County of Pasquotank, having found ourselves
under the disagreeable Necessity of withdrawing
from said Meeting, and being denied the
Justice of having our Reasons entered on the
Journals of their Proceedings (that is, by an ex.
press Refusal to the Representatives for Curri-
tuck, which was the only Cause that those
for Pasquotank did not apply have only this
Resource left for vindicating our Conduct to the
World, and rescuing the Character of a Gentle.
man we greatly esteem from undeserved Ob.
loquy and Reproach. The Facts, upon which the
Necessity we were unhappily reduced to was found.
-ed, are simply these:
Upon its being moved and seconded in
the Course of the Business of the said
Convention, that a Vote should pass, express.
ing a high Approbation of the Continental
Association, Mr. Thomas Macknight, a Represen.
tative for the County of Currituck aforesaid,
got up and declared, that he was greatly
concerned he could not heartily concur in
the Vote proposed to be past, on Account of
particular Circumstances in his Situation which
obliged him to dislike some Part of the Associa
tion; that he owed a Debt in Britain, which
under the diagreeabe Necessity of withdrawing
from the said Meeting, and being denied the
Journals of their Proceedings (that is, by an ex-
World, and rescuing the Charachter of a Gentle-
man we greatly esteem from undeserved
loq and Reproach. The Facts, upon which the
Convention, that a Vote should pass, express-
Association, Mr. Thomas Macknight, a Represen-
got up and declared that he was greatly
obliged him to dislike some Part of the Associa-
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