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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 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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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.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hunt, Memucan, 1729-1808.

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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.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hunt, Memucan, 1729-1808.

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

House Joint Resolutions: September 8-13

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1780

House joint resolutions of September 8 to 13, 1780, from the Hillsborough session, on provisions, allowances for Assembly members and jailers, and the accounts of commissaries and contractors. Governor Abner Nash, Memucan Hunt and Samuel Spencer are among the names. 67 images.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hunt, Memucan, 1729-1808.

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Joint Papers (April-May, 1780): Joint Select Committee Reports and Papers

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1780

Reports and papers of the joint select committees of the North Carolina General Assembly from its April to May 1780 session, in 223 images. Items include a Virginia governor's letter on naval officers and duties at the Ocracoke channel, committee appointments, and Henry Mounger's petition on where Montgomery County's public buildings should stand. Orange County is among the many counties touched.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hunt, Memucan, 1729-1808.

NC Digital Collections

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

Senate Joint Resolutions: August 30-September 13

North Carolina. General Assembly · 1780

Senate joint resolutions of 30 August to 13 September 1780, in the weeks after the defeat at Camden, 96 images. Among them are a rejected resolution about militia routed in South Carolina, a commission for Captain William Williams in the Invalid Corps, and a rejected request that General Horatio Gates gather the Continental troops. Hillsborough figures in the session.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Hunt, Memucan, 1729-1808.

NC Digital Collections DPLA

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

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Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough, 1775August 20–September 10, 1775 · 22 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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  1. 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 PattilloSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, August 20 to September 10, 1775

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