Craven County: Field return of the New Bern battalion of minute men

Title

Craven County: Field return of the New Bern battalion of minute men

Date

December 14 1775

Creator

["North Carolina. Division of Archives and History."]

Place

["New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, United States"]

Local Call Number

TRPR

MARS ID

5864 (Record Group)

Document Details

Title

Craven County: Field return of the New Bern battalion of minute men

Date

December 14 1775

Creator

["North Carolina. Division of Archives and History."]

Rights

The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers.

Description

Field return of the New Bern battalion of minute men, on December 14, 1775, commanded by Colonel Richard Caswell. Troop Returns include lists, returns, records of prisoners, and records of draftees. Lists are usually pay or muster rolls. Most of the returns are field or general returns, and report the names of the officers and the number of enlisted men under their command (but not the names of each soldier). Prisoners records may be lists of British prisoners or of North Carolina Line officers captured by the British. Drafts and enlistments records give the names of enlisted men and sometimes take the form of descriptive lists that also include height, age, coloring, etc., of each soldier. Except for the drafts and enlistments, most of the Continental Line records are field and general returns; the militia records, on the other hand, generally record the names of both officers and soldiers.

Subject

["North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783","United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783","United States--Militia","United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775","North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775"]

Index Terms

Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789

Local Call Number

TRPR

MARS ID

5864 (Record Group)

Place

["New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, United States"]

Time Period

["(1763-1789) American Revolution"]

Digital Collections

["Troop Returns"]

Source Collections

["Troop Returns. Military Collection. State Archives of North Carolina"]

Physical Characteristics

2 pages

Format

["Military records","Returns (military reports)"]

Hosted By

["State Archives of North Carolina"]

Identifier

MilColl_Troop_Returns_B3F12_Craven_Battalion_of_minute_men

Craven County: Field return of the New Bern battalion of minute men

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