Record #:

19732

Author(s):

Crittenden, Charles Christopher

Abstract:

This article looks at the conditions of various overland travel routes and methods of transportation from 1763-1789 using period accounts. This includes descriptions of road conditions, river and stream crossings, east-west travel routes, ferry crossings, bridges, woodland trails, lodgings, ordinaries, inns, taverns, travel on horseback, travel by wagon, travel by carriage, travel on foot, and travel during the Revolutionary War.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 8 Issue 3, July 1931, p239-257, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Transportation services--History; North Carolina--Transportation routes, Overland--History; Transportation methods--History; North Carolina--History--American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783--Travel

Record #:

19733

Author(s):

Cook, Florence

Abstract:

This article examines procedure in the North Carolina assembly during the colonial period, 1731-1770. It includes descriptions of establishing operational policy, appointments and positions within the assembly, the role of religion within assembly operations, expulsion of members, member privileges, rules of decorum, acts of legislation, the passing and rejection of bills, the division of the houses and joint conferences, relations with the governor and committee systems.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 8 Issue 3, July 1931, p258-283, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Assembly; North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Laws

Record #:

19738

Author(s):

Lyon, Ralph M.

Abstract:

This article looks at the development and typical characteristics of the antebellum southern educational institution known as the academy via a focus on the Willington Academy in Abbeville District, SC, regarded as the most characteristic institution of the type. It includes biographical information on headmaster and North Carolina native Moses Waddell.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 8 Issue 3, July 1931, p284-299, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Education

Record #:

19739

Author(s):

Newsome, A.R.

Abstract:

This is a reprint of Asheville, NC attorney Augustus S. Merrimon who later became a United States Senator and the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The journal covers the circuit of superior and county courts of western North Carolina including Buncombe, Madison, Cherokee, Jackson, Haywood, Henderson and Yancey counties beginning on October 8, 1853 and concluding January 28, 1854.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 8 Issue 3, July 1931, p300-330, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Courts; Merrimon, Augustus S., 1830-1892