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Memucan Hunt

Hunt was appointed treasurer of the Hillsborough district in 1777, one of six district treasurers in the new state, and sat for Granville County in the provincial congresses. In 1784 the General Assembly abolished the district offices and elected him North Carolina's first state treasurer.

Source: NCpedia: Hunt, Memucan

1729–1808 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineThird Provincial Congress at Hillsborough, 1775August 20–September 10, 1775 · 27 events · Delegates to the Third Provincial Congress gathered at Hillsborough on August 20, 1775 but lacked a quorum. The Congress organized the next day, its members signed the test of allegiance on August 23, and it sat until September 10.

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August 23, 1775 Provincial Congress at Hillsborough names a committee to confer with inhabitants who had scruples about the American cause The congress sitting at Hillsborough appointed thirteen of its members, among them Memucan Hunt of Granville County, to confer with inhabitants of the province who held religious or political scruples. They were directed to use argument and persuasion to bring those inhabitants into support of the American cause. People: Thomas Burke, Richard Caswell, John Penn, Thomas Person, Henry Pattillo Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, August 20 to September 10, 1775

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People named in the same dated entries as Memucan Hunt, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.

Henry Pattillo 1 entry: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough names a committee to confer with inhabitants who had scruples about the American cause (August 23, 1775)
John Penn 1 entry: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough names a committee to confer with inhabitants who had scruples about the American cause (August 23, 1775)
Richard Caswell 1 entry: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough names a committee to confer with inhabitants who had scruples about the American cause (August 23, 1775)
Thomas Burke 1 entry: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough names a committee to confer with inhabitants who had scruples about the American cause (August 23, 1775)
Thomas Person 1 entry: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough names a committee to confer with inhabitants who had scruples about the American cause (August 23, 1775)

Indexed works

Works about or by Memucan Hunt. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.

Committee of Propositions and Grievances May 29-June 2: Reports and papers

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1784

Reports and papers of the General Assembly's Committee of Propositions and Grievances for 29 May to 2 June 1784. Items include reports on the petitions of Durham Hall and of Stephen Cole, a state witness before the Superior Court of the District of Hillsborough, and on the accounts of Green Hill as a district treasurer. 95 images.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hunt, Memucan, 1729-1808.

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