On this day 250 years ago in North Carolina

At a meeting of the Freeholders in the Court-house at Wilmington for the purpose of Choosing a Committee for said town to carry more effectually into Execution the resolves of the late congress held at Philadelphia, the following names were proposed & universally assented to —

Cornelius Harnett, William Hooper, Archibald Maclaine, John Quince, Robert Hogg, John Robeson, Francis Clayton, John Ancrum, James Walker

The nine men elected as the initial Wilmington-New Hanover Committee of Safety became the effective governing body of the Town of Wilmington and New Hanover County, and some would go on to serve North Carolina and the United States during the Revolutionary War. William Hooper would become a signer of the Declaration of Independence and in retaliation for his service the British Army burned his properties in North Carolina. Cornelius Harnett would also become a Member of the Continental Congress and signed the Articles of Confederation and would be captured by the British Army in 1781 and die shortly after his release that year as a consequence of ill treatment by his captors. Archibald Maclaine was an immigrant from Ireland who would be elected to multiple terms in the North Carolina Provincial Congress and subsequently to the General Assembly. Francis Clayton also served in the North Carolina Provincial Congress.

Source: https://www.americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wilmington.pdf

Also on this day 250 years ago, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress reconvened in Cambridge.

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