Journal of Convention

An aged title page from the 1789 **Journal of the Convention of the State of North-Carolina**, featuring a list of elected officers from various counties.

[Library of the University of North Carolina] 

JOURNAL 

[Joel]  OF THE  [Lane] 

CONVENTION, 

OF THE 

STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA.

At a CONVENTION begun and held at Fayetteville, on the Third Monday of November, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Nine, agreeable to the Resolutions of the last General Assembly, bearing Date the Seventeenth of November, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Eight.

THE returning officers for the several counties and borough towns, certified that the following persons were duly elected to represent the same in Convention, to wit, For 

  • Anson county—The Hon. Samuel Spencer, Esq. Jesse Gilbert, Pleasant May, Thomas Wade, David Jameson.

  • Beaufort—John G. Blount, William Brown, Richard Grist, Alderson Ellison, Silas W. Arnett.

  • Bertie—John Johnston, Francis Pugh, William Johnston Dawson, David Turner, David Stone.

  • Brunswick—Benjamin Smith, William E. Lord, William Gause, John Hall, Dennis Hawkins.

  • Bladen—John Cowan, Duncan Stewart, Thomas Owen, Joseph Gaitier, Thomas Brown.

  • Burke—Charles M‘Dowall, Joseph M‘Dowall, Joseph M‘Dowall, jun. William E. Erwin, John Carson.

  • Craven—John Allen, Richard Nixon, Joseph Leech, Thomas Williams.

  • Cumberland—John Ingram, John Hay, William B. Grove, James Moore, Robert Adam.

  • Carteret—John Easton, Malachi Bell, John Fulford, Wallace Styron, John Wallace.

  • Currituck—William Ferebee, Thomas P. Williams, Samuel Ferebee, Andrew Duke, Spence Hall. 

  • Chowan—Stephen Cabarrus, Charles Johnson, Lemuel Creecy, Edmund Blount. 

  • Camden—Isaac Gregory, Peter Dauge, Enoch Sawyer, Henry Abbott, Charles Grandy. 

  • Caswell—John Wommack, Robert Dickens, John Graves, Robert Payne, Robert Bowman. 

  • Chatham—Robert Edwards, William Vestal, John Thompson, John Ramsay, James Anderson. 

  • Dobbs— 

  • Duplin—James Pearsall, James Gillespie, Robert Dickson, Lavan Watkins, James Kenan. 

  • Davidson—Charles Gerrard, Joel Rice, Robert Ewing, James C. Mountflorence, William Dobbin. 

  • Edgecomb—Etheldred Phillips, Thomas Blount, Jeremiah Hilliard, Etheldred Gray, William Fort. 

  • Franklin—Henry Hill, Thomas Sherrod, Jordan Hill, William Lancaster, William Christmass. 

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