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Hyde County Regiment

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Hyde County Regiment
Active1775-1783
AllegianceUnited States North Carolina
BranchNorth Carolina militia
TypeMilitia
EngagementsSkirmish on Cape Hatteras, Battle of Guilford Courthouse
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Col. Rotheas Latham
Col. Abraham Jones
Col. William Russel
Col. Burridge H. Selby

The Hyde County Regiment was a unit of the North Carolina militia that served during the American Revolution. The North Carolina General Assembly authorized the Hyde County Regiment on Septembr 9, 1775, along with 34 other county regiments. The officers were appointed and commissioned by the Governor of North Carolina. The regiment was subordinated to the New Bern District Brigade of North Carolina militia on May 4, 1776. The regiment was disbanded at the end of the war.[1]

Officers

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The following listings show the known commanders, officers, staff, and soldiers of the Wayne County regiment[2]

  • Colonel Rotheas Latham (1775-1779)[3]
  • Colonel Abraham Jones (1779-1783)
  • Colonel William Russell (1779-1780)
  • Colonel Burridge H. Selby (1780-1783)

Rotheas Latham was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1725. His parents were Thomas Latham and Deborah Hardin. He was a descendant of Pilgrim James Chilton. His family moved to Hyde County, North Carolina before 1750, where he was a prominent landowner and active in business and political affairs. He owned a mill and was appointed by Governor Arthur Dobbs to serve as justice of the peace in Hyde County. In 1773, he represented Hyde County in the North Carolina General Assembly in New Bern. On August 25,1774, he again represented Hyde County in the Provincial Congress in New Bern. He represented Hyde County in the Provincial Congress of August 1775 in Hillsboro. He was appointed a colonel in the Hyde County Minutemen in 1775 and was also colonel of the unit when it became the Hyde County Regiment in September of 1775. He again represented Hyde County in the Provincial Congress of April 1776 in Halifax. He was member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1780 and 1781. He died in 1784 in Hyde County.[3][4]

Known engagements

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The Hyde County Regiment was involved in two known engagements: skirmish on Cape Hatteras on June 27, 1779 and the Battle of Guilford Court House on March 15, 1781.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Lewis, J.D. "Hyde County Regiment". The American Revolution in North Carolina. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  2. ^ Graves, William. "Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters". Retrieved February 16, 2019., various pension applications and rosters
  3. ^ a b "Washington County Genealogical Society Journal". NCGenWeb Project. August 1, 1996. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  4. ^ Wheeler, John Hill (1851). "Historical Sketches of North Carolina: From 1584 to 1851". Google Books.
  • "Hyde County Militia". Retrieved April 9, 2018., N. C. Department of Archives & History, Hyde County Miscellaneous Records (1735-1908), Militia Papers, 1755, 1853 and no date. C.R. 053.928.3; High Tides, Volume XV, Number 1, Spring, 1994, p. 41; "Henry Gibbs, Jur. Militia List of Arrowmaskeet, 1755."
  • Hyde County History, A Hyde County Bicentennial Project, 1976; Hyde County Historical Society; pp. 122-123. "The Swan Quarter Bicentennial Committee, with the assistance of the Hyde County Historical Society, compiled the following roster of individuals who participated in the Revolutionary War. The individuals on this list were verified as Hyde County residents by one or more of the following sources: Roster of Solders From North Carolina in the American Revolution; Some Colonial and Revolutionary Families of North Carolina, Vol. 1; Index to Hathaway's Register; "Hyde County Census 1786, 1790, 1800”; "Hyde County 1700 Wills and Deeds”; "1800 Wills”; "Marriage Bonds”; Bible Records."
  • Hyde County History, A Hyde County Bicentennial Project, 1976; Hyde County Historical Society; pp. 123-125. "The following list of Soldiers in the Continental Line has been abstracted from the Roster of Soldiers From North Carolina in the American Revolution. These men were not designated as Hyde County, but were either Newbern Militia District or appeared without a District designation. Supportive data from Hyde County Court Records, Federal Census Records, Index to Hathaway's Register, and Estate Papers (State Department of Archives and History) strongly indicates these men were residents of Hyde County. However, we present this data hoping anyone having information to confirm or disprove these findings will share such with us."
  • "High Tides", Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1981; Hyde County Historical Society; p. 20. Sept. 3, 1778, Halifax, NC; List of volunteers in the Continental Army, for nine months service.
  • "High Tides", Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1981; Hyde County Historical Society; pp. 21-22. Hyde County Veterans of the American Revolution.
  • NC Department of Archives and History; 7 February, 1782, A list of Invalids above and below the age of fifty years.

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Engagements at the Brigade Level

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Order Date Battle State
Bladen
Brunswick
Cumberland
Duplin
New Hanover
Onslow
1 7/18/1775 Battle of Fort Johnston #1 NC x
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lewis was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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