The American Revolution in North Carolina

North Carolina State House of Commons

1781
This General Assembly met at Bloomsbury (aka Wake Court House) from June 23rd to July 14th in 1781.

County

Delegates

Anson

Vacant - No Election Held

Vacant - No Election Held

Beaufort

Thomas Alderson

Charles Crawford / Thomas A. Grist

Bertie

William Horne

David Turner

Bladen

Samuel Cain

Unknown / Vacant

Brunswick

Vacant - No Election Held

Vacant - No Election Held

Burke

Hugh Brevard (died)

Joseph McDowell

Camden

Vacant - No Election Held

Vacant - No Election Held

Carteret

John Easton

Unknown / Vacant

Caswell

Josiah Cole

Unknown / Vacant

Chatham

John Luttrell*

James Williams

Chowan

Thomas Benbury**

Michael Payne / Edmund Blount

Craven

William Bryan

John Tilman (Tilghman)

Cumberland

David Smith

Thomas Armstrong

Currituck

James Phillips

John Humphreys

Dobbs

Benjamin Sheppard

William Caswell

Duplin

Thomas Hicks

John Molton

Edgecombe

Henry Irwin Toole

James Wilson / Robert Diggs

Franklin

William Brickell

William Green

Gates

Jethro Sumner

Joseph Riddick

Granville

Thomas Person

Richard Henderson

Guilford

James Hunter

William Gowdy

Halifax

John Branch

Benjamin McCulloch***

Hertford

Lewis Brown

Thomas Brickell

Hyde

Rotheas Latham

Robert Jennett

Johnston

Joseph Boon

Hardy Bryan

Jones

Frederick Hargett

Edward Whitty

Lincoln

Robert Alexander

John Sloan

Martin

Samuel Smithwick

Samuel Williams

Mecklenburg

Caleb Phifer

David Wilson

Montgomery

Robert Moss

Peter Randle

Nash

Joseph Arrington

Edward Nicholson***

New Hanover

Thomas Bloodworth

Caleb Grainger

Northampton

John Dawson

James Sikes

Onslow

Edward Starkey

Lewis Williams

Orange

Jesse Benton

Robert Campbell

Pasquotank

Unknown / Vacant

Unknown / Vacant

Perquimans

John Whedbee

Jonathan Skinner

Pitt

James Gorham

George Evans

Randolph 

Andrew Balfour / Absalom Tatum

Jeduthan Harper***

Richmond

Edward Williams

Charles Medlock

Rowan

William Sharpe

Samuel Young

Rutherford

James Withrow

George Moore / David Miller

Sullivan

Unknown / Vacant

Unknown / Vacant

Surry

Samuel Cummings

William T. Lewis

Tyrrell

Isham Webb / John Warrington

Nehemiah Norman

Wake

Burwell Pope

James Hinton

Warren 

Joseph Hawkins

John Macon

Washington

Unknown / Vacant

Unknown / Vacant

Wayne

Joseph Green

Burwell Mooring***

Wilkes

Joseph Herndon

William Lenoir

Town

Delegate

Edenton

Robert Smith

Halifax (town)

Henry Montfort

Hillsborough

Thomas Tullock

New Bern

Richard Dobbs Spaight

Salisbury

Anthony Newman (Nunan)

Wilmington

William Hooper
* Killed while in office - leading the Chatham County Regiment of Militia at the battle of Lindley's Mill on 9/13/1781.
** Thomas Benbury was elected Speaker of the House of Commons. John Hunt was appointed Clerk. John Haywood was appointed Assistant. John Gooding and James Malloy were appointed Door Keepers.
*** Benjamin McCulloch, Edward Nicholson, Jeduthan Harper, and Burwell Mooring were disqualified from taking their seats in the House of Commons since they were considered to be Prisoners on Parole. New elections were ordered for August.
The reasons other delegates were replaced has not been determined - the info just does not exist in the House Journal.
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