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Worth S. Ray, “List of Earliest Inhabitants of Granville County, North Carolina,” in Colonial Granville County and its People: Loose Leaves from “The Lost Tribes of North Carolina”, (Austin, TX: the author, 1945), 291-292, 294.
p. 291
Authentic copy of the muster roll of a regiment of militia under the command of COLONEL WILLIAM EATON, as taken at a general muster of said regiment on OCTOBER 8, 1754, as shown on pages 370 to 380 inclusive, of Volume 22, of the North Carolina STATE RECORDS, including the names of both officers and men.
WILLIAM EATONCOLONEL
WILLIAM PERSONLIEUT. COLONEL
JAMES PAINEMAJOR
The Regiment consisted of EIGHT COMPANIES, in command of the following CAPTAINS:
1. CAPT. JOHN GLOVER97 men
2. CAPT. OSBORN JEFFREY83 men
3. CAPT. RICHARD COLEMAN94 men
4. CAPT. DANIEL HARRIS95 men
5. CAPT. JOHN SALLIS90 men
6. CAPT. SUGAR JONES140 men
7. CAPT. BENJAMIN SIMMS75 men
8. CAPT. ANDREW HAMPTON60 men
The total number of men, exclusive of the commissioned officers of the Regiment and the companies was 734, and the entire personnel of the regiment probably represented every able bodied male person, subject to military duty at that time (1754) residing within the bounds of Colonial Granville County as shown on the SEARCY, and the accompanying sketched map, with possibly a very few exceptions.
p. 292
Map of Granville County, North Carolina (1754)
The 734 men and officers of COLONEL WILLIAM EATON’S Granville County Regiment here listed came from the territory represented by the black boundary lines of the above map. The list comprises, in our judgement, a practically complete roll of all of the able bodied men, subject to military duty in GRANVILLE COUNTY, North Carolina, at that time. So far as we have been able to ascertain no earlier list of the first citizenship of the county can be found.
p. 294
CAPTAIN BENJAMIN SIMM’S COMPANY
John Burt, Lieut.
William Mercer, Ensign
1.Giles Bowers, Sergeant
2.John Bishop, Sergeant
3.William Eves, Sergeant
4.James Ross, Corporal
5.John Medley, Corporal
6.Mathew Mathews, Corporal
7.William Jones, Drummer
8.Henry Ivey, Drummer
9.William Jackson
10.Thomas Smith
11.William Moxley
12.William Thomas
13.Charles Ivey
14.Daniel Carrol
15.John Duncan
16.Thos. Hunt, Little Creek
17.Robert Smith
18.Richard Crutchfield
19.John Meekie
20.Henry Clark
21.Thos. Hunt, up the River
22.Saul Rackley
23.William Pace, Junr.
24.Joseph Acom Hutson
25.Christopher Clark
26.Joseph Brantly
27.James Brantly
28.George Bledsoe
29.Thomas Woodly
31.William Hunt
32.William Jerkins
33.Lodowick Alford
34.Joseph Jeffries
35.William Hobbs
36.Thomas Jones
37.William Simmons
38.William Jones
39.James Hunt
40.John Claiborn
41.Robert Clark
42.Benjamin Rice
43.John Deer
44.Aaron Sherrud
45.William Vinson
46.William Richardson
47.James White
48.Arthur Crocker
49.Miles Rackley
50.Parsons Rackley
51.John Rainwater
52.Thomas Tharrington
53.Robert Butler
54.Edward Thomas
55.John Reeves
56.William Smith
57.John Smith
58.George Woodly
59.Joseph Wright
60.John Wright
61.James Massey
62.John Douglas
63.George Hill
64.Francis Strother
65.Thomas West
66.Joseph Wright, Junr.
67.James Pace
68.James Smith
69.Nathaniel Smith
70.John Parnal
71.John Massey
72.William Edwards
73.John Simmons
74.Barnaby Goodwin
75.Samuel Fowler, Senr.
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