The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-07
TABLET To MARK
HISTORIC SPOT
Will Be Unveiled At Nixon
ton Next Saturday
WINSTON, ORATOR

1UN.f.D u. N uEl, UllH VII
Tablet Erected by Sir Walter Raleigh
CHAPTER Will Mark the Spot Where
The First Law-making Body Ever
{ Convened in North Caro|'na--An
elaborate and Interesting Program
Arranged.
Especial to News and Observer
Elizabeth City, June 4.-One OF the
most important events of a historical
nature that will AXE place in East
ern Carolina Tor some time VII be
the unwilling of a tablet by the SIR
Walter Raleigh Chapter Of the Daugh-
tiers of the Revolution at Nixonton,
Saturday, June II, at 2 p. m.
This tablet erected by the Sir Wal
ter Raleigh Chapter viii mark the
spot upon which the first law-makins
North Carolina, upon which now
stands Halls Creek Church. This his
torical spot is situated near the quaint
old village of NiUonton and eight
miles from Elizabeth City.
An elaborate and interesting pro
gram has been arranged for the cere-
monies attending the unvefltng and
a number Of distinguished visitors, in
addition to those will participate, are
expected to attend. The visitors will
be met by committees from the Sir
Walter Raleigh Chapter and Cham
Der of Commerce and conveyed TO
Nixonton by automobiles, carriages
and other vehicles.
Ex-Judge Francis d. Winston, the
gifted son Of BERTHE, and a former
lieutenant-governor of North Carroll
ma, will deliver the address Of the
day. An address of welcome in be-
half Of the people of Nixonton will
be made by the Rev. John Jackson,
pastor Of Halls Creek Church. The
Christ Episcopal Church, OF Eliza
beth City, and chaplain Of the Sir
Walter Raleigh Chapter Of the Daugh-
tiers of the Revolution, will act as
master of ceremonies n Bishop JOS
eph Blount Cheshire, chaplain II -
State society of the Sons of The Revo-
luton and Rev. r. B.. Drane, presi-
dent of the Edenton society Of the
Sons Of the Revolution will take part
In the ceremonies.
Four little girls, Misses Virginia
Flora, Rosa Smith. Catherine Jones
and Mahala Meekins, members q
Junior Order of the Daughters Of the
Revolution, will unveil h tablet.
The First Albemarle Assembly met
February 6, 1865, and was one or IN
first and most important events in
the history of North Carolina.
The State was then owned by the
Lords roprietors who appointed the
Governor and his council. Thes Off
GERS, aided by a body Of men chosen
by the people, made the laws, but
all laws had to be approved by the
Lords.
The names of the men who formed
the First Assembly have not been
preserved, but it Is certain tina Gov
ernor Drummond and the bold George
Durant, who later took such a prom
inent part in the Culpepper Rebellion,
must nave been among the members.
and that Samuel Pricklon. George
Catchmaid Gentleman Dr.. Relfe and
the prominent men among the early
settlers and more than likely all the
free men in our colony were among
the o\upS of sturdy pioneers who
gathered together beneath the branch
es Of a giant oak tree to draw up
"A code of laws by which these settlers
in a new land were to be governed.
There is very little known of the
proceedings of this body, but the scant
record at hand Of his first meeting
of the Albemarle Assembly shows tina
hus early in history. the men of
North Carolina set their faces firmly
against the submitting to the tyranny
of the naughty lords proprietors and
manifested that spirit of Independence
so characteristic Of the Old North
State, which later led tR bafTied lords
to sell out their rights to the land
ITO king George II, and to gladly
WASH their hands Of the task of try
ing to rule a people who so boldly
refused to submit to their misrule.
Season your admiration for a While.