Take a look at this URL.  It is a short history of a court of inquiry.
I am satisfied that since that court was, in fact, convened, that your
man was on duty at the time of the infraction or that he failed to
appear at some appointed date, hour, or event.  Such "courts" were
held for infractions, of little or great significance, and that
included any militia.  Notice too that there were a number of men
seemingly impanelled to determine the facts or (and) assess fines.
Paul
http://www.cpf.navy.mil/cpfnews/..%5Ccpfnews%5C0102greeneville19.html#
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In Orange County Virginia there is an old book with no title page, no
page
numbers and on the spine "Orange County Court of Inquiry and County
Militia
1813-1858".
At the heading of each group of men, there is a statement similar to
this one
on page 21:
"At A. Battalion Court of Enquiry held at Capt. May Burton's Tavern on
Saturday the 11th of November 1815 for the assessment of fines
belonging to the 2nd
Battalion and 3rd Regiment Orange Militia.  Present Maj. William
Dulaney,
Thomas Sorrille, James White, Joab Early, Sandford Beazley, Gilbert H.
Hamilton,
Lawrence T. Dade, L. Benjamin F. Porter.
Captain Joab Early's Company
Richard Harvey                        Regimental
.0 75
Peter Gibson                                 Do
.0 75
Bird Snow                                     Do
.0 75
    Captain   Sandford Beazley's Company,
David Draper                            Regt. June, August
.2 25
William Estes                                Do August
.1 50
Littleton Estes                               Do
.0 75
John Roberts                                 Do
.0 75 "

There are 25-35 men usually listed in each group.  The Order Books for
this
period are missing. My question is:
How can I prove to a War of 1812 Society from this book, that these
men were
actually involved during this time period, assigned to this company,
and were
not criminals because of a $1.50 fine???
I was told by the Society Registrar that "since William Estes was
fined
$1.50, we could not consider him a Patriot, because of this fine".
I was also told that the fine was probably for not showing up or not
wearing
the proper uniform etc.

My thanks for your response,

Anne

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