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.
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