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22699
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The brief Chowan River War which raged on the Virginia-North Carolina border from 1676-1677 had direct connections to both Bacon's Rebellion and Culpepper's rebellion. Despite the factionalism rampant among the English settlers, the power of the Chowanoke Indians in the area was broken.
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21650
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This article examines the role the colony of North Carolina had in the Seven Years' War. The colony legislature was not very helpful, providing only small amounts of money and 300 soldiers to help defend Fort Duquesne from a French assault in 1757. Militia from western North Carolina was involved in fending of Indian attacks in the western part of the state between 1760 and 1761.
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22477
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Although North Carolina developed long before 1860, the educational growth of the region grew slowly during the colonial period due to the slow growth of populations. However, there is evidence of efforts to foster education through the poor law and apprenticeship system which granted guardianship and tuition to many poor and orphaned children.
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21652
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This article examines counterfeit currency in colonial North Carolina, especially between the 1760s and 1770s. Like most of the colonies, North Carolina often suffered from a shortage of legal tender during this period, leading to counterfeiting of paper money. While the western part of the colony was particularly vulnerable to counterfeiting, it did not pose a significant threat to legitimate currency.
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21858
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This article examines the county buildings of colonial North Carolina and the importance they played with the local community. Courthouses, jails, and warehouses were specially built by counties and were indicative of the county's responsiveness to public needs.
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22427
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The art of heraldry served many public uses in colonial North Carolina. Several early North Carolina families also inherited the right to bear a coat of arms.
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22059
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This article discusses the life and times of 18th century North Carolinian John Penn. A lawyer from a well to do family, Penn was a political leader in Revolutionary North Carolina and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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22060
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This article examines 18th century Edenton resident, colonial leader, and Continental Congress delegate Joseph Hewes. A Quaker merchant, Hewes was one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence who died in Philadelphia in 1779 at the age of fifty.
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24629
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The extract from ‘Lawson’s History of North Carolina’ discusses the colony’s first ‘historian,’ John Lawson (1674-1712), as he travels across North Carolina and learns about the various indigenous groups living in the region.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 28 Issue 3, July 1960, p11-12
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22064
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This article details the 1740 Cartagena Expedition, an assault on Spanish colonies in South America. Forces consisted of 12,000 English troops and 3,600 troops from England's North American colonies including 400 North Carolinians. The expedition failed and resulted in the deaths of almost the entire North Carolina regiment along with majority of the English and Colonial ground forces.
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22297
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This article chronicles the establishment of schools and implementation of education in North Carolina between the late 17th century and the mid-18th century.
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22476
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As early as 1737, Colonel John Selwyn was granted tracts of land in the Piedmont region of North Carolina by the British Crown. Neither Colonel Selwyn or his son George ever set foot on their land in Carolina, and with the death of George in 1791 the name all but disappeared in the region with the exception of a street named Selwyn in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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22429
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Sir Richard Everard served as governor of North Carolina from 1725 through 1731. Everard was succeeded by the man he replaced, former governor George Burrington, who had been removed by the Lords Proprietors. Everard and his family exerted much influence in the early colony and the family remained prominent in Virginia.
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22083
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A history of colonial North Carolina from 1700-1750 that disputes the accepted historiography of the time, particularly the work of George Chalmers, and attempts to compensate for the lack of surviving historical commentary from the period. An article appendix includes details of the wills that demonstrates period conditions.
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28686
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Laurence Sterne’s eccentric novel, “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman,” was popular during colonial times. One of Sterne’s admirers was a physician, Dr. John Eustace of Wilmington, North Carolina. Letters exchanged between Eustace and Sterne reveal details about early connections between Sterne and Wilmington landmarks.
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