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The constitution, or form of government, agreed to, and resolved upon, by the representatives of the freemen of the state of North-Carolina, elected and chosen for that particular purpose, in congress assembled, at Halifax. The eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1799 Nor Car Ar79 N87
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1777 But (b.w.) Af.323.5 (Franklin)
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Format:
Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
North Carolina.
Contributor:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.
Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.
Dufief, N. G. 1776?-1834, bookseller.
Standardized Title:
Constitution (1776)
Language:
English
Physical Description:
16p. ; 8°.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-Street, M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]
Local Notes:
HSP in LCP.
Historical Society copy Af.323.5: Benjamin Franklin's copy.
Historical Society copy Af.323.5: Bound with Butret, Pain économique, q.v.; item 5 in volume. Signature on title: Colo. Lauren[s]. Modern half sheep over contemporary boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in contemporary hand, addendum to item 6 and the whole of item 7 in another hand; pencil number inside front cover: C71 N45; purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (57); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Cited in:
Evans 16419

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