Guilford County: A muster roll of the militia officers, subalterns, and rank and file

Title

Guilford County: A muster roll of the militia officers, subalterns, and rank and file

Date

March 26 1779

Creator

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

Place

["Guilford County, North Carolina, United States"]

Local Call Number

TRPR

MARS ID

5864 (Record Group)

Document Details

Title

Guilford County: A muster roll of the militia officers, subalterns, and rank and file

Date

March 26 1779

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

A muster roll of the Guilford County militia officers, subalterns, and rank and file on March 26, 1779, commanded by Colonel James Martin. 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","Armed Forces--Officers"]

Index Terms

Martin, James

Local Call Number

TRPR

MARS ID

5864 (Record Group)

Place

["Guilford 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","Muster rolls"]

Hosted By

["State Archives of North Carolina"]

Identifier

MilColl_Troop_Returns_B3F39_Guilford_Militia_officers_and_alterns

Guilford County: A muster roll of the militia officers, subalterns, and rank and file

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