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19627
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This article reprints a series of pamphlets concerning textbooks prepared in German for recent immigrants to the state. The author, Charles Krummel, translates the three pamphlets, \"Text Books for the Youth of North Carolina Outlined by a Society of Helmstaedt Professors\" printed in 1787 and 1788.
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19635
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The second installment, the first appeared in January 1930, is a reprint of reports by Velthusen which includes a series of letters of Lutheran officials. The authors provided the translation of these texts.
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19633
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From the close of the American Revolution to the ratification of the United States Constitution there was a deep and increasing conviction among a considerable portion of North Carolinians that certain fundamental rights, based on the law of nature and guaranteed by various charters and statutes of England, were violated and jeopardized. This is the subject of the pamphlet anonymously published in the summer of 1787 under the title, "The Independent Citizen."
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19569
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The eighth and ninth installment in this series presents a reprint of Hermon Husband's \"An Impartial Relation of the First Rise and Cause of the Recent Differences in Public Affairs\" (1770) and \"Fan for Fanning and a Touchstone for Tryon\" (1771). Both offer an account of complaints of many Regulators during the Colonial Period.
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19586
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Dr. George Micklejohn's \"Sermon to Tryon's Militia\" (1768) and a \"Table of North Carolina Taxes, 1748-1770\" are the subjects of this article. Micklejohn's sermon denounces Regulators Governor Tryon's aggression and reaffirms his loyalty to the Crown. The Table of Taxes was the third report in a series by John Burgwyn, Clerk of the Court of Chancery and Secretary of the Council that addressed investigations any fraudulent or excessive taxation.
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19590
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The tenth installment in this series is a reprint of a title, Informations Concerning the Province of North Carolina, Etc. (1773). This pamphlet documents both the early and late Highland migration in the 18th century of Scotch immigrants to North Carolina.
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19571
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The first article in the series, \"Some North Carolina Tracts of the Eighteenth Century,\" includes a re-printing of the ca. 1740 pamphlet, \"A True and Faithful Narrative of the Proceedings of the House of Burgesses of North Carolina,\" describing an attempt to impeach the colony's Chief Justice William Smith in 1739.
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19578
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William Borden was a shipbuilder from Rhode Island who relocated to Carteret County where he established a shipbuilding business on the Newport River. His \"Address to the Inhabitants of North Carolina,\" addresses issues of commercial conditions and trade and monetary policies in the colony. It includes a plan for sound currency and a criticism of the Assembly of 1744.
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19616
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The third installment of \"Some North Carolina Tracts of the Eighteenth Century,\" by William K. Boyd. John Rutherfurd (1724-1782) was born in Scotland and migrated to North Carolina sometime prior to 1735, settling in Wilmington. He was twice elected town commissioner of Wilmington, appointed by Governor Johnston as a member of the Council and Receiver General of Quit Rents in 1751, and was appointed Lieutenant General of the expedition against the Regulators by Governor Tryon prior to 1768. He wrote \"The Importance of the Colonies to Great Britain, etc.,\" reproduced here in full, in 1761 while in England. The piece examines themes of traditional mercantilism such as the balance of trade between England and the colonies and the future of that balance.
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19653
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Henry McCullough, author of \"Miscellaneous Representations Relative to Our Concerns in America,\" 1761, was a holder of vast tracts of land in North Carolina and was once a special agent of His Majesty's Government in the Carolinas. He was the individual behind the policy of Prime Minister George Grenville's Stamp Act.\r\n\r\nMaurice Moore Jr. belonged to a prominent political family in North Carolina who settled in the colony near the lower Cape Fear River. Moore Jr. was a lawyer who represented the borough of Brunswick in the Assembly and was appointed Associate Justice of the Province until his participation in resistance to the Stamp Act. His pamphlet \"Justice and Policy of Taxing the American Colonies in England,\" 1765 centers on the idea that Parliament has no right to tax the colonies and criticizes the claim of virtual representation in Parliament.
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22451
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This article explores the fiscal and economic conditions throughout the state of North Carolina during the American Civil War. It highlights the negative affect the war and subsequent blockade had upon South's state finances, revenue, expenditures, and general economic conditions.
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22296
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The Battle of Kings Mountain took place near the town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina on the prominence across the border in South Carolina. The decisive defeat of Loyalist militia under Patrick Ferguson ended Cornwallis advance into North Carolina in October 1780.
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22187
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An examination of the first generation of American-born North Carolinians who, in the 18th century, migrated beyond the Allegheny mountains to establish settlements. A particular focus is placed on the political experiments and social conditions established in these westward frontier lands.
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