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Infallible Power: The "Musquetoe," the Wilmingtoin-New Hanover County Safety Committee, and the Coming of Revolution in the Lower Cape Fear, 1774-1776.

The article highlights how dangerous shoals safety committees throughout British colonies navigated during their tenure as transitory bodies between the collapse of the Royal government and the establishment of independent governing bodies such as the Provincial Congress in North Carolina. It gives...

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Published in:North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 92; no. 4; pp. 387 - 426
Main Author: RAYBUN, RICHARD H.
Format: Article
Published: North Carolina Division of Archives & History Oct2015
Subjects:
Colonies
British politics & government
Ancrum, John
Fallon, James
History
Wilmington (N.C.)
Americas
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