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  North Carolina General Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The North Carolina General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
It is made up of the North Carolina House of Representatives (once the North Carolina House of Commons) and the North Carolina Senate which have 120 and 50 members, respectively.
The General Assembly meets in the state capital of Raleigh, North Carolina.
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 NORTH CAROLINA - LoveToKnow Article on NORTH CAROLINA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Population The population1 of North Carolina increased from 1,399,750 ~fl 1880 to 1,617,949 in 1890, or 15.6%; to I,893,8Ioin 1900, a further increase of 17.1 %~ and to 2,206,287 in 1910, an increase of 16.5% since 1900.
North Carolina is one of the few states to experiment with the inheritance tax, but the last law dealing with that subject was repealed in 1899.
History.The history of North Carolina may be divided into four main periods: the period of discovery and early colonization (1520-1663); the period of proprietary rule (1663-1729); the period of royal rule (1729-1776); and the period of statehood (from 1776).
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 Encyclopedia: Orange County, North Carolina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Triangle J Council of Governments is one of the 17 regional North Carolina Councils of Governments (Region J) established by the North Carolina General Assembly for the purpose of regional planning and administration.
The Research Triangle, commonly referred to as the Triangle, is a region in the piedmont of North Carolina in the United States, anchored by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill and the major research universities of North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina...
Greensboro, North Carolina, is a city located in Guilford County in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Orange-County,-North-Carolina   (3313 words)

  
 NC Museum of History: History Highlights - Eighteenth-Century North Carolina
Assembly delegates choose New Bern as the colonial capital and vote for equal representation among the counties.
The North Carolina Assembly appropriates £5,000 for the construction of a governor’s mansion in New Bern.
North Carolina recognizes settlements in what is now Tennessee as Washington County, and in 1783 Davidson County, including present-day Nashville, is formed in the Cumberland River valley.
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 NC Museum of History: History Highlights - North Carolina American Indian History Time Line
North Carolina militia and Cherokee assist the British military in campaigns against the French and Shawnee Indians.
Despite the Indian treaty of 1777 fixing the boundary at the foot of the Blue Ridge, the assembly declares lands open for settlement as far west as the Pigeon River.
Approximately 17,000 North Carolina Cherokee are forcibly removed from the state to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).
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 Caswell County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Famous North Carolinians, such as Governor Richard Caswell, U.S. Representative Bartlett Yancey, and cabinet maker Thomas Day, are a part of Caswell County's history.
Located in the Piedmont region of North Carolina next to the Virginia border, Caswell County began as the northern region of Orange County.
Established during the American Revolution, Caswell County was the first county to be ratified by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1777.
www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us /COUNTIES/Caswell/cshistry.html   (582 words)

  
 MARYLAND - Online Information article about MARYLAND
general rise, a height of about 10o ft. being reached in the extreme north.
Its general slope is from north-west to south-east; along the west border are points 300 ft. or more in height.
January (the coldest month) 32.14° F. Although the west section is generally much the cooler in summer, yet both of the greatest extremes' recorded since 1891 were at points not far apart in Western Maryland: 109° F. at Boettcherville and — 26° F. at Sunnyside.
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 Ancestry of Thomas Hart
His biography from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography edited by William S. Powell, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1988, follows: Hart, Nathaniel (1734-82), pioneer, Revolutionary officer, and proprietor in and chief negotiator for the Transylvania Company of Kentucky, was born in Hanover County, Va., the son of Thomas and Susannah Rice Hart.
Because of a proclamation by the royal governors of Virginia and North Carolina that prohibited treaties or purchases of land from Indians by individuals, the Crown refused to recognize the transaction and declared it null and void.
Their daughter, Susanna, in 1783 married General Isaac Shelby, planner of the Battle of Cowpens and hero of the Battle of Kings Mountain, who became the first governor of the state of Kentucky and for whom the towns of Shelby, N.C., Shelbyville, Tenn., and Shelby County, Ky., were named.
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 Ancestry of Susannah Gray
This purchase was later nullified by the legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina.
In 1765, the Assembly passed a bill introduced by Edmund Fanning to award Hart £1,000 for his losses as sheriff, and the previous legislature had included Hart in a group exempt from the payment of taxes.
In addition, he was elected a senator in the North Carolina General Assembly for the 1777 session where he became involved in the work of so many committees that he resigned his military commission in order to attend to them.
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 TNGenWeb's, Tennessee's Land Disputes With North Carolina
North Carolina agreed to their petition and in late 1782 sent commissioners to the area to negotiate with them.
North Carolina issued grants during Tennessee's territorial years, both in the areas ceded by the Indians and in areas not ceded -- even though the United States had said no grants were to be issued for lands still claimed by the Indians.
North Carolina could continue to issue grants in Tennessee for military service of its soldiers, as well as grants for entries and warrants based on the Land-Grab Act of 1783-84.
www.tngenweb.org /tnland/bamman.htm   (7722 words)

  
 ipedia.com: North Carolina General Assembly Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is made up of the North Carolina House of Representatives and the North Carolina Senate which have...
It is made up of the North Carolina House of Representatives and the North Carolina Senate which have 120 and 50 members, respectively.
Historically it meet in the capitol building, however since 1963 the legislature has met in the North Carolina Legislative Buidling.
www.ipedia.com /north_carolina_general_assembly.html   (149 words)

  
 Manuscripts Dept, UNC at Chapel Hill
Primarily correspondence of Elliot, lumberman of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, who also served as a colonel in the militia and was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons, 1824-1825, and the North Carolina Senate, 1826.
Most of the correspondence is from friends and supporters in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and nearly all of the clippings pertain to the activities of the Frasier sons at Chapel Hill and in later years.
Scrapbooks of clippings from North Carolina newspapers relating to the public life and interests of Hodges while he was lieutenant governor and governor of North Carolina.
www.upress.virginia.edu /epub/pyatt/chap01.html   (15724 words)

  
 Thomas Hart
Clay, Lexington loses perhaps the most remarkable woman of her generation, a writer of prose and poetry, a successful business woman, fearless and intrepid in spirit, brilliant in mind and admired for beauty, wit and all the womanly graces as well.
Bishop Smith, on Saturday morning; and her remains were conveyed to the vault, attended by a numerous train of citizens, which attested her worth, as well as the general sympathy and regret experienced on the occasion.
He was strict in discipline, yet generous, kind and true, possessing the confidence and esteem of all his men and officers.
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 Presidents of the United States
Today, in a different era, we are at the crossroads of implementing a plan to preserve our freedom and it has taken us to the foreign shores of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 1788 the President of the United States in Congress Assembled official duties were replaced by President George Washington (executive branch), Chief Justice John Jay (judicial branch), President of the US Senate John Adams and Speaker of the US House of Representatives Frederick A.C. Muhlenberg (legislative branch) under the new US Constitution.
In 1861 President Abraham Lincoln refused to recognize the secession of South Carolina and the other Southern States claiming they were legally bound to the United States not by the US Constitution but by the "Perpetual Union" they ratified under the Articles of Confederation in 1781.
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