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which the local committees went in dealing with persons it
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deemed unfriendly or suspect. While the activities of most
town and county groups tended to assume a similar pattern,
some counties sought to extend their power even further. One
such example was Surry County, which undertook to suppress
"immorality and vice" by prohibiting any form of gambling.21
With the local organizations assuming full responsibility
for law enforcement and the I>rovinclal Council of Safety re-
sponsible for the direction of the military, the various dis-
trict Safety Committees found themselves in a position of
being, to a large extent, both unneeded and unwanted. Not
only were the local committees reluctant to surrender their
authority, but from the standpoint of efficiency the six un-
related district committees were not able to offer a unified
leadership. Thus, having no real basis in necessity, they
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were not active bodies,
„ The first real military threat to North Carolina came in
the early days of the new year. Governor Martin, having an
inflated and unrealistic concept of loyalist strength within
the oplony, yearned to take advantage of that supposed asset
and ypgain control of the government from the revolution-
aries,2^ As early as June, 1775| tft© Governor devised an
• ' / " 1 . 1ry II
g°Ibld., pp. 410, if 11, 43.8,
21ibia.. p. 251. ,
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22Ibld., pp. 294, 362j Hunts. The Provincial Committees
of Safety, p. 124. ' V ———
2^Saunders, Colonial Records. X, 325.
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McCarty, Jerry L. The Provincial Congress of North Carolina 1774-1776, thesis, January 1970; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131213/m1/94/?q=green+energy: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .