Statistics for occurrence #1 of “David Fanning” in entry united-states-of-america-north-carolina of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

......June, 1781 Tories under Col. Hector McNeill, numbering 600 men, in the early morning march into Hillsboro and capture Governor Burke and his suite and plunder the town......Sept. 13, 1781 David Fanning , a freebooter, appointed lieutenant-colonel of the royal militia in June, 1781, captures forty-four persons at Chatham Court-house while a courtmartial is in progress, July 16; besieges the garrisone...
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