"Saturday, [October] 14th [1780]. Twelve field officers were chosen to try the militia prisoners—particularly those who had the most influence in the country. They condemed thirty—in the evening they began to execute Lieut.-Col. Mills, Capt. Wilson, Capt. Chitwood, and six others, who unfortunately fell a sacrifice to their infamous mock jury. Mills, Wilson, and Chitwood died like Romans—the others were reprieved." — pp. 510–511 "Appendix: Diary of Lieut. Anthony Allaire, of Ferguson's Corps., Memorandum of ocurrences during the campaign of 1780" in "King's Mountain and its heroes: history of the Battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the events which led to it" by Lyman Copeland Draper, P.G. Thomson, 1881. https://archive.org/details/DiaryOfLieut.AnthonyAllaireOfFergusonsCorps.MemorandumOfOccurrences/page/n27/mode/2up
Floyd A. Reed, November 4, 2020 – January 24, 2023