Royal North Carolina Regiment
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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]
- Colonel John Hamilton[3]
- Captain John Legett: One of the most prominent Loyalists was John Legett, 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, Captain Legett 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][3]
- Daniel McLean
- Lieutenant McCraw
- Lieutenant Campbell[2]
- Ensign John Shaw Gent[2]
- Adjutant Roderick McLeod[2]
- Ensign Charles Atkins[2]