Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress

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Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress (1776)
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President Samuel Johnston
Overview
Legislative bodyNorth Carolina Provincial Congress
JurisdictionNorth Carolina, United States
Meeting placeHalifax, North Carolina
Term1776
Members153 Delegates (35 counties, 8 Districts)
PresidentSamuel Johnston[1]
Vice-PresidentAllen Jones[2]
Secretary[3][4]
Assistant SecretaryJames Glasgow[4][5]
Clerk[4]
Sessions
1stApril 4, 1776 – May 14, 1776

The Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress was one of five extra-legal unicameral bodies that met beginning in the summer of 1774 through 1776. 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, organized an army for defense, wrote a constitution and bill of rights that established the state of North Carolina, and elected their first acting governor in the fifth congress that met in 1776. These congresses paved the way for the first meeting of the North Carolina General Assembly on April 7, 1777 in New Bern, North Carolina.[6] The Fourth Congress met in Halifax from April 4 to May 14, 1776. Samuel Johnston served as president, with Allen Jones as vice-president.[6][7][4][8][1][2]

Legislation[]

See also: Halifax Resolves
John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence, depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. Hewes and Penn are depicted in the back row. Hooper missed the initial vote approving it on the Fourth of July, 1776, but was able to sign it on August 2, 1776.

The delegates authorized their representatives to the Second Continental Congress to vote for the Declaration of 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 1776 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 States.[9][10][11]

Members[]

Thomas Amis, Halifax County
John Baptista Ashe, New Hanover County
Thomas Burke, Orange County
Richard Caswell, Dobbs County
Philemon Hawkins, II, Bute County
Joseph Hewes, Edenton
William Hooper, New Hanover County
Samuel Johnston, Chowan County
Allen Jones, Northampton County
Willie Jones, Halifax County
Abner Nash, New Bern
John Penn, Granville County
Nathaniel Rochester, Orange County
Joseph Winston, Surry County

The following list shows the names of the delegates and the counties or districts that they represented:[4][8][12]

County or Town/District Delegate
Anson
Anson
Anson
Anson
Anson Samuel Spencer
Beaufort
Beaufort Roger Ormond
Beaufort
Bertie [13]
Bertie
Bertie
Bladen [14]
Bladen
Bladen
Bladen
Bladen [15]
Brunswick Unknown/Vacant
Bute [16]
Bute [17]
Bute [18]
Bute William Person
Bute
Carteret [19]
Carteret
Carteret William Thompson
Chatham
Chatham
Chatham Ambrose Ramsey
Chatham
Chatham
Chowan Thomas Benbury
Chowan
Chowan
Chowan Samuel Johnston[1]
Chowan [20]
Craven [21]
Craven
Craven
Craven James Coor
Craven
Cumberland [22]
Cumberland Alexander McAllister
Cumberland
Cumberland [23]
Cumberland
Currituck
Currituck [24]
Currituck [25]
Currituck
Currituck James White[26]
Dobbs
Dobbs Richard Caswell
Dobbs
Dobbs
Dobbs Abraham Sheppard
Duplin Richard Clinton
Duplin [27]
Duplin
Edgecombe [28]
Edgecombe
Edgecombe [29]
Edgecombe [30]
Edgecombe [31]
Granville
Granville Memucan Hunt
Granville John Penn
Granville Thomas Person
Granville
Guilford
Guilford [32]
Guilford
Halifax Willis Alston
Halifax
Halifax James Hogun
Halifax
Halifax
Hertford [33]
Hertford
Hertford [note 1]
Hertford
Hyde
Hyde
Hyde
Hyde
Johnston [34]
Johnston
Johnston [35]
Martin Whitmell Hill
Martin
Martin
Martin [36]
Martin [37]
Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg Robert Irwin
Mecklenburg
New Hanover John Ashe
New Hanover Samuel Ashe
New Hanover
New Hanover
New Hanover
Northampton Jeptha Atherton
Northampton
Northampton
Northampton
Northampton Allen Jones[2]
Northampton
Northampton
Onslow
Onslow
Onslow
Onslow
Onslow [38]
Orange Thomas Burke
Orange [39]
Orange [40]
Orange Nathaniel Rochester
Orange
Pasquotank [41]
Pasquotank [42]
Pasquotank Dempsey Burgess
Pasquotank William Cumming
Pasquotank Joseph Jones
Perquimans
Perquimans [43]
Perquimans [44]
Perquimans
Perquimans William Skinner
Pitt
Pitt
Pitt [45]
Rowan
Rowan Matthew Locke
Rowan Griffith Rutherford
Surry
Surry
Surry Joseph Winston
Tryon [46]
Tryon
Tyrrell 
Wake [47]
Wake William Hooper
Wake
Wake [48]
Wake
Bath District [49]
Campbellton Town[note 2] [50]
Edenton District Joseph Hewes
Halifax District Willie Jones[note 3]
Halifax District [note 3]
Hillsborough District [51]
New Bern District Abner Nash
Salisbury District
Wilmington District Cornelius Harnett

Notes:

  1. ^ Possibly the father of William Murfree
  2. ^ Campbellton became part of Fayetteville in 1784
  3. ^ a b Willie Jones had to leave the congress because he was elected by the Continental Congress to serve as the Superintendent of Indian Affairs. John Webb replaced him.

See also[]

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