Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress

Fourth North Carolina
Provincial Congress
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Overview
Legislative bodyNorth Carolina Provincial Congress
JurisdictionNorth Carolina (de facto)
Meeting placeHalifax Court House
TermApril 4, 1776 – May 14, 1776
Provincial Congress
Members153 delegates
PresidentSamuel Johnston
Vice PresidentCornelius Harnett
Sovereign
MonarchHM George III
GovernorHE Josiah Martin

The Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress was a meeting of the provincial congress of the de facto provincial government of North Carolina, composed of 153 delegates from 35 counties and nine towns. The congress convened in Halifax on April 4, 1776, and ended on May 14, 1776, during the final year of Josiah Martin's gubernatorial administration. Samuel Johnston was unanimously chosen as president, and Cornelius Harnett was appointed as vice president of the congress.[1][2]

History

Resolutions

Further information: Halifax Resolves

The delegates authorized their representatives to the Second Continental Congress to vote for independence, including Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, and John Penn. The 83 delegates present on April 12, 1776 adopted the Halifax Resolves. On April 13, 1776, the delegates formed a committee to start working on a North Carolina Constitution, which was ratified in December by the Fifth North Carolina Provincial Congress. In April 1776, the congress passed a resolve to move loyalists while allowing them to dispose of their property. Later in May 1776, the congress passed a resolve to confiscate the property of those taking up arms against the United Colonies.[3][4][5]

Delegates

The following is a full list of delegates to the fourth congress by constituency.[6][7][8]

Constituency Name
Anson County John Child
Anson County John Crawford
Anson County Daniel Love
Anson County James Pickett
Anson County Samuel Spencer
Beaufort County John Cowper
Beaufort County Roger Ormond
Beaufort County Thomas Respess, jun.
Bertie County John Campbell[9]
Bertie County John Johnston
Bertie County Charles Jaycocks
Bladen County Thomas Amis[10]
Bladen County Maturin Colville
Bladen County James Council
Bladen County Nathaniel Richardson
Bladen County Thomas Robeson, jun.[11]
Brunswick County not represented
Bute County William Alston[12]
Bute County Philemon Hawkins[13]
Bute County Green Hill[14]
Bute County William Person
Bute County Thomas Sherrod
Carteret County John Backhouse[15]
Carteret County Solomon Shepard
Carteret County William Thompson
Chatham County Elisha Cain
Chatham County Jeduthan Harper
Chatham County Ambrose Ramsey
Chatham County Joseph Rosser
Chatham County John Thompson
Chowan County Thomas Benbury
Chowan County John B. Beasly
Chowan County Thomas Hunter
Chowan County Samuel Johnston[16]
Chowan County Thomas Jones[17]
Craven County Jacob Blount[18]
Craven County John Bryan
Craven County William Bryan
Craven County James Coor
Craven County Lemuel Hatch
Cumberland County David Smith
Cumberland County Alexander McAllister
Cumberland County Farquard Campbell[19]
Cumberland County Thomas Rutherford[20]
Cumberland County Alexander McKay
Currituck County Samuel Jarvis
Currituck County Gideon Lamb[21]
Currituck County Solomon Perkins[22]
Currituck County James Ryan
Currituck County James White[23]
Dobbs County Simon Bright
Dobbs County Richard Caswell
Dobbs County William McKinnie
Dobbs County George Miller
Dobbs County Abraham Sheppard
Duplin County Richard Clinton
Duplin County William Dickson[24]
Duplin County Thomas Gray
Edgecombe County Elisha Battle[25]
Edgecombe County Nathan Boddie
Edgecombe County William Haywood[26]
Edgecombe County Henry Irwin[27]
Edgecombe County Duncan Lemon[28]
Granville County Charles A. Eaton
Granville County Memucan Hunt
Granville County John Penn
Granville County Thomas Person
Granville County John Taylor
Guilford County William Dent
Guilford County Ralph Gorrell, jun.[29]
Guilford County Ransom Sutherland
Halifax County Willis Alston
Halifax County John Bradford
Halifax County James Hogun
Halifax County David Sumner
Halifax County Joseph John Williams
Hertford County Lawrence Baker[30]
Hertford County Matthias Brickell, jun.
Hertford County William Murfree[note 1]
Hertford County Robert Sumner
Hyde County Joseph Hancock
Hyde County John Jordan
Hyde County Rotheas Latham
Hyde County Benjamin Parmelin
Johnston County Samuel Smith, jun.[31]
Johnston County Henry Rains
Johnston County Needham Bryan, jun.[32]
Martin County Whitmell Hill
Martin County Kenneth McKenzie
Martin County Edward Smithwick
Martin County Thomas Wiggins[33]
Martin County William Williams[34]
Mecklenburg County John McKnitt Alexander
Mecklenburg County Robert Irwin
Mecklenburg County John Phifer
New Hanover County John Ashe
New Hanover County Samuel Ashe
New Hanover County John DeVane
New Hanover County John Hollingsworth
New Hanover County Sampson Mosely
Northampton County Jeptha Atherton
Northampton County Howell Edmunds
Northampton County Drewry Gee
Northampton County Eaton Haynes
Northampton County Allen Jones[35]
Northampton County Samuel Lockhart
Northampton County Eaton Haynes
Onslow County Benjamin Doty
Onslow County John King
Onslow County George Mitchell
Onslow County John Norman
Onslow County John Spicer[36]
Orange County Thomas Burke
Orange County John Butler[37]
Orange County John Kinchen[38]
Orange County Nathaniel Rochester
Orange County James Saunders
Pasquotank County Henry Abbot[39]
Pasquotank County Thomas Boyd[40]
Pasquotank County Dempsey Burgess
Pasquotank County William Cumming
Pasquotank County Joseph Jones
Perquimans County Charles Blount
Perquimans County Miles Harvey[41]
Perquimans County Thomas Harvey[42]
Perquimans County Charles Moore
Perquimans County William Skinner
Pitt County William Robeson
Pitt County Edward Salter
Pitt County John Simpson[43]
Rowan County John Johnston
Rowan County Matthew Locke
Rowan County Griffith Rutherford
Surry County Charles Gordon
Surry County Joseph Williams
Surry County Joseph Winston
Tryon County James Johnston[44]
Tryon County Charles McLean
Tyrrell County Archibald Corry
Wake County John Hinton[45]
Wake County William Hooper
Wake County Tignal Jones
Wake County Joel Lane[46]
Wake County John Rand
Town of Bath William Brown[47]
Edenton Joseph Hewes
Newbern Abner Nash
Wilmington Cornelius Harnett
Brunswick not represented
Halifax Willie Jones[note 2]
Halifax John Webb[note 2]
Hillsborough William Johnston[48]
Salisbury David Nesbitt
Campbelton[note 3] Arthur Council[49]

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ Possibly the father of William Murfree
  2. ^ a b Willie Jones had to leave the provincial congress because he was elected by the Continental Congress to serve as the Superintendent of Indian Affairs. John Webb replaced him.
  3. ^ Campbelton became part of Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1783.

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