Cumberland County NcArchives Court.....Association, Cumberland County 1775 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Ardrey n/a August 16, 2009, 9:13 am Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina Written: 1775 Cumberland County Association [as printed in the National Journal] Rowan, Robert; Et Al. June 30, 1775 Volume 10, Pages 29-30 [From the National Journal, Washington, D. C., 15th August, 1825.] The Cumberland County Association, The following political compact is said to have been entered into by a number of citizens of Cumberland County, North Carolina, shortly after the battle of Lexington in 1775, and the original manuscript is in possession of the editor of the Cheraw Intelligencer. It is a document worthy of preservation as illustrative of the spirit of the times in which it was produced. [The Association was the same in text with the one adopted at Wilmington. See ante page 26.—Editor.] The signers of the Cumberland Association were— “Robert Rowan Lewis Barge Maurice Newlan Lewis Bowell Martin Leonard Theophelus Evans Thomas Moody Joseph DeLesting Arthur Connue John Oveler David Shepherd Micajah Terrell Peter Masser John Wilson Thos Cabeen Thos Rea Danl Douse James Emmet James Dick Aaron Vardey John H Wenson One'rs West Wm Bathgate George Fletcher Charles Stevens James Pearl John Parker Walter Murray Thos White Joshua Hadley John Jones Wm Blocker Robt Council Sam Hollingsworth James Giles John Clendenin Robert Carver Sam'l Carver George Barns James Edmunds John Caraway Wm Gillespy Wm Herin Philip Herin David Evans Robert Varner James Gee John Elwell Benj Elwell David Durm Wm White Simon Bauday Joseph Greer Robert Greer” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/cumberland/court/associat1101wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb