Court NC Johnston Martial
Description
| Johnston Co., NC, Court Martial Minutes (in film titles "wills, 1759-1863") |
Publisher
| LDS film 19194 |
Source Text
| Minutes Volume 1761-1779 Summary of Ingram entries:
31a 10/6/1773 October the 6th 1773 The Court Martial is Met According to Adjurnt. Present his Majesties Officers of the Militia: Colon. Needham Bryan Colon. William Bryan Capt. James Wootton Capt. Nathan Williams Capt. John Stevens Capt. Henry Rains Capt. Needham Bryan The Court Proceeded to the Choices for Clerk and Unanimously Chose Thedar Bryan The Hereafter named Commissioned Officers of Militia Meet & Repeated the Oaths for the Qualification of Publick Officers & subscribed the Test to WA. Adjt. Benja. Williams Lieut. Lewis Bryan Lieut. Thomas Lee Lieut. Philip Raifford Ensign John Wood Ensign Joseph Ingram Ensign Oliver Rains 34a 8/15/1777 State of North Carolina Johnston County } At a Court Martial begun and held in the County aforesaid at the Town of Smithfield at the Court House in Smithfield on the fifteenth day of August in the Year of our Lord 1777. Present the States Officers for the County aforesaid (to wit) Col. William Bryan Col. John Smith Major Samuel Smith } Field Officers Capt. Arthur Bryan Capt. Lewis Bryan Capt. John McCullers Capt. Elisha Thomas Capt. Thomas Lee Lieut. Jonathan Smith Lieut. Philip Rayford Ensign Joseph Ingram Ensign William Avera The above Field Officers took the Oaths for eh Qualification of public Officers & took their Seats accordingly, after which the other Gentlemen abovementioned took the Oath for the Qualification of Public Officers and took their seats accordingly. 34b 8/15/1777 Rank of the Companies with their respective Officers
The proceedings of a Court Martial begun and held in the County of Johnston at the Court House in the Town of Smithfield on the fifteenth day of August 1777. Colonel William Bryan President Col. John Smith Judge advocate to prosecute on behalf of the State. Members:
Ordered that William Ward be appointed clerk to the Court Martial of this County. 40c 5/25/1779 State of North Carolina Johnston County } At a Court Martial begun & held for the County of Johnston at the Court House in Smithfield on the 25th day of May One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy nine. Colo. John Smith President Lieutenant Colo. Samuel Smith Judge advocate Members:
Colo. John Smith, Lieut. Col. Samuel Smith, Major Arthur Bryan, Major Lewis Bryan to the Oath for the Qualification of public Officers also the oath perscribed by Law to be taken by the Militia Officers & took their Seats accordingly. Capt. John McCullers, Capt. Elisha Thomas, Capt. Thomas Lee, Lieut. Philip Rayford, Lieut. Jonathan Smith, Lieut. Jacob Stevens, Ensign Joseph Ingram, & Ensign William Oneal took the oath perscribed by Law to be taken by the Militia Officers & took their Seats accordingly. 43b-c 5/25/1779 Ordered that the Company of Militia as Commanded by Lieut. Rayford be divided into two distinct Companies, and that the Bawdy Swamp be the dividing line, also that part of Capt. Lee's Company be added to the Company on the South side of the said Swamp, to begin at John Hays plantation on the south side of Neuse River & to go a straight line from there to George Fields & to continue a straight line from there to the Widow Stevens's to include the said John Hays, George Fields and Widow Stevens plantations & all the Effected Men contained within the aforesaid bounds and the Duplin line and Neuse River, and it is further ordered that the following Gentlemen be recommended to the Field Officers for their approbation to be appointed Officers for the Company on the North side of the aforesaid Swamp (to wit) Philip Rayford Captain, Benjamin Crafford Lieutenant, and Lewis Gurley Ensign, And John Whitley Capt. Joseph Ingram Lieutenant, and Jacob Stevens Ensign, for the Company on the south side of the said Swamp. John Smith |