Royal North Carolina Regiment Explained

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
• 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]
• Daniel McLean
• Lieutenant McCraw
• Lieutenant Campbell
• Ensign John Shaw Gent
• Adjutant Roderick McLeod
• Ensign Charles Atkins

Known engagements

• June 20, 1779 – Battle of Stono Ferry, South Carolina
• March 29 – May 12, 1780 – Siege of Charleston, South Carolina
• August 6, 1780 – Battle of Hanging Rock, South Carolina
• August 16, 1780 – Battle of Camden, South Carolina
• May 7, 1781 – Halifax, North Carolina
• August 2, 1781 – Rockfish, North Carolina
• August 19, 1781 – New Bern, North Carolina

Bibliography

• Book: Pancake, John S.. This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780–1782. 1985.
• Book: Rankin, Hugh F.. North Carolina in the American Revolution. 1959.
• Book: Troxler, Carole Watterson. 'The Great Man of the Settlement': North Carolina's John Legett at Country Harbour, Nova Scotia, 1783–1812. July 1990., NCHR 67
• Web site: A History of The Royal North Carolina Regiment, Lt. Colonel John Hamilton's Corp, 1777–1784, The Recreated Royal North Carolina Regiment.
• Book: DeMond, Robert O.. The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co.. 1979. 9780806308395.
• Book: Braisted, Todd. Index to Royal North Carolina Regiment History. The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies. 2000 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Royal North Carolina Regiment. Troxlor, Carole Watterson. 2006. August 21, 2019. NCPedia.org.
2. Web site: Loyalist Militia in North Carolina. Lewis, J.D.. The American Revolution in North Carolina. August 21, 2019.
3. Web site: Loyalist Officers. Lewis, J.D.. The American Revolution in North Carolina. 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