SMALL POX
Drowning Creek, Robeson County, August 5 (In 1836 Richmond and Robeson shared a common border) Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina), Thursday, August 11, 1836 To the Editors of the Fayetteville Observer, and North Carolina Journal. You will please insert the following proceedings and oblige your rural friends. At a meeting held pursuant to notice, for the purpose of discussing the interest of the neighborhood and community generally, with regard to that loathsome and infectious disease, Small Pox, which indubitably prevails at the house of Mr. ANGUS LOVE, in our neighborhood, have drafted the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. 1st Resolved: That no person shall travel to or from the house of Mr. Love during the existence of the disease, or as long as any contagion is supposed to exist. Resolved secondly, That Mr. Angus Love be required to transact all his business through this neighborhood, by some agent otherwise than his family. Be it further resolved, that DANIEL LOVE be appointed principal agent to attend the family infected, or any that may take the disease hereafter in the neighborhood, and that he be authorised to call on any of this meeting for aid. Resolved further, That if any negro slave above the stage road and in the county of Robeson, be caught off his or her master's or mistress's plantation, shall receive on his or her bare back, thritynine lashes. Be it further resolved, That all or any part of this meeting be appointed a Patrol to carry the above resolutions into effect. Resolved further, That if Mr. Angus Love, or any of his family, or any person either directly or indirectly, under his control, black or white, shall violate the above resolutions, shall be subject to the laws made and provided for such cases. Resolved further, That this meeting do earnestly request ANGUS CAMPBELL, who brought the disease to this neighborhood, to remain at Mr. Love's until he receives a certificate from his Physician, that he is thoroughly well, or else he will be dealt with as the law directs. Resolved; That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Fayetteville Observer and North Carolina Journal. Signed, Duncan McBryde, President, Alexander Purcell, Secretary. N.B.-You will append the following names: Duncan McBryde, Duncan McPhatter, Edward McEachin, John G. Patterson, Archibald McEachin, Angus McBryde, James Browne, Archibald McBryde, Allen Wilkison, Daniel McPhaul, Archibald Stewart, Norman McLeod, Duncan McBryde, Lauchlin McNeill, Archibald Purcell, John Purcell, Jun'r, Peter McEachin, Esq., and Angus D. McLean.
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