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...
| Published in: | North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 92; no. 4; pp. 387 - 426 |
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North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Oct2015
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| Summary: | 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 the specific example of the conflict between chairman of the Wilmington Safety Committee, John Ancrum, and James Fallon, who attacked the committee through letters under the pen name “Muscquetoe". |
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