Indexed works
Works about or by Philemon Hawkins. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
August-September, 1780: Joint Select Committees (Reports of and messages concerning)
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1780
Reports and messages of joint select committees from August and September 1780, when the General Assembly met at Hillsborough after the defeat at Camden. Committees worked on supplies and provisions for the army and the adjustment of public claims. Horatio Gates, Richard Caswell, Abner Nash, William Hooper, hospitals, surgeons, cavalry and wagons all appear. 88 pages.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hawkins, Philemon, 1717-1801.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Senate Bills (September 6): Bill for levying a specific provision tax
North Carolina. General Assembly · 1780
Bill of 6 September 1780 for a specific provision tax, a levy paid in goods such as corn, wheat, flour, pork, beef, rye, oats and rice for the Revolutionary war effort. The 26 images take in sheriffs, justices, oaths and the Quakers, Moravians, Mennonites and Dunkards, with Abner Nash, Archibald Maclaine and Benjamin Williams named. Hillsborough figures in the session.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hawkins, Philemon, 1717-1801.
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: Hawkins, Philemon, 1717-1801.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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