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Whereas there are several offenders against the Continental Association now confined at Wilmington, it is resolved that an Express be immediately sent from this Town to Wilmington, requiring the Committee of Wilmington to deliver all such Delinquents as may be in Custody to a Guard directed to receive the same and safely to convey such delinquents from County to County in the most expeditious...
Date: 22 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Resolved, That his honor the President,2 Mr. [Cornelius] Harnett, Mr. [Richard] Caswell, Mr. [Joseph] Hewes, Mr. [Abner] Nash, Mr. Willie Jones, and Mr. [Samuel] Young be a Committee of Secrecy, for the purpose of procuring Arms and Ammunition, and to report to this Congress what sums of money will be necessary for that purpose.
Date: 23 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Paper purporting to be a Proclamation issued by his Excellency Josiah Martin dated on Board His Majesty's Ship Cruzier, at Cape Fear River, the eighth of August instant, directed to the Moderator of the Provincial Convention of Hillsborough, being read;
Resolved, unanimously, That the said Paper is a false Scandalous, Scurrilous, malicious, and seditious Libel, tending to disunite the good...
Date: 25 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas some doubts may arise respecting the Construction of the fourth Article of the Continental Association relating to Exportation.
Resolved that it is the opinion of this Congress that no ship or vessel shall clear out, or take on Board any part of their Cargoes after the tenth day of September 1775; but that vessels actually laden or their Cargoes on Board lighters, and cleared out before...
Date: 29 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Resolved That Allen Jones, and Thomas Jones Esquires two of the delegates of this Congress be appointed to attend the Convention of the Colony of Virginia for the purpose of recommending to them the Expediency of fitting out two Armed Vessels at the expence of that Colony, to act in Conjunction with the Armed Vessels already fitted out by this Colony, for the protection of the Trade at Occacock [...
Date: 9 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Resolved That the Commissary of Stores deliver out to the Commissioners of the Armed Vessels belonging to this Province, in the districts of Edenton, New Bern, and Wilmington, such Stores as the said Commissioners shall apply for, necessary for fitting the said Vessels; and also six Bolts of Osnabrigs, and thirty six peices of Checks or Striped Linen, for cloathing the Seamen belonging to the...
Date: 11 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Whereas it hath been thought necessary to fit out three Armed Vessels for the Protection of the Trade of this province. Resolved, That the following Sums be paid the Officers, and Seamen employed on Board the said Vessels by the Month to wit Captain Ten pounds Wages and four pounds for Table, Lieutenant eight pounds Master eight pounds Mate five pounds fifteen Shillings, Doctor Eight pounds ...
Date: 13 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Resolved that Joseph Leech, David Barron & Richard Ellis, be Commissioners to Load and Send out the Pensylvania Farmer reducing (until her return from said Voyage) the Number of Carriage Guns of said Vessel to eight, and the Number of Men to Forty, for the purpose of Purchasing Salt, Arms & Amunition, and also for importing Ten pieces of Cannon from Eighteen to Thirty two pounders, for...
Date: 11 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Committee appointed to Examine into the State or Scituation of the Brigg Aurora lately stranded on Core Bank and to Report what Cargo hath been saved, and also the Number of Men belonging to said Vessel, having met and Chosen General Ashe Chairman Report as follows Vizt —
That the Brigantine Aurora John Bishop Commander Sailed from Portsmouth in England the 19th September last in the Service...
Date: 21 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Resolved, That it be recommended to the Committees of Wilmington and Brunswick and to the commanding Officer of the detachment stationed on Cape fear River to use their utmost endeavours to cut olf all manner of personal Communication between His Excellency Governor Martin and the Officers of the Ships of War with the Inhabitants of this Province on any pretext whatever; and that the utmost...
Date: 20 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
This Council taking into Consideration the necessity of fitting out Armed Vessels for the protection of the Trade of this Province; that there be three Armed Vessels fitted out with all dispatch, to wit, one at Cape Fear, one at New Bern and one at Edenton, do Resolve, That Mr President, Samuel Ashe, Richard Quince, Robert Ellis Esquires, and Captain John Forster or any three of them are...
Date: 21 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3