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  2. Edenton Tea Party - Wikipedia

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    Plaque commemorating the Edenton Tea Party, October 25, 1774. Located inside the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina. In October 1774, 51 ladies from Edenton and the surrounding area signed a statement, dated October 25, 1774, supporting the resolutions passed by the first North Carolina Provincial Congress in the previous August. [14]

  3. Penelope Barker - Wikipedia

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    Plaque commemorating the Edenton Tea Party, October 25, 1774. Located inside the North Carolina State Capitol, Raleigh, North Carolina. Barker was known as a patriot of the Revolution and ten months after the famous Boston Tea Party, she organized a Tea Party of her own. Barker wrote a statement proposing a boycott of British goods, like cloth ...

  4. Edenton, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Edenton is a town in, and the county seat of, Chowan County, North Carolina, United States, [6] on Albemarle Sound. The population was 4,397 at the 2020 census. [7] Edenton is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. In recent years Edenton has become a popular retirement location and a destination for heritage tourism.

  5. Category:Edenton, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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  6. Barker House (Edenton, North Carolina) - Wikipedia

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    The house commemorates the life of Penelope Barker of Edenton who organized 51 ladies to sign a petition to King George III saying NO to taxation on tea and cloth. Unlike the tea party at Boston, the women at Edenton not only signed their names to the petition but sent it to the King and caused British newspapers to decry the first political ...

  7. Talk:Edenton Tea Party - Wikipedia

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    A fact from Edenton Tea Party appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 September 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: The text of the entry was as follows:

  8. Hayes Plantation - Wikipedia

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    James Cathcart Johnston was known as a bachelor. Recent research published in 2013 reveals that although Johnston never married, he was the father of four daughters by his manumitted mistress, Edith "Edy" Wood, of nearby Hertford, N.C. [3] Two of his girls died at the age of eight and nine in 1836, and his eldest daughter, Mary Virginia Wood Forten (daughter-in-law of wealthy African American ...

  9. Rowan Resolves - Wikipedia

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    It was signed in Salisbury, Rowan County, in the royal Province of North Carolina on August 8, 1774 in response to a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, the Intolerable Acts, after the political protest against the Tea Act in Boston, the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, commonly known as Boston Tea Party. [1]