Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Paisley, Colonel John September 14, 1780
Revwar - Letters 
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From State Records Of North Carolina, Vol. 14, Page 615-16:
Gen Davidson to Maj. Gen’l Gates
			Camp MacCappins [McAlpin’s] Creek, Sept. 14, 1780
Sir, 
	“I am now encamped 8 miles South of Charlotte, my number consisting of 
400 minutemen from Rowan and Mecklenburg counties, none from the other counties 
being yet arived. The enemy are at Waxhaw Creek, 20 miles distant. Lords 
Cornwallace and Roddin are both with them. Their number, by the best 
intelligence, about 1,000. They are busied threshing and flouring wheat, 
collecting cattle, sheep, butter, &c. I do not learn they have any artillery. 
Col. Ferguson and his party, which by common report consists of 1,200, are 
troublesome to the westward. I cannot find they have yet entered this State, 
except some of who have committed some depradations on the west end of 
Rutherford county.”
	“Lest they should advance I have sent Col. Lock to Rowan to embody the 
rest of his regiment to join Col. MacDowell, who lies in Burke with about 400, 
by the best accounts. Col. [John] Paisley joins me tomorrow with near 200. Gen. 
Sumner with his brigade is expected to be at Salisbury this evening. Gen. 
Sumpter lies 13 miles to my right with 200, his number daily increasing. Our 
troops are in high spirits, and seem determined to stand out to the last 
extremity rather than submit to the fate of So. Carolina.
			Sir, I have the Honr to be,
					Jethro Sumner


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