No Carolina, New Bern, Janry 26th 1775.
[Extract]
My Lord, I have the honor to acquaint your Lordship that being detained at New York by repeated returns of illness and afterwards by disappointment of a vessel I had engaged to bring me hither until the season became too rigorous to hazard my return to my station on the uncertainty of a sea voyage at such a time of the year, I set out by Land on the 7th of December and arrived in this Province on the 9th instant and at this Town on the 15th . . .
In this Province as in all the others to the Northward Committees have been chosen by the people to carry into execution the measures of the General Congress.
1. Saunders, comp., Records of North Carolina, IX, 1114-1116.