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| | John the Tory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02) |
 | | At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1776, John Colson was a prominent citizen of Anson County, North Carolina. |
 | | Read three times and ratified in General Assembly, at Fayetteville, the 6th day of December, 1788, except chapters 41 and 43, which were ratified the 15th of November, chapter 21, the 29th of November, and chapter 26, the 4th of December, 1788. |
 | | Whereas, it has been made to this General Assembly that the said John Colson has, in obedience to the above recited Act, taken the oath of allegiance and fidelity to this State as by law prescribed, of which there is a record in the Clerk's office of the county of Anson. |
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