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Primary source:
An Act for Raising Men to Complete the Continental Battalions Belonging to this State, and Other Purposes, state law, 1780.
Caption: North Carolina, like other states, rewarded veterans of the American Revolution with the granting of land and slaves.
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III. And as a farther consideration, be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that each and every soldier who shall well and truly serve and perform his duty as a soldier, shall be intitled to receive at the expiration of every year the sum of five hundred dollars, to be paid him by the proper officer appointed for that purpose, and each and every soldier who shall serve out his three years, or to the end of the present war, shall have and receive one prime slave between the age of fifteen and thirty years, or the value thereof in current money, and two hundred acres of land, to be laid off as herein after located and described; and every soldier inlisted as aforesaid, who may die in the service of his country by the fate of war, sickness, accident, or otherwise, his heirs shall be intitled to receive his pay, together with the slave and land intended to be given him in virtue of this Act.
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An Act for Raising Men to Complete the Continental Battalions Belonging to this State, and Other Purposes (17 April 1780) reprinted in The State Records of North Carolina, 1777–1790, ed. Walter Clark (North Carolina: Winston and Goldsboro, 1886–1914), 338.
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