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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council
North Carolina. Council
March 21, 1775
Volume 09, Page 1169

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[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]
COUNCIL JOURNALS.

At a Council held at New Bern 21st March 1775.
Present
His Excellency the Governor.
The Honble James Hasell Esquire
The Honble Martin Howard Esquire
and
The Honble Samuel Cornell Esquire.

Ordered that a Commission of the Peace do forthwith issue for the County of Chatham directed to Elisha Chain Jr, Nathan Harper, Mathew Jones, Ambrose Ramsey, John Pile Senr, Mathew Drake, John Thompson, Balaam Thompson, Michael Scurlock, Alexander Clark, Samuel Stewart and Joshua Rosser, Esquires.