First Provincial Congress --- New Bern North Carolina
N 35° 06.493 W 077° 02.307
18S E 314219 N 3886945
Marker is in New Bern, North Carolina, in Craven County. Marker is on Broad Street (Business U.S. 70) near Craven Street, on the right when traveling west
Waymark Code: WM81PZ
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 01/10/2010
Views: 3
Inscription. In America to be called and held in defiance of British orders met in this town, Aug. 25-27, 1774, with 71 delegates present.
Erected 1973 by Division of Archives and History. (Marker Number C-50.)
First Provincial Congress
The first such congress met at the Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina from Aug. 25-27, 1774. It was the first such gathering anywhere in the Thirteen Colonies held in defiance of British orders.[1] Its moderator (president) was John Harvey, who was concurrently the last speaker of the colonial House of Burgesses, or House of Commons (see North Carolina General Assembly). This assembly, with 71 delegates from 30 of the 36 counties, approved the calling of a continental congress and elected William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and Richard Caswell as the colony's delegates to that congress. The provincial congress also approved a trade boycott to protest British actions against New England
FIRST - Classification Variable: Item or Event
Date of FIRST: 08/25/1774
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