This extract is from a document recorded in the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina. This record set is housed at UNC and many can be accessed online through the Documenting the American South website . This particular document is a first person account from March 10, 1776 of the Loyalist rout at Moore's Creek. The letter was written shortly after the battle (February 1776) and nearly exactly one month before the Halifax Congress adopted the Halifax Resolves and selected NC delegates Joseph Hewes, William Hooper and John Penn to present them to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.  "Letter from an Unknown Source, Dated the 10 th of March, 1776. ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Parties of Men are dispersed all over the Colony, apprehending all suspected persons, and disarming all Highlanders and Regulators that were put to the rout in the late battle. The Conquerors have already taken 350 guns and shot-bags; about 150 swords and dirks; 1,500 excellent rifles; two medicine-ches...