1759 Rowan County Militia List

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1759 Rowan County Militia List

From the Military Collection of the Treasurers and Comptroller's Papers 
at the North Carolina Archives is a list of Rowan County men who fought 
to defend the area against Indian attack.  Most of the men served only 
a few days and were paid a few shillings for their service.  The list, 
however, serves as an adjunct to the 1759 Rowan County Tax Lists 
published in Wills and Estates Records of Rowan County, North Carolina 
and Tax Lists of 1759 and 1778. More than half the names on this list do 
not appear on the 1759 Rowan Tax List. Those names are identified with 
an asterisk.  In the abstract presented here the sums for payment and 
number of days served are omitted.   The document serves to place many 
persons on the frontier in
1759.

"May 25th  1759. The Publick of North Carolina to Morgan Bryan to to 
Scouts Sent Out on the Alarm of *William Pincher's being Killed by the 
Indians."

Morgan Bryan, Capt. 
Jacob Randill 
Jacob Everhart 
Gasper Smith
*Lodwick Widiner
*Devalt Cross
*Gabriel Enochs 
Andw Smith, Lt. 
James Smith, Ens. 
Benjamin Merrell,
private men James McCoy 
John Hunt
*John Vancleft
*James Howell
*Jacob Young 
Robert Ward
*Abram Blitcher
serj.
*William Thomson
*Benja Pierson
*William Hill 
John Stilwell 
Josiah Rounssvall
*Paul Whistonhurst 
John Freeman


Thomas Evans, Lieut.
Daniel Little, Serg.
*William Hargis
*Michael Peeler
John Hampton	Conrod Michael
*Jess Lumb	
*Jacob Brown
*Doras Feltmott	
*Christian Eller
Michael Waller	
George Smith
*Mark House
Peter Smith
John Admire	
*Paul Biffle
Jacob Arand	
*John Catcher
*Jereniah Bailey
Joseph Hartman

"25 April 1759.  The Publick of North Carolina to Morgan Bryan to a Scout 
sent Out in the Alarm of *Daniel Hossey & Others being Killed..."	 

Morgan Bryan, Lt.	
*William Bryan	
*John Boone	
*Danl Boone	
*John Dunklin 
*William Grant 
Henry Hunter 
*David Jones	
*Alexander Shoults
*Danl Shoults
*Elias Turner

"A Scout sent Out by the Order of Col. Alexdr Ozburn & Major Dunn"

Morgan Bryan, Capt.
*Hugh McCreary, Lt. 
Phillip Howard, Ensign 
Jeremiah Green, Sergt
*John Stanfort	
*Henry Miller
*Abram Berriger	
*Arthur Oneal
*Robt Osburn	
William Shannon
David Enochs	
Michael Younker
*John Reed	
William Whitaker
Samuel Nicholson	
*Charles Berriger
John Blanketpickler	
Frederick Goss
*samuel Tate	
William Frank
Hance Liken	
*Phillip Miller
William Silvers	
*Peter Joseph
*Thomas Silvers	
Phillip Sower
*Michael Leagel	
*William Rymer
Jacob Sink


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