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Letter from Kenneth McKenzie to Abner Nash
McKenzie, Kenneth
June 04, 1780
Volume 14, Pages 838-839

KENNETH McKENZIE ESQ TO GOV. ABNER NASH.


Martin County, June 4th, 1780.

His Excellency, Abner Nash, Esqr.

Honourable Sir:

Finding my former Draughts on the Treasury inadequate to the Exigencies of this County on the present Occasion, Am under the Necessity to address your Excellency for a Warrant for the further Sum of sixteen hundred Pounds, & have inclosed my Bond for that Purpose.

Also have inclosed a List of the Drafts & Volunteers raised in this County for the present Expedition.

I am in want of a Dozen blank Malitia Commissions, one Sheriffs Do.

I am, with the highest esteem,
Your Excellency's most obedient Servt.,
KENNETH McKENZIE.

A List of the Volunteers & Drafts raised in Martin for the present Expedition (viz.):

VOLUNTEERS.
Thomas Watson
David Caraway
Joseph Reading
Simon Daniel
Joseph Lee
John Redditt, jr.
Needam Bryan
Wm. Drew JParker
Thos. Williams
Ezekiel Moore
Bentley Manning
Christopher Hynds
Jonathan Cherry
John Garrot
John Sumner
Jesse Staten
Jacob Morris
John Davis
Martin Voyce
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Joseph Cooper
Abraham Johnston
James Worsley
Ephriam Coward
Joseph Taylor
Wm. Purvis
Benj. Cippin
Isaac Boyd
Marion Manning
Jonas Wood
Edw. Mizell
Stephen Dunbibin
David Everitt
Ebenezer Slade
Benj. Hardison
Lorton Cooper
David Hinson
John Manning
DRAFTS.
Samuel Moore
John Cross
John Bonner
Joshua Hodges
Wm. Whitfield
Willis Whitfield
Wm. Turlinton
Wm. Swanner
David Smithwick
Ephriam Wyotte
Elijah Brice
James Brumfield
John Harrel
Henry Batch
Joseph Hinson Harner
Sam Ballard
James Robeson
Swain Daniel
George Ethenham
John Hynds
Wm. Blackwell.
Per KENNETH McKENZIE.