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House Joint Resolutions: Feb. 6-Feb. 13
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1779
Joint resolutions of the House of Commons for February 6 to 13, 1779, covering payrolls, army supplies, horses, resignations and loyalist property. Captain Ptolemy Powell, the Rev. Adam Boyd, James Green and William Gilbert appear, along with Governor Richard Caswell. Orange County is among the counties concerned. 124 images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Boyd, Adam, 1738-1803.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
October-November, 1779: Joint Select Committees (Chiefly appointments and referrals)
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1779
Messages, reports and referrals of the General Assembly's joint select committees from October and November 1779, 97 pages in all. Business ranges over public money and depreciation, army supply, militia, taxation, land titles and appointments, and names include Governor Richard Caswell, Abner Nash, Edmund Fanning and the printer James Davis. Orange County is among the counties touched.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Boyd, Adam, 1738-1803.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Session of November-December, 1771: Joint Resolutions, November 28-December 23
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1771
Joint resolutions of the General Assembly, 28 November to 23 December 1771, passed in the months after the Battle of Alamance. They favor claimants such as James Alford of Wake County, Robert Howe, Wilmington jailer David Pollock and John Fulford, whose money had burned, and touch on disabled veterans and widows. Seventy-one images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Boyd, Adam, 1738-1803.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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