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* 1775 – Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
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1775 and Mecklenburg
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was allegedly signed on May 20, 1775 ; if the document is indeed genuine, Mecklenburg County was the first part of the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from Great Britain.
It bears the dates of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence ( May 20, 1775 ) and of the Halifax Resolves ( April 12, 1776 ), documents that place North Carolina at the forefront of the American independence movement.
It was supposedly signed on May 20, 1775, at Charlotte, North Carolina, by a committee of citizens of Mecklenburg County, who declared independence from Great Britain after hearing of the battle of Lexington.
The flag of North Carolina bears the date of the Mecklenburg Declaration: May 20, 1775.
The Mecklenburg Resolves were a set of radical resolutions passed on May 31, 1775, that fell short of an actual declaration of independence.
Although published in newspapers in 1775, the text of the Mecklenburg Resolves was lost after the American Revolution and not rediscovered until 1838.
Modern historians have emphasized that the story of the 1775 signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration can be dated no earlier than 1819.
A fraudulent recreation of a page from the June 3, 1775, issue of the Cape Fear Mercury, which supposedly printed the text of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
Here, at last, was contemporaneous confirmation that radical resolves had been adopted in Mecklenburg County in 1775.
That year, while examining newspapers published in 1775, archivist Peter Force discovered an abbreviated list of resolutions adopted in Mecklenburg County on May 31, 1775, that were different from the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20.
In 1847, the complete text of these Mecklenburg Resolves was found in a South Carolina newspaper published in June 1775.
Because the actual resolutions had been radical, and British authority in Mecklenburg County had effectively ended in 1775, the eyewitnesses were able to believe that the Mecklenburg Resolves had been an outright declaration of independence.
While they undoubtedly told the truth about the events of May 1775 as they remembered them, their testimony was given in response to leading questions, and their answers actually referred to the lost Mecklenburg Resolves.
At one time the State of North Carolina made it compulsory for the public schools to teach that Mecklenburg County had adopted a Declaration of Independence on May 20, 1775 — to teach what had been clearly demonstrated an untruth.
When compared to other documents of the time, the " Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence " supposedly adopted on May 20, 1775, is simply incredible.
File: Mec dec flag date. jpg | A Mecklenburg Declaration reenactor points to the May 20th, 1775 date on the North Carolina State Flag at the May 20, 2011 commemoration ceremony.
* Graham, George W. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775, and Lives of Its Signers.
* Graham, George W. Why North Carolinians Believe in the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence of May twentieth, 1775.
* King, Victor C. Lives and Times of the 27 Signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence of May 20, 1775 ( 1956 ).
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