Statewide County NcArchives Court.....Miller, William 1776
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1776

Deposition of David Ketcham concerning the loyalist statements of William 
Miller
Ketcham, David
May 15, 1776 
Volume 10, Page 604

[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]

Affidavit About one William Miller.

North Carolina, 
New Hanover County. }
On the fifteenth day of May, 1776, Personally appeared before me, William 
Purviance, one of the Justices of the said County, David Ketcham, who being 
duly sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God, did depose and say that in 
a Conversation he had with William Miller on or about the eighth day of this 
Instant May, he asked the said Miller what News; he answered, no News 
particular, but that there were a great many of the King's forces come in. He 
said that the common People had been led into an Error by some cunning and 
designing Men who wanted to advance themselves into Places of profit and 
honour, and that many People now began to be convinced of their Error, and 
that many of the Officers were about resigning their Commissions after what 
had passed. This deponent then asked the said William Miller whether the 
People would suffer the Troops to land. He answered they might as well, for it 
was only the leaders they wanted, and said they might as well or had better 
deliver them up, and further this deponent saith not.

DAVID KETCHAM.
Sworn before me this 15th Day May, 1776.
Wm Purviance.

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