“An account of a particularly raucous election in [what was then] Dobbs County in March 1788 from New Bern’s North Carolina Gazette allows us to ‘see’ the scene at the courthouse in Kinston….The sheriff, election inspectors and clerks sat at a bench…. watching as the county’s 372 voters cast ballots [for ratifying-convention delegates] into a […]
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In Kinston, a rocky start for the electoral process
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged colonel benjamin sheppard, dobbs county nc, kinston nc, new bern nc, north carolina gazette, ratifying convention on December 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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