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Adam Boyd

The Rev. Adam Boyd was elected secretary of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati when former officers of the state's Continental line founded it on October 23, 1783, in James Hogg's cabin near Hillsborough. Jethro Sumner was elected its president.

Source: North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati: History

1738–1803 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Adam Boyd lays the Philadelphia synod's pastoral letters before the Provincial Congress At the Provincial Congress meeting in Hillsborough, Boyd presented two hundred pastoral letters from the Synod of Philadelphia addressed to the inhabitants of the province, and they were handed out to the members. The congress voted to pay him for them. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, August 20 to September 10, 1775
  2. Continental officers organize the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati at James Hogg's cabin Former officers of the North Carolina Continental line gathered near Hillsborough in a cabin owned by the merchant James Hogg and founded the state's Society of the Cincinnati. They elected Jethro Sumner president, Thomas Clark vice president and Adam Boyd secretary. Sixty-six of the roughly six hundred commissioned officers the state sent to the war joined by contributing a month's pay. People: Jethro Sumner, James Hogg, Adam Boyd Place: near Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas ClarkSearch the index · North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati: History

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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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Boyd, Adam, 1738-1803.

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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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Boyd, Adam, 1738-1803.

NC Digital Collections

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Boyd, Adam, 1738-1803.

NC Digital Collections

NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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