North Carolina General Assembly of 1779
The North Carolina General Assembly of 1779 met in three sessions in three locations in the years 1779 and 1780. The first session was held in Smithfield from May 3 to May 15, 1779; the second session in Halifax, from October 18 to November 10, 1779; the third and final session in New Bern, from January to February, 1780.
Each North Carolina county elected one Senator and two members of the House of Commons; 6 borough towns also elected one House member each.
House of Commons
Leadership
Members
- Anson County: Charles Medlock
- Anson County: Stephen Miller
- Beaufort County: John Kennedy
- Beaufort County: Robert Tripp
- Bertie County: James Campbell
- Bertie County: John Johnston
- Bladen County: Samuel Cain
- Bladen County: Thomas Brown
- Brunswick County: William Dry
- Brunswick County: (vacant)
- Burke County: William Morrison
- Burke County: Thomas Whitson
- Camden County: Willis Bright
- Camden County: Caleb Grandy
- Carteret County: John Easton
- Carteret County: Solomon Shepperd
- Caswell County: Peter Farrow
- Caswell County: William Moore
- Chatham County: Jonathan Harper
- Chatham County: John Luttrell
- Chowan County: Thomas Benbury
- Chowan County: William Boyd
- Craven County: Hardy Bryan
- Craven County: Benjamin Williams
- Cumberland County: Robert Cochran
- Cumberland County: Robert Rowan
- Currituck County: John Humphries
- Currituck County: Thomas Youngblood
- Dobbs County: Jesse Cobb, seat declared vacant May 15, 1779; William Caswell elected to replace Cobb, took office October 20, 1779
- Dobbs County: Thomas Gray, seat declared vacant May 15, 1779; Abraham Shepherd elected to replace Gray, took office October 20, 1779
- Duplin County: Richard Clinton
- Duplin County: James Gillespie
- Edgecombe County: Ethelred Exum, died before second session; William Haywood elected to replace Exum and served during third session
- Edgecombe County: William Haywood, died Novemebr 1779, no replacement
- Franklin County: Green Hill, elected Halifax district treasurer, seat declared vacant May 15; John Norwood elected to replace Hill October 18, 1779
- Franklin County: Thomas Sherrod
- Granville County: Philemon Hawkins
- Granville County: Thomas Person
- Guilford County: Daniel Gillespie
- Guilford County: James Hunter
- Halifax County: Willie Jones
- Halifax County: Augustine Willis
- Hertford County: Arthur Cotton
- Hertford County: William Wynns
- Hyde County: Joseph Hancock
- Hyde County: Benjamin Parmele
- Johnston County: Lewis Bryan, died November 1779
- Johnston County: Phillip Raiford
- Martin County: Samuel Smithwick
- Martin County: Samuel Williams
- Mecklenburg County: Caleb Phifer
- Mecklenburg County: David Wilson
- Montgomery County: Solomon Gross
- Montgomery County: John Kimbrough
- New Hanover County: Timothy Bloodworth
- New Hanover County: John A. Campbell
- Northampton County: Robert Peebles
- Northampton County: James Vaughan
- Onslow County: James Howard
- Onslow County: Edward Starkey
- Orange County: William McCauley
- Orange County: Mark Patterson
- Pasquotank County: John Blackstock
- Pasquotank County: Thomas Riding
- Perquimans County: Jonathan Skinner
- Perquimans County: John Whedbee
- Pitt County: James Gorham
- Pitt County: John Williams
- Randolph County: Jacob Shepperd
- Randolph County: Absolum Tatum, named county clerk of court, seat declared vacant May 8, 1779; John Arnold elected to replace Tatum, assumed office October 15, 1779
- Richmond County: (vacant)
- Richmond County: (vacant)
- Rowan County: Matthew Locke
- Rowan County: (unknown)
- Rutherford County: (vacant)
- Rutherford County: (vacant)
- Surry County: Gray Bynum
- Surry County: Frederick Miller
- Tyrrell County: Benjamin Spruill
- Tyrrell County: Joshua Swann
- Wake County: Thomas Hines
- Wake County: John Hinton, Jr.
- Warren County: Joseph Hawkins
- Warren County: John Macon
- Washington County: Henry Clark
- Washington County: Jesse Walton
- Wayne County: (vacant)
- Wayne County: (vacant)
- Wilkes County: Elisha Isaacs
- Wilkes County: Benjamin Herndon
Senate
Leadership
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