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This debate continued several hours, in which Mr. Watson, and Mr. Baker, were principals, on different sides, at the close of it the question was put, and carried unanimously.
After this a motion was made by Mr. Watson, for entering into a Resolution, independent of the Petition, expressing the opinion of the meeting as to the evil consequences of the Quebec Bill. This, though in fact agreed to by almost every body, yet as they thought proper, for reasons already given, not to insert them in the Petition, it was urged by the majority present that such a Resolution would rather be out of place. Mr. Watson, after awhile, seeing the sense of the company lean this way, withdrew his motion.
A Resolution was then agreed to, "that the Petition be forthwith engrossed; that the Committee do attend for that purpose, and that three Canadian Merchants, Mr. Watson, Mr. Strettell, and Mr. Hunter, be added to the Committee already appointed for the purpose, of instructing Counsel and preparing such evidences and allegations as the Petition warranted them to support."
This Resolution was followed by another, "that the Petition after being engrossed, should lie at that house for signing; and that the Committee should afterwards advertise the meeting at large of the day they intended presenting it."
A motion of thanks to the Chairman being then unanimously agreed to, the assembly adjourned.
SOUTH CAROLINA PROVINCIAL CONGRESS
A List of the several Members of the Provincial Congress, held at CHARLESTOWN, in SOUTH CAROLINA, on WEDNESDAY, the 11th day of JANUARY, and continued from day to day till TUESDAY evening, the 17th of JANUARY, 1775.
For the Parish of ST. PHILIP and ST. MICHAEL, CHARLESTOWN.—Colonel Charles Pinckney, Mr. John Neufville, Roger Smith, Esquire, Mr. Peter Bacot, Mr. Daniel Cannon, Colonel Henry Laurens, Mr. Thomas Corbett, Thomas Heyward, Junior, Esquire, Christopher Gadsden, Esquire, Isaac Huger, Esquire, Thomas Savage, Esquire, John Edwards, Esquire, Miles Brewton, Esquire, Mr. Peter Timothy, Mr. Jos. Verree, Arthur Middleton, Esquire, Mr. Edward Weyman, Mr. John Ernest Poyas, Mr. Anthony Toomer, Mr. Cato Ash, Mr. James Brown, Mr. Daniel Legaré, Senior, Mr. Joshua Lockwood, Captain Owen Roberts, Mr. Theodore Trezevant, Mr. Mark Morris, Reverend Mr. William Tennent, Mr. John Berwick, Mr. Felix Long, Mr. Michael Kalteisen.
For the Parish of CHRIST-CHURCH.—John Rutledge, Esquire, Arn. Vanderhorst, Esquire, Clement Lempriere, Esquire, John Sand. Dart, Esq., Gabriel Capers, Esquire, Mr. Isaac Legaré.
For ST. JOHNS, BERKLEY County.—James Ravenell, Daniel Ravenell, Job Marion, John Frierson, Esquires, Mr. Gabriel Gignilliat, Mr. Francis Marion.
For ST. ANDREWS.—William Scott, Thomas Bee, William Cattell, Esquires, Colonel Thomas Fuller, Captain Benjamin Stone, Isaac Rivers, Esquire.
For ST. GEORGE, DORCHESTER.—David Oliphant, Benjamin Waring, Wm. Sanders, John Matthewes, Junior, Esquires, Mr. Richard Waring, Mr. Richard Walter.
For ST. JAMES, GOOSE Creek.—Thomas Smith, Sen., Esquire, Colonel Benjamin Singleton, John Parker, Benjamin Smith, John Izard, John Wright, Esquires.
For ST. THOMAS and ST. DENNIS.—James Aiken, Isaac Harleston, John Huger, John Moore, Wm. Parker, John Syme, Esquires.
For ST. PAUL'S.—Thomas Ferguson, Benjamin Elliot, George Haig, Charles Elliott, Robert Williams, Robert Ladson, Esquires.
For ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S.—Hon. Rawlins Lowndes, Colonel James Parsons, William Skirving, Esq., Philip Smith, Esquire, James Skirving, Junior, Esquire, Mr. Edmund Hyrne.
For ST. HELENA.—Mr. Thomas Rutledge, Mr. John Barnwell, Junior, Mr. Daniel Heyward, Junior, Captain John Joyner, Mr. Daniel De Saussure, Colonel William Moultrie.
For ST. JAMES, SANTEE.—Colonel Daniel Horry, Paul Douxsaint, Esq., Thomas Horry, Edward Jerman, Thomas Lynch, Junior, Capers Boone, Esquires.
For PRINCE GEORGE'S, WINYAH.—Thomas Lynch, Elias Horry, Junior, Benjamin Huger, Joseph Allston, Benjamin Young, Esquires, Mr. Paul Trapier, Junior.
For PRINCE FREDERICK'S.—Theodore Gaillard, Thos. Porte, Esquires, Captain Adam M'Donald, Mr. Anthony White, Mr. Samuel Richbourg, Mr. Benjamin Screven.
For ST. JOHN'S, COLLETON County.— William Gibbes, Charles C. Pinckney, Thos. Evance, Esquires, Mr. Thos. Legaré, Junior, Captain Thomas Tucker, Mr. Benjamin Jenkins.
For ST. PETER'S, PURRYSBURG.—Col, Stephen Bull, William Williamson, Esquire, Cornelius Dupont, Gideon Dupont, Thomas Middleton, Esquires, Mr. Pilothouse Chapfallen.
For PRINCE WILLIAM'S.—Colonel Benjamin Garden, Isaac Motte, Esquire, John Ward, John Bull, Wm. Bull, Isaac Macpherson, Esquires.
For ST. STEPHEN'S.—John Gaillard, Philip Porcher, Peter Sinckler, Charles Cantey, Gabriel Marion, Esqrs., Mr. James Sinckler.
For ST. MARK'S, viz: 1. NINETY-SIX District.—Col. John Savage, Colonel James Mayson, Major Andrew Williamson, Le Roy Hammond, Esquire, Patrick Calhoun, John Lewis Gervais, Edward Rutledge, John Purves, Richard Rapely, Esquires, Mr. Francis Salvador.
For the District between BROAD and SALUDA Rivers.—Major John Caldwell, John Colcock, Rowland Rugely, Esquires, Jonathan Downes, Esquire, Mr. John Satterthwaite, Mr. Jas. Williams, Mr. John Williams, Mr. John M'Nees, Mr. Charles King, Mr. George Ross.
For the District between Broad and CATAWBA Rivers. —Honourable Henry Middleton, gohn Chesnut, Esquire, Robert Goodwin, John Winn, Henry Hunter, Esquires, Mr. Thomas Woodward, Mr. Thomas Taylor, Mr. John Hopkins, Mr. William Howell.
For the District Eastward of WATEREE River.—Col. Richard Richardson, Joseph Kershaw, Esquire, Matthew Singleton, Thomas Sumpter, Aaron Loocock, Wm. Richardson, Robert Patton, Esquires, Mr. Robert Carter, Mr. William Wilson, Mr. Ely Kershaw.
For SAXE GOTHA District.—Honourable, Wm. Henry Drayton, Honourable Barnard Elliott, Benjamin Farrar, William Arthur, Jonas Beard, William Tucker Esquires.
For the Parish of ST. MATTHEW.—Colonel Tacitus Gaillard, Colonel William Thomson, Rev, Mr. Paul Turquand, Mr. John Caldwell, Mr. George King, Mr. Simon Berwick.
For ST. DAVID'S.—Honourable G. G. Powel, Claudius Pegues, Esq., H. W. Harrington, Alexander M'Intosh, Samuel Wise, Esquires, Colonel George Pawley.
On Wednesday, the 11th day of January, 1775, the Deputies from every Parish and Districting the Province of South Carolina, met at the Exchange, in Charlestown, agreeably to the Resolutions of Election, when
They unanimously chose Colonel Charles Pinckney, to be their President,
And Peter Timothy, a Member, to be their Secretary.
They then adjourned to the Chamber of the Commons House of Assembly, in the west end of the Slate House;
When the Proceedings of the Continental Congress were laid before them.
Ordered, That the American Bill of Rights, as declared by the Continental Congress, be taken into immediate consideration.
And after some debate, it was
Resolved, That this Congress do approve the Declaration of American Rights, as framed by the Continental Congress.
Ordered, That the Association formed by the late Continental Congress, be taken into immediate consideration.
The Association was then read, and, after long debate, its was
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