Rowan Resolves is the short name for a colonial era document called Resolutions by inhabitants of Rowan County concerning resistance to Parliamentary taxation and the Provincial Congress of North Carolina.
It was signed in Salisbury, Rowan County, in the royal Province of North Carolina on August 8, 1774 in response to a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, the Intolerable Acts, after the political protest against the Tea Act in Boston, the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, commonly known as Boston Tea Party.
[2] The freeholders of Rowan County opened the document with the assertion of their fidelity and obedience to King George III and his right to the Crown of Great Britain and Dominions in America.
Then the authors proceeded to state their position on the recent Royal measures in response to the economic and political events in the colonies.
Norma Drake Text of the Rowan Resolves in Colonial and State Records of North Carolina presented online by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as part of Documenting the American South digital collection