Halifax+Resolves

Halifax Resolves The British tried to invade the province convineced many North Carlinians that their fight couldn't be settled peaceful. William Hooper, a delegae to the Continental Congress, wrote home that"it would be Toryism to hint at the possibilty of future reconciliation." April 1776, the Provinvial COngress ecided that the entire provice should follow the example of Mecklenburg County. "Independence seems to be the word" Tobert Howe said to friends back in Brunswick. April 12, 1776, the Prvincial Congress approved the Halifax Resolves, which put together the feelings of liberty and freedom that North Carolinians had been talking about for years. The Halifax Resolves authorized the delegates in Philadelphia to join other colonies in finding independence. Noth Carolina became the first of the thirteen colonies to endorse the independence movement. In July 1776, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn were the three North Carolinians to signed the Declaration of Independence. Within a couple of months the freat document was read in front of every courthouse in North Carolina.