Duplin-Sampson County NcArchives Military Records.....Newman, Edward Revwar North Carolina Continental Line ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donna Newman filberuthie@yahoo.com July 26, 2015, 2:42 am Revolutionary War Service Edward was a private with the North Carolina Continental Line. In the Register of the North Carolina Line he is shown with the 10th Regiment but, according to the North Carolina state archives, that register was compiled by federal clerks who erroneously assigned to the 10th Regiment some 30 companies that were actually with the other nine. The original muster and pay rolls were lost when Washington, D.C. was burned by the British in 1814. Edward was on the October 1781 to August 1783 pay roster for the Wilmington District militia, of which Duplin County was a part. Some of these ledgers were compiled during the war but most were compiled between 1788 and 1793 "to explain and detail North Carolina’s Revolutionary War expenditures when the state's military accounts with the Federal Government were being settled" [AIC, no. 1]. According to J.D. Lewis's NC Patriots, Edward Newman, aka Edward Newsom, was shown in Capt. James Mills's Co. of the 1st North Carolina Regiment on 4 Feb 1782 and that company transferred to the 4th North Carolina Regiment two days later. I have not yet tracked down the source documents on which this information is based and, given the loss of the muster and pay rolls, it seems probable that few records survive to shed light on Edward's precise service. He did serve for the duration of the war as his heirs qualified for 640 acres of bounty land, the maximum available to a private with the Continental Line with seven years' service. The 1st North Carolina Regiment participated in the following battles; the number in parentheses is the minimum number of companies involved, based on the documentary evidence that has survived [Lewis, pp. 229-243]: • Moore's Creek Bridge (7), 27 Feb 1776 • Ft. Johnston #4 (1), 8 Mar 1776 • Brunswick Town (1), 6 Apr 1776 • Ft. Johnston #5 (1), 1 May 1776 • Orton Mill & Kendal Plantation (1), 11 May 1776 • Ft. Moultrie, SC #1 (2), 28 Jun 1776 • Breech Inlet Naval Battle (5), 28 Jun 1776 • Florida Expedition (1), Sep 1776 • Brandywine Creek, PA (8-11), 11 Sep 1777 • Germantown, PA (8-11), 4 Oct 1777 • Monmouth, NJ (10), 28 Jun 1778 • West Point, NY (1), 16 May 1779 • Stony Point, NY (178 hand-picked men from 5 companies), 15 Jul 1779 • Charleston, SC (9), 12 May 1780 Ninety percent of the North Carolina Line was captured at the fall of Charleston in May 1780, and most of them weren't paroled or exchanged until over a year later, in some cases not until the end of the war. Edward Newman may well have been one of the POWs at Charleston: his son, William, identified himself as the "heir of Edward Newman a Continental Soldier who died in the Continental Service in the State of South Carolina" in 1795 when he sold the military land warrant due to Edward's heirs. From Wikipedia: Siege of Charleston: Colonial Forces included from the North Carolina Line: Hillsborough District militia 1st NC Regt 2nd NC Regt 3rd NC Regt 4th NC Regt 5th NC Regt "Prisoners of the siege of Charleston were kept in multiple locations including prison ships, the old barracks where the College of Charleston is today, and the Old Exchange and Provost 'Dungeon.' " Sources: Edward Newman, Revolutionary Army Accounts, Reel S.115348, Vol. W-1, 7, Wilmington District, NC State Archives ' Edward Newman, Service Records and Settlements, N-P, Box 20, Treasurer's & Comptroller's Papers, Military Papers, 1776-1792, NC State Archives "North Carolina's Revolutionary War Pay Records," Archives Information Circular (AIC) No. 1, 1973 (Rev Feb 2002), NC State Archives J.D. Lewis, NC Patriots 1775-1783: Their Own Words, Vol. I North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Ancestry Roster of the North Carolina troops in the Continental Army, Documenting the South, Colonial and State Records of North Carolina (http://docsouth.unc.edu/ csr/index.html/document/csr16-0699) Roster of soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, Ancestry Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/duplin/photos/military/revwar/other/newman623mt.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/duplin/military/revwar/other/newman623mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb