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Surnames/tags: 1776 North_Carolina
For a grouping of the profiles, please see Category: North Carolina Provincial Committees of Safety and browse the specific county categories for profiles.
Committees of Safety in Provincial North Carolina
In the American Revolution, the committees of correspondence, committees of inspection (also known as committees of observation), and committees of safety were different local committees of Patriots that became a shadow government.
Committees of Safety were a network of committees authorized by the Continental Congress, endorsed by the Second Provincial Congress of North Carolina and the North Carolina Assembly, and established in late 1774 and early 1775 to enforce the Continental Association banning all trade with Britain. The committees, located in 18 counties and 4 towns throughout North Carolina, performed such duties as spreading Whig propaganda, making military preparations, enforcing price ceilings on strategic items, seizing and selling imported goods, reshipping slaves and other imports, punishing violators of the Continental Association with boycotts, and regulating public morals.[1]
See the county categories:
- Halifax County
- Mecklenburg County
- New Hannover County
- Orange County
- Pitt County
- Rowan County
- Surrey County
- Tryon County
Rowan County Committee of Safety
- Ref: Minutes for listing of members of the Committee, Iredell Patriots on the Rowan County Committee of Safety, by William Sharpe, transcribed by Christine Spencer, September 2008 Link
- The following Persons constitute the said Committee, Viz. James McCay, Andrew Neal, George Cathy, Alexander Dobbin, Francis McKon, Matthew Locke, Maxwell Chambers, Henry Harmon, Abraham Denton, William Davison, Samuel Young, John Brevard, William Kennon, George Henry Barger, Robert Bell, John Bickerstaff, John Couden, John Lewis Beard, John Nisbet, Charles McDowell, Robert Blackburn, Christopher Beckman, William Sharp, John Johnson, Morgan Bryan.
- Samuel Young in the Chair, James Brandon, Clerk; Alexander Osborn, John Brevard, Griffith Rutherford, William Alexander, Francis McCorkle, James Wilson, Joseph Dixon, Nunan Steel, John Montgomery, David Caldwell, John Nesbett, James Smith, George Davidson, William Davidson, William Gant, Samuel Harris, Peter Mull, Joseph Lawrance, Ephriam McClain, John Davidson, William Cowan, Junr, Robert Moore, John Hardin, Josiah Black, Jacob Nicholas, Mathias Barringer, Peter Ager, Thomas Blackshier, Isaac Wilcockson, Hugh Brevard, John Lewis Beard, Christr Beekman.
- ↑ "NCPedia," North Carolina Government & Heritage Library State Library of North Carolina. Web. (https://www.ncpedia.org/committees-safety; accessed 15 Sep 2019).
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