3. What did Willie Jones consider necessary for the people? What was advocated by him?
4. How did Caswell consider these things?
5. What good influence was exerted by his opinion?
6. What did the Council of Safety do?
7. When did the Congress meet? Who was chosen to preside? What was done on December 17th?
8. Who was the first Governor of North Carolina under the constitution? Describe the condition of affairs?
CHAPTER XXIX.
THE WAR CONTINUED.
A. D. 1777 to 1779.
All of the North Carolina Continentals were with General Washington early in the new year 1777. They reached him in a great emergency. His army had just been driven from New York across the State of New Jersey, and such had been his losses by battle and otherwise, that when he reached the Delaware River he could hardly muster five thousand men.