmen patriots, who flutter and strutt\\nin the sunshine of safety peace. These things affect to be lynx-eyed, and\\nhowever groundless their cries may be, yet being generally of a popular tone,\\nthey are received as proofs from holy writ.\\nTerrible things have been threatened against us, I do expect our As-\\nsembly, in their April sessions, will be moved to suppress the Society. At\\nthat time we have a meeting, and if you can furnish anything to strengthen\\nour hands, you will render us a very acceptable service.\\nAs our President lives near 200 miles from a sea- port town or post-office,\\nletters for him had better be sent here. I am about to change my place of\\nresidence, but if I do leave this, our vice-president (General Clark) and sev-\\neral officers will be here take care of such letters.\\nI have the honour to be, with much respect,\\nYour very humble and most obedient servant,\\nSec y.\\nP. S. I would most gladly correspond with the secretary of your State\\nSociety. If you will please tell him so, you will do me a favour. My\\naddress is Rev d A. B., Wilmington, Cape Fear. This is the South part of\\nNo. Carolina, vessels from Boston often come here. If I remove, my\\naddress will not be changed.\\nHonourable General Knox.\\nNo list of members is given, as transmitted with either of\\nthe foregoing letters, and the list furnished by the Secretary\\nto the Maryland Society, over a year later, is, he states, still\\nincomplete.* The complete roll, however, at this time, taken\\nfrom the records in the possession of the General Society,\\nand arranged according to rank, appears as follows\\nSee letter to General Otho H. Williams, of May 20, 1785, page 95.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "92 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nMajor-General Robert Howe.\\nBrigadier-General Jethro Sumner.\\nColonel and Brevet Brigadier-General Thomas Clark.\\nColonel Archibald Lytle.\\nLieutenant-Colonel John Baptista Ashe.\\nLieutenant-Colonel Hardee Murfree.\\nMajor and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Hogg.\\nMAJORS.\\nGriffith John McRee. Reading Blount.\\nGeorge Doherty. William Polk.\\nCAPTAIN AND BREVET MAJORS.\\nThomas Armstrong. Kedar Ballard.\\nBenjamin Coleman. Robert Fenner.\\nClement Hall. Robert Raiford.\\nJames Read. Joseph T. Rhodes.\\nAnthony Sharpe. Howell Tatum.\\nCAPTAINS.\\nSamuel Ashe, Jr. Peter Bacot.\\nGee Bradley. Alexander Brevard.\\nThomas Callender. v.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Daves.\\nSamuel Denny. Joshua Hadley.\\nWilliam Lytle. Joseph Montfort.\\nJohn Slaughter. William Williams.\\nEdward Yarborough.\\nLIEUTENANT AND BREVET CAPTAIN.\\nJames Campen.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 93\\nLIEUTENANTS.\\nWilliam Alexander. Robert Bell.\\nJoseph Brevard. William Bush.\\nJohn Campbell. Thomas Clarke.\\nWynne Dixon. Richard Fenner.\\nThomas Finney. John Ford.\\nCharles Gerard. Francis Graves.\\nRobert Hayes. John Hill.\\nHardy Holmes. Curtis Ivey.\\nAbner Lamb. James Moore.\\nThomas Pasteur. William Saunders.\\nJesse Steed.\\nCornet James McDougall.\\nDeputy Paymaster-General Jacob Blount.\\nSurgeon s Mate James Fergus.\\nSurgeon s Mate William McLane.\\nBrigade Chaplain Reverend Adam Boyd.\\nBut while the officers of the North Carolina regiments\\nwere, on the authority of General Sumner, highly pleased\\nwith the Institution and most cheerfully concurred in any\\nmeasures that should be adopted for promoting its benevo-\\nlent designs, the Society met in this, as in other States, with\\ndecided opposition from the Legislature. At a meeting of\\nthe Society held in Fayetteville on July 4, 1784, the Secre-\\ntary was ordered to address a circular letter to the other\\nState societies. This communication shows the attitude of\\nthe State Assembly towards the organization, as well as re-\\nporting the action of the Society on the amendments which\\nhad been proposed to the Institution to disarm hostility, at", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "94 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nthe first General Meeting in Philadelphia, in May of that\\nyear, and already alluded to.\\nThe letter is on file in the archives of both the Maryland\\nand Massachusetts Cincinnati Societies\\nCape Fear, No. Carolina, loth Jan y, 1785.\\nSir\\nI am ordered by the Cincinnati of this State to acquaint you that, in con-\\nsequence of a former adjournment, we had a meeting at Fayette Ville on the\\n4th of July (1784), when the circular letter, with the Institution as altered and\\namended, was read and highly approved.\\nThe meeting then proceeded to frame their bye-Laws and to make such\\nregulations as they tho t might promote the friendly and benevolent intentions\\nof the Society.\\nWe had hopes that the Assembly would take our funds under their direc-\\ntion and aid the general design but tho the ablest members of both Houses\\nwere on our side, yet the majority was against us.\\nWaiting the event of this application, I deferred writing and am truly\\nsorry I cannot give a more agreeable account of it. Yet this disappointment\\nwill not affect the zeal of our members, and we flatter ourselves the opposition\\nwill soon die.\\nIt is the earnest wish of this meeting to hold correspondence with the dif-\\nferent State meetings. This, it is tho t, might be of general advantage and\\ncontribute to that harmony which is the soul of the Society.\\nI am with much respect,\\nYr. most obedient servant,\\nAdam Boyd, Sec.\\nSecretary to the Cincinnati in Maryland.\\nThese by-laws, together with an incomplete roll of the\\nJ names of the mem-\\nCLif^ bers of the Society,\\n_ were inclosed in a\\nsecond letter a few\\nmonths later (dated May 20, 1785), addressed to General\\nOtho H. Williams, of the Maryland Cincinnati.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 95\\nThe letter reads as follows\\nNew Berne, No. Carolina, 20th. May, 1785.\\nSir In obedience to orders, you will herewith receive a copy of the\\nbye- laws of this State meeting; and I was likewise ordered to send a copy of\\nthe Institution, with the names of our members, on parchment. But the gen-\\ntleman appointed for that purpose has not sent me the parchment, neither is\\nthe roll of names by any means compleat. At our annual meeting I hope\\nthese and some other things will be better regulated.\\nI beg, Sir, you will excuse the liberty I have taken in troubling you with\\nthe enclosed letters. My reason for taking it was, I knew not the name of an\\nofficer near a sea-port in your State or Virginia, whither I beg the sealed one\\nmay be sent. It is a transcript of that designed for the Secretary of the\\nMaryland meeting.\\nI have the honor to be, with the utmost respect,\\nYour obedient and most humble servant,\\nAdam Boyd.\\nHonblb Genl. Williams, Maryland,\\nThe by-laws enclosed number seventeen articles and are\\nof the usual nature of rules for the government of such an\\norganization. One rule (the fourth) was particularly worthy\\nof imitation, however, providing that copies of all letters and\\nessays should be recorded by the Secretary, the originals of\\nwhich must likewise be filed. All proceedings of the So-\\nciety were directed to be kept in duplicate^ one of the books\\nof record being kept by the Secretary and the other lodged\\nwith the President, being carefully revised and compared\\nwith each other at every meeting, to prevent error,*\\nBut how fruitless even all these precautions were for the\\npreservation of the history of this patriotic organization, we\\nshall see later on.\\nSee post, pages 97, 98.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "96 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nThe Society was represented, it would appear, at the\\nmeetings of the General Society but three times in 1784,\\n1787, and 1790. The delegates to the first General Meeting\\nwere Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Lytle, Major Reading\\nBlount, and Major Griffith John McRee. They were\\nelected at a meeting of the State society held at Hills-\\nborough in the month previous (April), and their certificate\\nof appointment, which is still preserved, has been stated\\nerroneously, however to be the only known evidence in\\nexistence that there was a Society of the Cincinnati in\\nNorth Carolina.\\nThe certificate is as follows\\nNorth Carolina, Hillsborough, April 18, 1784.\\nLieutenant-Colonel Com t. Lytle, Major Blount and Major McRee are\\ndelegated to represent the State Society of the Cincinnati in the general con-\\nvention to be held in Philadelphia on the first Monday in May next.\\nAttested Jethro Sumner, Pres t.\\nC. IvEY, Stc y pro tem?^\\nOf the three above-named delegates. Majors Blount and\\nMcRee attended the meeting of the General Society, the\\npublished proceedings of which show that the first-named\\nofficer was one of a committee appointed to amend and\\nrevise the Institution of the Society.f This proposed\\nMajor Reading Blount was born circa l756- 8, and died October 13, 1807,\\nHe was a son of Jacob Blount, member of the provincial assemblies of\\n1 75 5- 6, and descended from Thomas Blount, of Edgecombe County, N. C,\\nand Elizabeth Reading, his wife. Major Blount had several brothers,\\nWilliam, Thomas, and John Gray, all distinguished in political life after the\\nRevolution in North Carolina and Tennessee. For history of the Blount\\nfamily, see Wheeler s Reminiscences and Memoirs, pp. i30- i.\\n-j- See Proceedings of General Society of Cincinnati, Philadelphia, 1 784.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 97\\namended constitution was, as is well known, never carried\\ninto effect, failing of ratification by a majority of the differ-\\nent State societies North Carolina, however, being one of\\nthe States which did so approve it.\\nThe place of meeting of the Society on July 4, 1785,\\nappears to have been again at Fayetteville, at which meeting\\nthe rules and regulations for governing the State meeting\\nwere again reported, evidently revised and completed.\\nAs these by-laws may be of interest to members of the\\nCincinnati or their descendants to-day, not only in North\\nCarolina, but elsewhere, we present them entire, at the risk\\nof tediousness.\\nFayetteville, North Carolina, July nth, 1785.\\nRules and Regulations for Governing this State Meeting.\\nI. The first business of the anniversary meeting shall be the election of a\\nPresident, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and a representation to the\\nSociety for the ensuing year. Three members shall be appointed Judges of\\nthe election, and any two of said Judges agreeing, shall declare those having\\na majority duly elected; and in case of an equality of ballots, the decision\\nshall be by lot.\\nII. All elections shall be by ballot.\\nIII. The President is, at all meetings, to regulate the decision of everything\\nthat may be proposed to state and put questions, agreeably to the sense and\\nintention of the members. He is also empowered whenever he shall think it\\nnecessary, to call an extraordinary meeting, on giving sixty days previous\\nnotice by circular letters to the members in each district, and in any occasional\\nabsence of the President and Vice-President, the members present shall\\nappoint to the chair one of their number, who, whilst there, shall possess all\\nthe power of a President.\\nIV. The Secretary shall take the minutes of the proceedings of each meet-\\ning and produce them, fairly transcribed in a book, to the next meeting. In\\nthis book shall also be entered all such letters and Essays addressed to them\\nor the Society as they may think worth recording, the Originals of which\\n7", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "98 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nmust likewise be filed and the more effectually to guard against accidents,\\nwhich may endanger the records, the proceedings shall be copied into two\\nbooks; for one of which the Secretary shall be answerable, and the other\\nshall be lodged with the President, and in Order to prevent errors, those books\\nof record shall be carefully revised and compared at every meeting.\\nV. The Treasurer shall receive the subscriptions and donations of members,\\nand others, agreeably to the Institution and under the direction of the meet-\\ning, shall manage their fund, and transact all their monied matters. He shall\\nalso lay before every annual meeting, a true state of the stock, interest, and\\nother monies belonging to them, and disbursements made by their Orders and\\nhe shall deliver to his successor the books and all papers belonging to his\\nOffice, together with all monies remaining in his hands. And for the faithful\\ndischarge of his trust, the said Treasurer, before he enters on the Duties of\\nhis Office, shall give bond and security to the President and Vice-President, on\\nbehalf of the meeting, in the sum of five thousand pounds.\\nVI. At every annual meeting any number of members shall be competent\\nto the business of the meeting, consistant with the rules of the Society.\\nVII. The transactions of extraordinary meetings shall be binding, until the\\nnext annual meeting, which shall have the power to confirm or abolish their\\nproceedings.\\nVIII. In conducting the business of the meeting, no question shall be put\\non a motion, unless it be seconded. When any member speaks, he shall ad-\\ndress himself to the Chair; and no member without permission shall speak\\nmore than twice on the same subject.\\nIX. No part of the Interest arising from the principal fund, and other\\nmonies in the disposal of the meeting, shall be ordered in payment for chari-\\ntable or other purposes, without the consent of two-thirds of the members\\npresent. Each member shall report to the annual meeting such objects of\\ncharity as may come within his notice and agreeably to circumstances, the\\nmeeting shall grant orders for such sums of money as shall be judged neces-\\nsary, and consistant with the state of finances.\\nX. It shall be the duty of any member elected to an Office in the meeting\\nor Society, to Officiate agreeably to the appointment.\\nXI. All questions which are not determined by some express Rule, shall\\nbe decided by the Voice of a majority of the members present.\\nXII. Any member who shall fail to attend the aimual meeting, shall pay", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 99\\nto the Treasurer the sum of five pounds currency, for the use of the meeting,\\nunless his excuse be admitted by a majority of members present.\\nXIII. The expence of deligation to the Society, and all other necessary\\nexpenditures, shall be an equal contribution of the members of the meeting.\\nXIV. No member shall absent himself without permission from the Ser-\\nvice of the meeting.\\nXV. No member shall be expelled the Society, but by consent of two-\\nthirds of the members present at the annual meeting.\\nXVI. Should the meeting be reduced to the disagreeable necessity of ex-\\npelling a member, the motive shall be entered at large on the minutes and\\nas soon as possible, notice shall be given to the Society by the President, who\\nshall also by circular letter inform the different meetings thereof, specifying his\\nname and situation, previous to his becoming a member.\\nXVII. These rules and regulations to be subject to any alterations or\\namendments at an annual meeting, two-thirds of the members agreeing\\nthereto.\\n(Copy.) Adam Boyd, Secy.\\nFor the following year (1786), the annual stated meeting\\nof the Society was held at Halifax agreeable to their ad-\\njournment from Fayetteville the preceding year. This\\nmeeting is the only one in the brief history of the Society,\\nof which any account exists, as far as known at present, in\\nthe newspapers of the day. A copy of the Pennsylvania\\nPacket and Daily Advertiser of August 12, 1786, preserved\\nin the archives of the New Jersey State Society, contains a\\nreport of the meeting of the North Carolina Society on\\nJuly 4th. Neither the names, however, of officers elected\\nnor of any members of the Society are mentioned.\\nThe account reads as follows\\nHalifax, N. Carolina, July 8th. (1786.)\\nThe State Meeting of the Cincinnati was held here on the 4th, agreeable\\nto their adjournment from Fayetteville the festivity of this auspicious day", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "lOO SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\ncommenced by a suitable discharge of artillery about li o clock. A large\\nnumber of gentlemen from the town and different parts of the State met the\\nSociety at Mr. Barkdale s tavern, where an elegant dinner was prepared by\\nthe direction of their stewards. After dinner the following toasts were drunk,\\naccompanied by separate discharges of cannon and animated with the most\\nrational mirth and patriotic enthusiasm\\n1. The Memorable 4th July, 1776,\\n2. The United States of America.\\n3. The late American Army and Navy.\\n4. The Fleet and Armies of France who have served in America,\\n5. His Most Christian Majesty.\\n6. His Excellency General Washington.\\n7. May America be grateful to her Patriotic Children\\n8. The Memory of the Brave Patriots who have fallen in defence of\\nAmerica.\\n9. May Virtue support what Courage has gained\\n10. The Vindicators of the Rights of Mankind in every quarter of the\\nGlobe.\\n1 1 May America be an Asylum to the Persecuted of the Earth\\n12. May a close Union of the States guard the Temple they have erected\\nto Liberty\\n13. May the Remembrance of this Day be a Lesson to Princes!\\nThe afternoon was spent in the utmost conviviality, enlivened with a num-\\nber of gay and political songs and toasts. In the evening the Society gave a\\nball, which was honoured with a numerous and splendid attendance of the\\nladies.\\nOn the decease of the President, General Sumner, in the\\nmonth of March of the preceding year (1785), Lieutenant-\\nColonel John Baptista Ashe,* of New Hanover County, had\\nLieutenant-Colonel John Baptista Ashe was the son of Samuel Ashe, Chief\\nJustice and Governor of North Carolina, and the nephew of General John Ashe,\\ndistinguished in the Revolution. Colonel John Baptista Ashe was bom in\\nRocky Point, North Carolina, 1748, and served continuously through the war,\\nespecially distinguishing himself at the battle of Eutaw. He was afterwards a", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "^cr^Cr^. fjojctul CCiAx^\\n1748-1S02.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. lOI\\nbeen chosen to fill the vacancy. Major Howell Tatum was\\nelected Secretary to succeed Rev. Adam Boyd a couple\\nof years later (1787), and Major Robert Fenner as Treasurer.\\nThis last-named officer was the sole representative of the\\nSociety at the second triennial meeting of the General\\nSociety at Philadelphia in the latter year, the other two\\ndelegates, Colonel William Polk* and Major Reading\\nBlount, failing to attend.f\\nAgain, at the third General Meeting of the Society in\\n1790, the only representative present from North Carolina\\nwas Colonel Benjamin Hawkins,J of Warren County. The\\nrecords of that meeting report him as acting on a committee\\nmember of the House of Commons of North Carolina (1786), and also of the\\nState Senate (1789 and 1795), a delegate to the last Continental Congress\\n(1787-88), and member of the First and Second Congress (1789-93). In 1802\\nhe was elected Governor of North Carolina, but died before his inauguration.\\nSee Memoir of Ashe family, note, page 5, of History North Carolina Troops\\nof the Continental Army, by Brevet Major Charles L. Davis, U.S.A.\\nLieutenant-Colonel William Polk, who was Major of the Ninth Regiment\\nof North Carolina Continental Infantry, was the son of Colonel Thomas Polk,\\nof Mecklenburg, North Carolina, and was bom in the county of Mecklenburg,\\n1759. He was present at the celebrated Convention held there in May, 1775.\\nEntering the army the following year, he served gallantly through the war,\\nbeing wounded at both Germantown and Eutaw. At the close he returned to\\nCharlotte, and in 1787 represented his county in the North Carolina Legislature.\\nHe afterwards removed to Raleigh, where he resided until his death, January\\n4, 1834. In 1812, President Madison offered him a brigadier-general s com-\\nmission, which he declined. Colonel Polk was not only the last surviving\\nmember of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati, but was also the last\\nsurviving field-officer of the North Carolina line in the Revolution.\\nf See Proceedings of General Society of Cincinnati, Philadelphia, 1787.\\nColonel Benjamin Hawkins was bom in Warren County, North Carolina,\\nAugust 15, 1754, and was a student in Princeton College, New Jersey, when", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "I02 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nappointed to prepare an address to General Washington,\\nthe President-General of the Society, congratulating him\\non being unanimously elected the head of our rising re-\\npublic, as well as informing him of his re-election as Presi-\\ndent of the Society for the ensuing three years. A circular-\\nletter was prepared by the same committee and forwarded\\nto the different State Societies on the situation and prospect\\nof the affairs of the United States.\\nAfter this last date no delegates from North Carolina\\nwere ever present at the General Meetings, nor, so far as is\\nnow known, were there any meetings of the State Society\\ncertainly there is no record of such, nor even of the exist-\\nence of the Society. No reference, with one exception, is\\never made to it in the report of the successive committees\\nappointed by the General Society to inquire into the\\npresent situation of the different State Societies, and to\\nurge those already dormant or dissolved to a renewal of\\ntheir intercourse with the General Society. The exception\\nalluded to was by the committee appointed to examine\\nthe Revolution began. His proficiency in French caused General Washington\\nto appoint him interpreter between the American and French officers on his\\nstaff. In 1780 he was commissioned to procure ammunition and arms in the\\nWest Indies. He was elected to Congress by the North Carolina Legislature\\nin 1782, and in 1785 was appointed to treat with the Cherokee and Creek\\nIndians. He was re-elected to Congress in 1786, and in 1789 became one of\\nthe first two United States Senators from North Carolina. He was appointed\\nin 1797 agent for superintending all Indians south of the Ohio. He tendered\\nhis resignation to each successive President from Washington to Madison, but\\nit was always refused. The city of Hawkinsville, Georgia, where he died June\\n6, 181 6, was named in his honor.\\nSee Proceedings of General Society of Cincinnati, Philadelphia, 1790.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. IO3\\ndocuments, etc., in the possession of officers of the Society,\\nwith a view to the publication of such facts as may be of\\ninterest, which, at the General Meeting in 1857, after report-\\ning that, with few exceptions, even the rolls of the several\\nState Societies have disappeared from the archives of the\\nGeneral Society, and such as remain are not wholly to be\\ndepended on as accurate, stated in regard to this particular\\nSociety under consideration as follows\\nVery diligent inquiry has been made for the North Carolina records, but\\nwithout avail and without encouragement to hope for final success.\\nThe finding of the papers of Major Tatum,t the last-\\nknown secretary of the Society, might throw some light on\\nthis and kindred matters regarding the length of its exist-\\nence and its proceedings.\\nWhen and under what circumstances did the Society\\nbecome dormant? for it cannot justly, from the nature of\\nits institution, be said to have ceased to exist,|\\nSee Proceedings of General Society of Cincinnati, Boston, Massachusetts,\\n1857.\\nf Major Howell Tatum subsequently removed to Tennessee was Treasurer\\nof the Western District of that State, 1794-96; Attorney-General of same,\\n1796-97; Supreme Court Judge, May 12, 1797, to September 20, 1798, and\\nwas afterwards {circa 1807) one of the Commissioners to adjust the land claims\\nbetween Tennessee and North Carolina. His descendants are residents of\\nTennessee to-day, families of the same name being found in Giles and other\\ncounties of the State.\\nIt is held by a reliable authority already cited General John Cochrane,\\nPresident of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati that a State So-\\nciety of the Cincinnati cannot be dissolved. By the original Institution it\\nwas to endure as long as we shall endure and is to be perpetuated in our\\ndescendants.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "104 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA\\nWhat became of its original fund, which, as has been\\nalready shown, the State Legislature refused to take charge\\nof on account of the jealousy of, and opposition to, the\\nSociety as a military Order with rules of primogeniture\\nHad it formally terminated its organization supposing\\nsuch action practicable there would certainly exist some\\nreport or record of its formal dissolution. The presumption\\nis that its members succumbed for the time being to the in-\\nevitable, from the fact of their scattered residences and diffi-\\nculty of meeting, as well as to the public hostility alluded\\nto. That the former reasons were not slight at any time is\\nseen from the recorded fact by the Secretary that the Presi-\\ndent of the Society resided near two hundred miles from a\\nsea-port town or post-office, so that letters for him had better\\nbe sent here.*\\nThere is doubtless much of both interest and value re-\\ngarding the Society lying hidden in the archives of the\\nother State Societies, and which it is hoped some diUgent\\nseeker may yet enable to see the light of day in the early\\nfuture.\\nIn the Washington correspondence in the State Depart-\\nment at Washington, and before alluded to, many valuable\\nrecords regarding the North Carolina regiments exist, and\\nit is possible some additional light might be gained from\\nthis source of events just subsequent to the Revolution, f\\nLetter of Rev. Adam Boyd, Secretary of the North Carolina Society, to\\nGeneral Knox, Secretary-General, dated Wilmington, December 29, 1783.\\nSee pages 90, 91.\\nf List of officers of the First North Carolina Continental battalion from its\\nfirst establishment, 1775-78; list of officers taken into the First battalion to", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. I05\\nA distinguished authority has reported that all the rolls\\nand records of the North Carolina regiments in the Revo-\\nlution were hopelessly lost. Yet here we find some very\\nvaluable lists in the possession still of the National Govern-\\nment; copies of the rolls of officers of ten other of the\\nState line regiments are in possession of the Missouri So-\\nciety of Sons of the Revolution,! and it is quite possible\\nstill others may yet with diligent research be discovered.\\nIt was stated in January, 1894, that there were then\\nliving in the State Hneal descendants of the original sixty-\\none members and of other Continental officers who are en-\\ntitled to membership, and it is the patriotic duty of these\\nmen to assert their hereditary claims.\\nAnd in such case, why should not the North Carolina\\nCincinnati Society claim its legitimate heritage of restored\\nmembership in the General body, and with those other\\nState Societies already there, revive and restore the prestige\\nof the patriotic men of the Revolution in the old North\\nState The descendants of those who fought and suffered\\nin field or camp, during that eventful era in the history of\\nour country, from Stony Point and Germantown to Eutaw\\ncomplete it, 1777-78; list of officers of the Second North Carolina battalion\\nsince 1777 list of officers of the late war, who continued to the end thereof,\\nor were deranged by act of Congress list of officers of Continental brigade of\\nBrigadier-General Jethro Sumner, 1782, etc. See Washington Correspond-\\nence, Book 115, pp. 142^-143.\\nHon. Walter Clark, Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.\\nf See also Appendix A, Schenck s North Carolina, 1780-81, Raleigh,\\nNorth Carolina, 1889.\\nJ The North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati, by E. G. Daves, North\\nCarolina University Magazine, January, 1894.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "I06 SKETCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY.\\nand Augusta, should be and certainly are worthy of their\\ndescent. It needs but a determined energy, with a firm\\nfaith in their cause, as had their ancestors before them, and\\nan earnest endeavor of compliance with the requirements of\\nthe General Society,* which should not be difficult of attain-\\nment on their part, to meet with that honorable recognition\\nwhich is their just due.\\nThat such success may speedily be the reward of these\\nefforts, is the earnest hope of the writer of these pages.\\n*See Proceedings of General Society of Cincinnati, Boston, Massachu-\\nsetts, 1872, and Charleston, South Carolina, 1881, in case of application for\\nreadmission by Rhode Island State Society.", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "READING BLOUNT.\\ni756- 8-i8o7.", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "c\\nJSJc-j,", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3508", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2039", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3560", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "briefhistoryofno00davis_0142.jp2"}}