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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
General return of the North Carolina Continental Army troops [Extract]
Scammell, Alexander, 1747-1781
January 1779
Volume 14, Page 360

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EXTRACT FROM—Monthly Return of the Continental Army under the Command of His Excellency, George Washington, Esqr., General and Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the Independent States of America.
[U. S. Pension Bureau, Vol. 101, p. 82.]

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For January, 1779.
Officers Present Fit for Duty.
Rank and File.
Wanting to Complete
Alterations since Last Return.
Field.
Commission'd
Staff.
Non-Commissioned.
Joined
Brigades and corps.
Colonels.
Lieut. Colonels.
Majors.
Captains.
1st Lieutenants.
2nd Lieutenants.
Ensigns.
Chaplains.
Adjutants.
Pay Masters.
Quarter Masters.
Surgeons.
Mates.
Sergeant Majors.
Qr. Mr. Sergeants.
Drum Majors.
Fife Majors.
Sergeants.
Drummers and Fifers.
Present Fit for Duty.
Sick Present.
Sick Absent.
On Command.
On Furlough.
Total.
Sergeants.
Drummers and Fifers.
Rank and File.
Dead.
Discharged.
Deserted.
Transferred.
Promoted.
Sergeants.
Drum's and Fifers.
Rank and File.
North Carolina.
1
2
2
6
.
11
8
.
2
2
2
2
1
2
1
2
1
37
32
548
70
77
217
6
918
.
.
.
2
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
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N. B.—No Monthly return of ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗, Hartley's and Hogun's Regiments have come to hand for January.—∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗.

ALEXANDER SCAMMELL, adj't Gen'l.