War+for+Independence

media type="custom" key="7564711" // ﻿ Halifax Resolves ﻿ // // The British attemp to invade the province conviced many North Carolinains that their conflict could not be settled peacefully. William Hooper, a delegate to the Continental Congress, wrote home that " it would bo Toryism to hint [at] the possibility of future reconciliaton." In April 1776, the Provincial Congress decided that the whole province should follow the example of Mecklenburg County. "Independence seems to be the world," Robert Howe told friends back in Brunswick. April 12, 1776, the Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves. //