Rebels and Kings Men Appendix 3
APPENDIX 3
British Soldiers From Bertie County1
During the Revolutionary War, significant numbers of North Carolinians, including certain Bertie County citizens, maintained their loyalty to the British Crown. Numbers of Loyalists were exiled from the state and had their land-holdings and other properties confiscated by Whig authorities. Some North Carolinians joined the British military forces as soldiers and sailors; examples include the two men listed below, who, as prisoners of war, decided to enlist in the British army.
Hust [Hurst], John, ranger: Resided in Bertie County and was captured at Charleston on May 12, 1780, or at Camden, S.C., on Aug. 16, 1780. At the age of twenty-one, enlisted to serve in the Duke of Cumberland’s Corps of Carolina Rangers. Enlisted by Feb. 10, 1781, while a prisoner of war detained aboard the ship Success Increase.
Jones, Thomas, ranger: Resided in Bertie County and was captured at Charleston on May 12, 1780, or at Camden on Aug. 16, 1780. At the age of twenty, enlisted to serve in the Duke of Cumberland’s Corps of Carolina Rangers. Enlisted by Feb. 10, 1781, while a prisoner of war detained aboard the ship Success Increase.
Note
1. English Records, State Papers—Domestic—Military Commissions, Box E.R. 16, folder 14, State Archives, Office of Archives and History, Raleigh; Raymond A. Winslow Jr., “Two Lists of North Carolinians Serving in British Armies during the American Revolution,” North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal 16 (August 1990): 142, 145.