Worth S. Ray, List of Earliest Inhabitants of Granville County, North Carolina, in Colonial

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 EATON, COLONEL WILLIAM PERSON, LIEUT. COLONEL JAMES PAINE, MAJOR

The Regiment consisted of EIGHT COMPANIES, in command of the following CAPTAINS: 1. CAPT. JOHN GLOVER, 97 men 2. CAPT. OSBORN JEFFREY 83 men 3. CAPT. RICHARD COLEMAN 94 men 4. CAPT. DANIEL HARRIS 95 men 5. CAPT. JOHN SALLIS 90 men 6. CAPT. SUGAR JONES 140 men 7. CAPT. BENJAMIN SIMMS 75 men 8. CAPT. ANDREW HAMPTON 60 men

Map of Granville County, North Carolina (1754)

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 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 judgment, 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 11. William Moxley 22. Saul Rackley 2. John Bishop, Sergeant 12. William Thomas 23. William Pace, Junr. 3. William Eves, Sergeant 13. Charles Ivey 24. Joseph Acom Hutson 4. James Ross, Corporal 14. Daniel Carrol 25. Christopher Clark 5. John Medley, Corporal 15. John Duncan 26. Joseph Brantly 6. Mathew Mathews, 16. Thos. Hunt, Little Creek 27. James Brantly Corporal 17. Robert Smith 28. George Bledsoe 7. William Jones, Drummer 18. Richard Crutchfield 29. Thomas Woodly 8. Henry Ivey, Drummer 19. John Meekie 31. William Hunt 9. William Jackson 20. Henry Clark 32. William Jerkins 10. Thomas Smith 21. Thos. Hunt, up the River 33. Lodowick Alford 34. Joseph Jeffries 48. Arthur Crocker 62. John Douglas 35. William Hobbs 49. Miles Rackley 63. George Hill 36. Thomas Jones 50. Parsons Rackley 64. Francis Strother 37. William Simmons 51. John Rainwater 65. Thomas West 38. William Jones 52. Thomas Tharrington 66. Joseph Wright, Junr. 39. James Hunt 53. Robert Butler 67. James Pace 40. John Claiborn 54. Edward Thomas 68. James Smith 41. Robert Clark 55. John Reeves 69. Nathaniel Smith 42. Benjamin Rice 56. William Smith 70. John Parnal 43. John Deer 57. John Smith 71. John Massey 44. Aaron Sherrud 58. George Woodly 72. William Edwards 45. William Vinson 59. Joseph Wright 73. John Simmons 46. William Richardson 60. John Wright 74. Barnaby Goodwin 47. James White 61. James Massey 75. Samuel Fowler, Senr . http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rchris/pace/floydhaupt/granvillemil1754.html