9th North Carolina Regiment
The 9th North Carolina Regiment was raised, on 16 September 1776, at Halifax, North Carolina for service with the Continental Army. The regiment saw action at the Battle of Brandywine and Battle of Germantown. The regiment was disbanded, on 1 June 1778, at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. History. The 9th North Carolina Regiment was one of ten regiments provided by North Carolina to the Continental Army between September 1775 and November 1776. It was relatively short lived, having been authorized and established on November 28, 1776 and disbanded by the Continental Congress on June 1, 1778 due  to the low number of troops. It was never reconstituted. The Hillsborough and Salisbury Districts contributed the bulk of the soldiers in the regiment that assembled in Halifax, North Carolina in the Spring of 1777. Eight companies of the regiment marched north as part of the Northern Department of the Continental Army and were engaged at the battles of Brandywine Creek on September 11, 1777 and Germantown on October 4, 1777 (both in Pennsylvania). All ten regiments from North Carolina participated in both of these battles. The commandant of the regiment, John Williams, who commissioned as colonel of the regiment  on November 26, 1776, returned home to North Carolina after the regiment was disbanded. The subordination of the 9th North Carolina regiment changed several times during its brief existence: Officers. Field Officers: