Record #:

20210

Author(s):

Carroll, Kenneth L.

Abstract:

In the last quarter of the 18th century a group of people in Guilford County were known as the Nicholites, taking their name from the founder of a religious society, Joseph Nichols. This group abstained from war, swearing, profanity, and oath making.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 4, Oct 1954, p453-462, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Nicholites--North Carolina; Religious sects--North Carolina; Nichols, Joseph, 1730-1770

Record #:

20211

Author(s):

Peterson, Owen M.

Abstract:

Stephen A. Douglas called for popular sovereignty as a doctrine for settlement of territorial slave issues in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska bill. In an order to shape the North Carolina opinion, William Waightstill Avery, the delegate from Burke County, served as chairman of the platform committee at the Democratic Convention of 1860.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 4, Oct 1954, p463-478, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Democratic Party--History

Record #:

20212

Author(s):

Klebaner, Benjamin Joseph

Abstract:

A system of tax-financed relief for the needy, which was administered by local governments was brought to the colonies from England. In accordance with an act of 1701, likely the first poor law in the colony, Chowan precinct levied a tax for the support of the pauper. Thus began the various provisions for poor relief in North Carolina.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 4, Oct 1954, p479-492, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Taxation--Poor relief

Record #:

20213

Author(s):

Raper, Horace W.

Abstract:

Considered as one of North Carolina's controversial figures, William W. Holden was a leading editor, leader in four political parties, and chief executive of the state on two occasions. Holden also built the Democratic Party to dominance in North Carolina but controversy over controlled interests forced him to split from the party. By 1860, Holden shifted from his militant view of state succession, promoting the role of North Carolina as a mediator, or peace maker, against the overthrow of national government.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 4, Oct 1954, p493-516, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--1865-1950; Holden, William Woods, 1818-1892; Peace movements--North Carolina

Record #:

20214

Author(s):

Ubbelohde, Carl W., Jr.

Abstract:

The governing of colonial North Carolina was hierarchical and orderly. The Vice-Admiralty court played a dual role in North Carolina, in one capacity the arbitrator of all ocean commerce conflicts, and also the agency that heard and determined cases involving infringements on the British Navigation Acts.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 4, Oct 1954, p517-528, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--1775-1865--Vice-Admiralty court

Record #:

20215

Author(s):

Green, Fletcher M.

Abstract:

In this second installment of an article from July 1954, Green discusses the reaction of North Carolinians to celebrating the Fourth of July for 100 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 4, Oct 1954, p529-549, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Fourth of July celebrations--North Carolina

Record #:

20216

Author(s):

Walser, Richard

Abstract:

This article concludes another piece from July, 1954 that looks at the push for a common literature of North Carolina through the letters of its most staunch promoter, Calvin Henderson Wiley.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 4, Oct 1954, p550-575, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wiley, Calvin Henderson, 1819-1887

Record #:

20217

Author(s):

Harrington, J.C.

Abstract:

On an archaeological excavation at the fort site on Roanoke Island, three metal disks were found. These casting-counters were part of the equipment used in medieval Europe for manual reckoning--the forerunner of the modern adding machine.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 33 Issue 1, Jan 1956, p1-11, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Archaeology--Roanoke Island; Manual reckoning

Record #:

20218

Author(s):

Walser, Richard

Abstract:

North Carolina came late into the history of American fiction. Until the middle of the 19th century, few novelists had used the state for background or character, and often life as it actually existed in North Carolina was not taken into account. But in 1850 several novels appeared in which North Carolina received its first contemporary fictional treatment by one who knew of and had been a part of life in the state--Gregory Seaworthy, aka George Higby Throop.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 33 Issue 1, Jan 1956, p12-44, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

American fiction--North Carolina--Bibliography; Throop, George Higby, 1818-1896

Record #:

20219

Author(s):

Logan, Frenise A.

Abstract:

After Reconstruction, the movement of African-Americans out of southern states like North Carolina were the result of political and socio-economic pressures. Restrictions on civil rights, lack of wages, the operation of land tenure and the credit system, brought discontent that pushed for a mass migration out of North Carolina.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 33 Issue 1, Jan 1956, p45-65, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

African Americans--North Carolina--Migration

Record #:

20220

Author(s):

Murray, Paul; Bartlett, Stephen Russel, Jr.

Abstract:

Stephen Chaulker Bartlett was the acting surgeon onboard the U.S.S. LENAPPE. Letters written by Bartlett from the LENAPEE, one of the principal vessel in the attack on Wilmington, January-February 1865, give a glimpse of the ordinary living conditions in the lower Cape Fear in 1865, contraband, refugees, and a new era in North Carolina and US history.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 33 Issue 1, Jan 1956, p66-92, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives

Record #:

20221

Author(s):

Haywood, C. Robert

Abstract:

With the introduction of colonists to America, there was division on the proper doctrine of governmental control. Although early on, North Carolina would have been more willing than most of the colonies to accept the prevailing British doctrine of governmental rule, many North Carolinians later advocated for mercantilism, the economic doctrine of government control of foreign trade that ensured military stability. One problem standing in their way however, was the lack of settlers initially.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 33 Issue 2, Apr 1956, p139-165, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Record #:

20222

Author(s):

Hoffman, William S.

Abstract:

In the early 19th century, the Whig party came to power in North Carolina, ousting the dominant Democratic party over the consideration of land policy. The Whig plan called for distributing the proceeds from federal land sales to all the states, while the Jacksonian opposition to annual distribution for the loss of control of North Carolina from the Democrats.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 33 Issue 2, Apr 1956, p166-180, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Land management

Record #:

20224

Author(s):

Griffin, Clarence W.

Abstract:

With the rapidly growing tourism industry of the western region of North Carolina, the Western North Carolina Historical Association came into being to serve the region from a historical point of view, while supplementing existing state agencies.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 33 Issue 2, Apr 1956, p202-212 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Western North Carolina Historical Association--History

Record #:

20226

Author(s):

Wallace, Wesley H.

Abstract:

In striking contrast to news columns about impersonal accounts or events from distant cities, the advertisements in North Carolina's early newspapers were local and personal, reflecting literary, religious, education, and professional activities of the region.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 33 Issue 3, Jul 1956, p281-309, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Newspapers--North Carolina