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38916
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John Harvey, a native of Perquimans County, NC, served as a representative from Perquimans County, a Justice in 1751, and as Speaker of the Assembly. Harvey was considered the ‘Father of the American Revolution in North Carolina.’ He was a member of the first NC Committee of Correspondence and called the first and second Provincial Congresses against the will of the Royal Governor. In 1758, he helped charter the town of Hertford, NC. He was buried at his Belgrade Farm in Perquimans County, NC, but his tomb eventually washed away into the Albemarle Sound.
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36152
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This historic house was home in the mid-1960s to the newly created Craven Industrial Educational Center. The center, soon expanding beyond the three rooms on the third floor, necessitated the construction and purchase of adjacent buildings. By the late 1960s, student body growth, expansion of programs, and referendum-generated monies made possible the campus where Craven Community College is today.
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40912
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An early example of Colonial women's involvement in the fight for independence from Great Britain happened a year after an event renowned in American history textbooks. Just as remembrance-worthy as the Sons of Liberty dumping tea into Boston Harbor is a pledge signed by fifty one women from Edenton. Spearheaded by Penelope Barker, the Edenton Tea Party had put into writing their resolve to drink no more of the product they also saw as justification for rebellion.
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10196
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Born in Perquimans County, John Harvey was a colonial and Revolutionary leader. His bold work in behalf of freedom from England was one of the leading causes for the North Carolina colony's early stand for independence. Harvey died before independence for all the colonies was achieved.
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14424
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John Harvey did more than any other man to bring on the Revolution in North Carolina; and had he not died in 1776, there is no question but that he, and not Richard Caswell, would have been the first Governor of North Carolina after its organization as an independent commonwealth.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 15 Issue 22, Nov 1947, p9, 19-20, f
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