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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Minutes of the Pitt County Committee of Safety
Pitt County (N.C.). Committee of Safety
September 09, 1775
Volume 10, Pages 243-244

[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]
Proceedings of the Safety Committee in Pitt County.

Martinborough 9th Sept. 1775.

According to adjournment the Committee meat.

Present: Geo. Evans chairman; John Williams, Richd Williams, Parker Lassee, Richd Moye, Wm Robson, James Lockhart, Robert Grimes, James Lanier, Joel Sugg, Mathew Sturdevent, Edd Moore, Peter Reeves, Henry Williamson, George Falkner, Thos. Woolfend, Henry Ellis, Archd Adams, John Bowers, Geo. Moye, Allen Sugg.

Ordered, That John Tyson Esq, meat the next sitting of Committee to answer The Different Allegations lodged against him and that James Lanier write said Tyson to Inform him of next meeting.

Ordered, George Williams appointed in place of John Hardee, Junr, Pattaroler, Thos. Slaughter, Benj. King, Isaac Hardee, son of Robert.

Ordered, That John Hardee, Junr, appear Before this Committee next meating to answer a complaint lodged against him. To appear next meeting.

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Ordered, That no Person act in any Publick Cappasity without signing the Association.

GEO. EVANS, Jr, Chair.
John Lesslie, Secretary.