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The statement later dubbed the “Halifax Resolves” was adopted in Halifax County, North Carolina, on 12 Apr 1776, by which time the American revolt was already well under way. British troops had been driven entirely out of the thirteen colonies (for a while), and every colony was being governed by an elected congress with no royal officials.
Those resolutions were one of many statements from various bodies supporting resistance to the Crown and independence from Great Britain. Pauline Maier’s American Scripture discusses these many documents.
As for their pertinence to Boston 1775, North Carolina is a distance from Massachusetts. But I can report that one of the Continental Congress delegates mentioned in the Halifax Resolves, William Hooper, was a graduate of the South Latin School in Boston.
Apr 2, 2008, 5:57:00 PM
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