Posted By:	Donna Skipper
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	Subject:	Ignatious Flowers and "Bond for Departure"
	Post Date:	April 25, 2009 at 12:13:25
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The Oath Ignatious refused to take: I will bear faithful and true allegiance to the state of North Carolina, and will to the utmost of my power, support and maintain, and defend the independent Government therof, against George the third, king of Great Britain, and his successors, and the attempts of any other Person, Prince Power, State, or Potentate, who by secret arts, treason, conspiracies,or by open force , shall attempt, to subvert the same, and will in every respect conduct myself a peaceful, orderly subect; and that I will disclose and make known to the Governor, some Member of Council of state, or some Justice of the Peace, all Treasons, Conspiracies, and Attempts, committed or intended against the State, which shall come to my knowledge The Oath of Allegiance was at first offered to crown oficials and merchants trading with Britain, then the militia, then every male sixteen and up. There were some who refused to take the oath for religious reasons, Quakers ect. It has been estimated that in 1777 Bladen was two thirds torries. Ignatious did not fight for the British or Colonists and we may never know why he refused to take the oath, but he did make a contrubution to the patriots between 1781 and 1783.