1771 North Carolina, Two Shillings and Six Pence, Colonial Currency
Circulated, repaired, see scans.Richard Caswell and John Harvey
The NC 1771 issue is my favorite colonial note, very historical signers, much variety and available.
A lawyer and surveyor by training, Caswell represented North Carolina in theContinental Congressof 1774 and 1775. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Caswell was the commander of the district ofNew Bern, NCMinutemen. As a Patriot officer in theAmerican Revolutionary War, Caswell led North Carolina militiamen in theBattle of Moore\'s Creek Bridge. In 1780 he was also commissioned as a major general of North Carolina troops. At theBattle of Camden, his troops fled after the Virginia militia broke and fled in a panic exposing Caswell\'s militia to attack without greater defense, leaving theContinentalsbehind to suffer defeat.
Caswell was president of theprovincial congressthat wrote the firstNorth Carolina Constitutionin 1776. As the congress adjourned, it elected Caswell as acting governor. He took the oath of office on January 16, 1777. Under the new constitution, the state Legislature (\"General Assembly\") re-elected him as the first Governor in April 1777. He stepped down in 1780, as the constitution allowed only three consecutive one-year terms. He then assumed command of all of North Carolina\'s militia, which he commanded at the American defeat at Camden, 16 August 1780.
John Harvey(died 1775) was a legislative leader in the colonialProvince of North Carolinaand subsequently a leader in the creation of therevolutionary movementin the province.
From 1766 through 1769 and from 1773 through 1775, Harvey, a resident of Perquimans County,[1]was theSpeaker of the Colonial Assembly(also known as the House of Commons).
While still serving as Speaker, Harvey served as moderator, or president, of the first and secondNorth Carolina Provincial Congresses(1774 and 1775). The first congress, for which Harvey had distributed handbills urging people to elect delegates, was supposedly \"the first popular assembly anywhere in America, called by the people and held in the presence of the king\'s officers, in direct disobedience to British authority.\"[2]At the first congress, he representedOnslow County, while at the second, he was a delegate fromPerquimans County, where he actually lived.[3]He died sometime between April and August 1775.
During World War II, theLiberty ShipSS John Harveywas built, in his honor, at a shipyard in Wilmington, North Carolina.
