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  2. North Carolina Provincial Congress - Wikipedia

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    North Carolina $7½ bill issued at Halifax on April 2, 1776, featuring the Continental Union Flag fully hoisted. 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.

  3. Halifax Resolves - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Second North Carolina Provincial Congress - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. Rowan Resolves - Wikipedia

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    Rowan Resolves is the short name for a colonial era document called Resolutions by inhabitants of Rowan County concerning resistance to Parliamentary taxation and the Provincial Congress of North Carolina.

  6. Willie Jones (statesman) - Wikipedia

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    Willie Jones (pronounced Wiley Jones, [1] [2] May 25, 1741 – June 18, 1801) was an American planter and statesman from Halifax County, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1780. His brother Allen Jones was also a delegate to the congress.

  7. Joseph Hardin Sr. - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Hardin Sr. (April 18, 1734 – July 4, 1801) was an Assemblyman (in the Provincial Congress) for the Province of North Carolina, and was a signatory of the Tryon Resolves. Early in the War for Independence, as a member of the militia from Tryon County, Hardin fought the Cherokee allies of Britain along the western frontier.

  8. Category : Members of the North Carolina Provincial Congresses

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    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.

  9. Thoughts on Government - Wikipedia

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    The book Thoughts on Government by John Adams (1776). Thoughts on Government, or in full Thoughts on Government, Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies, was written by John Adams during the spring of 1776 in response to a resolution of the North Carolina Provincial Congress which requested Adams' suggestions on the establishment of a new government and the drafting of a ...