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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Quartermaster / Patriotic Service
Author: Edward E. McBride III
Benjamin Evans was a Sergeant in the Quartermaster Department of the NC Militia during the American Revolution. His service was in the Edenton District of NC. His service is documented in Weynette Parks Haun’s North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts (Treasurer’s & Comptroller’s Papers), Vol X, Part VIII, page 96 folio 3, 1996 on page 1101.
The Quartermaster Department was a small organization responsible for supply activities and providing transportation to the Army. The department was handicapped by having no money or authority to pay for the supplies needed by the soldiers in the American Revolution.
Benjamin Evans was born in 1742 in Chowan County, NC and died about 1825 in Chowan County, NC. He was married to Margaret of NC and they were married about 1770 in Hertford County, NC. As noted in the 1824 Bible of Zachariah Evans, one of the sons of Benjamin Evans was Zachariah Evans.
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