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CUMBERLAND.—Thomas Rutherford, Farquard Campbell. For the Town of NEWBERN.—Abner Nash, James Davis. The respective Counties and Towns having certified that the preceding persons were duly elected Delegates to represent the said Counties and Towns in the General Convention, to be held at Newbern, the third day of April instant: Pursuant to which, the following persons appeared, to wit:
The Delegates then proceeded to make choice of a Moderator, when Colonel JOHN HARVEY was unanimously chosen, and Mr. ANDREW KNOX appointed Clerk. Resolved, That the Moderator adjourn the Convention, de die in diem, until the business is finished. The Convention is adjourned till to-morrow morning, nine o’clock. Tuesday, April 4, 1775. The Convention met, according to adjournment. Mr. John Webb, Delegate for the Town of Halifax, Mr. William Bryan, one of the Delegates for Craven County, Mr. George Wynns, one of the Delegates for Hertford County, and Mr. Alexander Martin, a Delegate for Guilford County, appeared, and took their seats in Convention. The Convention adjourned till to-morrow morning, nine o’clock. Wednesday, April 5, 1775. The Convention met, according to adjournment. Mr. Jonathan Hearring, one of the Delegates for Pasquotank County, and Mr. David Stanley, one of the Delegates for Bertie County, appeared, and took their seats in Convention. The Association entered into by the General Congress at Philadelphia, on the 20th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1774, and signed by the Members thereof, was presented to this Convention by Colonel Richard Caswell, and, on motion, was ordered to be read, and was accordingly read. Resolved, That this Convention do highly approve of the said Association, and do, for themselves, firmly agree to adhere to the said Association, and recommend it to their constituents that they likewise adhere firmly to the same. In full approbation and testimony whereof, the Members of this Convention subscribe their names. JOHN HARVEY,
In consequence of the preceding Resolve, all the Members of the Convention subscribed their names at the table, except Mr. Thomas Macknight, who refused. Resolved, That the conduct of William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and Richard Caswell, Esquires, in the meeting of Delegates lately held at Philadelphia, was, in every particular, worthy of the sacred trust reposed in them; and that the Moderator do, in behalf of this Colony in general, and of this Convention in particular, return them those thanks which their faithful discharge of such an important trust so justly merits. In consequence whereof, the Moderator returned them thanks in the manner following: GENTLEMEN: The sacred trust reposed in you by your Country so faithfully discharged by you, does honour to yourselves, justifies the choice made of you by the last Convention, and places you in a situation to receive the best reward a patriotick breast can fill, the applause of your Country; who, in order to bear testimony of your merit, have directed me to convey to you their sincere thanks for the services you have rendered them in the important office to which they appointed you. And it is with great pleasure I now, gentlemen, in behalf of this Colony in general, and of this Convention in particular, return you those thanks which have been so unanimously resolved by the Convention to be your due. To which the Delegates returned the following Answer: We, the Delegates appointed to represent this Province in the Continental Congress lately held at Philadelphia, beg leave to express a heartfelt gratitude for this publick testimonial which we have received from you of the approbation of our constituents of our conduct, in the most; important transaction in which any member of society can have been engaged. With diffidence we undertook the sacred trust of being joined to a body of men appointed to be the guardians of the constitutional rights and privileges of British America. If we have executed that charge to
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