The Third North Carolina Provincial Congress was the third of five extra-legal unicameral bodies that met between 1774 and 1776 in North Carolina. They...
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The North Carolina Provincial Congresses were extra-legal unicameral legislative bodies formed in 1774 through 1776 by the people of the Province of North...
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Francis Nash (category Members of the North Carolina Provincial Congresses)
delegate to the first three Patriot provincial congresses. In 1775, he was named lieutenant colonel of the 1st North Carolina Regiment under Colonel James Moore...
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Continental Congress to vote for independence from the British Crown, through the Halifax Resolves passed by the North Carolina Provincial Congress. The date...
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Thomas Polk (category Members of the North Carolina Provincial Congresses)
served in the North Carolina House of Commons, North Carolina Provincial Congress, and Council of State. Polk commanded the 4th North Carolina Regiment in...
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lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress and was the third governor of the state...
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Roger Ormond (category Members of the North Carolina Provincial Congresses)
battles of Lexington and Concord. He was a member of the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress, which met in Hillsborough on August 20, 1775. He was sent...
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Robert Howe (Continental Army officer) (category Members of the North Carolina Provincial Congresses)
within North Carolina and among the American colonies between 1773 and 1775 and was an active member of the North Carolina Provincial Congress. At the...
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The North Carolina militia units were first established in 1775 by the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress on the eve of the American Revolution...
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The First North Carolina Provincial Congress was the first of five extra-legal unicameral bodies that met beginning in the summer of 1774. They were modeled...
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the first North Carolina Provincial Congress held in New Bern on August 25, 1774. The same two were delegates to the second Provincial Congress held in...
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of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-0658-3. Congress (1776). Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, North Carolina. Provincial Congress...
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northwestern South Carolina as well. After the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress held at Hillsborough, North Carolina (Aug. 20-Sept. 10, 1775), the "judicial"...
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Carolina's Third Provincial Congress in Hillsborough in August 1775 and represented Johnston County, North Carolina in the North Carolina House of Commons...
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James Moore (Continental Army officer) (redirect from James Moore (North Carolina))
colony-wide extra-legal Provincial Congress. In 1775, he was elected the first commander of a Continental Line regiment in North Carolina, which had been raised...
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Light Infantry, 1776 The North Carolina militia units were first established in 1775 by the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress on the eve of the American...
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1774, Penn moved to the Stovall, North Carolina. There, he was a representative at the colony's Third Provincial Congress in August 1775. In 1775 Penn was...
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(5 km) due north of the Fourth Creek settlement. Built and garrisoned by North Carolina provincial soldiers, Fort Dobbs defended British North America's...
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Richard Clinton (politician) (category Members of the North Carolina Provincial Congresses)
County in the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress in 1775. After the establishment of the Independent State Government of North Carolina by the Halifax...
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to declaring its independence, North Carolina was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The 13-member Provincial Council, renamed the Council of...
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The history of North Carolina from pre-colonial history to the present, covers the experiences of the people who have lived within the territory that now...
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Samuel Johnston (category Members of the North Carolina Provincial Congresses)
North Carolina. He represented North Carolina in both the Continental Congress and the United States Senate, and he was the sixth Governor of North Carolina...
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Continental Congress with the news that Massachusetts had established the first autonomous government of the Thirteen Colonies (The North Carolina Provincial Congress...
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Halifax Resolves (category Halifax County, North Carolina)
Resolves was a name later given to the resolution adopted by the North Carolina Provincial Congress on April 12, 1776. The adoption of the resolution was the...
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restrict their slaves ability to carry guns. 1741, a law of the North Carolina Provincial Congress forbade the manumission of slaves except as a reward for outstanding...
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Continental Line was completed on January 8, 1777. The Third North Carolina Provincial Congress (1775) authorized the creation of six battalions of "Minutemen"...
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Guilford County Regiment (category North Carolina militia)
County Regiment was authorized on September 9, 1775 by the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress. It was subordinate to the Salisbury District Brigade of...
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Jeptha Atherton (category Members of the North Carolina Provincial Congresses)
elected to the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress in August 1775 in Hillsborough, the Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress in Halifax in April...
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Anson County Regiment (category North Carolina militia)
County Regiment was authorized on September 9, 1775 by the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress. The regiment was engaged in battles and skirmishes against...
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Thomas Eaton (general) (category Members of the North Carolina Provincial Congresses)
War from 1775 to 1784. He was a member of the North Carolina Provincial Congress and North Carolina House of Commons for several terms simultaneously with...
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