106 Chronicles of the Cape Fear River A careful excavation of this ruin would doubtless reveal some interesting and possibly valuable relics of Governor Tryon’s household. Near the surface was found, while these lines were being written, some fragments of blue Dutch tiling, doubtless a part of the interior decorations; also a number of peculiarly shaped bottles for the favorite sack of those days, which Falstaff called sherris sack, of Xeres vintage, now known as dry sherry. In recent years the site of Governor Tryon’s palace upon this spot has been marked by a substantial monument built of bricks and stones taken from the foundation of the building and suit- ably inscribed by the North Carolina Society of Colonial Dames of America. SONS OF LIBERTY IN NORTH CAROLINA.! South Carolina Gazette, July 5, 1770. We hear that in consequence of a letter lately addressed to the Sons of Liberty in North Carolina, under cover to Col. James Moore, a meeting had been appointed, and held on the 2d of last month, where a number of gentlemen from the several southern counties in that province were chosen as a committee to meet at Wilmington on this day, to consult upon such measures as may appear most eligible for evincing their patriotism and loyalty in the present critical situation of affairs; which committee are, Col. James Lloyd, Cornelius Harnett, Frederick Gregg, Wil- liam Campbell, Esq., Messrs. John Robeson and William Wil- kinson, for the town of Wilmington; George Moore, Frederick Jones, Esq., Col. James Moore, Messrs. Samuel Ashe and James Moran, for New Hanover County ; Richard Quince, sr., Richard Quince, jr., Esqrs., and Mr. John Wilkinson, for the town of Brunswick; John and William Davis, Esqrs., Messrs Samuel Watters, Thomas Davis, and Samuel Neale, for Brunswick County; Messrs. John and George Gibbs, and John Grange, +. for Bladen County; Col. James Sampson and Felix Kenan, Esq., for Duplin County; William Cray, Henry Roads, and Richard Ward, Esqrs., for Onslow County; and Walter Gibson, Farquhar Campbell, and Robert Rowan, Esqrs., for Cumber- land County. *The Sons of Liberty were originally formed in the fall of 1765. Resistance Before the Revolution 107 South Carolina Gazette, July 26, 1770. We are informed that on the 22d of last month the Virginians extended their Economical Plan and Non-Importation Agree- ment, agreeable to those of this province, and that some General Resolutions were to be framed last week by the inhabitants of North Carolina, to manifest their unanimity with the rest of the colonies. South Carolina Gazette, August 9, 177 0. (Witmineron, Carr Frar), July 11. At a meeting of the General Committee of the Sons of Lib- erty upon Cape Fear, in Wilmington, the 5th day of July, Cor- nelius Harnett, Esq., was chosen chairman, and the following resolution unanimously agreed on, viz.: I. Resolved, That the following answer to the letter received from the Sons of Liberty in South Carolina, of the 25th of April last, be signed by the chairman and sent by the first conveyance. To the Sons of Liberty in South Carolina: — Gentlemen :— Your favour of the 25th of April last was laid before the Sons of Lib- erty upon the Cape Fear, at a general meeting in this town, on the second of last month, and received with the highest satisfaction. We have the pleasure to inform you that many of the principal in- habitants of six large and populous counties attended, when it was unanimously agreed to keep strictly to the Non-Importation Agreement entered into last fall, and to codperate with our sister colonies in every legal measure for obtaining ample redress of the grievance so justly complained of. Happy should we have thought ourselves if our merchants in general would have followed the disinterested and patriotic example of their brethren in the other colonies; we hope, however, their own interest will convince them of the necessity of importing such articles, and such only, as the planters will purchase. We should have done ourselves the pleasure of answering your letter much sooner, but the gentlemen of the committee living at such a dis- tance from each other prevented it. We beg to assure you that the inhabitants of those six counties, and we doubt not of every county in this colony, are convinced of the neces- sity of adhering strictly to their former resolution, and you may de- pend they are as tenacious of their just rights as any of their brethren on the continent and firmly resolved to stand or fall with them in sup- port of the common cause of American liberty. Worthless men, as you very justly observe, are the production of every country, and we are also so unhappy as to have a few among us “who have not virtue enough to resist the allurement of present gain.”