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BRUCE COTTE

COLLECTION
OF

NORTH CAROLINIANA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE BOOK-PLATE DESIGNED FOR THIS
COLLECTION IS MADE UP OF THE OBVERSE
SIDE OF THE SEAL OF THE LORDS PRO-
PRIETORS OF CAROLINA, WITH A Tarred-
Heel nN PLACE OF A STAG AS A CREST.
THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE SEAL, THE
COATS-OF-ARMS OF THE EIGHT PROPRIE-
TORS, IS USED AS ORNAMENTS ACROSS
THE BASE AND THE INSERT IS THE EAST
PORTICO OF THE PRESENT STATE
CAPITOL AT RALEIGH.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSED ON THE THIRD FLOOR

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSED ON THE THIRD FLOOR

being
A Collection of North Caroliniana

formed by
BRUCE COTTEN

With some Facsimile Impressions of Titles

BALTIMORE - 1941

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER,

SALLIE SOUTHALL COTTEN,
WHO FIRST PROPOSED AND ALWAYS
ENCOURAGED ME IN THIS

GENTLE PASTIME.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSED ON THE THIRD FLOOR

I

N complying with repeated requests of many book
[ lcees that I write something descriptive of the

collection of North Carolina books and pamphlets
that I have formed over a period of years, I realize that it
would be much more useful if I would publish a descrip-
tive catalogue of the whole collection. But this would
be a large undertaking and require very heavy editorial
work and larger research to finish than I can at present
undertake.

Lam neither a scholar nor a real bibliographer and this
collection of books is merely incidental to the major
matters of life—a creation solely of leisure hours that
elsewise might have been much less pleasantly spent.

Book collecting, whether an acquired taste or an
acquired nuisance, is in either case acquired. It develops
by degrees and passes through numerous forms and
phases, rather curious to look back upon. At first you
only want certain sorts and kinds of books and reject

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innumerable volumes that in after years you are violently
seeking. You only by degrees overcome your own prej-
udices and dislikes and gradually find yourself including
and exploring in ever larger fields. Then there is always,
and for a long time, a struggle, when you realize that the
disease has really gripped you; and numerous determi-
nations are made to stop the thing entirely and not to
permit yourself to be classed with those mildly deranged
people who collect things.

There are collectors of buttons, tobacco tags, boxes,
‘ ink stands, clocks, corks, pins, paperweights, dog collars
and almost everything else on the face of the earth, and
as a collector of North Carolina books I have been
looked at with shocked amazement by many of these
very same people and made to feel inferior.

Notwithstanding, I have persevered and have insisted
that book collecting is superior to all other forms of the
disease. I even agreed with Dr. Rosenbach when he said
that ‘‘after love, book collecting is the most exhilarating
sport of all,’’ though I was shocked and had some mis-
givings one day upon being introduced to a man in New
York who collected only books written by one-eyed men.

Finally, having passed through all the awkward
stages and embarrassments that a collector experiences,
I arrived at a stage where I was willing to proclaim my
deformity and to admit that it has afforded me the
keenest sort of pleasure and pastime. I even maintain
that it is the duty of every person to have some sort of a
hobby, to become highly proficient or informed about
something, but it must be something intellectual—some-
thing that can be carried on in old age when a person
has outlived his future.

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The desire to collect North Carolina books first took
root in my system back in 1891, when I was about eigh-
teen years of age. The World’s Fair at Chicago was
about to take place; and my mother, as one of the Lady
Managers from North Carolina, was much interested and
occupied in forming the State exhibit which was to be
displayed there. She conceived the idea of forming a col-
lection of North Carolina books to be included in that
exhibit.

Few, if any at that time, knew anything at all about
North Carolina books, or whether there were any such
things or not. Nothing had ever been published on the
subject, and the best informed people could not tecall
half a dozen books published in North Carolina or by
North Carolina authors. There were few libraries in the
State; I recall none east of Raleigh, and no collection of
North Caroliniana existed, barring the mass of uncata-
logued material that lay in the old library at Chapel
Hill and some miscellaneous stuff that was held in the
State Library at Raleigh.

However, we persisted in mother’s determination and
felt really proud when we got together some twenty
volumes, including agricultural reports, some half dozen
volumes of Christian Reid’s works and an odd volume
of Hawks’ ‘‘History of North Carolina.’’ This conglomera-
tion was actually sent out to Chicago where, of course,
it must have made a sorry showing.

This experience planted the germ and desire in me to
know and to possess something of the books and litera-
ture that had been published in and about my native
State—that good earth of which my ancestors are a part.
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a fine opportunity lay immediately around me; for there
were, within driving distance of our home, a number of
old houses whose attics were full of papers and books,
much of which if preserved would unquestionably be of
surpassing interest and rarity today.
But these buildings and their contents have long since
gone, and it was not until I entered the Army and
became acquainted with old bookstores that I began
with some earnestness to look for and to inquire for
North Carolina items. My accumulation grew very
slowly, for both money and knowledge were entirely
lacking; yet in the latter years of my service in the
Army I packed around with me, at Government expense,
some two hundred volumes of North Carolina material.
My great pride and thrill of that period was a shabby
copy of Lawson's “History of Carolina,” the Petry reprint,
published at Raleigh in 1860. I secured this imaginary

gem in Salt Lake City.
I had in the meantime heard of Dr. Stephen B. Weeks

and the great collection he was forming, so one of the
first things I did after resigning from the Army and
locating in Baltimore, was to call upon Dr. Wecks in
Washington, where he resided and was employed in the
Department of Education. Dr. Weeks was the pioneer
bibliographer and book collector of North Carolina, and
we owe him a great debt of gratitude for the stupendous
work he did in this field and he will, I think, always
remain our greatest bibliographer.

Our friendship started immediately and lasted until
his death, indeed, the real birth of my collection can be
dated from the beginning of this friendship. Dr. Weeks
not only filled me with North Carolina book lore, but

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he opened up to me vast new fields in book collecting: a
study of the physical book itself, the causes of its pub-
lication, its influence, the press it came from, as well, of
course, as its author and substance. Without these
things interest in collecting stops with possession; with
them interest continues indefinitely and so defines the
difference between a mere accumulator and a collector
of books.

Vastly encouraged by this contact and intimacy with
Dr. Weeks, and with a growing knowledge of the field
that I was covering, I now began collecting North Caro-
liniana quite strenuously, though I have never tried to
cover the field so completely as Dr. Weeks did. He not
only included everything that had the slightest reference
to North Carolina but much that seemed so far afield
that any idea of limitation seemed abandoned. I recall
finding several lives of General William T. Sherman on
his shelves, placed there because General Sherman com-
manded the Army that marched through North Carolina
during our Civil War.

There were also any number of books and sets of books
on the South in general included, because North Carolina
is a part of the South. To this I contended that North
Carolina is also a part of America and, indeed, of the
World; and under such interpretation the Library of
Congress could be considered a collection of North Caro-
liniana—which was, in fact, precisely what I think Dr.
Weeks considered it to be.

On this perplexing question, the question of limita-
tion, Dr. Weeks and I had numerous discussions. The
difference between us was that Dr. Weeks was a real
State bibliographer while I was, and have remained, a

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private collector. For me to have done otherwise would
have required much more time than I could devote to the
subject and would have rendered my collection quite
unmanageable in a private home; for, after all, a fellow
has to limit his collection to something that his wife
will consent to live with.

My idea has been, and still is, to form a private, clean-
cut, purely North Carolina collection, embracing every-
thing of major interest that has been published about our
Staté in every field. But notwithstanding all rules and
ideas formed on the subject, this problem of limitation
remains the most perplexing problem that a collector has
to deal with; for there are not only hundreds of border-
line items that he has to pass upon, but he has to decide,
as well, which are worth while, or are really collectors’
pieces among those that are decidely within his field.
Of the Laws I include, with few exceptions, only those
printed in the State prior to 1800; I do not include folio
newspapers at all, and have few legislative documents,
school catalogues, agricultural, institutional and other
sorts of reports. I am very partial to items of some
interest large enough to stand in their own binding and
have never outgrown my dislike of purely political
speeches and memorial addresses, though my early preju-
dice against government imprints has considerably
abated in recent years.

These documents very often carry only caption titles,
such as Pub. Doc. No. so and so and are not attractive
as imprints; but many of them are highly interesting and
of great importance. The difficulty is that no proper
bibilography of our public documents has ever been
prepared, and students and collectors can not discover

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what documents have been published on their subjects.
Dealers also let public documents strictly alone—finding
no sale for them.

My interest in this field was greatly stimulated a few
years ago by visiting a warehouse in Washington where
a dealer held some tons of them in storage. Almost the
first piece I picked up was “'Ex. Doc. No. 78. 30th
Congress. rst. Session.’’ It was a 23 8-page proceedings
of a Court of Inquiry held at Saltillo, Mexico, in 1848,
to inquire into an alleged mutiny in the North Carolina
Volunteers and the facts connected with the dishonor-
able discharge of certain officers of that regiment. I
had never heard of it.

North Carolina is not a big literary field, nothing
comparable to Virginia or to Maryland, yet much of our
stuff is most difficult to find and many of our choicest
pieces are only known by the existence of a single copy.
I suppose I have glanced over half a million pages of old
book catalogues in my time, and have maintained for
years close contact with many dealers and book-scouts
all over the country.

Thave listened also to many fascinating yarns by book-
scouts, yarns of their wonderful experiences and finds in
old attics and outhouses and how easy it all is if one has
teally a nose for books. These tales are curiously similar
in detail and usually center about the attic of some old
farmhouse, where after being admitted by an always
beautiful daughter, the mother of course protesting but
the always beautiful daughter insisting that there is
something up there. Finally—an old hair trunk, or is
it a chest of drawers this time, anyway there are two
volumes from Gen. George Washington’s own library

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with some papers of Mr. Thomas Jefferson, a set of David
Copperfield in pamphlet form and the tallest and cleanest
copy of Dana’s ‘Two Years Before the Mast’’ that was
ever found, and so forth and so on.

Leven fell for a lot of this stuff myself in my incubator
days and have scouted considerably in eastern Carolina
looking for books, and while I admit that extraordinary
and incredible things do sometimes happen in book-
scouting, have in fact happened to me, yet I do not seem
to have the same nose for books afield as 1am thought to
have among shelves, and farmers’ daughters pay me scant
attention. So I have had to purchase most of my books
from dealers and book-scouts, many of whom are my
good friends; though I wish to acknowledge with
gratitude that many friends in North Carolina and else-
where have contributed items of varied interest to this
collection, and some indeed items of very considerable
interest.

In other words, as a book-scout I am something of a
failure; but I continue it occasionally as a social recrea-
tion and for whatever entertainment I may encounter.
My failure in this respect may be due to my inability to
adjust myself to certain ethics necessary for success. I
find it difficult, after being received by a lady or gentle-
man, to stalk over the house asking what they will take
for this or that book, and I just can not do it. With
another class of people I have none of this feeling at all,
but the trouble with these people is that if you offer
them a fair price for a book, you just do not get it. You
have to become an ordinary sneak thief in order to do
any business with them.

I recall, years ago, scouting along the Roanoke River,

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coming upon a fine old place, much dilapidated and
occupied by a tenant farmer. I asked him if there were
any books in the house and he answered: ‘‘No—none at
all.” I pushed my way in, however, and on up the
stairway. Finally, I came upon a drawer containing
several books, one of which was a good copy of a book I
had long been looking for.

The book was worth $20.00; any dealer would have
charged me that or more. I was very willing to pay that
price, so why come in this man’s house and walk off
with a twenty dollar bill? Thus I reflected as I held it in
my hand and offered him twenty dollars for it. Instantly
his whole manner changed. He quickly took the book
from my hands and said: “‘If it is worth twenty dollars
to you it is worth a hundred to someone else.” Had I
offered him fifty cents or a dollar for the book it would
have been mine.

However, on that same day my heart hardened, and I
committed the only theft I have ever been guilty of in
this business. I came upon a poor copy of Swann’s
“Revisal,’’ published in Newbern in 1752, in the hands of
an infidel, a rude fellow who was uncivil to his wife in
my presence. I decided that to rob him was a virtue, so
I offered him fifty cents for it and he said: ‘‘Take it
along—it’s nothing to me.”’

Later, when I had an opportunity and had secured a
good copy of this work, I sold this copy for seventy-five
dollars. But the Lord punished me well for that
thievery. I paid for that book over and over again, for
whenever afterwards listed items appeared priced too
high I consoled myself with the thought that I had just
made seventy-five dollars on the sale of a book. I spent

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that seventy-five dollars more lavishly and more often
than money was ever spent before, and the incident is not
entirely eased on my conscience to this day.

Nor can I boast of my successes in the auction rooms
of New York. I am convinced that the people who
attend those sales are, for the most part, disguised
millionaires out merely to humiliate humble folk like
myself. A few winters ago a copy of ‘‘The Discoveries of
John Lederer, In Three Several Marches from Virginia to the
West of Carolina,”’ printed in London in 1672, was offered
in the Goelet sale. I was intensely keen about this little
item and consulted with several book friends as to the
probable price it would fetch. We looked up the few
previous sales on record in England and America during
the last fifty years, and considering that the depression
was at its height we decided that $600.00 would certainly
get it. So I decided to buy it in at $600.00—a good price
for so small a thing; but had I not just made seventy-five
dollars on the sale of a book, which would bring it
down to about $500.00.

It was a cold, snowy night, a good night for good
books to go cheaply, I thought; and on the way down I
decided that it would be good strategy not to bid up
the price by degrees but to floor my competitors at once
by bidding $600.00 to commence with.

When the little piece was finally reached I immediately
bid $600.00. Before I could turn to note the effect of
this stunning blow, $900.00 was bid then $1,200.00 and
on to $1,450.00. I passed through a similar sad experi-
ence in an effort to purchase a copy of ‘A Brief Description
of the Province of Carolina and More Particularly of a New-
Plantation Begun by the English at Cape Fear,’ printed in

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London in 1688. This little twelve-page pamphlet
brought $1,150.00. So book collecting is like everything
else worth while; it has its disappointments and sad
moments, but through it all I have had as great good
luck and more fortunate breaks than anyone I know.

 
II

ape published literature pertaining to the state of

North Carolina falls naturally into several different
periods, the first of which is the period prior to the
establishment of a press in the colony itself. It so
happens that the very earliest piece of real English-
speaking Americana pertains entirely to what is now
North Carolina, but I can never hope to own a copy of
this rare little gem. I refer to “‘A Brief and True Report of
the Newfoundland of Virginia,"’ or the ‘‘Quarto Hariot’’ as
it is affectionately called, by Thomas Hariot and im-
printed at London in 1588. Only five perfect copies have
been located, and should a good copy be offered today it
would cause unprecedented excitement and interest in
the book world.

This work was republished at Frankford on Main in
1590 ‘‘At Theodore DeBry’s own cost and charge.”’ It
was printed in English, French, German and Latin as
part one of DeBry’s ‘‘Grand Voyages,’ and rendered
doubly attractive by the inclusion of twenty-three plates
of natives drawn by John White while with Raleigh’s
second expedition at Roanoke Island in 1585. But the
English edition of this work is likewise hopelessly rare,
though I have a nice copy of the Latin edition printed
the same year. This Latin edition continued to appear
from the same press for years after 1590 without any
change of date on title, so that the greatest confusion
exists among bibliographers as to what year located
copies were really printed, for almost every copy found
differs from others in some respect. My own copy has

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two of the ‘‘Garden of Eden’’ plates and one of Le-
Moyne’s plates, made at Fort Carolina, now Florida,
in 1583, bound in with the ‘‘Ould Virginia’’ plates.
This LeMoyne plate properly belongs to Laudonnier’s
‘Florida,’ which comprises part two of DeBry’s ‘‘Grand
Voyages,” first published at Frankford in 1591. The
presence of this plate along with other things seems to
identify my copy as the second edition, printed sup-
posedly in 1608.

It is interesting to note that for over two centuries
these twenty-three plates, as reproduced by DeBry, were
supposed to be all of the pictures made by White while
with Raleigh’s expedition at Roanoke; and even after
the additional plates were discovered they remained
entirely unnoticed for another fifty years.

In June 1865 the library of Lord Charlemont, an Irish
peer, was consigned to Sotheby’s in London for the
purpose of being sold at auction. Among these books
was a bound volume of water-color drawings with the
following title-page: ‘‘The Pictures of Sundry Things;
collected and counterfeited, according to the truth. In the Voige
made by Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, for the Discovery of
La Virginia. In the 27th year of the Most Happy Reign of
Our Sovereign Queen Elizabeth and in the year of Our Lord
God 1585.”’

Because of DeBry’s engravings, that eccentric wizard
of old book lore, Henry Stevens of Vermont, immediately
recognized this volume as the drawings of John White;
indeed it was the identical volume that White had drawn
up and bound for Raleigh himself while residing on one
of Raleigh’s estates in Ireland, immediately after his
return from Virginia, and it contained seventy-six

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drawings instead of the twenty-three that had always
been supposed to be the full number. Before they were
sold, Sotheby suffered a devastating fire, and this
volume lay for three weeks soaked with water under
a heap of brick and debris. When recovered, it was
found that the pictures were not damaged by fire, but
that by reason of the moisture and pressure the drawings
had printed off on the opposite blank pages, with the
result that there were now two sets of drawings, one the
original and the other the off-sets.

Both were sold at public auction and both purchased
by Mr. Stevens. The original went for two hundred
guineas and the off-sets for twenty-five guineas. It is
to be forever regretted that Mr. Stevens’ great patron in
America, Mr. Lenox, because of conditions at the close
of our Civil War, did not come in on the bidding; so
Mr. Stevens re-sold them to Mr. Panizzi, who placed
them with the British Museum. Even here they were lost
for another half century, for they were placed in the
Grenville Library, because that library contains the
famous ‘‘Grenville-DeBry;’’ and it was not until rather
recently that they were re-discovered and transferred to
the Department of Prints, from which they have been
exhibited. It is expected that they will some day be
reproduced in full.

However, it is not intended further to discuss material
not in my own collection and all books referred to in
this essay are on my shelves, unless otherwise specifically
stated.

My two earliest pieces in English were both printed in
1682 and represent efforts of the Lords Proprietors to
create interest in their lately acquired Province of Caro-

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lina. One is ‘‘An Account of the Province of Carolina in
America,’ by Samuel Wilson, London 1682. The folding
map in this is of special interest, being the second map to
show the coast line of Carolina and the first to undertake
to show a dividing line between Carolina and Virginia.
Samuel Wilson was secretary to the Proprietors and the
work is dedicated to The Right Honorable William,
Earl Craven, Palatine. The other piece is ‘‘Carolina; or
A Description of the Present State of that Country,’’ by
T. A., printed at London 1682. This is a charming little
black-letter imprint written by Thomas Ash, ‘‘Clerk on
Board His Majesty’s Ship the Richmond sent out with
instructions to inquire into the state of that Country.”’
My copy of “The Two Charters Granted by King Charles II,
to the Proprietors of Carolina,’ London 1704 (?) is not only
in very beautiful condition but is the best possible copy
for a Carolina collector, for it was the personal copy of
Lord Craven, our Palatine Proprietor and carries his
handsome bookplate. It was secured directly from
Coombe Abby, a seat of the Craven family, where it was
found in a box together with Lord Craven’s marriage
certificate and other intimate papers.

Then there is a copy of Lawson's ‘‘History of Carolina,”’
first edition published in London in 1709, which will
always be regarded as a foundation piece of any good
Carolina collection and the second edition published in
1714, and the two German editions printed in Hamburg
in 1712 and 1722. Since this last was published some
ten years after the death of Mr. Lawson at the hands of
Indians in eastern Carolina, I had the preface translated,
hoping therein to discover some reference to that melan-
choly incident. To my surprise I discovered that Mr.

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Lawson was still alive and could be seen at his house in
London.

“A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the
Spaniards called Florida, and by the French LaLouisiane;”’
by Daniel Coxe, Esq., London 1722, is a highly enter-
taining work with no particular reference to what is now
Carolina. However, the book has a fascinating back-
ground, and is a reminder that in a grant by Charles I to
Sir Robert Heath in 1629, we were christened Carolana
in an effort, it is thought, to convert an honor that had
been bestowed upon a French king to an English king of
the same name. The book, also, has the distinction of
being the first to suggest that the English Provinces in
America unite for mutual benefit and protection. Other
editions were published in England in 1726, 1727 and 1741,
and two American reprints have appeared since.

Brickell’s ‘‘The Natural History of North Carolina,”’
Dublin 1737, is a worth-while and attractive piece in
spite of the fact that it is a rather shameful plagiarism of
Lawson's ‘History of Carolina.’ I have even seen it cata-
logued for sale as a ‘‘Plagiarized Lawson."’ ‘'An Act for
the Establishing an Agreement with Seven of the Lords Pro-
prictors of Carolina for the Surrender of their Title and Interest
in that Province to His Majesty,’’ London, printed by the
Assigns of His Majesty's Printer, 1729, is a very attrac-
tive folio black-letter excerpt of twenty pages.

Some later English works are ‘‘The Natural History of
Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands,’ by Matk
Catesby, London 1771. This is not the first edition of
this work but is by far the best and handsomest. It is in
two volumes, elephant folio with two hundred and
twenty handpainted plates, with text in French and

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English. Catesby spent nearly twenty years in Virginia
and the Carolinas engaged in this undertaking, and the
famous botanist Peter Collison wrote of his work: “‘It
does great honor to him and his country and is perhaps
the most curious and elegant performance, of its kind,
that has anywhere appeared in Europe.”

‘A Tour in the United States of America,’ by J. F. D.
Smyth in two volumes, London 1784, is a highly enter-
taining work with about one-fourth of the text pertain-
ing to North Carolina.

I also have, as associated books, two volumes by
Arthur Dobbs, Esq., who was for ten years a Royal
Governor of the Province and who died at Brunswick
in 1764.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton, after much
service in America during our Revolutionary War, wrote
“A History of the Campaigns of 1780-1781 in the Southern
Provinces of North America,’’ London 1787; also the famous
“Pirate Press’’ of Dublin printed a poor edition the same
year. Colonel Tarleton, after the war in America, lived
for many years on terms of intimacy with ‘‘Persita
CMary Robinson), a well-known author and actress of
that day; and some bibliographers profess to be able to
detect her influence and assistance in the preparation of
this work. Then there is Lieut. MacKenzie’s ‘' Strictures
on Lieut. Col. Tarleton’s History,’’ London 1787; and the
Honorable Major George Hanger’s “‘Reply to the Strictures
of Lieut. MacKenzie,’ London 1789; both of which are
very rare and cast some light on the British campaign
in North Carolina.

Altogether there are twenty-six pieces in this col-
lection that were printed in England prior to eighteen

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hundred, which is all I know of, save some half dozen
unprocurable items, including those two that those
millionaires so cruelly deprived me of at the Anderson
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III

N June 1749, Mr. James Davis established at Newbern

the first printing press ever to be assembled in North
Carolina, and thereby started the North Carolina eigh-
teenth century press. The first publications were the
Journals of the Senate and the House of Burgesses and
the laws of the sessions of the General Assembly.

The earliest located North Carolina imprint is a copy
of “The Journal of the House of Burgesses, of the Province of
North Carolina... In the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of God, of
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, etc.’’ Newbern 1749. The only known copy of
this journal is held in the Public Records Office, London,
along with thirty-seven other early laws and North
Carolina imprints, none of which, amazing to relate, are
found in any other library or collection in the world.
Certainly Mother England preserved the history of her
children much better than we have done since we left her.

The urgent necessity of codifying and printing the
laws was the incentive of the first press in all of our
Original states, and except for this government work it is
doubtful if any press at all would have been established
in North Carolina during the Colonial period. This
Matter of printing the laws was a question of grave
Concern and frequently discussed for years before any real
action was taken. Governor Johnston in 1736 spoke
feelingly on this subject when in an address to the
General Assembly he said, concerning the laws: ‘‘Upon
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plete copy of them in any one place, neither have I seen
any two copies of them that perfectly agree. . . . Most
of them either appear under ridiculous titles, are full of
contradictions or their language and style is childish,
ridiculous and against the common rules of grammar.
As the happiness of every private man depends upon the
law, I think it is a grievance that can never too soon
be redressed.”’

It would, indeed, be interesting to discover some of the
old “‘goose quill’’ volumes of manuscript laws that were
used in the Province before the introduction of the
printing press, but they all seem to have disappeared;
only I have heard that Governor Henry Toole Clark
once possessed such a volume, that it was bound in coon-
skin and carried the bookplate of Edward Moseley.
Such a volume would indeed be a prize today and choice
reading, no doubt, for much later than this the General
Assembly very solemnly enacted ‘‘That Two Hundred
and Fifty pounds shall be a barrel of Tar in North
Carolina.”’

This period of the eighteenth century press in North
Carolina has been subjected to intense study and re-
search, so that we know much more about it than we do
about the press of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Dr. Weeks did valuable pioneer work in this field,
and Mr. Douglas C. McMurtrie has completed and
published his ‘‘Eighteenth Century North Carolina Im-
prints. 1749-1800.”’

So painstaking and complete is this work that it is
safe to say that it will never be enlarged to any appreci-
able extent, yet it is disappointing in that it is almost
entirely made up of laws and sermons. Not one located

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item of history, poetry or literature proper, though
there are two pieces on military science, one on medicine,
one geogtaphy, a veterinary manual and several poli-
litical tracts. Mr. McMurtrie’s work was in the press
for several years, during which time I did not report my
additions, with the result that this collection is credited
with only twenty-nine pieces, while as a matter of fact,
at this writing, I have forty-four of the items listed there.

My earliest North Carolina imprint is a copy of
Swann’s ‘‘Revisal of the Laws,’’ printed by James Davis,
Newbern 1752.

This first revisal of the laws of the Province is also
the first bound book to be published in North Carolina,
and as such is much sought after and prized in any col-
lection. In a North Carolina collection it ranks as a
field marshal, and some short description should be
given here.

Yielding finally to the repeated demands of Gov.
Johnston, the Assembly in March 1746 appointed four
commissioners ‘‘to revise and print the several Acts of
the Assembly in force in this Province’’ and provided
that it should be paid for out of the duty on wines, rum,
distilled liquors and rice.

The work was finished in 1749 and submitted to the
Assembly by Samuel Swann, one of the commissioners.
Gov. Johnston, writing to the Board of Trade under
date of December 21, 1749, says that the revised laws
“‘are now in press and I expect to send your Lordship a
copy by June next;’’ however, it was still to be two
years before the code came off the press.

The first imprint was made in 1751 and was published
prior to November 15, 1751, as it was advertised on that

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date as ‘‘lately published and for sale.’’ After the
Assembly of March 1752, the laws of that session were
added, the title changed to read 1752 and the table of
contents changed so as to include the new laws. There
seems to be a period of only about five months between
these two imprints, during which time there appears to
have been four different issues of the two, each differing
slightly from the other.

The work as it is, is a small folio of 353 or 371 pages,
depending upon the issue considered and is dedicated to
“His Excellency Gabriel Johnston, Esq., Captain,
General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over
His Majesty’s Province of North Carolina.’’ Being
bound in leather that was imperfectly tanned, it turned
a curious yellow shade, for which reason it has been
popularly known as ‘‘The Yellow Jacket’’ for over a
hundred and fifty years now.

Among other Law Revisals of an early date my copy
of Davis’ ‘‘Revisal of 1773”’ carries the signature of
Thomas Burke, a Revolutionary Governor of North
Carolina, the same who had the great misfortune of
being captured at Hillsborough and taken to Charleston
as a prisoner of that active Loyalist Col. David Fanning.
Peculiar among Law Revisals, but not of this period, isa
copy of the revisal made by Nash, Iredell and Battle and
published in Raleigh in 1837. This copy is made up of
the original printed chapters as submitted to the As-
sembly to be voted upon. A thoughtful member of the
House of Commons, having retained his copies, had them
bound into a folio volume, along with the printed report
of the Commission, and left it to find its way, a hundred
years later, to this collection.

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Other eighteenth century imprints made at Newbern
are from the press of Francis Xavier Martin and are all
laws or pertaining to the law. Rare and interesting
among them are ‘‘A Collection of the Private Acts of the
General Assembly, . . . from 1715 to the year 1790."’ New-
bern 1794; ‘‘The Acts of the General Assembly for the years
1791, 1792, 1793 and 1794,’’ Newbern 1795; and ‘‘The
Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace,’’ Newbern 1791,
which has on its title-page the impressive words:
“Happy the Country where Law is not a Science.” My
copy of ‘Notes of a Few Decisions in the Superior Courts and
the Circuit Courts of North Carolina,’’ Francis X. Martin,
Newbern 1797, was presented to this collection by the
family of the late Judge Henry Groves Connor, and is
highly prized and appreciated. It is so rare that I have
never known a copy to be on sale.

While I am on the laws, I can not help mentioning
“Cases Determined in the Court of King's Bench, during the
I, II and III years of Charles I. . . . First published in
Norman-French (1661) and now Translated into the English
language, by Francis Xavier Martin.’’ Newbern 1793. It
would be difficult to discover why it was ever translated
and published in North Carolina, only the translator
explains in the preface: ‘‘A desire of preventing the
waste of a few leisure hours, alone induced me to under-
take the publication of these cases.’ The work has
several physical points interesting to a collector.

My earliest Edenton imprint is ‘‘ Proceedings and Debates
of the Convention of North Carolina, Convened at Hillsborough

. 1787.’ Edenton 1789. This convention, after
rejecting the Constitution of the United States, ad-
journed with much ill-feeling and failed to provide for

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the publication of its proceedings. A small edition,
however, was printed at the private expense of a few
gentlemen, and the debates as published were reported by
Davis Robertson of Petersburg, Va. Shorthand re-
porting was novel and unprecedented in North Carolina
assemblies at that time, and Mr. Robertson was treated
with no consideration, was forbidden the floor of the
Convention and had to be content with ‘‘a very in-
convenient seat in the gallery.’’ Another exceedingly
rare and interesting imprint, made either at Edenton or
at Halifax, is ‘Regulations for the Order and Discipline of
the Troops of the United States,’ printed by Hodge & Wills
1794. “‘Agreeable to an Act of the Assembly of the
State of North Carolina.”’

My earliest Halifax imprint is ‘A Charity Sermon,” by
Rev. Samuel E. McCorkle DD. Halifax 1795. Besides
laws printed in Halifax, I also have a fine copy of
“Instructions to be Observed for the Formation and Move-
ments of the Cavalry,’’ by William Richardson Davie,
Esquire. Halifax 1799.

The press in Salisbury was established in 1797 and is
represented by ‘‘Every Man his Own Doctor; or the Poor
Man's Family Physician,’’ by Thomas Johnson, Salisbury
1798. This curious little piece is one of only two copies
located. It would be interesting to know what relation-
ship, if any, exists between this Salisbury imprint and
“Every Man His Own Doctor, or The Poor Planter’s Phy-
sician,'’ several editions of which were printed at
Annapolis and at Williamsburg, Va., about the middle
of the eighteenth century. Another Salisbury imprint
of this period is: ‘Aw Introduction to the Knowledge of the
Christian Religion. Published for the Use of the Protestant

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Episcopal Church of Whitehaven Parish,’ by Robert Johnston
Miller, R. P. Salisbury 1799. This is the only copy of this
work located and is highly regarded for itself and because
of its author’s extraordinary career asa man and a church-
man.

I have also several of the religious ‘‘Déscourses’’ pub-
lished by the Rev. Samuel E. McCorkle at Salisbury
before the close of the century and there were German
imprints published in Salisbury during this period, but
Ihave been unable to procure any.

Wilmington was the seat of the second press operated
in the state, but eighteenth century imprints made at
Wilmington are excessively rare. This collection has
none, and I believe only eleven pieces have been located in
all the libraries and collections in the country. A very
choice Wilmington imprint is the Session Laws of 1764,
printed in Wilmington in 1765 by Andrew Steuart,
“Printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.’’ This title-
page aroused considerable resentment and the Assembly
asserted that ‘“No such title as Printer to His Majesty
the King exists in this Province.’ The people as well
must have held it in small esteem; at least they took no
pains to preserve it, for it is only known by the preserva-
tion of two copies—one with the Archives of the
Moravian Church at Winston-Salem, N. C., and the
other with the New York Historical Society.

Presses were also operated in Fayetteville, Hills-
borough, Lincolnton and Raleigh prior to the close of
the century, but practically no imprints from these
presses have been preserved. The press at Raleigh was
not established until late in 1799, and the earliest
imprint I have is ‘‘A Manual of Laws’’ by John Haywood,

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Esq., Raleigh 1801, which I feel sure was the first bound
book to be printed in our capitol city.

Fully eighty per cent of all the printing done in North
Carolina during the eighteenth century came from the
presses of Davis, Martin and Hodge and none of them
were natives of the state. James Davis was born in
Virginia and came to North Carolina in 1749 when
twenty-eight years of age. He was State Printer for over
thirty years and died in Newbern in 1785, leaving a will,
a large family and a good estate. He was a man of
standing, and his services as first printer under very
trying conditions entitles him to be remembered among
those who have performed high service among us.

Francis X. Martin was a Frenchman rather curiously
cast upon our shores, a penniless lad. He became a
printer’s assistant at Newbern and shortly proprietor of
the press. He was also a lawyer and a citizen of high
standing. After twenty years in North Carolina he was
appointed a judge of Mississippi Territory and spent the
remainder of a long life in New Orleans,where he became
eminent as a jurist and author. He never married, was
a man of enormous industry and published in New
Orleans in 1829 a two-volume history of North Carolina,

Abraham Hodge was a native of the State of New
York and was trained from youth to the printers trade.
He operated a press in the city of New York and is said
to have conducted Washington’s traveling press during
the darker days of the Revolution. About 1785 he was
induced to come to North Carolina ‘‘by a group of
distinguished gentlemen’”’ for the purpose of establishing
a Federalist paper and was given the public printing.
During his twenty years in the State he operated, at

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times, besides his main press at Halifax, presses at New-
bern, Edenton, Fayetteville and Raleigh. His nephew,
William Boyland, was associated with him in these
enterprises and located the first press to be operated in
Raleigh, where he continued to reside as a printer and
book dealer and where he died at an advanced age,
highly regarded. Hodge never married and died at
Halifax on August 3, 1805, where he was buried and
where his tomb can still be seen in an excellent state of
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IV

Wirt the advent of the nineteenth century the
printing press began to extend itself throughout
the State. There was a press at Warrenton in 1804, at
Washington in 1806, at Elizabeth City in 1807, at
Murfreesboro in 1812 and shortly afterwards in a number
of other places.

The South, without being really religious, has always
been church-ridden, in certain ways, and in nothing has
this reflected itself more positively than in our produced
and imported literature. It would almost appear that
Mr. Martin, being a Frenchman and about to depart the
State, was vexed at this situation and determined to
give our people a somewhat more spicy type of reading
than we had heretofore had access to. Anyway at the
very beginning of the nineteenth century he translated a
number of little French novels and caused them to be
published in most attractive form, at Newbern.

These translations, while tame enough today, were
vastly more exciting than Mr. Pattillo’s sermons; but
judging from their rarity these little books must have
had a very limited circulation. They were immediately
followed by ‘‘Letters on the Improvement of the Mind,
Addressed to A Young Lady’’ by Mrs. Chapone, two
volumes printed by John S. Pasteur, Newbern 1802, and
“The Dying Thoughts of the Reverend, Learned and Holy
Mr. Richard Baxter’’ which was printed for William
Glendinning of Raleigh, but printed at Newbern in 1805,
Both of these works are reprints of English editions and
are excessively rare and dull.

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Of the French translations made in Newbern there
were two laws, seven novels, a volume of poetry, and a
history of Louisiana. This collection contains the laws
and the poems but only three of the seven novels, the
most attractive of which is ‘‘Letters of Adelide de Sancerre,
to Count deNance,’’ Newbern, N. C., 1801. The didactic
poem ‘‘L’ Homme des Champs’’ was printed in Newbern
in 1804 as ‘The Rural Philosopher or French Georgice’’ by
John Maude. It does not appear to have been translated
at Newbern and is perhaps a reprint of an earlier English

translation.
The ‘‘ Account of Louisiana,”’ printed at Newbern in 1804

by Franklin & Garrow, of which this collection has no
copy, is an abridged translation of Le Page dePratz’
“Histoire de La Louisiane,” first printed in Paris in 1758.
It is excessively rare and much sought after by Louisiana
collectors.

“The Abiman Rezon and Masonic Ritual. Published by
the Grand Lodge of North Carolina and Tennessee,’ Newbern
1805, is one of the rarest and most beautiful imprints in
the collection and is otherwise of great interest, as it
contains several addresses and funeral orations delivered
in North Carolina prior to 1800, which are no where else
preserved. Subscriptions were advertised for and plans
begun for the publication of this work as early as 179r.

“A Series of Letters’? by Philanthropos (Rev. Charles
Pettigrew), printed at Edenton in 1807, is a scarce
little book. It is controversial-religious, of which there
are a grievous number in this collection.

‘Experimental Reflections’ by a North Carolinian,
printed at Nashville, Tenn., in 1817, is a highly in-
teresting little volume of 147 pages. This is the only

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copy known and is much coveted by the Tennessee
Historical Society and by the Lawson McGee Library at
Knoxville. It bears internal evidence of having been
written by our own Judge John Haywood, and it is
thought besides that he was the only man in Tennessee
at that time who could have written such a book. By
1819 Judge Haywood considered himself a Tennessean
and wrote ‘‘The Christian Advocate’ by a Tennesseean, a
highly-entertaining book of 357 pages and not at ail
what its title implies. Dr. Wilberforce Eames held a
very high Opinion of this book and told me that he had
read it several times which is worth recording on account
of his preeminence as a bookman and one of the five
best educated men in the world.

With the development of Raleigh as the capitol of the
State and the placing of the public printing there, the
presses in the eastern towns began to decline in the out-
put of books and confine themselves to the publication of
newspapers. Newbern continued to turn out a book
occasionally, and Abraham Hodge at Halifax continued
quite active until his death. He printed in 1803 ‘A
Concise History of the Kehukee Baptist Association,’ by
Elders Lemuel Burkett and Jesse Reed, which is the first
purely historical work published in the State; also, the
first I have discovered to carry a copyright notice.
This history of the Kehukee Baptist Association was
tevised and brought up to date, first by Elder Joseph
Biggs and published at Tarborough, N. C., in 1834 and
again, under the impressive title of ‘‘Héstory of the
Church of God, From the Creation to A. D. 1885; Includeing
Especially the History of the Kehukee Primitive Baptist
Association,’’ by Elders Cushing Biggs Hassell and

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Sylvester Hassell, Middletown, N. Y., 1886. This
latter volume is the result of enormous research and
labor and contains what is said to be the longest sentence
ever published in the English language. This sentence
is contained on pages 580 to 587, inclusive, and is a
review of religious conditions during the nineteenth
century. Hodge’s last publications were, ‘A Defence of
the Baptist, against the Aspersions and Misrepresentations of
Mr. Peter Edwards,’’ by Joseph Jenkins, and “A Spiritual
Song Book,’’ by Davis S$. Mintz; both of which were
published in Halifax in 1805, the year that Mr. Hodge
died, and neither have been located except in this col-
lection. The rare two-volume work, ‘An Abridgment of
an Exposition of The Book of the Prophet Isaiah,’’ by John
Gill, DD., was published in Halifax at the office of the
North Carolina Journal in 1806. It is a good piece of
workmanship and was probably supervised through the
press by William Winston Seaton, who soon was to
become a son-in-law of Gales and commence his dis-
tinguished journalistic and political career in Wash-
ington. Altogether I have seventeen imprints made at
Halifax between the years 1795 and 1805.

Early in the century the printing house of Joseph
Gales, at Raleigh, became and remained for many years
the leading printers in the State. Joseph Gales enjoyed
a high reputation as a printer anda man, and his home in
Raleigh was for three decades a cultural and social
center rarely equaled in the annals of our State. Mrs.
Gales wrote several books, one of which, ‘‘Marilda
Berkely, or Family Anecdotes,’ was published in Raleigh
in 1804. It is a readable book to this day, is very
rare and highly prized by North Carolina collectors.

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Thomas Henderson commenced printing in Raleigh in
1808 and was for some years State Printer. He orna-
mentd his title-pages and used tail-pieces, so that the
many little items that came from his press are both
desirable and attractive.

Dennis Heartt revived the press at Hillsborough in
1820, and I wish I had more samples of his excellent work.
My earliest Hillsborough imprint is 1823. Charlotte
appears quite late in establishing a press (1824) for a
town so old and progressive, and my earliest Charlotte
imprint is dated 1826. Greensborough was also printing
in 1826, and with the advent of Hale at Fayetteville in
1825 that town became quite a printing center.

During this entire period, as since, most of the litera-
ture pertaining to North Carolina was printed out of
the State. The distinction of being the first native-born
North Carolinian to publish a book seems to belong to
Lemuel Sawyer, a native of Camden County and for six
terms a Member of Congress from that district. No
copy of his first book, however, has been located and it
is only known from the following extract from a letter
of a ‘‘Gentleman of Raleigh,’’ dated February 24, 1806.
This letter undertakes to list the original works pub-
lished in the State and the second item reads: ‘‘A
Journey to Lake Drummond, by Lemuel Sawyer. Published
eight or ten years ago.’’ Sawyer was also our first
playwright, having published his ‘“‘Blackbeard. A
Comedy in Four Acts,” in Washington in 1824. This play
was undoubtedly put on at some place, for my copy is a
prompter’s copy and came from the collection of Mr.
David Belasco, where it was found bound in with several
contemporary English plays. Sawyer says of this little

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comedy, that Henry Clay, then Speaker of the House,
encouraged him to publish it and gave it a motion
through the House by which means he sold seventy
copies at 374% cents each, which just paid the cost of
publication, leaving. him a clear gain of about four
hundred copies. From which it is clear that no more
than five hundred copies were printed.

Sawyet’s ‘‘Auto-Biography’’ was not published until
1844, and a curious, frank and decidedly outrageous con-
fession it is. In 1805 the Raleigh Register proposed to
publish Sawyer’s ‘‘Essays, Literary, Political and Dra-
matic,’ and had it appeared we would know much
more than we do about this eccentric and most peculiar
person, who at no time in his career seems to have
enjoyed an unblemished reputation and who has been
suspected by some as being too intimate with the
notorious Mrs. Annie Royall and of having encouraged
her in her scurrilous attacks upon public men. Sawyet’s
brother, Dr. M. E. Sawyer, was a leading physician in
Edenton for many years and published an early piece on
medicine, ‘A Treatise on Primitive and Secondary Disguised
or Misplaced Fever,’’ New York 1831, a very handsome
little volume.

The first volume of poetry by a native of the State,
appears to be, “A Poetical Descant on the Present State of
Mankind, or the Pilgrim's Muse,’ by Joseph Thomas,
and published at Winchester, Va., in 1816. This is a
descant on the wars of mankind and the author devotes
two pages to the passage of Cornwallis through North
Carolina. Thomas was born in Orange County, N. C.,
in 1791, and spent most of his short life preaching in
Virginia, North Carolina and other states. He appears

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to have written five books, four of which are on my
shelves.

The first book to be published by a woman, native of
the State, appears to be ‘‘Wood Notes; or Carolina Carols.
A Collection of North Carolina Poetry,’’ by Tenella in two
volumes, Raleigh 1854. Tenella was Mrs. Mary Bayard
Clark, a talented woman who wrote several other
volumes of poems, all of which are on my shelves.

A very curious little book was published by J. Stanton
at James Town, N. C., in 1836, ‘The Advantages and
Disadvantages of the Married State... Versified by Refine
Weeks.’ The publisher states that ‘‘coming from so
respectable a source as the female pen, the sentiment is
very chaste.’’ However, it is not difficult to establish
that Refine Weeks was a man, a traveling preacher and
that he first published this work at Stamford, Conn., in
1805. I once thought that I had in this the first produc-
tion by a woman native of the State.

There were a few other volumes of poetry published in
North Carolina prior to 1860, among them *‘A Collection
of Various Pieces of Poetry,’’ by James Gay of Iredell
County, N. C., Raleigh 1810. ‘‘The Hope of Liberty,’’ by
George M. Horton, Raleigh 1829. ‘Attempts at Rhym-
ing,’’ by Old Field Teacher, Raleigh 1839; and ‘‘A Col-
lection of Poems,’’ by Incog. Newbern 1845. James Gay
was a native of Ireland who, after serving in the Revo-
lutionary War, settled in Iredell County. George Horton
was a slave of Mr. James Horton of Chatham County,
N. C., and the copy of his poems in this collection is the
second edition published in Philadelphia in 1837. The
identity of Old Field Teacher and Incog remain con-
cealed in spite of painstaking research.

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Mrs. Mary Mason’s ‘‘A Wreath from The Woods of
Carolina,"’ appeared in 1859. It is illustrated by nine
beautiful plates all done by Mrs. Mason herself. This
is one of my earliest pieces, and I hold for it peculiar
veneration. Mrs. Mason was a daughter of John
Councile Bryan of New Bern and the wife of a highly
regarded Episcopal minister. She was a gifted painter,
sculptor and musician and a letter I have from Capt.
Samuel A. Ashe, pertaining to her, closes with these
words: ‘‘All in all she was the most talented lady
ever born in this State.”’

Several years ago Mr. W. W. Fuller asked me to show
him my copy of Mrs. Mason's “‘Wreath.’’ He took a
great fancy to it and said that he would like to get six
or eight copies to distribute among some friends. I told
him it would take six or eight years to do that. Im-
mediately upon his return to New York he gave an
order to an old bookstore to find him six copies and to
send them around to his house. He had them within a
week to his great joy and to my everlasting amazement
and as I told him—my regret that so fine a man should
have wasted his life on the American Tobacco Company
when he would have been a success as an old book dealer.

The first novel with a North Carolina background
seems to be ‘‘Eoneguski, or The Cherokee Chief,’ by an
American. Two volumes, Washington 1839. This work
is by Robert Strange, a Senator from North Carolina, in
the Congress of the United States. It is an exceptionally
attractive imprint, having been supervised through the
press by Mr. Peter Force and is far better reading than
most novels of that day. Because it criticized the con-
duct of certain men of influence residing in the western

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part of the State and because it carried, it was charged,
some anti-slavery sentiment, it was suppressed, but the
few copies that got abroad were sufficient to completely
ruin the political fortunes of the author, a highly
capable and deserving man.

During this period three two-volume histories of the
State appeared and were received with faint applause.
Williamson’s ‘‘History of North Carolina,’’ Philadelphia
1812; Martin’s ‘History of North Carolina,’’ New Orleans
1829; and Hawks’ ‘‘History of North Carolina,’’ Fayette-
ville, N. C., 1857 and 1858. These works are all now
somewhat rare and are regarded principally as collectors
pieces, though Dr. Hawks’ history is a superior work
and remarkably modern in method for its day. John H.
Wheeler published his ‘‘Héstorical Sketches of North
Carolina,’ in 1851, and the edition of eleven thousand
was immediately sold. This work is usually found in
two volumes bound as one, and on account of the genea-
logical and personal notes and references found under
county headings, it has retained a certain popularity
to this day.

“Revolutionary Incidents and Sketches of Character, Chiefly
in the Old North State,’ by Rev. E. W. Caruthers, was
published in Philadelphia, in two series in 1854 and
1856. The author collected a mass of traditions and
rural gossip and produced an entertaining work, which
must, however, be used with great care.

“Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical,”
New York 1846, by Rev. William Henry Foote, is
avery worth-while book; but without question the most
valuable contribution made to our historical literature
during this period is ‘‘Life and Correspondence of James

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Iredell,”’ edited by Griffith J. McRee and published in
New York, Volume I in 1857, and Volume II in 1858.
The work is splendidly edited but woefully lacking in
annotation. It is understood that Mr. McRee withheld
about one half of the material available out of deference
to the feelings of persons living at that time, but it is
hoped that this material will yet be gathered and pub-
lished in some suitable form. This work was published
in an edition of 550 copies of Vol. I and only 450 copies
of Vol. II, which accounts for the fact that copies of
Volume I are not infrequently found without its mate.

There are many other interesting books pertaining to
the State that were published during the five decades
1800 to 1860; yet the output seems surprisingly small
when compared to other states and considering the
population and number of presses operated in the State
during those years.

During the ante-bellum period no books of a purely
scientific nature or on the fine arts or sports came from
our press, though our Geological Surveys are creditable
and date from 1824. There is one book on farming,
“A Series of Essays on Agriculture and Rural Affairs,’ by
Agricola (George W. Jeffreys), Raleigh 1819; and one,
“A Treatise on Turpentine Farming,’ by G. W. Perry,
Newbern, N. C., 1859; and the Rev. Edgar L. Perkins of
Cromartie’s Bladen County, N. C., gave us a charming
little volume, ‘‘Ready Wisdom. Being a collection of the
Moral, Intelligent and Refined Sayings of All Ages,”
Raleigh 1848.

Humor is represented by only a few pieces. “‘The
Mammouth Humbug, or the Adventures of Shocco Jones in
Mississippi in the Summer of 1839,'’ Memphis, Tenn. 1842,

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is a brilliant satire on our Shocco Jones and well founded
on truth, I fear. ‘‘Life as it is, or the Writings of Our
Mose,’’ Raleigh 1858, is an example of the homely humor
of that period and were it as good as it is rare it would
be a gem indeed. ‘Fisher's River North Carolina, Scenes
and Characters,"’ by ‘‘Skitt,’’ New York 1859, is a high-
grade book of humorous sketches by H. E. Taliaferro
‘“‘who was raised thar.’’ It is attractively illustrated
by John McLenan, was well received and had an exten-
sive sale in its day. I can not discover that the highly
praised ‘‘Cousin Sally Dillard,’’ a humorous sketch by
Hamilton C. Jones of Salisbury, was ever published as a
separate.

I have found no book by a North Carolinian written
in defence of the institution of slavery but have a
number of anti-slavery books of considerable interest.
These vary from rank propaganda to serious analysis
and honestly held opposition to the system. In this
latter class may be placed ‘‘An Address on the Evils of
Slavery,’ by William Swain, Greensboro, N. C., 1830;
and Helpers’ ‘‘ Impending Crisis,’’ published in 1859, which
was a best seller in its day and more widely read and
discussed than any other book ever written by a North
Carolinian though its sale was forbidden in the South.
“The Reminiscences of Levi Coffin,’ published in Cincin-
nati in 1876, is a powerful anti-slavery book by a citizen
of Guilford County, N. C., who became the reputed
president of the underground railway. A considerable
portion of the book relates to matters in North Carolina.

“The Narrative of Lunsford Lane,’ a slave of the Hay-
wood family in Raleigh and published in Boston in 1848,
is especially well known; but of even more interest, it

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seems to me, is ‘The Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy,”’
a slave of Elizabeth City and Camden County, which was
published in Boston in 1844. “‘The Life of Thomas H.
Jones,"’ a slave of Wilmington, N. C., is largely propa-
ganda, while the highly romantic and extraordinary
“Life of Julius Melbourn,’ published at Syracuse, New
York, in 1847, must be classed as pure fiction. Melbourn
is represented as a negro of Raleigh, but indications are
that no such person ever existed.

Dr. Francis L. Hawks was by far the most prolific and
versatile writer that North Carolina produced during this
period. His writings include the Law, History, Religion
and many sciences. He was a brilliant orator, a man of
scientific eminence and is regarded by many people as
North Carolina’s most gifted son. Besides the books
published under his own name he published several
books under the name of ‘‘Lambert Lilly, Schoolmaster.”’
No effort has been made here to gather his complete
writings, only those pertaining to North Carolina, but
I have a copy of his “‘ Poems Hitherto Uncollected,’’ New
York 1873, of which there were only fifty copies struck
off.

Dr. Calvin H. Wiley was also a prolific writer of this
period. His ‘‘Almanac: or the Great and Final Experi-
ment,’ New York 1847, seems to be the first novel
written by a native of the State, and his “North Carolina
Readers’? were published in large editions and used in
our public schools from 1851 until after the Civil War.
Dr. Wiley also has the curious distinction of having
published a book under three separate titles: “Life in
The South. A Companion to Uncle Tom's Cabin,’’ Phila-
delphia 1852; ‘Adventures of Old Dan Tucker and his Son

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Walter,’ London 1853; and ‘‘Roanoke, or Where is Utopia,’
Philadelphia 1866. All of which are similar in text and

in illustrations, that were made by Darley, and I suspect
that there is one other not yet located.

Vv

ITH the outbreak of the Civil War and the estab-
lishment of the Confederate States of America, a
third period of printing in North Carolina commenced.
This period was not destined to last long or to produce
much beyond the curious, yet it is a period that is
attracting wide attention now and Confederate imprints
will continue to be sought after with increasing zeal.
Other than Laws and Legislative documents, I have
located some one hundred and twenty-five North Caro-
lina Confederate imprints but have succeeded in acquiring
only about half of this number. Twenty of these are
textbooks printed in the State during the War for use in
the State schools. All of these are of interest at this
time, but of especial interest is ‘“The Geographical Reader
for Dixie Children,’ by Mrs. Marinda Branson Moore,
Raleigh 1863; also “The Dixie Reader’’ and ‘The Dixie
Primer,”’ published in Raleigh in 1864. Many of the
other readers and arithmetics are almost as interesting,
while William Bingham’s ‘‘A Grammar of the Latin
Tongue’ and his ‘‘Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War,”’
ate evidence that classic culture did not entirely depart
under the administration of Mr. Jefferson Davis. Besides
the ‘‘Dixie Series’ there was another series of textbooks
published at Raleigh and Greensboro and known as “‘Our
Own Series.’ These are, as a tule, better printed than the
“Dixie Series’ but not so interesting in illustrations.
These textbooks have been violently criticized by
northern observers as containing propaganda of a sort
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bitterness in the minds of the young. Mrs. Moore in her
geography treats the United States as a foreign country
of low culture and says that the people of the Southern
Confederacy are ‘‘noted for being high-minded and
courteous though suffering from an unlawful blockade
by the miserable and hellish Yankee Nation.’’ Many of
the readers contain lengthy quotations tending to show
Biblical sanction of the institution of slavery, while the
arithmetics contain such examples as ‘‘If one Con-
federate soldier can whip 7 Yankees, how many soldiers
can whip 49 Yankees?”’

There is no question but that Confederate textbooks
are heavily charged with southern propaganda, but the
Southerners defended it as being merely the truth—
especially those mathematical calculations as to how
many Yankees a Southerner could whip. The only map
I have published in the State during this period is like-
wise not free of propaganda. ‘‘The Only Correct and
Reliable Map of the Battle of Bethel. From a Survey and
Drawing made by Lieut. W. G. Lewis.’’ Published by
Wm. B. Smith at Tarboro, N. C., 1861. It shows a
considerable space marked ‘Yankee Grave-Yard, or
Virginia Farms allotted them.”

More attractive imprints of this period are a series of
little novelettes, such as: ‘‘Castine. A Charming Romance’
and ‘‘The Deserter's Daughter,’ issued by William B.
Smith & Company at Raleigh 1863 and 1864. Branson
& Farrar also published a number of interesting little
books during this period, such as ‘‘Mary Barker, A
Thrilling Narrative of Early Life in North Carolina;”’
“Myrtle Leaves, A Book Peculiarly Adapted to the Times;’’ and
“Songs of Love and Liberty,"’ by a North Carolina Lady.

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I have almost a complete set of the Laws and of the
Ordinances of the Convention as published during the
period of the Civil War; but the paper used is so inferior,
as well as the ink and the press work, that the collection
is not appealing though of historical importance. The
most substantial books published in North Carolina
during the period of the Civil War were “‘Hesper and
Other Poems,’ by Theo. H. Hill; ‘‘Scréprural Views of
National Trial,’ by Calvin H. Wiley; and Dr. Edward
Warren’s ‘‘An Epitome of Practical Surgery.’’ This latter
carries the imprint of West & Johnson, Richmond, Va.,
but was really printed by Strother and Marcom at
Raleigh, and carries the copyright of the District of
Pamlico. Dr. Warren says that ‘‘all the men being in
the Army it was printed by some boys at Raleigh.”

Recently there was discovered at New Bern the copy-
right records of the Confederate District of Pamlico.
It carries some half dozen items that have not been
located, while a large number of other items carrying
this copyright are not entered at all. Since New Bern
was occupied by the Federal forces during most of this
period it is not understood where the record was kept
during that time, and there may be another volume that
will yet come to light. A few items carry the copyright
of The District of Cape Fear, but very many books printed
in the State during this period carry no copyright at all.

This collection also contains samples of the Federal
Press, operated at New Bern during the Federal occupa-
tion. ‘‘The Great Epidemic in New Bern and Vicinity,
September and October 1864,"’ is the first imprint I have
where New Bern is spelled as two words. ‘‘L/ Recruto, A
Comic Opera. Produced in Barracks at New Bern in the

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Presence of Major General Foster, his family and Staff,” isa
spritely little opera of four acts, scenes laid in New Bern
and Plymouth, N.C. There are also a considerable num-
ber of books written by Federal officers, concerning their
service in eastern North Carolina, twenty altogether, and
in addition I have all of the ten ‘‘Personal Narratives’
prepared for the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors His-
torical Society that pertain to service in North Carolina.

These are many times more than the contemporary
literature produced by the entire population of North
Carolina pertaining to the Civil War. There is in fact
no contemporary Confederate literature pertaining to
the Federal occupation of the towns and rivers of
eastern North Carolina—not a single book of personal
experiences or extensive diary or journal by a native so
far as I have been able to discover. During the Revo-
lutionary War the State was invaded and twice crossed
by a hostile Army, yet no North Carolinian thought to
make the slightest record of those momentous times;
only the ‘‘Narrative’’ of the Loyalist Colonel David Fan-
ning remains to us and he was born in Virginia. The
Mexican War came and went, and to this day wecan not
discover for sure where the North Carolina Regiment
was or what it did. During the Reconstruction period
amazing and extraordinary occurrences took place in all
parts of the State and again our citizens remained com-
pletely silent. Certainly it was a duty of those better
equipped to leave some record of these happenings of a
century, but they did not and the neglect is so striking
and unaccountable that it suggests that some vast con-
spiracy of silence existed; this may be particularly sus-
pected of the Reconstruction period.

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VI

ANY efforts were made in North Carolina, prior

to 1860, to establish literary, historical and other
sorts of magazines and periodicals, but they were in most
cases of short duration and the existence of most of them
is only known by contemporary reference or by a few
numbers being preserved in libraries here and there.

The first of such publications was the ‘‘North Carolina
Magazine, Political, Historical and Miscellaneous,’’ which
was undertaken by Cowper and Krider at Salisbury in
1813. I have seen only a single number of this and will
confine myself here to such periodical publications as I
have complete, or nearly complete files on my shelves.
“The Carolina Law Repository,’’ published by Joseph Gales
at Raleigh, also had its beginning in 1813. Its principal
object was to report for the convenience of the bar the
cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of North Carolina,
but it carried also a considerable amount of biogra-
phical sketches of English jurists. It discontinued
after reporting cases of the January term of 1817. Two
volumes and one number.

“The Man of Business, or Every Man's Law Book,’ was
a small monthly published by Benjamin Swaim at
Greensborough and New Salem. It also ran through
two volumes, October 1833, to October 1835. It was
reprinted in part and bound in volumes, for collectors to
marvel at, for it contains more different sorts and kinds
of errors than any other publication known.

““Steadman’s Salem Magazine,” edited by Andrew J.
Steadman at Salem, N. C., was purely a literary venture,

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but No. 1 of Volume 1, January, 1858, is the only
number located, though there is contemporary reference
to a second number being issued from Raleigh.

“The Farmers Journal,’’ edited by Dr. John F. Thomp-
kins, was published at Bath and later at Raleigh 1851 to
1854, two volumes and nine numbers and is the earliest
agricultural periodical I have.

Religious publications also made their appearance
fairly early. ‘‘The North Carolina Baptist Interpreter,” a
monthly edited by T. Meredith and published at Edenton
in 1833 but removed to Newbern in 1834, ran through
two volumes before changing its name to ‘‘The Biblical
Recorder,’’ under which name it continues to be published.

A puzzling peculiarity of these religious publications,
as well, indeed, as of the newspapers of that period, is
the frequency in which they changed their name.
Change of name suggests bankruptcy or change of editors,
but often it appears to have been done merely to satisfy
the whims of the editor or someone associated with the
paper. Dr. John T. Walsh at Wilson started the pub-
lication of the ‘‘Christian Friend’’ in 1853 and by 1860
had changed its name seven times, while in a single
month during 1850, as Mrs. Johnson states, the Raleigh
Star changed its name three times. It has been stated
that the North Carolina Journal of Halifax once had its
name changed to the North Carolina Democrat, by a
typesetter without consulting the proprietor, because all
the big J’s used in Journal were worn out. Governor
Holden states that there was a paper called the ‘Halifax
Compiler’’ and that some wag altered the head so as to
read ‘‘Helfire Compilax’’ and that one entire issue was
printed with that sulphurous title. He also relates how

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Mtr. B. F. Moore, a leading Whig, offered an article to
the Tarborough Free Press and how Mr. George Howard,
owner and editor of the Democratic Free Press, declined
to publish it. Whereupon Mr. Moore asked him why
he called his paper ‘‘The Free Press.’’ Mr. Howard said
that the name would be changed and so the next issue
appeared as the Tarborough Press.

“The Primitive Baptist,"’ printed at Tarborough 1835-
1847, was an exception to this and ran through eleven
volumes without once changing its name.

The ‘‘University Magazine’ was for many years
practically the only magazine of local expression and of
historic interest published in the State, and its volumes
are filled with articles of value. It has had many
vicissitudes and sore tribulations and has also changed
its name several times. This collection contains a com-
plete set, mostly in wrappers, of all the numbers pub-
lished from the first volume in 1844 to volume twenty-
seven, new series, 1909-1910, or forty volumes altogether.
This in itself is an achievement, as anyone will admit
who knows what it is to chase so considerable a lot of
back volumes and numbers. Many of these volumes are
exceedingly rare, especially Volume 1 of 1844, and the
two volumes of the second revival published in 1878.
I know of no other set, except at the University of
North Carolina.

The girls of The Chowan Female Collegiate Institute
at Murfreesboro, N. C., not to be outdone by the young
blades of the Hill, themselves launched a college
periodical in 1853. It was called “The Casket” and was
edited by the young ladies under the direction of Miss
E. deLancey Fory, Associate Principal. No substantial

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file is known to exist, but it is not thought to have
finished more than two volumes.

Later periodicals, of which this collection has com-
plete sets, are ‘‘The Land We Love,’’ Charlotte, N. C.,
1866-1869, five volumes, and six numbers before it was
consolidated with ‘‘The New Eclectic Magazine’ of
Baltimore; ‘‘Our Living and Our Dead,’’ Raleigh, N. C.,
1874-1876, three volumes and one number; ‘‘North
Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register,’ Edenton,
N. C., 1900-1903, two volumes and three numbers;
“North Carolina Baptist Historical Papers,’ Henderson,
N.C., 1896-1900, three volumes, and the valuable ‘‘North
Carolina Booklet,’ Raleigh, N. C., IgOI-1926, twenty-
three volumes. I have only been able to secure volume
one of “At Home and Abroad,” a magazine published in
Wilmington, N. C., in 1881, and also I have only part of
volume one of *‘Nowitzky’s Monthly, Tar-Heel Magazine,”’
published in Raleigh in 1884, nor can I discover how
many volumes of these publications were issued. ‘‘South-
land,’’ a monthly devoted to the cause of the Confederate
veterans, was published at Greenville, N. C., in 1897,
but was discontinued, for lack of support with the
August number of 1898. ‘‘Carolina and Southern Cross’
was another monthly magazine devoted to local Con-
federate history. It appeared at Kinston in r912 and
discontinued in 1914 after issuing eighteen numbers.

The “'Sprunt Monographs’ and ‘'‘Sprunt Historical Papers,”
edited and published at the University through the
interest and generosity of the late James Sprunt, Esq., of
Wilmington, are a highly valuable set of publications.
They were published between the years 1900 and 1940,
and consist of twenty-four volumes. The ‘‘Trinity College

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Historical Papers 1897-1940,”" is another valuable collec-
tion of historical material and has published twenty-three

series to date. ;
Lalso have all of the numbers of ‘‘The North Carolina

Review. Literary and Historical,"’ which was published
as a supplement to the Sunday News and Observer, from
October 3, 1909 to April 6, 1913. They contain many
highly interesting articles and much material of real
value and were presented to this collection by Dr.
Archibald Henderson.

The ‘‘North Carolina Historical Review’’ is a current
magazine of great worth published by the North Caro-
lina Historical Commision and now in its eighteenth
volume. ‘‘The State,’ published by Carl Goerch, at
Raleigh, is the latest venture in this field; it is now in its
eighth volume and has attained a popularity and far
greater support among Tar-Heels than any previous pub-
lication of its sort. Pe

The run of almanacs in this collection is quite excep-
tional. There is, at least, one North Carolina almanac
for every year from 1797 to 1835, and broken files up to
tgco. They were published in Halifax, Newbetn,
Raleigh and Salem. A number of the more interesting
were presented to this collection by Judge Frank M.
Wooten of Greenville, N. C., which presentation is very
highly appreciated. Almanacs were of enormous liter-
ary importance for many decades and throw much light
on the period that they cover.

The number of separately printed maps of North
Carolina number fifty-two and were published between
the years 1757 and 1875. Very many of them are of
great interest and they form an important adjunct to a

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collection such as this. Maps, however, are much more
difficult to handle and preserve than books are and re-
quire a different sort of knowledge to appreciate. Map
making is a very different art from book making and no
standard system of cataloging measurements and descrip-
tion has been adopted, which makes it exceedingly
difficult to order from catalogues. Of special interest
among the colonial maps is the ‘‘Map of North Carolina
from Actual Survey by Capt. Collet, Governor of Fort Johnston.”’
It was ordered by act of Parliament in 1770, was engraved
in London and is dedicated to His Majesty King George
Ill. The large map of North and South Carolina by
Henry Mouzon, published in London and Philadel-
phia in 1775, is likewise of great interest.

Books by North Carolina Negroes form an interesting
group in themselves. They have written mostly poetry,
history and on religious matters. I have thirty-eight
volumes by North Carolina Negroes but only one by a
slave. A little volume of poems by Mamie Faithful of
Tarboro is the only piece by a Negro woman, and a very
creditable production it is.

North Carolina has several interesting controversial
matters that, perhaps, will never be settled to the
satisfaction of all parties and which add, in a degree, to
the interest of book collecting. First among these is
the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, supposed
to have been adopted on May 20, 1775, by the citizens
of Mecklenburg County. This has been a spirited con-
troversy for a hundred years now, during which charges
of fraud, theft and forgery have been freely made. This
collection has seventeen pieces wholly devoted to this
subject. The apostasy at Rome in 1852 of Levi Stillman

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Ives, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of North
Carolina, occasioned an ecclesiastical controversy of
national attention. Bishop Ives had been Bishop of
North Carolina for twenty-one years and his action
started a flow of books, pamphlets and articles that
continued for several years.

The fate of Raleigh’s Lost Colony has excited much
interest for many years, but the literature pertaining to
this mystery is mostly in small pamphlets or scattered
through digested histories and other general works.
Three sizable books and many articles have been written
in an effort to prove that Peter S. Ney, a schoolmaster
who died in Rowan County in 1846, was in reality none
other than Michel Ney, the renowned soldier and field
marshal of France. There have also appeared two books
tending to show that Abraham Lincoln was born in
North Carolina.

Very few dime novels with a North Carolina back-
ground have appeared. ‘‘Adeline Desmond, or The Spy
of Newbern’’ is a profusely illustrated story of love and
wat, with scenes laid around Newbern and among the
swamps of Tar River. It was published in Boston in
1863. ‘‘The Entwined Lives of Miss Gabrieulle Austin and
Redmond, the Outlaw Moonshiner of North Carolina’’
appeared in 1885 and is a thrilling story with re-
volting illustrations. A few others of this type could

be cited.
The two pieces concerning the operations of the

“Lowrie Gang’’ of outlaws in Roberson County,

published in New York and Philadelphia respectively,
in 1872, while catering to the dime novel taste were

written by experienced reporters after visits to the

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locality and contain much real information of interest
concerning the progress and final destruction of this
band. They also carry interesting illustrations and are
exceedingly rare.

Books pertaining to the Dismal Swamp, the larger
part of which is within the bounds of North Carolina,
are included in this collection and I have six separate
publications pertaining to that once mysterious and
romantic section.

Nat Turner’s slave insurrection of 1831, in South-
ampton County, Virginia, occurring on the border line
of North Carolina and producing marked effect and great
activity in eastern Carolina. I include the two con-
temporary pamphlets pertaining to that incident: ‘‘Au-
thentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene, which
was Witnessed in Southampton County, Virginia, on Monday
the 22nd of August Last,’ New York 1831, with ex-
traordinary folding woodcut; and ‘‘The Confessions of Nat
Turner as Voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray,’ Baltimore
1831, which is exceedingly rare; also the more extensive
and highly exciting study ‘‘T’e Southampton Insurrection,”
by William Sidney Drewry, published in 1900 at Wash-
ington.

I also include items pertaining to Chang and Eng
(Left and Right), the world-renowned Siamese Twins
who, having become citizens of North Carolina and taken
the name of Buncker by special act of the legislature,
married in North Carolina and resided in Stokes and
Wilkes Counties for thirty years, where they died in 1874,
leaving large families.

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VII

FTER the Civil War the printing of books by the
A presses of North Carolina almost ceased, though an

English novel was published in Raleigh in 1865; and
Mrs. Mary Bayard Clarke’s “‘“Mosses from a Rolling
Stone’ came from a Raleigh press in 1866. Notwith-
standing, for the next thirty-five years, State imprints,
were very largely confined to public documents, pamph-

lets and school addresses. vss
Hunter’s ‘‘Sketches of Western North Carolina,’ was

published in 1877, and Moore’s two-volume “History
of North Carolina,”’ in 1880; both were printed in Raleigh
and are now rare and hard to find.

Of North Carolina books published out of the State,
during this period John H. Wheeler's “Reminiscences and
Memories’ is the most sought after. It was published at
Columbus, Ohio, in 1884 and has, for long, enjoyed a
wide popularity in spite of serious inaccuracies and severe
criticism by our younger historians. i

‘* 4 Fool’s Errand, by One of the Fools’’ attracted national
attention about the close of the Reconstruction period.
It is a tale of Reconstruction in North Carolina and was
written by Albion W. Tourgee, a clever Carpetbagger sam
politician who was active in North Carolina for severa
years. It was first printed in New York in 1880 and over
200,000 copies were sold. Two foreign translations have

also been located but are not in this collection.
“Sea Gift, a Novel,”’ by Edward W. Fuller, was pub-

lished in New York in 1873. With a plot laid entirely
within the bounds of the State it attained a popularity

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in North Carolina far greater than any other novel ever
written by a native of the State. It was extensively read
for a quarter of a century, especially by the University
people; and at Chapel Hill for two decades it was known
as the “‘Freshman’s Bible.’’ Being printed on poor paper
and loosely bound, it is now very rare, Dr. Weeks never
being able to secure a copy. Fuller’s poem “Angel in
The Cloud,’ New York 1871, also received wide acclaim
and several editions have appeared since. The first
volume of our ‘‘Colonial and State Records’’ came off the
press in 1886, and the last volume in 1905. These were
followed by four volumes of Index by Dr. Stephen B.
Weeks, which together make a monumental work of
thirty volumes containing 28,840 pages. ‘ “King’s Moun-
tain and Its Heroes,’ by Dr. Lyman C. Draper, was pub-
lished in Cincinnati in r88x and republished in New
York in 1929. It is an excellent and exhaustive work,
but notwithstanding these honorable mentions few
books of this period will ever be sought by collectors
with any degree of enthusiasm.

During this eclipse of the pen following Reconstruc-
tion, Dr. Kemp P. Battle, sometime President of our
University, struggled with enormous industry to pre-
serve at least something of the history of the State. He
published many interesting pamphlets and addresses and
in 1912 finished his two-volume “History of the University
of North Carolina.’ Dr. Battle was also a collector,
throughout his long and useful life and left a large
library, the North Carolina material of which went to
the University Library at his death.

Captain Samuel A. Ashe, attorney and editor, also
contributed handsomely to the cause, and besides in-

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numerable articles and addresses completed an excellent
two-volume ‘‘History of North Carolina.’’ These two
men were justly appraised during their lifetime and will
be especially remembered among the outstanding citizens
of their generation.

With the beginning of the twentieth century vast
changes began to take place in North Carolina, and
printing became more and more concentrated in the
larger towns. Books from small-town presses rarely
appeared, yet in spite of the vastly improved press-work
and the high literary merit of the production, books
from the large, modern presses are curiously lacking in
appeal to collectors. For one thing we are too near the
present day production to feel such an appeal and miss,
perhaps, a certain atmosphere produced by the old-type
local book, with its errors, signatures and tail-pieces.
A vast amount of printing has for years now been turned
out by the presses of Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro and
Charlotte, so that only select works can be considered
as suitable for a collection such as I am forming.

I have thought that I ought to stop with the nine-
teenth century, but such a stream of valuable works are
continuing to appear that I have been entirely unwilling
todoso. The output of the North Carolina press during
the first quarter of the twentieth century must far
exceed the entire output of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries combined, and very many of them have such a
bearing on what has gone before that it is impossible to
exclude them from any collection of North Caroliniana.

The establishment of the North Carolina Historical
Commission, early in the century, was a great step
forward—no State agency has more splendidly justified

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itself then our Historical Commission. It has not only
collected, preserved and classified vast amounts of his-
torical and reference material, but it has stimulated State
interest in all such things, has promoted reading, author-
ship and book collecting as well. A noteworthy group
of younger historians, educators and students in many
fields have come to the front, and the old State has leaped
forward with such enormous strides that it seems an
Empire today to what I once knew.

By far the oldest and greatest of all North Carolina
collections is contained in the library of the University
of North Carolina. It is separately housed in the North
Carolina Room under the very competent care of Miss
Mary Thornton, whose knowledge of the subject and
courteous assistance to visitors has rendered both herself
and the collection renown.

In 1844, Gov. David L. Swain, then President of the
University, organized the North Carolina Historical
Society, and in connection therewith undertook the
formation of a North Carolina collection. This col-
lection became large; but interest in the Society having
vanished with the outbreak of the Civil War, the col-
lection found its way into the library of the University,
where it became the nucleus of the present collection.
Dr. Louis R. Wilson, Librarian, organized the collection
in its present form, and to his long and zealous interest
may be attributed much of its present imposing size and
excellence. It was also during his regime in 1918 that
the Weeks Collection was acquired, and along with it
went Weeks, ‘Bibliography of North Caroliniana,” a
mammoth work in manuscript, full of valuable notes on
publications up to about rgr10.

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The Duke University Library is already one of the
greatest libraries in the country but North Carolina
material here is placed with the Southern Collection and
is not so impressive as at the University. The George
Washington Flowers Southern Collection is an enor-
mous and rapidly growing institution in itself and under
the capable management of the late Dr. William K.
Boyd and now under the equally capable management of
Dr. Robert H. Woody, North Carolina imprints and
material are receiving full attention and consideration.
Unfortunately, for me, I have not had opportunity to
know this collection at Duke so well as I know the
collection at the University.

Eminent among collections held by institutions must
be mentioned The Sondley Library, now a part of the
Public Library of Asheville, N. C. This immense and
valuable library was formed by the late Dr. F. A. Sondley
of Asheville and is reported exceedingly strong in North
Carolina material and imprints. It has not been my good
fortune to visit this collection, nor have I visited the
tapidly growing ‘‘Historical Foundation of the Presby-
terian and Reformed Churches’’ located at Montreat,
N..G:

Unique as to origin among all North Carolina col-
lections is the Lanier Collection at the Pennsylvania
Historical Society in Philadelphia. This collection was
founded by the Will of William Lanier, dated February
10, 1894, wherein he set aside $3,000.00 ‘‘to be held in
trust by the said Society and the income from the same
applied to the purchase of books relating to the history
of North Carolina and each book so purchased to be
labeled The William Lanier Collection. I make this

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bequest as a token of my regard for the State in which I
was born.”’ He further states that he was born in Wash-
ington, North Carolina, a son of William Lanier and
wife Betsy Westcott, but beyond the fact that he was
an humble man and a small truck farmer near Phila-
delphia, I can discover nothing about him. Certainly
his was a collector’s spirit nowhere else equaled in our
annals and I am glad to state that the Society has most
faithfully abided by the trust. The collection, while not
large, contains a number of items, some unique and
others superbly rare indeed; there is not an ordinary
piece in the collection.

Of private collectors, North Carolina has produced
surprisingly few, none that I can find trace of prior to
Dr. Weeks. There were, of course, a number of inter-
esting private libraries in the State, even in the early
days, such as the Johnston Library at Hayes, the Burg-
wyn Library at the Hermitage, the Library of Willie
Jones at The Grove, the Blount Library at Blount Hall,
and the Collins and Pettigrew Libraries on Lake Phelps.
John Thompson of Halifax, whoever he was, must also
have had a very considerable library, for I have seen
entire shelves of his books and though he had a book-
plate he was addicted to the ugly custom of writing his
name on the title-page.

Governor Henry Toole Clark of Edgecombe County
also possessed a large library and possessed something of
a collector’s taste, with a strong partiality for North
Carolina imprints. Mr. Weldon N. Edwards of Warren
County also possessed a very large number of North
Carolina books and pamphlets which in later years went
to Duke University. But these gentlemen were not col-

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lectors, in the proper sense of the word. They merely
possessed an interest in such things and took pains to
preserve whatever came their way.

The Rt. Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, Bishop of North
Carolina, not only had a collector’s taste, but accumu-
lated a superb, though small number, of North Carolina
books during his lifetime; also Col. J. Bryan Grimes of
Raleigh owned a considerable collection of North Caro-
liniana which he took much pride in and loved.

The late Judge Thomas M. Pittman of Henderson,
formed a very notable and large collection and possessed
as well a very fine knowledge of the subject. His col-
lection has gone to Wake Forest College, which places
that college library high among those which may take
pride in their North Carolina material. Many other
libraries in North Carolina also contain small collections
or single pieces of worth and in most cases they are alive
with interest in the subject and endeavoring to enlarge
their collections pertaining to the State. The Public
Library of Wilmington is especially active in this field
and has a considerable collection and a Librarian, Miss
Emma Woodward, full of zeal and highly capable.

Marshall DeLancey Haywood, while more of a student
than a collector, accumulated a large number of North
Carolina books, but will be especially remembered by
the number of books and excellent historical studies that
came from his pen.

Dr. Charles Lee Smith of Raleigh has a large and
beautiful library not confined to North Caroliniana; and
my friend A. B. Andrews, also of Raleigh, has the com-

mendable habit of collecting books for the purpose of
giving them away. Dr. Richard Dillard of Edenton

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was both a collector and a student and contributed many
articles and pamphlets of historic worth. His nephew
Mr. Richard D. Dixon is carrying on the interest and
pastime with credit and zeal, and the library at Beverly
Hall remains one of the most attractive rooms in the
State.

Mr. Samuel W. Worthington of Wilson, N. C., while
disclaiming the title of Collector, has, notwithstanding,
a large number of books and pamphlets relating especial-
ly to the eastern part of the State, and has besides an
unsurpassed love and enthusiasm for the subject.

Mr. C. C. Ware, also of Wilson, besides being the
author of two excellent historical works, has formed an
exceedingly large and interesting collection pertaining
to the Christian Church in North Carolina, of which he
is an ordained minister. Mr. Ware with a natural taste
for books has developed a fine capacity as a collector and
his interest in my collection, and assistance, has been
considerable and appreciated. Judge Romulus N. Nunn
of New Bern has a number of worth-while imprints and
is especially interested in the early press of New Bern.

Dr. Archibald Henderson of the University of North
Carolina, has a great assortment of North Carolina
books sandwiched in with his thousands of other works
and Dr. Henderson has besides, an excellent head and
nose for books and a fine knowledge of the entire field.

Mr. Burton Craige of Winston-Salem has for some
years shown much interest in this field and has already
formed the largest and most interesting private collec-
tion that I know of in the State. With his fine intel-
ligence and discerning judgment we may expect his
collection to grow great. There must be many others, as

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well, who unknown to me are collecting in this field, and
certainly from letters I sometime receive there are a
number of young men aspiring and capable who will be
heard from in time.

It may be that in this I have painted a too brilliant
picture of a collection of North Caroliniana and a
visitor to my ‘Third Floor’’ might be surprised at the
smallness of my accumulation. To this I can only say
that North Carolina is not a literary State, has produced
most sparingly in the field of letters and I do not profess
to have anything near all—even of that which is worth
while.

Disregarding laws and public documents I would say
that two thousand selected items would cover the entire
field of North Caroliniana and embrace everything
strictly pertaining to the State of any real interest to a
private collector. But in this I am exclusive in my taste
and ideas. Some other person, more inclusive, might
easily add an additional two thousand items;while if
you ate to take everything that has the slighest contact
or makes the slightest reference to the State then you
must prepare for many thousands more and become
institutional in size.

This collection to date has eighteen hundred and
thirty-nine catalogued items, the largest of which is the
thirty volumes comprising the Colonial and State
Records. The smallest is the four-page ‘‘Epistle to
Friends in Great Britain,” published by Thomas Nichol-
son of Little River in North Carolina on the fifteenth of
the ninth month 1762. (McMurtrie’s No. 37). Among
these I must confess, are many of very small interest.
But this is true of any State collection; besides, the

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question of the interest and worth of an item is largely a
question of personal taste and an item regarded as of no
interest today may be of surpassing interest tomorrow.

As I have stated, I am neither a scholar nor a real
bibliographer. Iam merely a hobbiest who has followed
this urge through some leisure hours, with love and
affection, and in spite of the fact that I have not been a
resident of North Carolina for forty-three years. During
this period these shelves have been frequently closed,
often for prolonged periods, by my absence in distant
places and by the necessity of full time application to
other things.

Whatever it was that caused me to persist and to
retain this interest under these circumstances, I can not
precisely say; it was something in my soul that I can
not define, something sentimental perhaps, but whatever
it was it is about over now for the late Mr. J. H. Slater,
who was Editor of the English ‘‘Book Price Current,’’ and
a correct observer of many things, recently said that ‘‘the
life of a private collection is not fifty years, nor forty,
but thirty, perhaps, in a majority of cases.’’ Which re-
minds me that it has been some years since that motley
little bunch of books went out from Raleigh, with my
mother, to the World’s Fair at Chicago. So, gentlereader
—in the words of Ralph Lane, our first Governor—I

* wifeth all happinesin the Lord *’

Cylburn House,
Baltimore, Maryland,
March 31d, 1941.

PEE US eRe AE EO Nes

FRONTISPIECE BooxKPLATE

Acts, ACollection of all the Public, of the Assembly 3
Newbern, 1752. (Reduced.) (Swann’s
Revisal.) Mena ee aecg aft Gib ease ge cise

Acts, of the General Assembly for the years 1791-1792-
1793 and 1794. Newbern, 1795. (Reduced.) .

Acts, Private of the General Assembly, 1715-1790.
Newbern, 1794. (Reduced.) . . » s+

Acts of the General Assembly relating to the Town
of Tarboro and the Ordinances of Said Town. ;
Tarboro, N. C., 1860. (Reduced.). . . . LXXvVIII

Ahbiman Rezon and Masonic Ritual. Newbern,
5805 . yest

Anderson, A. Questions on the Assembly's Shorter
Catechism. Charlotte, N. C., 1826 .

Anderson, Micajah. The Life of, By himself.
Tarboro, N. C., 1870. Reduced.) . - XCIII

(Arnett, Thomas.) A Solemn Address to Youth.

Hillsborough, 1823 . XLIX

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Bingham, William. A Grammar of the Latin Lan-
guage. Greensboro, N. C., 1863

Blair, Rev. David. First Catechism for Children.
Raleigh, 1826 :

Brickell, John. The Natural History of North
Carolina. Dublin, 1737 . Baits 5

Burkitt, Lemuel and Read, Jesse. A Concise History
of the Kehukee Baptist Association. Halifax, 1803

Byrd, William. The History of the Dividing Line
between Virginia and North Carolina as Run in
1728-29. Richmond, Va., 1866. (Reduced.) .

(Caldwell, Joseph.) Letters on Popular Education.
Hillsborough, 1832. (Reduced.)

Catalogus Universitatis Carolinae. Raleigh, 1817.
(The second catalogue of the University of
North Carolina. All in Latin.) .

Chapone, Mrs. Letters on the Improvement of the
Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady. Newbern,
1802 . Me Mites Henri sic Dam een ee

Charters, The Two Granted to the Proprietors of

Carolina. With the First and Last Constitutions.
London, n. d. (1704?), (Reduced.) .

(Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bayard.) Wood-Notes; or
Carolina Carols; A Collection of North Caro-
lina Poetry. Raleigh, 1854

Clemmons, Peter. Poor Peter's Call to His Children.
Salisbury, 1812 She Agee

Colton, Rev. Simeon. Documents Connected with the
Trial of, With An se endix. Fayetteville,
N. C., 1839. (Reduce , Tope ese ye lancet

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XXVIII

Coxe, Daniel. A Description of the English Province
of Carolana, etc. London, 1722. (Reduced.)

Davis, James. The Office and Authority of a Justice
of the Peace. Newbern, 1774 . Wie enc

Davie, William Richardson. Instructions for the
Formation and Movements of the Cavalry. Hali-

fax, 1799. (Reduced.) .

Debates on the Bill Directing a Prosecution of the
Boake of the State. Raleigh, 1829. (Reduced.)

Debates on the Convention Question. Raleigh, 1822

Jes F. Speech of, on the Trial of Rev.
owe pen ‘i which is prefixed Historical

Sketches. Wilmington, N. C., 1858. (Reduced.)

Discipline of Friends, Revised and Approved.
Hillsborough, N. C., 1823 Aegan

Dow, Loranzo. The Yankee Spy. Raleigh, 1814 .

Dying Thoughts of the Reverend, Learned and Holy
ME Richard Baxter, n. p. (Newbern), 1805

Edgeville, Edward. Castine. Raleigh, 1865.
Reduced) pe wus: te etc wey

Fanning, Colonel David. The Narrative of, Giving
Ce Aon of his Adventures in North Caro-
lina. Richmond, Va., 1861. (Reduced.) .

Faust, Doctor. The Catechism of Health. Raleigh,
NEG. PrSini career itis pins

Female Foundling. A Novel. Newbern, 1802 .
Fuller, Edwin W. Sea-Gift. A Novel. New York,
1873. ee tor snail en txob bias Jc syle

Fulton, Hamilton. Report of Sundry Surveys.
Raleigh, N. C., 1819. (Reduced.) . Mr

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LXXXIX

 
 

Gay, James. A Collection of Various Pieces af
Poetry. Raleigh, N. C., 1810 .

Gill, John. An Assia prion of an Exposition if The
Book of the Prophet Isaiah. Halifax, 1806.
(Reduced. 5 :

Hariot, Thomas, Wigoute Neos Fida Tamen,
De Commodiset Incolarum Ritivus Virginia.
Francoforti ad Moenvm, 1590. (DeBry’ s
Hariot in Latin. Frankford on Main, 1590.)

Herrington, W. D. The Deserter's Daughter.
Raleigh, N. C., 1865. (Reduced.) .

Hawkins, Rush C. An Account of the Assassination

of Loyal Citizens of North Carolina. New York,
1897. (Reduced.) eats p:

Haywood, John. A Manual of the Laws af North
Carolina. Raleigh, 1801. (Reduced.) Shas XXIV

Hodge’s North Carolina Almanack im the Year 1799.
Halited: TOU eee XVIIE

Howell, Peter. The Life and Travels a3 Noes
n.d. G84) : LXXI

Incog. A Collection of Poems. eed one ae. LXVUOII

Jackson, James. The Most Useful and Pleasing
Hymns. Raleigh, N.C., 1809. . . . . ) .) xxxvit

Johnson, L. An Elementary Arithmetic for Beginners.
Raleigh; (NiiG.7 18640 ee Taser

Johnson, Thomas. Every Man His Own Doctor.
Salisbury, 1798 . . . . Soc xX

CJones, J. Seawell). The Mammoth tb tbe or on
Adventures of Shocco Jones in Mississippi.

Memphis, 1842. (Reduced.) .
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Jones, J. Seawell. Memorials of North Carolina.
New York, 1838. (Reduced.)

Journal of the Convention, Called by the Freemen
of North Carolina. In the City of Raleigh 1635;
Raleigh, 1835. (Reduced.) ;

Lane, Lunsford. The Narrative of, Published by
himself. Boston, DSA Sar eat

Latch, John. Cases Determined in the ee a King Ss
Bench. Translated from the Norman-French
by Francois Xavier Martin. Newbern, 1793 .

Lawson, John. A New Voyage to Carolina. London,
1709. CLawson’s History of Carolina. First

Edition.), (Reduced.) .

Lawson, John. Mr. Lawson's pie one Beschrei-
bung der Provintz Carolina in West-Indien. Ham-
burg, 1722. (Lawson's see of Carolina,
German Edition.)

Letters of Adelaide De Sancerre to Cia De Nance
Newbern, 1801

Lewis, Capt. Geo. C. The Soldier's Chapeions Coin
taining an Abridgment of Herdee's alenrrr
Tactics. Raleigh, N. (Chit Ry ole gr ite LXXXIV

Lord Rivers. A Novel. Newbern, 1802. . . . XXV

Mangum, Rev. Adolphus W. Myrtle Leaves or
Tokens at the Tomb. Raleigh, N. C., 1864. . Lxxxvi

Martin, Francois X. History of North Carolina.
New Orleans; 1829:,(Reduced.) 2). 7. LYII

Martin, Francois X. The Office and Authority of a
Justice of the Peace. Newbern, 1791. (Redaced. )

Martin, Francois X. Notes of a Few Decisions.
Newbern, 1797

 
Mary Barker. By Charles Vernon. Rees ae
(By the Rev. Braxton Craven.) .

Matilda Berkely or Family Anecdotes. oral
1804. (By Mrs. Joseph Gales.) . ;

McRee, Griffith J
James Iredell. New York, 1857. (Reduced.) .

Michaux, R. R. Sketches of Life in North Carolina.
Guller#Nv@. 71894015 ni: :

Miller, Robert Johnston. An Introduction to Ah
Knowledge of the Christian gc Seek
1799 0° oi

ge David B. Spiritual Song Book. Halifax,
1805 . ;

Moore, Mrs. M. B. The Geo foal Reader for the
Dixie Children. Raleigh. N.C.,1863.(Reduced.)

Moore, Mrs. M. B. The First Dixie Reader.
Raleigh, 1863

(Moore, Mrs. M. B.) Songs of ee es Lilipy iy
a North Carolina Lady. Peale. N.C., 1864 .

(Murphey, Archibald DeBow) Memoir on the In-
ternal Improvements Contemplated by the eS
lature. Raleigh, N. C., 1819. Gace.

Murray, Lindley. English Grammar, with an
Appendix. Raleigh, 1811 5

North Carolina Author. Experimental Reflections.
Nashville T., 1817 .

Olmsted, Denison. Report on the Geology of North
Carolina, n. p. (Raleigh), 1824. (Reduced.)

Osbourn, James. North Carolina Sonnets. Balti-
more, 1844.

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. Life and Correspondence of

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LXXXII

Owen, John. The Trial of, Ghee with Murder.
Raleigh, N. C., 1810 :

Old Field Teacher. atte sak at Royming Raleigh

1839 .
Pattillo, Henry. Sermons, etc. Wilmington, 1788 .

Perry, G. W. A Treatise on Turpentine pega
Newbern, N. C., 1859 . ete

Philanthropos. A Series of Letters. Edenton, Sor!
(By Rev. Charles Pettigrew.)

Proceedings of the ne of Inquiry, convened at
Saltillo, Mexico, January, 1848, n. p. n. d.
(Washington, 1848), Ghee eae :

Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North
Carolina. Convened at Hillsborough, 1788
Edenton, 1789. (Reduced.) ee

Ravenscroft, Right Rev. John S. The Doctrines of
the Church Vindivated from the Misrepresentations
of Dr. John Rice. Raleigh, N. C., 1826 .

Re for the Order and Discipline of the
Troops, n. p. Hodge & Wills Printer to the
State, 1794 : Marae crs des

Ruddiman, Thomas. The Rudiments of the Latin
Tongue. Raleigh, N.C., 1809 . hie

Rumple, Rev. Jethro. A History of Rowan County,
North Carolina. Containing Sketches of Promi-
nent Families. Salisbury, 1881

Rural Philosopher or French Georgics. A Didactic
Poem. Newbern, N. C., 1804 . dee

Sawyer, Lemuel. Blackbeard. A seers in Four
Acts. Washington, 1824 . :

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Sawyer, Lemuel. eee, New York,
ah (Reduced.) .

(Strange, Hon. Robert). eis or The Chie
Chief. Washington, 1839 Prides na

T. A. (Thomas Ash.). Carolina or a Description of
That Country. London, 1682. (Reduced.) .

(Tarbox, Rev. Increase N.). Sir Walter Raleigh
and his Colony in America. Boston, 1884
(Reduced.) .

Thorne, Jack. Hanover or the Persecution of the
Lowly; n. p.n.d.(1go0) .

Tyson, Bryan. A Ray of Light, or Treatise on the
Sectional Troubles. gore s Mills, N.C., 1862

Weekes, Refine. The Advantages and Disadvantages
of the Marriage State. James Town, N.C., 1836

Wheeler, John H. Reminiscences and Memoirs of
North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians.
Columbus, Ohio, 1884. (Reduced.) .

Wiley, C. H. Life in the South. erated tee n.d.
Geen): (Reduced.) . dss ‘

Wiley, C. H. Scriptural Views of National Trials.
Greensboro, N. C., 1863 . . . . . .) . Exxxvu

Wilson, Samuel.). An Account of the Province of
Carolina. London, 1682. (Reduced.) .

Zion's Hymns. For the Use of the Original Free-Will
Baptist Church. Falkland. Pitt COPAY NEG

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climate; with very littl charge, the medicines:

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Br THomas Jounson?
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SALISBURY:
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Painrxp yon tuk AUTHOR 1798:

AN

INTRODUCTION

TO. THE

KNOWLEDGE

CHRISTIAN RELIGION

Pusisuen for the Ufe of the Proteftant Epilco-

: ‘
pal Church of Whitehaven Parifh.

By ROBERT JOHNSTON MILLER, R. P.

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CAVALRY

Publithed agreeably to a Refolution of the Legiflature of North-Carolina.

By WILLIAM RICHARDSON DAVIE, Esquire,

Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the Militia of the
: State of NortH-CaroLina.

HACE Tr Ax
Printep sy ABRAHAM HODGE.

BM.DCC.SCLRe

 

OF

ADELAIDE DE SANCERRE.

TO

COUNT DE NANCE.

' Devoting
All to iove, each was to each a dearer self;
Supremely happy in th’ awakened power,
Of giving joy. :

a
Nowe oe h. N.C.

1802.

 
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In bashful coyness, or in maiden pride,

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ON THE
IMPROVEMENT

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MIN D

ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY:

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s none of its inherent Beau-

e skill of the polisher fetches out the co-

s the surface shine, ond discovers every

na veinthat runs through

after the same manner,

ble mind, draws out to view

Yatent virue and ps jon, which withcut
their eppearance. 5

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XXVII

 
A

CONCISE

HISTORY 2

OF THE

Kehukee Baptift Affociation, :

From its original rise to the present time.

Wherein are fhewn its firt Conftitution, Increafe, Num-
bers, Principles, Form of Government, Decorym, Revo-
lutions that Affociation has pafled through, Revivals,
Minifters, Churches, Confeffion of Faith, Times
and Places when and where Affociations have
been holden, Queries and thei¢ Anfwers; and
all other ufeful Articles relative to Chuych
Hiftory.

_—_—_—_O

By Elders Lemuxz Burkitt and Jesse Reap,

Ministers of the Gospel in Northampton & Halifax counties,
North-Carolina.

Pfal.cu. 16—18. When the Lord fhall build up Zion, he
fhall appear in his glory.—This fhall be written for the ges
Neration to come; and.the people which {hall be created
thall praife the Lord. a

PAOD DOr OVAL Ds OVC Or 10s OND
HALIFAX: Parwten ny A. HODGE, 1803.

(cory ricur securep ACCORDING TO LAW.]
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XXVIII

TME

RURAL PHILOSOPHER:

OR,

FRENCH GEORGICS.
a
DIDACTIC POEM.
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL OF THE
ABBE DELILLE;
ENTITLED

L’HOMME DES CHAMPS.

BY JOHN MAUNDE.
gee er re

NEWBERN 3
FRANKLIN AND GARROW, -

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1804.

 
 

THE
AHIMAN REZON

AND

MASONIC RITUAL

rj .

FAMILY ANECDOTES;

PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE
GRAND LODGE,

OF

By the Author of the History of Lady Emma
Melcombe and her Family, Ge. NORTH-CAROLINA anp TENNESSER.

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"OR THE

Provs of ‘all ~Denominations?

‘

“ By DAVID B. MINTZ,

. Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be loct,
John vi. 12,

HALIFAX:

Prinrep py AsraHaM Hovex.

1805.

XXXII

THE

DYING THOUGHTS

OF -THE

‘Reverend, Learned and Holy

Mr RICHARD BAXTER:
VIZ. Ye

J. What there is defirable in the prefentJife
-H, Lhe reafonablenets and ‘necellity of believi ‘ng that
pious feparate fpirits are with Chrift.
. II. What is to depart, -and to be with Chr ft.
:1V. Why it is far better to be with Chrift.
+V. The. author breathes.aft.r willingnefs to depart,

eh Se

S‘A'B RID GED eR
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. A : .

a

‘FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

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XXXIII

 
ey AN
ABRIDGMENT a A
OF AN SERIES or LETTERS,
EX Pp OSITION In which an attentive perusal of Mr. Edwards’s

caffdid reasons for renouncing the principles
of Antipaedobaptism is seriously recommend-
ed—and the right of infants to membership
in the Church of God is also pleaded.

THE BOOK THE LETTERS

Z Being first published by the Author, in the
OF THE -Epenton GazeTTe— ‘

OF

The first five were addressed to Mess. BURKITT, REED,

P R Oo P H E T I SA I A H. : and the other Ministers of the

BAPTIST KEHUKEE ASSOCIATION.

‘The subsequent five, were addressed .
‘Vo ‘THE PEOPLE,

BY JOHN GILL, D.D. as being the most worthy.

A reply to the first Letter by Mr. Burkitt, and
to the third by a Mr. Poindexter, are annex-
ed, as they have been answered ~

at] By PHILANTHROPOS.

Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them

not—for of such is the kingdom of God. Take heed

ee ‘ that ye despise not one of these little ones—for I say

&G> It may be necessary, to.observe, that in abridging thi i . unto you, that in Heaven, their Angels do always be~
the suaimary of the chapters, marginal notes, ail Bene ore ae Hs heey omnitted, gxeept hold the face of my father who is 1p Heerlen
A Jesus b

 

 

 

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1807.
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XXXIV

 
 

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LATIN GRAMMAR:

WHEREIN THE PRINCIPLES OF THE LANGUAGE ARE METHODY-
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XXXVII

 
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| BEFORE THE as
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CITIZENS FOR THE-IMPROVEMENT OF PATRIOn

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O'et all the powers of Earth anc Hell;
May Independence be renowi'd, » +
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~May union, peace and love combine,
Then will our land in tustre Han
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instruction in that Knowledge which never
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PERERA 848d

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SEER Ee

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AUTO-BIOGRAPHY

LEMUEL SAWYER

_ FORMERLY MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM NORTH CAROLINA,

The Biography of John Randolph.

NEW YORK:
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PROCEEDINGS
COURT OF INQUIRY,
WHICH CONVENED AT: SALTILLO, MEXICO, JANUARY 12, 1848.

Instituted for the purpose of obtaining full information relative le

an alleged mutiny in the edmp at Buena Vista, whith led to the
death of one of the soldiers by the hands of Colonel, Paine, of the

North Carolina volunteers, and to investigate the facts connected
with the dishonorable discharge of vertain officers of North Curo-
tina volunteers. 7 .

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THB ’

LIFE AND TRAVELS © ©

OF

PETER HOWELL,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF;

IN WHICH WILL BE SEEN SOME: MARVELLOUS

< oe

INSTANCES OF THE GRACIOUS PROVIDENCE OF
. :

GOD.

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1

NEWBERN, N..C.

Published by W. H. Mayhew, for the Author, at thé 9.”

Newbernian Office.

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LIFE IN THE SOUTH.

A COMPANION TO

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.

€

BY ©. H. WILEY,

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