Talk:Cornelius Harnett

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[edit] Cornelius Harnett

This biography is about an American merchant and revolutionary. It has been tagged for cleanup since November 2004. It mainly needs converting from a long series of bullet-points into readable prose.

Looks like a job for User:Phroziac/Desk Please accept or reassign to me. Stewart Adcock 13:11, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Accepted. --Phroziac^(talk)

14:21, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Argh. I need to cleanup my real life. Oh well, atleast it's started. Re-assigning to Stewartadcock. --Phroziac^(talk)

12:53, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

status: Phroziac moved a bulleted list of significant accomplishments to the talk page of this article. They need to be incorporated into the article.

Stewart, if you don't want it or are too busy you can assign it to me and I'll see about reintegrating those points. Otherwise I've got other things I can work on. RJFJR 01:58, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Reassign to User:RJFJR/Desk RJFJR 19:05, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

My library is seeking books on this person from Inter-Library Loan. (Apparently they found two in Connecticut, both reprints of early 20th century books by the same author).

1 Cornelius Harnett
2 Moved list

[edit] Moved list

I moved this out of the main article, I intend to use the information to properly write the article.

April 1750 Appointed by Governor Johnston as justice of the peace for New Hanover County, North Carolina
1750 First elected town commissioner in August, and served at different times for eleven years
1754-1775 Member of the colonial assembly
1765 and 1766 Became chairman of the Sons of Liberty of North Carolina and was a leader in the resistance to the Stamp Act
1773 and 1774 Member of the committee of correspondence
1774 and 1775 Chairman of the Wilmington Committee of Safety
1775 and 1776 Member of the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth North Carolina Provincial Congresses; serving as president in the Fifth
1775 and 1776 Delegate to the provincial council, then made president of the council thus becoming chief executive of the new government of North Carolina
1776 Excepted by Sir Henry Clinton from his proclamation of general amnesty
1777 Councilor of state
1777-1779 Member of the Continental Congress
1781 Captured by the British upon their occupation of Wilmington in January. His health steadily declined while imprisoned.
April 28, 1781 Died shortly after being released on parole. He was buried in St. James' Churchyard Wilmington, North Carolina.