Rowan County NcArchives News.....First Battalion of Rowan June 26, 1799
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North-Carolina Mercury June 26, 1799
1799	27 June.  The following from “The North-Carolina Mercury” for 27 June 
1799.  

In order to promote unanimity, and called [sic] the minds or wills of a number 
of free men of the first battalion of Rowan, re[blot] our coming election, we 
the subscribers, from the companies under the command of Captains John Graham, 
Richard Graham, John Howard, John Harvey, and Joseph Kerr, of infantry; and 
Captains Beard and Hart, of the cavalry of the first battalion of Rowan, in 
committee met, on due inquiry and deliberation, considering it just that each 
of the three battalions should have a member to represent them in the next 
General Assembly, from their own body, we came to the following resolution:  
to recommend, and do with the will of a large majority, of those we represent, 
hereby recommend:  That Major Gaither, from the third battalion, be elected 
Senator; that John McCorkle, Esqr. from the first battalion, and Major Thomas 
Carson from the second, be elected Commoners to represent this County in the 
General Assembly of this state.  Concurred with this 7th day of June, 1799, 
and signed by Richard Graham, Capt., Joseph Kerr, Capt., John Graham, Capt., 
James Hart, Capt., Hugh Robison, Esq., Benjamin Brandon, Esq., Thomas Cowan, 
James Houston, James Todd, John Dobbin, William Ervin, William Miller.  

(Rowan County Register, p. 642) 


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