Record #:

37568

Author(s):

Abstract:

A small explanation that a quitrent was a fixed tax on land paid to the Lords Proprietors until 1729 and after that to the Royal Governor of the State.

Source:

Carolina Trees & Branches (NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 6 Issue No. 4, October 1997, p89 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Quitrent; Lord's Proprietors

Record #:

38097

Author(s):

Abstract:

There were three orders of nobility in the Colony of Carolina by the Lord’s Proprietors. The Landgraves, the Caciques and the Palatines. The Palatines were not an order of Nobility, it was a single executive office, the supreme head of the government and higher than the nobility. There is a list of Palatines and Landgraves and their year of succession.

Source:

Carolina Trees & Branches (NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 12 Issue No. 4, , p109 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Lord's Proprietors; North Carolina--Landgraves; North Carolina--the Caciques

Record #:

41249

Author(s):

Butler, Lindley S.

Abstract:

The year of Blackbeard’s death is part of a historical era commonly known as the Colonial period. Asserting the year is part of a historical era properly called the Golden Age of Privateering and Piracy, Butler reinforces this by profiling individuals from both groups.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 95 Issue 2, April 2018 , p125-146 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Golden Age of Piracy, 1650-1720; Golden Age of Piracy--see also the Golden Age of Privateering and Piracy ; Rogers, Woodes; Eden, Charles, 1673-1722; Blackbeard, circa 1680-1718; Lord's Proprietors; Tuscarora Indian War; New Bern--History; Moseley, Edward, 1682-1749; Outer Banks--History; Colonial Era--North Carolina--populations--European settlers