Record #:

33200

Author(s):

Hill, Pamela; Hill, Anna

Abstract:

Four days a year had to be spent in helping improve the roads, and if he refused to do so, he either had to go to jail of else pay out the sum of four dollars.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 13, Aug 1938, p6, 16

Subject(s):

Roads--North Carolina--Maintenance; Roads--History; Stokes, John, 1756-1790; Mecklenburg County--History; Forsyth County--History

Record #:

22468

Author(s):

Alexander, Violet G.

Abstract:

The Spratt burying-ground in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina is one of the oldest burying places in the state. Many of the inscriptions on tombstones found in the graveyard pre-date the American Revolution.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 15 Issue 3, January 1916, p152-157 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Gravestones; Mecklenburg County--History; Cemeteries

Record #:

34555

Author(s):

Craven, Bruce

Abstract:

President Andrew Jackson was raised in South Carolina; however his birthplace may have been North Carolina. Jackson’s parents settled near the North Carolina/South Carolina border and Jackson himself claimed he was born south of the border. The author uses oral histories and land tract data to argue that the McKemey household where Jackson was born fell within the North Carolina boundary in Mecklenberg County.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 9 Issue 4, April 1910, p232-235 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845; Mecklenburg County--History

Record #:

22256

Author(s):

Salley, A.S., Jr.

Abstract:

This article discusses the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, which is commonly believed to be the first public declaration of independence from the Crown, in the colonies. It includes a reprinting of the original declaration as well as correspondence between several colonial leaders regarding the declaration and the political climate in North Carolina.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 8 Issue 3, January 1909, p155-248 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; Mecklenburg County--History

Record #:

21991

Author(s):

Clarkson, Heriot

Abstract:

An essay on events in colonial and revolutionary North Carolina with a particular focus on Mecklenburg County and recurring religious and political themes.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 1 Issue 6, Oct 1901, p3-24 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Mecklenburg County--History; North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775