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The process of launching a new and independent government in the Province of South Carolina formally began on July 6, 1774, while the Province was patiently waiting for its new Royal Governor - Lord William Campbell, who did not arrive until June 18, 1775. William Bull, Jr. had been acting on his behalf since 1773, when the previous Royal Governor - Lord Charles Grenville Montague was recalled in disgrace by the British government.
With all of the intolerable "Acts" of the 1760s and the Wilkes Fund Controversy of the early 1770s, the leading men within South Carolina had finally had enough. At a General Meeting in Charlestown on July 6, 1774 they elected five delegates to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and they created the Committee of 99, which soon became the "de facto" government of South Carolina.
In November of 1774, the General Meeting called for the election of a Provincial Congress, which was to convene in Charlestown in January of 1775. Elections were held in each parish and throughout the backcountry on December 19, 1774 to choose delegates for the January congress.
The elected First Provincial Congress met on January 11, 1775 in Charlestown and immediately began organizing how it wanted to commence governing South Carolina. Those in attendance appointed local committees to enforce regulations and appointed an Executive Council of Safety seated in Charlestown to direct the work of the local committees.
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