Excerpt from Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. 10: Published Under the Supervision of the Trustees of the Public Libraries, by Order of the General Assembly; 1775-1776 By way of putting the colony in a state of defense, six' battalions of minute men, one for each district, each battalion to consist of ten companies of fifty men each, were raised, in addition to which the militia was at once reorganized and put on a war footing as far as possible. The troops for the continental line consisted of two regi ments 'of regulars of five hundred men each. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.