Thomas Person

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1771 Regulator leader Thomas Person is held in irons at Hillsborough After the Battle of Alamance, Governor Tryon had Thomas Person seized and held in irons in Hillsborough for three weeks, during which he was marched to the gallows and back. He was released without trial. People: William Tryon Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Person, Thomas
2. 1775 Provincial Congress at Hillsborough orders its journal printed by James Davis The congress meeting at Hillsborough directed that its proceedings be delivered to James Davis, the province's printer and a delegate for the town of New Bern, who was desired to print them and send a copy to each member. It also named a committee to state and settle his account for services done as printer to the province. People: James Davis, Willie Jones, Thomas Person Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, August 20 to September 10, 1775
3. 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: Memucan Hunt, 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
4. August to September 1775 The Provincial Congress forms the Hillsborough District and its committee of safety The Congress grouped Orange, Granville, Chatham and Wake counties into a Hillsborough District with a thirteen-member committee of safety; John Atkinson, John Butler and William Johnston sat for Orange. Thomas Person and John Kinchen represented the district on the Provincial Council. People: John Butler, William Johnston, Thomas Person, John Kinchen Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John Atkinson · Also mentions: Hillsborough DistrictLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 43 · Also: Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
5. September 9, 1775 Provincial Congress at Hillsborough elects a Provincial Council to govern between sessions On September 9, 1775, the Congress at Hillsborough elected a thirteen-member Provincial Council to direct the army and militia during its recess: Samuel Johnston for the province at large and two members for each of the six districts, among them Abner Nash and James Coor for New Bern and Thomas Person and John Kinchen for Hillsborough. People: Abner Nash, Samuel Johnston, Samuel Ashe, Willie Jones, Waightstill Avery, Thomas Person, Cornelius Harnett, John Kinchen, Samuel Spencer Place: Hillsborough · Also named: James CoorSearch 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)
6. May 11, 1776 The congress dissolves the district committees of safety and seats Person and Rand for Hillsborough District on a new Council of Safety Setting up a Council of Safety to govern between sessions, the congress dissolved the Provincial Council and every district committee of safety, Hillsborough's among them, and chose Thomas Person and John Rand as the Hillsborough District members. Place: Hillsborough District · Also named: John RandSearch the index · North Carolina Provincial Congress, Journal of the Proceedings of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, Held at Halifax, April 4, 1776 (1831), scan p. 67
7. November 24, 1776 George Micklejohn swears allegiance to the state and is released from parole Taken prisoner after Moore's Creek, the Hillsborough rector was paroled on May 3, 1776 to Perquimans County, then ordered moved there in July when he was found still in Orange. On November 24 he took the oath of allegiance before the Halifax Congress and was discharged, and he later lived at Thomas Person's Goshen in Granville. People: George Micklejohn, Thomas Person, Willie Jones Place: Halifax (for Hillsborough's rector)Search the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 53
8. December 5, 1787 The Assembly calls a convention on the Constitution to meet at Hillsborough Meeting in joint session at Tarboro, the General Assembly resolved that delegates to a state convention on the federal Constitution be chosen on the last Friday and Saturday of March 1788, five for each county and one for each borough, with taxpaying freemen voting but only freeholders eligible to sit, and that the convention meet at Hillsborough on July 21, 1788. People: Thomas Person Place: HillsboroughInternet Archive: William C. Pool, "An Economic Interpretation of the Ratification of the Federal Constitution in North Carolina, Part I: The Hillsboro Convention, Background and Economic Interests of the Federalists", North Carolina Historical Review 27 (1950), p. 122
9. July 21, 1788 The convention appoints a committee of privileges and elections with three members from each district The convention set up a 27-member committee of privileges and elections, three from each district, which went on to rule on the disputed returns. Alexander Mebane of Orange County sat on it with Thomas Person, William R. Davie and James Iredell. People: Thomas Person, James Iredell, William Richardson Davie, Alexander Mebane Place: HillsboroughDocumenting the American South: Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, Hillsborough, 1788, p. 20
10. July 21, 1788 The convention names a select committee to draft its rules of debate On its first day the convention asked William R. Davie, Thomas Person, James Iredell, Elisha Battle, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Samuel Spencer and a member named McDonald to propose rules for its discussion of the Constitution. People: Thomas Person, James Iredell, Richard Dobbs Spaight, William Richardson Davie, Samuel Spencer Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Elisha BattleDocumenting the American South: Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, Hillsborough, 1788, p. 19
11. July 23, 1788 Willie Jones moves that the Hillsborough Convention vote on the Constitution at once Jones moved that the question on the federal Constitution be put immediately, arguing that members had long since made up their minds and that a long sitting would waste public money. Thomas Person seconded him and James Iredell objected. The convention took up the Constitution clause by clause instead, debating it for eleven days. People: Willie Jones, James Iredell, Thomas Person, James Galloway Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, Convened at Hillsborough, on Monday the 21st Day of July, 1788
12. August 2, 1788 The convention adopts a declaration of rights and twenty-six amendments to be laid before Congress before ratification On Thomas Person's motion the convention concurred with its committee of the whole, resolving that a declaration of rights of twenty articles and twenty-six amendments to the most ambiguous and exceptionable parts of the Constitution be laid before Congress and a convention of the states before North Carolina would ratify. On Willie Jones's motions it also recommended a state impost matching whatever Congress laid, urged redemption of the paper currency, and ordered the resolutions sent to Congress and the twelve other states. People: Willie Jones, Archibald Maclaine, Thomas Person, William Richardson Davie, James Galloway Place: HillsboroughDocumenting the American South: Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, 1788