The Fourth North Carolina Provincial Congress was one of five extra-legal unicameral bodies that met beginning in the summer of 1774 through 1776.

These congresses created a government structure, issued bills of credit to pay for the movement, organized an army for defense, wrote a constitution and bill of rights that established the state of North Carolina, and elected their first acting governor in the fifth congress that met in 1776.

[6][7][4][8][1][2] The delegates authorized their representatives to the Second Continental Congress to vote for the Declaration of Independence, including Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, and John Penn.

In April, 1776, the congress passed a resolve to move loyalists while allowing them to dispose of their property.

Later in May 1776, the congress passed a resolve to confiscate the property of those taking up arms against the United States.