Royal North Carolina Regiment

The Royal North Carolina Regiment was a provincial corps of Loyalists from the Province of North Carolina during the American Revolution. Provincial corps were regiments with both British and Loyalist forces.[1][2][3]

Officers

  • Colonel John Hamilton[3]
  • Colonel/Captain John Leggett: One of the most prominent Loyalists was John Leggett, a rich planter in Bladen County. He organized and led one of the few loyalist brigades in the South (the North Carolina Volunteers, later known as the Royal North Carolina Regiment). After the war, Colonel Leggett and some of his men moved to Nova Scotia; the British gave them free land grants in County Harbour as compensation for their losses in the colony. The great majority of Loyalists remained in North Carolina and became citizens of the new nation.[4][3]
  • Daniel McLean
  • Lieutenant McCraw
  • Lieutenant Campbell[2]
  • Ensign John Shaw Gent[2]
  • Adjutant Roderick McLeod[2]
  • Ensign Charles Atkins[2]

Known engagements

References

  1. Troxlor, Carole Watterson (2006). "Royal North Carolina Regiment". NCPedia.org. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  2. Lewis, J.D. "Loyalist Militia in North Carolina". The American Revolution in North Carolina. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  3. Lewis, J.D. "Loyalist Officers". The American Revolution in North Carolina. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  4. Carole Watterson Troxler, "'The Great Man of the Settlement': North Carolina's John Leggett At Country Harbour, Nova Scotia, 1783–1812," North Carolina Historical Review, July 1990, Vol. 67 Issue 3, pp. 285–314

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