Jethro Sumner (1733-1785) Papers, PC.83

[Identification of item], PC.83, Jethro Sumner Papers, Private Collections, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

Military papers of Brigadier General Sumner, Virginia native, resi- dent of Warren Co., including orders during the French and Indian War from Col. William Byrd and Henry Bouquet. Correspondence from the Revolutionary period includes letters from Charles Lee, Ab- ner Nash, Nicholas Long (deputy quartermaster), John Baptista Ashe, Benjamin Seawell, and Alexander Brevard; copies of letters from John Ashe to Benjamin Lincoln and from Horatio Gates and William Lee Davidson to Sumner; and drafts of Sumner to Nathanael Greene and others. Topics include desertions (1776), draft and reen- listments (1778-1783), provisions and arms, transportation, plans and orders, relationships between the Continental Line and the militia (1781), reorganization of officers (1782), and inflation (1783). Also in- cluded are notes on courts of enquiry into disputes over rank and over discharge eligibility claimed by soldiers of the 3rd N.C Battalion (1777); a report on meeting of North Carolina Virginia officers in Surry Co. (Oct., 1780) calling for surrender of insurgents after battle at Shallowford; and photograph of Sumner's certification of delegates to the general convention of the Society of the Cincinnati (1784).

37 items, 3 folders.

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• •  J. Sumner Papers: Correspondence
  PC.83 Folder 1

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• •  J. Sumner Papers: Correspondence
  PC.83 Folder 2

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• •  J. Sumner Papers: Bond
  PC.83 Folder 3

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Sumner, Jethro

Byrd, William

Bouquet, Henry

Lee, Charles

Nash, Abner

Long, Nicholas

Ashe, John Baptista, 1748-1802

Seawell, Benjamin

Brevard, Alexander

Lincoln, Benjamin

Gates, Horatio

Davidson, William Lee

Greene, Nathanael

Society of the Cincinnati

Continental Line

Third N.C. Battalion

General Convention of the Society of the Cincinnati (1784)

Brigadier Generals

French and Indian War, 1755-1763

Colonels

Officer

Generals

Desertion, Military

Recruiting

Economic conditions

Shallow Ford, Battle of (1780)

Soldiers

Reorganizations

Provisions

Troop Movements

Deadly Weapon

Militia

Capitulations, Military

Battles

Certification

Delegates

Conventions

Military campaigns

[ Duplin Co. Militia] Regimental Courts-Martial

Courts

Virginia

Warren County

Surry County (N.C.)

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783