Dobbs County NcArchives History - Letters .....Richard Caswell To Thomas Burke 1777
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Richard Caswell to Thomas Burke April 20, 1777 
  
Extract of a Letter from Governor Caswell to Mr. Burke, Member of Congress, 
dated 
  
Newbern 20 April 1777 
The General Assembly have been prevailed upon to appoint Abraham Sheppard who 
is just returned from his Command of The Volunteers in South Carolina, to the 
Command of a Regiment to be under Cont. Regulations, his officers to be 
recommended by himself. Neither them, nor the privates to draw pay until three 
hundred privates are recruited, which he has engaged to effect by the first of 
July and in that case, the officers are to be paid from their appointment and 
the men from the time of their Internments (?). 
Col. Sheppard was my Lieutenant Colonel at Alamance. He was with me at Moore's 
Creek and then had the Command of the Dobbs Militia, as he afterwards had at 
Cape Fear and….. 

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