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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Order of the Privy Council of Great Britain concerning the appointment of members of the North Carolina Governor's Council
Great Britain. Privy Council
May 28, 1752
Volume 11, Pages 116-117

[B. P. R. O. Am: & W. Ind: Vol: 114.]

At the Council Chamber Whitehall. the 28th day of May 1752.
Present.
Their Excellencys the Lords Justices in Council.

Upon reading this day at the Board a Report from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantatians together with Draughts

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of Warrants prepared by them directing and requiring Gabriel Johnston Esqre His Majesty's Governor of North Carolina to sweare and admit James Hassell, James Innes John Rutherford, Francis Corbin, John Swan, John Dawson, James Craven, Lewis De Rosset Junior and John Ricusset Esqre to be of His Majesty's Council in the said Province. Their Excellencys the Lords Justices this day took the said Report and Draughts of Warrants into consideration and were pleased with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council to approve thereof and to order as it is hereby ordered that Claudius Amyand and Richard Potenger Esqre Secretary to the Lords Justices do lay the said Warrants (which are hereunto annexed) before their Excellencys for their signing.—

W. SHARPE.