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for "The North Carolina Booklet"
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22023
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An account of two attempts at secession made by Tennessee prior to the Civil War. Particular attention is given to the effect that these actions had both politically and socially in Tennessee and North Carolina.
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22024
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An account of the history and establishment of Hillsboro in Orange County, North Carolina.
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22025
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This article discusses the Lords Proprietors who helped settle North Carolina. It covers the forfeiture of the land rights of Sir Walter Raleigh because of treason and regranted in 1606 all the way through the post-American Revolution Supreme Court decision that retracted the land claims of the heirs of the last Lords Proprietor, Earl Granville.
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22026
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This article examines the Battle of Ramsaur's Mill, a military engagement between Patriot and Loyalist forces during the Revolutionary War. On June 20, 1780 near present-day Lincolnton, 400 Patriot militiamen defeated 1,200 Loyalist militia in a battle that demoralized Loyalist forces throughout the Southern theater of war.
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22047
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An attempt to lay the groundwork for the study of the social history of Colonial North Carolina, including the identification of topics and areas of study that are in need of further scholarship.
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22048
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A description of 'Fort Defiance,' also known as 'The Fort,' the home built by Revolutionary War General William Lenoir between 1784 and 1785 in what is now Lenoir, NC in Caldwell County.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 3 Issue 6, Oct 1903,
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22049
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A description of Revolutionary war Colonel Joseph Williams and his wife Rebecca (nee Lanier), their family, and their homestead in Surry County, NC.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 3 Issue 6, Oct 1903,
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8.Clay Hill-On-The-Neuse by Hinton, Mary Hillard The North Carolina Booklet Vol. 3 Issue 6, Oct 1903
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22050
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A description of 'Clay Hill,' the home of Revolutionary Major John Hinton in Wake County, NC.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 3 Issue 6, Oct 1903,
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22051
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A reexamination of the revolutionary War Battle of Alamance to determine if it was the first battle of the Revolutionary war, as some historians had claimed, or if the article 'Regulators in a New Light' published in the Charlotte Observer in January of 1903 correctly dispels that notion.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 3 Issue 7, November 1903,
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22052
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This article examines two Burke Country estates, Pleasant Gardens and Quaker Meadows, through the histories of the families that resided there, the historic events that took place there, and the current conditions of both.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 4 Issue 3, July 1904,
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22053
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This article examines the North Carolina delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, which produced the United States Constitution and their experiences during the drafting process. It also examines in great detail the Hillsborough Convention of 1788 where North Carolina refused to ratify the Federal Constitution and the Fayetteville Convention of 1789 where the Constitution was finally ratified.
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22057
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A look at the career of Colonial North Carolina Royal Governor Charles Eden.
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22058
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This article describes a 1775 scheme to acquire, settle, and hold a large piece of land, called \"Transylvania County,\" lying between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers, in what is now Tennessee and Kentucky. Details include Boonesborough's establishment by a group of men led by North Carolina Judge Richard Henderson and frontiersman Daniel Boone. A reprint of Henderson's journal documenting his journey into this territory is included.
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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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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 4 Issue 5, Sept 1904,
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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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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 4 Issue 5, Sept 1904,
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