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34552
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In 1753, the Moravian Brethren purchased 100,000 acres of land in North Carolina for Church settlement. Members could buy a 2,000 acre lot in one of the land tracts and settle the area; the entire community became known as Wachovia. The contracts for each lot are preserved in German archives. A map of the tracts is included in the article with additional information on the owners through 1767.
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27586
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Research by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts has revealed much about the material culture of Germans in piedmont North Carolina, but less is known about their history in South Carolina. The discovery of illuminated manuscripts called fraktur indicate German settlement in the Dutch Fork area, and a mix of religious and cultural influences on art.
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13184
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A portrait of the Germanic customs and their settlements in the Piedmont is revealed in translated letters written in 1789 at Abbots Creek by the Rev. Mr. Roschen to his teacher in Bremen. The correspondence was originally published in the \"Historical Review\" in 1930.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 23 Issue 20, Feb 1956, p20-21, 30
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31431
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In 1711, North Carolina's non-Indian population was only 9500 comprised mostly of German Palatines and Swiss settlers who had arrived to establish a colony on the Trent and Neuse Rivers. The settlers made good progress near New Bern until the Tuscarora Massacre in September 1711. New Bern lay under siege for twenty-two weeks.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 23 Issue 8, January 1966, p21-22, 28-30, il
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36153
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The question: who owned the land, the German Palatines or Swiss paupers. The answer: evident in the descendants for those two groups. After two centuries, they still reside in the area named New Bern by their ancestors.
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28621
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German immigrants began arriving in North Carolina around the middle of the eighteenth century. Many of the Germans came into Wilmington by way of Charleston and worked as merchants. Lutheran, Moravian and the German Reformed were three religious branches of the Germans that were the most influential in North Carolina.
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9822
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The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, which cut diagonally through North Carolina's Piedmont, was the primary southbound route for English, Scotch-Irish, and Germanic immigrants who began arriving in Pennsylvania in the 1720s. By 1760, it had become the most heavily traveled road in America, fostering the establishment of new towns throughout the south, including Salisbury, Charlotte, and the Moravian settlements of Bethania and Salem in North Carolina. Revolutionary War battles fought along the Wagon Road include Camden, Cowpens, King's Mountain, and Guilford Courthouse.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 1, June 1972, p6-8, il, map
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