safety of the Colony, to raise a body of Forces, consisting of one thousand men; and upon the faith of the Resolve of the Continental Congress this Congress do resolve that one thousand men be immediately raised and embodied.

Whereas, the Committees of Mecklenburgh, Rowan, Bladen, and Cumberland, have respectively purchased of sundry persons Gunpowder, and agreed to pay such price as should be ascertained by this Congress for the same:

Resolved, That the Committees of Mecklenburgh and Rowan pay to the persons from whom they received Powder, the sum of five Shillings, Proclamation Money, per pound; and the Committees of Bladen and Cumberland four Shillings per pound, for all the Gunpowder they have purchased as aforesaid.

Ordered, That Mr. John Walker and Mr. John Hardin have leave to absent themselves from the service of the Congress.

The Congress adjourned till to-morrow morning, eight o’clock.

Friday, September 1, 1775.

The Congress met according to adjournment.

The Order of the Day, for taking into consideration the Paper laid before the Congress, purporting to be a Confederacy of the United Colonies, being called, was ordered to lie over till Monday.

Mr. John Birdsong, Mr. Robert Alexander, Mr. Samuel Spencer, and Mr. James White, have leave to absent themselves from this Congress.

The Congress taking into consideration the arrangement of the Military Troops ordered to be raised in this Province, as part of and on the same establishment with the Continental Army, and the appointment of Officers to command the said Troops:

Resolved, That they be divided into two Regiments, consisting of five hundred men each; and that four hundred part of the first Regiment be stationed in the District of Wilmington, two hundred in the District of Salisbury, two hundred in the District of Newbern, and two hundred in the District of Edenton; and that the whole number composing the said two Regiments, and every of the above divisions, shall from time to time be disposed of as this Congress or the Council of Safety shall direct.

Resolved, That the following Officers be and they are hereby appointed to command the First Regiment, viz:

James Moore, Esq., Colonel; Francis Nash, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel; Thomas Clark, Esq., Major; Mr. William Williams, Adjutant.

Captains in the First Regiment: William Davis, Thomas Allon, Alfred Moore, Caleb Granger, William Picket, Robert Rowan, John Walker, Henry Dickson, George Davidson, William Green.

Lieutenants: John Lillington, Joshua Bowman, Lawrence Thompson, Thomas Hogg, William Berryhill, Hector McNeill, Absalom Tatum, Hezekiah Rice, William Brandon, William Hill.

Ensigns: Neil McAlister, Maurice Moore, Jun., John Taylor, Howell Tatum, James Childs, Henry Neil, Berryman Turner, George Graham, Robert Rolston, Henry Pope.

For the Second Regiment: Robert Howe, Esq., Colonel; Alexander Martin, Lieutenant-Colonel; John Patten, Esq., Major; Dr. John White, First Captain and Adjutant.

Captains in the Second Regiment: James Blount, Michael Payne, Simon Bright, John Armstrong, Henry Irwin Toole, Hardy Murphry, Charles Crawford, Nathaniel Keais, John Walker.

Lieutenants: John Granger, Clement Hall, William Fenner, Benjamin Williams, Robert Smith, Edward Vail, Jun., John Williams, John Herritage, Joseph Tate, James Gee.

Ensigns: Henry Vipon, Whitmill Pugh, John Oliver, Philip Low, James Cooke, John Woodhouse, William Gardner, William Caswell, Benjamin Cleveland, Joseph Clinch.

The Captains to take rank from the time their respective Companies shall be completed; to be certified under the hand of one or more Magistrates of the County, where the men may be raised; and in case two or more Companies be completed in one day, or any dispute arise about rank, that it be determined by a Court-Martial.

Doctor Isaac Guion is appointed Surgeon to the First Regiment, and Doctor William Pasture Surgeon to the Second Regiment.

The Congress adjourned till to-morrow morning, nine o’clock.

Saturday, September 2, 1775.

The Congress met according to adjournment.

The Southern Treasurer informed the Congress that he had advanced, agreeable to the directions of the House of Assembly, about nine hundred Pounds to the Delegates who attended the two former Congresses; that some Counties had not paid their first proportion of that sum, and that only one County had paid the last proportion.

Resolved, That such of the Counties from which the Treasurer hath not received the said first proportion, immediately pay him the same; and that the Treasurer return the Money he hath received for the last proportion directed to be paid him as aforesaid, to the County from which he received the same.

It is therefore Resolved, That the Treasurer be allowed so much of the Money as he has advanced to the Delegates aforesaid, as shall not be replaced by the sums paid, or to be paid him, of the first twenty Pounds directed to be raised in the several Counties in this Province, and the same shall be allowed in his accounts with the publick.

Mr. Boyd laid before the Congress two hundred Pastoral Letters from the Synod of Philadelphia, addressed to the inhabitants of this Province; which were dispersed among the Members.

Resolved, That the said Adam Boyd be allowed the sum of. . . . . Proclamation Money, to be paid by the Publick Treasurers, or either of them, and be allowed in their accounts with the publick.

Resolved, That the thanks of this Congress be given to William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and Richard Caswell, Esquires, for their patriotick and faithful discharge of the important trust reposed in them as Delegates on the part of this Province at the late Continental Congress.

In consequence whereof, the President returned them thanks in the following manner:

GENTLEMEN: The honourable and patriotick conduct you have pursued in discharge of the high and important trust unanimously committed to you, with the most unlimited confidence, by the late Convention of this Province, has justified and done honour to their choice, and now calls forth the grateful thanks of your fellow-citizens; which thanks, in order that the most honourable testimony of your conduct may be transmitted to posterity, the Congress have commanded me to deliver in this place.

I do accordingly, with the greatest pleasure, return you the thanks of this Congress in behalf of their constituents, for the manly, spirited, and patriotick discharge of your duty, as Delegates representing this Province in the Grand Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

To which the Delegates returned the following answer:

We, the Delegates of this Province, to whom our fellow-citizens thought fit to consign, with the most unlimited confidence, the great and important charge of representing them in the late Continental Congress, beg leave to express our most sincere thanks for the honourable testimony which, through you, they have thought fit to render of our services in that capacity.

With hearts warmed with a zealous love of liberty, and desirous of a reconciliation with the Parent State upon terms just and constitutional, we flattered ourselves that the integrity of our motives would plead an excuse for our want of abilities, and in the candour and charity of our constituents, our well meant, however feeble endeavours would find their apology. Our expectations are more than answered: and this publick approbation of our conduct, the greatest reward a subject can receive or a people bestow, will stimulate us, whether in private or publick life our lot shall be cast, to imitate the virtues of our patriotick fellow-citizens, and to be distinguished by our usefulness in