the north carolina general assembly of 1777 met in two sessions in new bern, north carolina, from april 7 to may 9, 1777, and from november 15 to december 24, 1777. this was the first north carolina legislature elected after the last provincial congress wrote the first north carolina constitution. this assembly elected richard caswell as the state's first constitutional governor (he had been serving as acting governor by action of the provincial congress).