The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History, Volume 10

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Martha Helen Haywood, Mrs. Hubert Haywood, Mary Hilliard Hinton
North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the Revolution, 1910
 

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Page 158 - Congress be impowered to concur with the delegates of the other Colonies in declaring Independency, and forming foreign alliances, reserving to this Colony the sole and exclusive right of forming a Constitution and laws for this Colony...
Page 160 - It appearing in the course of these debates, that the colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina were not yet matured for falling from the parent stem, but that they were fast advancing to that state...
Page 170 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 218 - Resolved, That the African Trade is injurious to this Colony, obstructs the Population of it by freemen, prevents manufacturers, and other Useful Emigrants from Europe from settling among us, and occasions an annual increase of the Balance of Trade against the Colonies.
Page 161 - Hewes, who had hitherto constantly voted against it, started suddenly upright, and lifting up both his hands to heaven, as if he had been in a trance, cried out: 'It is done, and I will abide by it.
Page 82 - Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds : for that the sea would be calm and quiet, if the winds did not trouble it.
Page 219 - Resolved, That we will not import any slave or slaves, or purchase any slave or slaves imported or brought into the Province by others, from any part of the world, after the first day of November next.

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