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North Carolina
AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of North Carolina and the other States united with her, under the compact of government entitled "The Constitution of the United States."North Carolina
We, the people of the State of North Carolina in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by the State of North Carolina in the convention of 1789, whereby the Constitution of the United States was ratified and adopted, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly ratifying and adopting amendments to the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded, and abrogated.
We do further declare and ordain, That the union now subsisting between the State of North Carolina and the other States, under the title of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved, and that the State of North Carolina is in full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.
Done in convention at the city of Raleigh, this the 20th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1861, and in the eighty-fifth year of the independence of said State.
Weldon Nathaniel Edwards:
Born: January 25, 1798
Birthplace: Gaston North Carolina
Father: Benjamin J. Edwards 1757 – 1800
Mother: Priscilla Williamson 1761 -
Wife: Lucy Smith Norfleet 1805 – 1892
Occupation before War:
Attorney in Warrenton North Carolina
1814 – 1815: North Carolina State Representative
1816 – 1827: U.S. Congressman from North Carolina
1823 – 1825: Congressional Chairman Treasury Dept. Expenses
1825 – 1827: Congressional Chairman Public Expenditures
Plantation Owner in Warrenton North Carolina
1833 – 1844: North Carolina State Senator
1835: Member North Carolina State Constitution Convention
North Carolina State Senator
President of North Carolina State Senate
Civil War Career:
1860 – 1861: Leader of North Carolina Secession Leaders
1861: President of Southern Rights Convention in Goldsboro NC
1861: President of North Carolina Secession Convention
Leader in opposition to Governor Zebulon B. Vance
Occupation after War:
1868: Delegate to Constitutional Union Party Convention
Owner of Poplar Mount Plantation in Warrenton North Carolina
Died: December 18, 1873
Place of Death: Poplar Mount Plantation Warrenton N.C.
Age at time of Death: 85 years old
Burial Place: Poplar Mont Cemetery Warrenton North Carolina