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The North Carolina Provincial Congress was an extralegal representative assembly patterned after the colonial lower house that existed in North Carolina from 1774 to 1776. It led the transition from British provincial to U.S. state government in North Carolina .
North Carolina Provincial Congress: Jurisdiction: North Carolina, United States: Meeting place: Halifax, North Carolina: Term: 1776: Members: 153 Delegates (35 counties, 8 Districts) President: Samuel Johnston [1] Vice-President: Allen Jones [2] Secretary: James Green Jr. [3] [4] Assistant Secretary: James Glasgow [4] [5] Clerk: John Hunt [4 ...
The delegates to the First North Carolina Provincial Congress deliberated in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts (Boston Port Act) by British rulers. The following resolutions were passed by this congress on August 27, 1774 and are listed below as they appear in the minutes of the sessions. [11] [5]
To govern North Carolina when the congress was not in session, a 13-member Provincial Council was elected, constituting the first executive body in a North Carolina free of British rule. Cornelius Harnett was elected as the first president of the council. [4] [5] The following members were elected to the council by the delegates: [5]
These congresses paved the way for the first meeting of the North Carolina General Assembly on April 7, 1777 in New Bern, North Carolina. [3] The Fifth Congress met in Halifax from November 12 to December 23, 1776. Richard Caswell served as president, with Cornelius Harnett as vice-president. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The second congress met at New Bern, from April 3 to 7, 1775. John Harvey served as moderator. The congress met at the same place and almost the same time as the Province of North Carolina General Assembly of 1775 and had almost exactly the same membership (61 of the 107 delegates attended both).
The resolution of April 12, 1776, became known as the Halifax Resolves because the Fourth Provincial Congress of North Carolina adopted them while meeting in the town of Halifax, North Carolina. The 83 delegates present unanimously adopted the resolves, which encouraged delegates to the Continental Congress from all the colonies to finally push ...
North Carolina portal; Politics portal; This category is for members of any of the five North Carolina Provincial Congresses that met between 1774 and 1776, after it was the Province of North Carolina and before it became the state of North Carolina in 1776.