SECTION TWO—
Campaign Started To
Learn Descendants
House Os Commons
Names Sought In Con
nection With Palace
Restoration
By Wad* Lucas
Efforts to find the names and ad
dresses of the living descendants of
the men who acceded to the request of
Royal Governor William Tryon in
1766-67 to vote tax money for con
struction of what become known as
Tryon’s Palace at New Bern are now
being made.
Mrs. Lyman A. Cotten of Chapel
Hill, who is chairman of the commit
tee on Members of the Governor’s
Council and State House of Commons,
1766-68, for the Tryon Palace Com
mission, is heading up the campaign.
Serving with her are Mrs. Paul Bor
den of Goldsboro, Mrs. W. H. Belk of
Charlotte, Dr. C. C. Crittenden of Ra
leigh, and Mrs. Edwin C. Gregory of
Salisbury.
Mrs. Cotten and her committee have
asked Director Ben E. Douglas of the
State Department of Conservation and
Development to assist them in their
efforts to ascertain not only the
names of the members of the House
of Commons in 1766-68 but they also
want the names of the living descend
ants of the Governor’s Council.
The Committee feels, Mrs. Cotten
said, that numerous descendants of
these early legislators and the Gov
ernor’s Council are living in North
Carolina and elsewhere in the nation
and they are asking them to give the
Tryon Palace committee their names
and addresses.
Tryon’s Palace, which is now being
restored at New Bern, where it was
completed in 1770, is now being re
stored with trust funds bequeathed by
the late Mrs. Maude Moore Latham
of Greensboro, a New Bern native,
and by State appropriations madei
through the Department of Conser
vation and Development. Mrs. Latham
provided for about $1,250,000 in her
will for restoration of Tryon’s Palace,
once termed “the most beautiful
building in Colonial America.”
Work is progressing on the restora- ,
tion at New Bern, where the impos
ing “Palace” was almost completely
destroyed by fire on the night of Feb
ruary 28, 1798. Only the west wing ;
of the structure was left after fire '
leveled the main part of the building.
Mrs. Cotten and her committee
have unearthed the names of Govern-
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or Tryon’s Council in 1766-67 and
here they are: James Hassell, presi
dent, Lewis Henry de Rossett, Rich
ard Brice Dobbs. John Sampson, Hen
ry' Eustice McCulloch, John Ruther?
ford, president, Charles Berry, Wil
liam Dry, Robert Palmer, Benjamin
Heron, James Murray and Samuel
Strudwick.
John Harvey of Perquimans county
was Speaker of the House of Com
mons and the clerk, whose home ad
dress was not given, was William
Heritage.
Members of the House of Commons
of counties that existed in 1766-1768
were:
Beaufort (Bath): Partick Gordon
and Peter Blinn. Beaufort (county):
John Barron (Barrow) and Thomas
Respass. Bertie (county): Cullen Pol
lock, William Grn\ and Robert Len
nox. Bladen: William Bartram and
Hugh Waddell. Brunswick (Town):
Maurice Moore. Brunswick (county):
Robert Howe and John Paine. Bute
(county): Benjamin Person and Ben
jamin Ward. Carteret: William Cole
and Richard Cogdell. Chowan (Eden
ton): Joseph Hewes. Chowan (coun
ty): Samuel Johnston, Timothy Wal
ton, James Bond and James Blount.
Craven (New Bern): Alexander
lElmsley, Thomas Clifford Howe, and
Jacob Blount. Cumberland (Camp
bellton): Richard Grove, John Wal
ok, Walter Gibson and Farquar (d)
Campbell. Currituck: John Wood
house, Henry White, Stephen Wil
liams, Kadar (Kedar) Merchant, and
Joshua Campbell.
Dobbs County: Richard Caswell,
who later became Governor, and Ab
raham Sheppard. Duplin: Felix Ken
an and Joseph Williams. Edgecombe:
William Haywood and Duncan Lem
mon. Granville: Robert House and
Samuel Benton. Halifax (Halifax):
Joseph Montfort, John Bradford, and
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William Branch. Hertford: Benjam
in Wynns and Matthias Brickwell.
Hyde: William Webster and John
Smith. Johnston: Needham Bryan
and Benjamin Hardy.
Mecklenburg: Thomas Polk and
Martin Fifer (Phifer). New Han
over (Wilmington): Cornelius Har
nett and John Ashe. New Hanover
(county): James Moore. Northamp
ton: Robert Jones, Henry Dawson,
Edmund Smithwick. Onslow: William
Gray, Richard Wall, Edmund Vail.
Orange: Edmund Fanning and Thom
as Lloyd. Pasquotank: Samuel Swain,
Jr., Thomas Taylor, Jr., Joseph Jone,
John Sawyer, Benjamin. Perquimans:
Benjamin Harvey, John Harvey, Chas.
Blount, John Skinner, Andrew Knox, i
Pitt: John Spier and John Simpson.
Rowan (Salisbury): John Mitchell,
John Frocheck, and Griffin Ruther
ford, Tyrrell: Stevens (Stephen) Lee,
Benjamin, Jasper Charlton, and Fran
cis Ward.
Willie Jones, who lived at Halifax
and who gave his name to John Paul
Jones, so-called “Father of the Amer
ican Navy”, was listed as a “miscel
laneous” member of Commons.
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In their shorthand test both men
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per cent, each missing one question—
the same one.
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