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16469
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Speech in the Roanoke-Chowan section in northeastern North Carolina closely resembles that of Tidewater Virginia because the early settlers came into the Carolina area from the environs of Jamestown and Eastern Shore Virginia.
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16477
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In the early days of the Friends Society (Quakers) in North Carolina the members kept close watch over the conduct of its members. Matters of deportment, slavery, the rearing of children, and the carrying out of civic responsibility were carefully watched over and discussed openly and freely at monthly and quarterly meetings. Full reports such as the one detailed from the Jack Swamp Monthly Meeting held in the Northampton County have been carefully preserved.
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16498
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Life may have been rough and crude in Carolina in the 1600s, but according to travelers who recorded their findings and inhabitants who wrote of their way of life in the newly-found country, good food and an abundance of it were not lacking. Ingenuity and hard work were essential in producing, finding, or cooking the products.
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16507
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Home remedies were by force a necessity in both dental and medical cases, and as likely to cure as not. Practically all homes were supplied with ingredients for home remedies. For example, pine tar could kill a tooth ache, horehound could be boiled as a syrup for colds, and nutmeg could ease an upset stomach.
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