CLARK'S STATE RECORDS

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House Journal
State of North Carolina.  In the House of Commons, May 1779


At a General Assembly begun and held at Smithfield, on the Third Day of May, 
in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and Seventy-Nine, and in 
the third year of the Independence of the said State, being the first Session of 
this Assembly.

The Sherriff’s and other returning officers within this State certified that the 
following persons were duly Elected as members of the Commons House of 
Assembly for the respective Counties and Towns as follows, Viz.:


Anson – Stephen Miller, Charles Medlock.
Brunswick – 
Beaufort – Robert Trip, John Kennedy.
Bladen – Thomas Brown, Samuel Cain.
Bertie – 
Burke – Thomas Whitson, William Morrison.
Craven – Hardy Bryan, Benjamin Williams.
Chowan – Thomas Benbury, William Boyd.
Cumberland – Robert Cochran, Robert Rowan.
Chatham – Jonathan Harper, John Luttrell.
Currituck – 
Camden – Willis Bright, Caleb Grandy.
Carteret – 
Caswell – William Moore, Peter Farrow.
Dobbs – Thomas Gray, Jesse Cobb.
Duplin – Richard Clinton, James Gillepie.
Edgecombe – William Haywood, Ethelred Exum.
Franklin – Thomas Sherrod, Green Hill.
Granville – Thomas Person, Philemon Hawkins, Jr.
Guilford – James Hunter, Daniel Gillepie.
Gates – Jacob Hunter, William Baker.
Hertford – William Wynns, Authur Cotton.
Hyde – 
Halifax – 
Johnston – Lewis Bryan, Phillip Raiford.
Jones – Frederick Harget, Samuel Hill Lincoln.


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Martin – Samuel Smithwick, Samuel Williams.
Montgomery – John Kimbrough, Solomon Gross.
Mechlinburg – Caleb Phifer, David Wilson.
New Hanover – John A. Campbell, Timothy Bloodworth.
Northampton – Robert Peebles, James Vaughan.
Nash – William Horn, Thomas Hunter.
Orange – William M. Crawley, Mark Patterson.
Onslow – James Howard, Edward Starkey.
Perquimans – 
Pasquotank – 
Pitt – James Gorham, John Williams.
Rowan – 
Randolph –
Rutherford – 
Surrey – Gray Bynum, Frederick Miller.
Tyrrell – Benjamin Spruill, Joshua Swain.
Wilkes – 
Washington – 
Warren – Joseph Hawkins, John Macon.
Wake – Thomas Hines, John Hunter, Jr.

Towns
Wilmington – William Hooper, Gray Bynum.
New Bern – Richard Cogdell, Green Hill.
Edenton – Robert Smith, Thomas Sherrod.
Halifax – Henry Montford, John Macon.
Hillsborough – Robert Rowan.
Salisbury – Robert Cochran.



Pursuant to which the following members appeared and qualified by taking 
the several Oaths by Law appointed for the qualification of Members of the 
General Assembly, subscribed the same and took their seats, to wit, Messrs.,

William Haywood
William McCrawley
Mark Patterson
William Morrison
David Wilson
Caleb Phifer
Stephen Miller


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Charles Medlock
William Horn
Thomas Hunter
Richard Cogdell
Lewis Bryan
Thomas Hines
John Hinton
Timothy Bloodworth
Jesse Cobb
Thomas Benbury
Fred Harget
Samuel Hill
Thomas Person
Samuel Cain
Thomas Gray
Gray Bynum
Green Hill
Thomas Sherrod
John Macon
Robert Rowan
Robert Cochran


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Henry Montford
John Williams
Joseph Hawkins
James Gorham
Daniel Gillespies
James Hunter
Jonathan Harper
Thomas Brown
Samuel Williams
Authur Cotton
Hardy Bryan
Phil Hawkins
John Kennedy
James Howard
Philip Raiford
James Gillespie
John Luttrell
John A. Campbell
Robert Tripp
Willis Bright
Richard Clinton
Solomon Gross
James Vaughan
Peter Farrow
Joshua Swain
Benjamin Spruill
Jacob Hunter
William Boyd







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