Wilmington,  North Carolina
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INFORMATION ABOUT CHAPTER MEETINGS
    Chapter meetings are held the second Friday in the months of September, October, November, January, February, March, and April at a local church in Wilmington.  Coffee is served from 9:00-9:30 AM and the meeting begins at 9:30. 
  Two months later, the Militia of Brunswick boarded the ship-o-war, “Viper,” and forced British Commander Lobb to surrender his vessels and to require all British officers to swear never to issue any stamp papers in the Colony of North Carolina. Thus, ten years before the Declaration of Independence, in open day and without disguise, the citizens of the Lower Cape Fear successfully carried out Wilmington’s STAMP DEFIANCE.  (The Colonial Records of North Carolina," collected and edited by William L. Sanders, 1890, Vol. VII, 1765-1768, Prefactory Notes pp VI, VII, VIII, IX.)
    In November 1765, the people of Wilmington, with drums beating and colors flying, forced Stamp Master William Houston to go to the Courthouse and publicly resign his office.
    The Stamp Defiance Chapter was organized September 28, 1921, by Mrs. Elizabeth Croom, Mrs. Gertrude Creasy, and Mrs. Margaret Philyaw. They endorsed Mrs. Bessie Martin as Organizing Regent.