Benjamin McCullock also appears to have been caught up in a scandal over military pay.

The state senator from Halifax County was expelled on Dec. 11, 1786, for taking as much as a third of a cut from military paychecks that were sent through an office in New Bern.

The account of the scandal in "The Colonial Records of North Carolina," Vol. XVIII, (p. 305) is a little hard to follow, but it appears that McCullock and state Rep. Henry Montfort falsified receipts and allowed military pay to be taken fraudulently.

Montfort, of Warren County, was expelled from the House on Dec. 15. He later testified in the case of John Bonds, who was expelled in 1787. 

John Bonds was expelled for illegally taking military pay.

According to "The Colonial Records of North Carolina," Vol. XX, (p. 233), the head of a House committee testified on Dec. 14, 1787, that Bonds improperly withdrew Army pay intended for at least four other men.

A Halifax County grand jury found Bonds guilty of illegally withdrawing pay in one instance.

The committee also heard testimony from a James Cremer, whose money Bonds had withdrawn. In his defense, Bonds claimed that he was supposed to be withdrawing money for a Thomas Cremer, blaming the clerk for writing the name wrong.

But he was done in by the testimony of a widow who said he told her he "would not give you a snap of my Finger for your chance" at getting her husband's pay.

Bonds was then expelled.