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Is there a way to obtain a copy of the names that signed The Pitt Resolves dated July 1, 1775? In particular, I researching to see if my 5th great grandfather, Howell Hodges, signed this document.
Rex Yance
ry103@centurytel.net
The Pitt Resolves July 1, 1775
(As transcribed from the huge plaque honoring the Pitt Association, and commemorating the adoption of the Pitt Resolves, which hangs in the Pitt County Courthouse in Greenville, N.C.)
We the free holders and inhabitants of the County of Pitt and Town of Martinborough being deeply affected with the present alarming state of the province and all America, do resolve that we will pay all due allegiance to His Majesty King George the Third and endeavor to continue the succession of his crown in the illustrious house of Hanover as by law established against the present or any future wicked ministry or arbitrary set of men whatsoever at the same time we are determined to assert our rights as men and sensible that by the late acts of Parliament the most valuable liberties and privileges of America are invaded and endeavor to be violated and destroyed and that under God the preservation of them depends on a firm union of the inhabitants and a sturdy spirited observation of the resolutions of the General Congress being shocked at the cruel scenes now acting in the Massachusett Bay and determined never to become slaves to any power upon Earth we do hereby agree and associate under all types of religion, honour, and regard for posterity that we will adopt and endeavor to execute the measures which the General Congress now sitting at Philadelphia conclude on for preserving our Constitution and opposing the execution of the several arbitrary illegal acts of the British Parliament and that we will readily observe the directions of our General Committee for the purpose aforesaid the preservation of peace and good order and security of individuals and private property.
Martinborough, Pitt County, North Carolina, 1 July, 1775
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