Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Fields, Jeremiah September 18, 1776
Revwar - Letters 
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From The Colonial Records Of North Carolina, Vol. X, Page 803-804, ‘from Manuscript Records In The Office Of The Secretary Of State’:
	“The petition of sundry inhabitants of Guilford County to the NC 
Council of Safety at Halifax, humbly showeth that whereas a certain Jeremiah 
Fields, now a prisoner in Frederick Town in the province of Maryland, was on or 
about the 8th of February last, taken prisoner for having taken up arms against 
the glorious cause of liberty, and continued from that time as a prisoner of 
war;”

	“And whereas your petitioners ar of opinion that the said Jeremiah 
Fields is by far less criminal in that case than most of those infatuated 
unhappy persons that formed the diabolical scheme of subjugating this province, 
your petitioners having from good authority to assure your Honors that the said 
Jeremiah Fields hath frequently expressed his approbation of the common cause 
of liberty both before and since his unhappy confinement and that his reasons 
for joining the Tory party was entirely on account that he had been outlawed by 
the province as a regulator, and that he was assured by the government that 
nothing less would procure his pardon;”

	“That notwithstanding this, he, the said Jeremiah Fields has in the 
hearing of some of your petitioners wished success to the cause of liberty and 
that he has behaved himself moderately on all occasions;”

	“Your petitioners are therefore of the opinion that the said Jeremiah 
Fields acted under the immediate influence of his more designing neighbors, 
being himself ignorant as to letters. We, your petitioners, therefore 
sympathizing and deploring the unhappy case of the said Jeremiah Fields in his 
being detained from a distressed wife and a great number of small children, and 
apprehending that the said Jeremiah Fields is really a friend to the common 
cause, humbly pray your Honors to take the case of this unhappy man into 
serious consideration and permit him to return to his family on security for 
his good behavior or otherwise, as in your wisdom you shall think meet, and as 
in duty bound, your petitioners will ever pray,”

	Samuel Bell, C.M.		Will. Dent
	Rob. McKensie			James Bell
	Alex. Caldwell			Will. Gowdy
	William Peasly [Paisley]	Edward Hunter
	Francis Murray			Thomas Jenkins
        Hugh Braly
September 18th, 1776.


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