Independence

1.__Mecklenburg and Halifax Resolves﻿__ Mecklenburg County declared themselves free of British authority on May 20, 1775. On April 12, 1776 was when the state legislature votes to support the growing national movement for independence. The British attempt to invade the province convinced many North Carolinians that their conflict coould not be settled peacfully. Since the early 1800s, many Americans and some North Carolinians doubted it evcer happened. For years however, the people of Charlotte asserted that both doocuments were real. Several land deeds recorded in the courthouse after the American Relovutionwere dated "such and such year of our liberty," with the math pointing back to 1775, not 1776. Fopr many years The Maecklenburg Delclaration of Independence was a Charlotte holiday.

2.__Declaration of Independence__ On April 12, 1776, the Provincial Congress passed the Halifax resolves, which put together all the feelings about liberty and freedom the North Carolinas had been discussing for years. North Carolina became the first of 13 colonies to endorse the independence movement. Later, in July 1776, William Hooper, Joesph Hewes, anjd John Penn were the three North Carolinians who signed the Declaration of Independence. Within months, the great document was read publicy in front of every courthouse in North Carolina.