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Robert Howe

Robert Howe, a planter who represented Brunswick County in the colonial assembly, served in Governor William Tryon's expedition against the Regulators. On September 1, 1775 he was appointed colonel of the Second North Carolina Regiment, and the Continental Congress later made him a brigadier general and, in October 1777, a major general.

Source: NCpedia: Robert Howe (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Hugh F. Rankin)

1732–1786 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Robert Howe serves as quartermaster general of Tryon's army against the Regulators Governor Tryon's order book for the 1771 campaign against the Regulators, which took his army through Hillsborough to the Battle of Alamance and back to the Hillsborough camp, names Colonel Robert Howe quartermaster general. People: William Tryon Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Documenting the American South, Colonial and State Records: Order Book for William Tryon's regiment in the military campaign against the Regulators, May 1 to June 20, 1771 (vol. 8, pp. 659-676)
  2. The Provincial Congress at Hillsborough adopts a test for its members to sign On August 21, 1775 the congress sitting at Hillsborough named Allen Jones to a committee of seven to prepare a Test to be signed by its members. The committee reported on August 23 and the Test was read, approved, ordered entered on the journal and signed. Subscribers professed allegiance to the King while denying that Parliament could tax them. People: Allen Jones, Thomas Burke, William Hooper, Willie Jones, John Penn, Maurice Moore, Robert Howe Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, August 20 to September 10, 1775
  3. Congress at Hillsborough appoints a committee to address the inhabitants of the province The same day the congress named Maurice Moore, William Hooper, Robert Howe, Richard Caswell and Joseph Hewes to prepare an address to the inhabitants of North Carolina, stating the controversy with Great Britain in plain language and calling on them to unite in defence of American liberty. Doctor Burke was added to the committee on August 24. People: Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, Richard Caswell, Maurice Moore, Robert Howe Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, August 20 to September 10, 1775
  4. Provincial Congress at Hillsborough names Alexander Martin lieutenant colonel of the Second North Carolina Regiment Alexander Martin attended the Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough as a delegate from Guilford County. On September 1, 1775, the Congress named the officers of its two new regiments of Continental troops, with Robert Howe as colonel and Martin as lieutenant colonel of the Second Regiment. People: Alexander Martin, Robert Howe Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Colonial and State Records of North Carolina: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, Aug 20 to Sep 10, 1775 (vol. 10, pp. 164–220)

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Correspondence of Governor Tryon and the Earl of Hillsborough containing and relative to returns records of arms, accoutrements, and taxables in North Carolina

1769

Governor William Tryon's letters to the Earl of Hillsborough from 1769, forwarding returns of arms, accoutrements and taxable persons in North Carolina. The same file carries his reports on suppressing insurgents, on land grants and quitrents, on the defence of the coast at Fort Johnston, and on paper currency and the appointment of Mr McCulloh. Orange County is present through the Earl, whose title named Hillsborough. CO 5/312.

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Governors' Papers: Abner Nash, Correspondence, October 1780

Salter, Robert · 1780

Correspondence of Governor Abner Nash for October 1780, in 35 images, with Robert Salter among the writers. Names include Robert Howe, Samuel Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Caswell and Alexander Martin, and Hillsborough, Hyde and Pitt counties also appear.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Howe, Robert, 1732-1786.

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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.

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