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August-September, 1780: Joint Select Committees (Reports of and messages concerning)

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1763

August 31: re committee to devise ways and means to raise supplies for the army (messages only) August 31: governors' message referred to the committee appointed to prepare a bill to procure provisions for the army, etc…

Governors' Papers: Abner Nash, Correspondence, September 1780

Brice, Francis. · 1763

Abner Nash (ca. 1740-2 December 1786) was the second governor of the state of North Carolina. He was governor from April 20, 1780 until 25 June 1781. The fall of Charles Town, the defeat at Camden, and depleted resource…

Senate Joint Resolutions: August 30-September 13

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1763

August 30: re militia lately defeated in South Carolina and dispersed (rejected) August 31: recommending commission for Captain William Williams as captain of Invalid Corps (with petition) August 31: requesting Major Ge…

Letters from Lord Cornwallis regarding incursions into North Carolina, General Gates' movement to Hillsborough, interruptions during the movement of prisoners of war to Charleston and attacks by rebel forces

1780

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