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in 1780, 1782, and 1783. During these sessions, he was chairman of the committee of State Papers and
Petitions. He was on the committee that laid out the streets of Fayetteville in 1783. In 1785, he was the Sheriff of Anson County. He was elected to serve another term in the senate in 1786 but died
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in 1770, where he became a tavern keeper at the courthouse. He served for two two-year terms as justice of the Anson County Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions. He was chairman of the Anson County Meeting of Freeholders in 1774 and also elected to the Anson County Committee of Correspondence. He
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British invaded North Carolina in September 1780 and February 1781, Colonel Thomas Wade went to Virginia to avoid capture. After Lord Cornwallis left North Carolina in May 1781, he returned to Anson County. There was a constant threat from Loyalist Colonel David Fanning in the county and
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Carolina Provincial Congress in Hillsborough in August 1775 and in Halifax in November 1776. He was chosen as commissioner for Anson County to supervise prisoners, especially former Loyalists, and to take care of "unhappy women and children."
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