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Second North Carolina Provincial Congress - Wikipedia

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Second North Carolina Provincial Congress (1775)

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Overview

Legislative body

North Carolina Provincial Congress

Jurisdiction

North Carolina, United States

Meeting place

New Bern, North Carolina

Term

1775

Members

107 Delegates (33 counties, 3 not represented; 9 towns/districts)

President

John Harvey

Sessions

1st	April 3, 1775 – April 7, 1775

The Second North Carolina Provincial Congress was the second extra-legal unicameral body of the North Carolina Provincial Congress that met beginning in 1774. They were modeled after the colonial lower house (House of Commons). These congresses created a government structure, issued bills of credit to pay for the movement, and organized an army for defense, in preparation for the state of North Carolina. These congresses paved the way for the first meeting of the North Carolina General Assembly on April 7, 1777 in New Bern, North Carolina.^[1] The second Congress met in New Bern from April 3 to April 7, 1775.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Legislation

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). This infuriated the royal governor Josiah Martin, who dissolved the colonial legislature on April 8 and never called another. This congress approved the Continental Association, an economic boycott of Great Britain authorized by the First Continental Congress. Just after this congress met, news reached North Carolina about the Battle of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. Following this news, Governor Josiah Martin fled and this ended the royal government in the Province. The first military action occurred on July 18 when patriots burned Fort Johnston, where Governor Martin had transferred his headquarters.^[5]^[4]

Delegates

County/Town Representing	Delegates to the Second North Carolina Provincial Congress (April 3–7)	Also delegate to the Province of North Carolina General Assembly of 1775 (April 4–8)
Anson	Samuel Spencer
Anson	William Thomas
Beaufort	Roger Ormond	Yes
Beaufort	Thomas Respess, Jr.	Yes
Beaufort	William Salter
Bertie	John Campbell	Yes
Bertie	John Johnston	Yes
Bertie	David Stanley	Yes
Bladen	William Salter?
Bladen	James White^[6]	Yes
Brunswick County	Robert Howe	Yes
Brunswick County	John Rowan	Yes
Bute	Thomas Eaton
Bute	Green Hill^[7]	Yes
Bute	William Person	Yes
Bute	James Ransom
Carteret	Solomon Shepard	Yes
Carteret	William Thompson	Yes
Chatham	Not represented
Chowan	Thomas Benbury	Yes
Chowan	Thomas Hunter	Yes
Chowan	Samuel Johnston	Yes
Chowan	Thomas Jones^[8]	Yes
Chowan	Thomas Oldham	Yes
Craven	William Bryan
Craven	Richard Cogdell^[9]
Craven	Jacob Blount
Craven	James Coor	Yes
Craven	Joseph Leech
Craven	Lemuel Hatch	Yes
Cumberland	Farquard Campbell	Yes
Cumberland	Thomas Rutherford	Yes
Currituck	Samuel Jarvis	Yes
Currituck	Nathan Joyner^{[note 1]}	Yes
Currituck	Thomas McKnight	Yes
Currituck	Solomon Perkins	Yes
Currituck	Francis Williamson	Yes
Dobbs	Richard Caswell	Yes
Dobbs	William McKinnie	Yes
Dobbs	George Miller
Dobbs	Simon Bright
Duplin	William Dickson^[10]
Duplin	Thomas Gray
Duplin	Thomas Hicks
Duplin	James Kenan
Edgecombe	Not represented
Granville	Memucan Hunt
Granville	Robert Montfort
Granville	Robert Williams
Granville	John Paine
Granville	Thomas Person	Yes
Guilford	Alexander Martin
Halifax County	Willie Jones
Halifax County	Nicholas Long	Yes
Halifax County	Benjamin McCulloch	Yes
Hertford	Joseph Worth
Hertford	George Wynns	Yes
Hyde	Rotheas Latham
Hyde	Samuel Smith
Johnston	Needham Bryan	Yes
Johnston	Benjamin Williams	Yes
Martin	Edmund Smithwick
Mecklenburg	Benjamin Patten
New Hanover	John Baptista Ashe	Yes
New Hanover	William Hooper	Yes
Northampton	Jeptha Atherton	Yes
Northampton	Allen Jones	Yes
Onslow	William Cray	Yes
Onslow	Henry Rhodes	Yes
Onslow	Edward Starkey
Orange	Thomas Burke
Orange	Thomas Hart	Yes
Orange	John Kinchen
Pasquotank	Edward Everagin	Yes
Pasquotank	Jonathan Herring	Yes
Pasquotank	Joseph Jones	Yes
Pasquotank	Isaac Gregory	Yes
Pasquotank	Joseph Reading	Yes
Perquimans	John Harvey	Yes
Perquimans	Thomas Harvey	Yes
Perquimans	Andrew Knox	Yes
Perquimans	John Whedbee	Yes
Perquimans	Benjamin Harvey
Pitt	James Gorham
Pitt	James Lanier
Pitt	William Robeson
Pitt	Edward Salter	Yes
Pitt	John Simpson	Yes
Rowan	Griffith Rutherford
Rowan	William Sharpe
Surry	Not represented
Tryon	David Jenkins
Tryon	Robert Alexander
Tyrrell	Jeremiah Frazier	Yes
Tyrrell	Benjamin Spruill	Yes
Tyrrell	Joseph Spruill	Yes
Wake	John Hinton
Wake	Tignal Jones
Wake	Michael Rogers
Bath Town	William Brown^[11]	Yes
Brunswick Town	Parker Quince	Yes
Campbellton Town^{[note 2]}	Robert Rowan	Yes
Edenton Town	Joseph Hewes	Yes
Halifax Town	John Webb
Halifax Town	Joseph Montfort
Hillsborough Town	Francis Nash	Yes
New Bern Town	Abner Nash
New Bern Town	James Davis
Salisbury Town	William Kennon
Wilmington Town	Cornelius Harnett	Yes

Notes:

^ Nathan Joyner was recorded as Poyner.
^ Campbellton became part of Fayetteville in 1783)

References

^ ^a ^b Butler, Lindley (2006). Powell, William Stevens (ed.). Encyclopedia of North Carolina, Provincial Congresses. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 917–918. ISBN 0807830712.
^ "State Library of North Carolina. Information page for Tryon Palace". Archived from the original on 2008-05-03.
^ Lewis, J.D. "2nd Provincial Congress". Carolina.com. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Connor, Robert Diggs Wimberly, ed. (1913). A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
^ Lewis, J.D. "Members of the 2nd Provincial Congress". The American Revolution in North Carolina. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
^ Powell, William S. (1996). "James White". NCPEDIA. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
^ Malone, E. T. Jr. (1988). "Green Hill, Jr". NCPEDIA. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
^ Powell, William S. (1988). "Thomas Jones". NCPEDIA. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
^ Watson, Alan D. (1979). "Richard Cogdell". NCPEDIA. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
^ Ingram, Charles M. (1986). "William Dickson". NCPEDIA. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
^ Lewis, J.D. "William Brown". Carolana.com. Retrieved November 3, 2019.

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Other	Executive Branch: Governor of North Carolina (List), Lieutenant Governor (since 1868), Cabinets, Council of State, Attorney General
Conventions	Hillsborough Convention of 1788, Fayetteville Convention of 1789
Provincial Congresses and Constitution	North Carolina Provincial Congress (1774–1776: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th), Constitution of North Carolina (1776, 1835 Convention, 1861 Convention, 1868 redraft, 1875 Convention, Constitution of 1971)
Notes: Prior to the Constitution of 1868: the lower house of the North Carolina Legislature was known as the House of Commons and the leader of the Senate was called the Speaker of the Senate.

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