Which Hastings was a Tory?

In October 2006 I posted an entry on Genforum suggesting that the John Hastings who on August 7, 1754, was named to work on a road in Orange County "from the Camp Branch to the Western Path in Robert Cate's dist[rict]" was Henry's brother.

I also suggested that this John Hastings was the same person whom Col. David Fanning in 1781 named a lieutenant in of the British colonial militia, and whom the "patriot" Colonel Robert Burton permitted to remain at his home "until called on." Joseph Hastings received the same dispensation. Joseph and John Hastings could be Henry's brothers, but I think it's more likely that they are his children. Regardless, they were Tories (Loyalists).

I recently found a passage in Archibald Henderson's "North Carolina, the Old North State and the New" that confirms that John Hastings was a Tory who wounded a man named Joseph Hodge during the Battle of Lindley's Mill. (Click on the excerpts to enlarge them.)

This John Hastings was a Loyalist, in a stronghold of rebellion. And the excerpt makes him out as a bit of a coward, too.

The date of this incident is not given, but it appears to have occurred on September 14, 1781, during the Battle of Lindley's Mill. In the summer of 1781 the Tory War erupted in eastern and central North Carolina between Loyalists and Whigs (rebels). On September 13, 1781, the Loyalists, under Fanning, captured Thomas Burke (the governor of North Carolina) in Hillsborough. The Whigs counterattacked the next day in the Battle of Lindley's Mill. The Loyalists turned Burke over to the British, who imprisoned him at Charlestown (Charleston), South Carolina.

In the next month, the Whigs defeated most of the Loyalists in eastern North Carolina, and the British soon abandoned Wilmington. A few days later, Lord Cornwallis surrendered his forces (including some North Carolina Loyalists) at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the war.

Early in 1782, David Fanning escaped from North Carolina, ending the Tory War. The British evacuated Charlestown in November 1782, taking with them more than eight hundred Loyalist soldiers. Some of the Loyalists went to England, but most left for other British possessions, including Florida, Bermuda, Jamaica, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario.

A website about the family of Joseph Hodge (the man John Hastings wounded) says that according to the "North Carolina Revolutionary War Folio," Joseph Hodge (1775-Feb 28, 1822) was wounded in Orange County on Sept. 14, 1781 by a Tory, Hastings during the Battle of Lindley's Mill. The site adds that Joseph (Hodge) and (John) Hastings later became neighbors and friends. I don't see a source for the latter statement. I note that Hodge was born in 1755, which suggests that the Tory John Hastings was Henry's son, not his brother. Henry had sons named John and Joseph, so the names match.