Province of North Carolina, 1663-1729
Title | Province of North Carolina, 1663-1729 PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret M. Hofmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Land grants |
ISBN |
A colony-wide volume of more than 3,400 abstracts of land patents from the proprietary period made from the North Carolina Secretary of State's holdings. Dually indexed with more than 25,000 references to surnames and places map.
The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776
Title | The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776 PDF eBook |
Author | Duane Meyer |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2014-03-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469620626 |
Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William and Mary Quarterly Using a variety of original sources -- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers -- Duane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.
Abstract of North Carolina Wills
Title | Abstract of North Carolina Wills PDF eBook |
Author | J. Grimes |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 2018-03-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781983639784 |
Published in 1910, this volume contains an abstract of North Carolina wills. Compiled from original and recorded wills in the office of The Secretary of State.
Governor William Tryon, and His Administration in the Province of North Carolina, 1765-1771
Title | Governor William Tryon, and His Administration in the Province of North Carolina, 1765-1771 PDF eBook |
Author | Marshall De Lancey Haywood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | North Carolina |
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History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Title | History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Rodolphus Lambert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1838 |
Genre | Branford (Conn. : Town) |
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Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
Title | Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians PDF eBook |
Author | John Hill Wheeler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | North Carolina |
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The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover
Title | The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Joel Berland |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 527 |
Release | 2013-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469606941 |
After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published in his lifetime. Collating all extant manuscripts, Kevin Joel Berland's landmark scholarly edition of these two histories provides wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts for both, helping to recreate the social and intellectual ethos of Byrd and his time. Byrd enriched his narratives with material appropriated from earlier authors, many of whose works were in his library--the most extensive in the American colonies. Berland identifies for the first time many of Byrd's sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In his analysis, Berland demonstrates the need for a new category to assess early modern history writing: the hybrid, accretional narrative.