The American Revolution in North Carolina

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Sources of Information in this Website on the American Revolution in NC
No.	Microfilm Title -- Source
1	M246 - Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 -- US National Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Roll 79 (North Carolina).
	M804 - Revolutionary War Pension & Bounty Land Warrant Application Files -- US National Archives & Records Administration (NARA).
	M853 - Numbered Record Books Concerning Military Operations and Service, Pay, and Settlement of Accounts and Supplies -- US National Archives & Records Administration (NARA).
	M859 - Miscellaneous Numbered Records in the War Department (The Manuscript File) Collection of Revolutionary War Records -- US National Archives & Records Administration (NARA).
About halfway through reviewing these microfilms, the Author learned that two fine gentlemen were transcribing all of the Federal Pension Applications and posting them online for free use. Thank you Will Graves and Leon Harris.
1a	Federal Pension Applications and Rosters of Various Units	Will Graves, Leon Harris	http://revwarapps.org
No.	Title	Author	Publisher/Year
2	The State Records of North Carolina - Volumes X thru XVII	Walter Clark - Editor	M.I. & J.C. Stewart, Printers, Winston, NC, 1895
3	Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution	The North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution	Durham, 1932 - Reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007
4	Roster of the Patriots in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge	Dr. Bobby Gilmer Moss	Scotia-Hibernia Press, Blacksburg, SC, 1992
5	The Patriots at Kings Mountain	Dr. Bobby Gilmer Moss	Scotia-Hibernia Press, Blacksburg, SC, 1990
6	The Patriots at the Cowpens Revised Edition	Dr. Bobby Gilmer Moss	Scotia Press, Blacksburg, SC, 1991
7	The North Carolina Continentals	Hugh F. Rankin	University of NC Press, 1971
8	Nothing But Blood and Slaughter - Military Operations and Order of Battle of the Revolutionary War in the Carolinas - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4	Patrick O'Kelley	Booklocker.com, Inc., 2004
9	Global Gazeteer of the American Revolution	John A. Robertson, et.al.	http://gaz.jrshelby.com/index.htm
10	Historical Sketches of North Carolina - From 1584 to 1851	John. H. Wheeler	Frederick H. Hitchcock Publisher, New York, 1851
11	History of North Carolina Volume I From 1584 to 1784	Samuel A'Court Ashe	Charles L. Van Noppen, 1908
12	North Carolina 1780-'81 - Being a History of the Invasion of the Carolinas	David Schenck, LLD	Edwards & Broughton, Publishers, Raleigh, NC, 1889
13	General Joseph Graham and His Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History	Major William A. Graham	Edwards & Broughton, Publishers, Raleigh, NC, 1904
14	A Defence of the Revolutionary History of the State of North Carolina From the Aspersions of Mr. Jefferson	John Seawell Jones	Turner & Hughes, Raleigh, NC, 1834
15	The History of Alamance	Sallie W. Stockard	Capital Printing Co., Raleigh, NC, 1900
16	The History of Guilford County, North Carolina	Sallie W. Stockard	Gaut-Ogden Company, Book Printers and Book Binders, Knoxville, TN, 1902
17	In Ancient Albemarle	Catherine Albertson	Commercial Printing Co., Raleigh, NC, 1914
18	History of Halifax County	William C. Allen	The Cornhill Co., Boston, MA, 1918
19	Reminiscences of Randolph County	J.A. Blair	Reece & Elam, Book and Job Printers, Greensboro, NC, 1890
20	The History of Mecklenburg County from 1740 to 1900	John Brevard Alexander	Observer Printing House, Charlotte, NC, 1902
21	The Colonial and State Political History of Hertford County, NC	Benjamin B. Winborne	Edwards & Broughton Publishers, Raleigh, NC, 1906
22	Annals of Lincoln County, North Carolina	William L. Sherrill	Charlotte, NC, The Observer Printing House, Inc. 1937
23	Sketches of Pitt County	Henry T. King	Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, Raleigh, NC, 1911
24	A History of New Hanover and the Lower Cape Fear Region 1723-1800 - Volume I	Alfred Moore Waddell	Wilmington, NC, 1909
25	A History of Rowan County North Carolina	Rev. Jethro Rumple	J.J. Bruner, Salisbury, NC 1881
26	North Carolina's Coastal Carteret County During the American Revolution 1765-1785	Jean Bruyere Kell Thomas A. Williams, PhD	Era Press, Greenville, NC, 1975
27	History of Surry County	J.G. Hollingsworth	Fisher Publishers, Greensboro, NC, 1935
28	No Ordinary Lives - A History of Richmond County, North Carolina 1750-1900	John Hutchinson	The Donning Company, Publishers, Virginia Beach, VA, 1998
29	Historical Sketch of Person County	Stuart T. Wright	The Womack Press, Danville, NC, 1974
30	Wake: Capital County of North Carolina - Volume I, Prehistory through Centennial	Elizabeth Reid Murray	Capital County Publishing Company, Raleigh, NC, 1983
31	History of McDowell County	Mildred B. Fossett	The Seeman Printers, Durham, NC, 1976
32	The Heritage of Sampson County, North Carolina Volume I	Oscar M. Bizzell	Sampson County Historical Society, 1983
33	The County of Warren, North Carolina 1586-1917	Manly Wade Wellman	The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1959
34	Burke - The History of a North Carolina County	Edward H. Phifer, Jr.	Self Published, Morganton, NC, 1977
35	The History of Old Tryon and Rutherford Counties 1730-1936	Clarence W. Griffin	The Miller Printing Company, Asheville, NC, 1937
36	History of Anson County, North Carolina, 1750-1976	Mary L. Medley	Heritage Printers, Inc., Charlotte, NC, 1976
37	Polk County, North Carolina History	Polk County Historical Association, Inc.	The Reprint Company, Publishers, Spartanburg, SC, 2006
38	Hyde County History	Hyde County Bicentennial Committee	Herb Eaton, Inc., Charlotte, NC, 1976
39	Three Hundred Years Along the Pasquotank - A Biographical History of Camden County	Jesse Forbes Pugh	Seeman Printers, Durham, NC, 1957
40	When the Past Refused to Die A History of Caswell County 1777-1977	William S. Powell	Caswell County Historical Association, Inc., Yanceyville, NC, 1982
41	A History of Durham County, North Carolina	Jean Bradley Anderson	Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1990
42	The Heritage of Alexander County, North Carolina - Volume I - 1986	Sara C. Allen, Editor	Hunter Publishing Company, Winston-Salem, NC, 1986
43	A History of Moore County, North Carolina 1747-1847	Blackwell P. Robinson	Moore County Historical Association, 1956
44	A History of Catawba County	Charles J. Preslar, Jr. - Editor	Rowan Printing Company, Salisbury, NC, 1954
45	The Heritage of Henderson County, North Carolina, Volume I	George Alexander Jones, Th.M, Ph.D - Editor	The Reprint Company, Publishers, Spartanburg, SC, 2003
46	The Commonwealth of Onslow A History	Joseph Parsons Brown	The Owen G. Dunn Company, New Bern, NC, 1960
47	Long, Obstinate, and Bloody - The Battle of Guilford Courthouse	Lawrence E. Babits & Joshua B. Howard	The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009
48	The Rear-Guard of the Revolution	James R. Gilmore	D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY, 1889
49	Narrative of His Exploits and Adventures as a Loyalist of North Carolina in the American Revolution, Supplying Important Omissions in the Copy Published in the United States	David Fanning & A.W. Savary	Printed in Toronto, Canada, 1908
50	Colonel David Fanning - The Adventures of a Carolina Loyalist	John Hairr	Averasboro Press, Erwin, NC, 2000
51	The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution	Robert O. DeMond	Archon Books, Hamden, CT, 1964
52	Governor Alexander Martin	Charles D. Rodenbough	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, NC, 1932
53	William R. Davie	Blackwell P. Robinson	The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1957
54	History of Perquimans County, As Compiled from Records Found There and Elsewhere	Ellen Goode Winslow	Raleigh, NC, 1931, Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 2005
55	Revolutionary Leaders of North Carolina	Robert D.W. Connor	NC State Normal & Industrial College, Greensboro, NC, 1916
56	Revolutionary Incidents and Sketches of Character, Chiefly in the Old North State	E.W. Caruthers	King & Baird, Printers, Philadelphia, PA, 1854
57	The Heritage of Wayne County, North Carolina	Mary Daniels Johnstone, Coordinator	Wayne County Historical Association, Goldsboro, NC, 1982
58	Cornwallis' Campaign: Wilmington to Yorktown	Emily Weil	Wayne County Historical Association, Goldsboro, NC, 2010
59	Journals of the American Congress from 1774-1788	United States Continental Congress	Way and Gideon, Washington, DC, 1823
60	History and Genealogies of Old Granville County, North Carolina 1746-1800	Thomas McAdory Owen	Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 1993
61	Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution	Francis B. Heitman	The Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, Inc., 1914
62	Pierce's Register	John Pierce	Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 2002
63	A Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution (3 Volumes)	Benson J. Lossing	Harper Co., 1850
64	The Road to Guilford Courthouse - The American Revolution in the Carolinas	John Buchanan	John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1997
The following sources were employed AFTER my books were published in 2012. Any new info has been included in this website, but not in the books.
65	Cavalry of the American Revolution	Edited by Jim Piecuch	Westholme Publishing, Yardley, PA, 2012
66	Commanders at Kings Mountain	Rev. J.D. Bailey	E.H. DeChamp, Gaffney, SC, 1926
67	King's Mountain and its Heroes History of the Battle of King's Mountain October 7, 1780 And the Events Which Led to It	Lyman C. Draper, LL. D.	Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 1967
68	Backcountry Revolutionary James Williams (1740-1780) With Source Documents	William T. Graves	Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution Press, Lugoff, SC, 2012
69	Profile of a Patriot Colonel Benjamin Cleveland Hero of Kings Mountain	Stephen O. Addison	Published by the Author, Cleveland, TN, 1993
70	King's Mountain The Defeat of the Loyalists October 7, 1780	J. David Dameron	Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003
71	The King's Mountain Men The Story of the Battle, with Sketches of the American Soldiers Who Took Part	Katherine Keogh White	Joseph K. Ruebush Company, Dayton, VA, 1924
72	Revolutionary History of North Carolina in Three Lectures	Francis L. Hawks, DD, LL.D, Davis L. Swain, LL.D, William A. Graham, LL.D	William D. Cook, Raleigh, NC, 1853
73	The Navy of the American Revolution	Charles O. Paullin, Ph.D	The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland, OH, 1906

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