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Benjamin Lincoln

1733–1810 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineOrange County's militia in the Revolution, 1775–17791775–1779 · 17 events · Orange County had to field a Revolutionary militia in a district the Council of Safety thought full of disaffected persons. The Provincial Congress named the county's officers in 1775, and in February 1776 Orange men held Cross Creek while Nathaniel Rochester took about 500 retreating Loyalists prisoner. In April 1776 the congress split the militia into Northern and Southern regiments under John Butler and James Saunders. Asked for 500 men against the Cherokee, Orange met a quota of 300. By 1778 the county owed the state's troops 73 hats and 146 pairs of shoes, and in 1779 Hillsborough became an army depot as Orange militia fought at Stono Ferry.

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  1. Orange County militia serve at Stono Ferry in South Carolina Under General John Butler, militia from Orange took part in Benjamin Lincoln's attack on the British at Stono Ferry. People: John Butler, Benjamin Lincoln Place: Stono Ferry, South CarolinaSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 49

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Governors' Papers: Richard Caswell, Correspondence, March 1780

Lillington, John A. · 1780

March 1780 letters of Governor Richard Caswell, in 63 images, from the last weeks of his first run as governor. John A. Lillington is among the writers, and Benjamin Lincoln, Samuel Huntington, John Rutledge and Charles Thomson are named, with Camden, Duplin, Hertford, Wayne and Orange counties.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810.

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