This account of the settlement of one segment of the North Carolina frontier—the land between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers—examines the process by which the piedmont South was populated. Through its ingenious use of hundreds of sources and documents, Robert Ramsey traces the movement of the original settlers and their families from the time they stepped onto American shores to their final settlement in the northwest Carolina territory. He considers the economic, religious, social, and geographical influences that led the settlers to Rowan County and describes how this frontier community was organized and supervised.
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Ulrich Bonnell Phillips opened his famous Life and Labor in the Old South with the suggestion, "Let us begin by discussing the weather, for that has been the chief agency in making the South distinctive." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
one containing cases, township tax lists, part unpaginated, unpaginated manuscripts, land grant records, trading ford, court minutes, lot number one, unnumbered volumes, proclamation money, penciled number, land warrants, evidently originated, colonial militia, shallow ford, will books, trading path, west square Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rowan Deeds, North Carolina, Rowan County, Chester County, Cecil County, Rowan Court Minutes, New Jersey, Rowan Wills, Hall of Records, Shenandoah Valley, Maryland Calendar of Wills, New York, Office of Registrar of Deeds, New Castle County, Bucks County, James Carter, Anson County, Clerk's Office, Davidson's Creek, Pennsylvania Archives, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Lancaster Wills, Chapel Hill, Tinkling Spring, Fourth Creek New!
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Rowan Deeds, North Carolina, Rowan County, Chester County, Cecil County, Rowan Court Minutes, New Jersey, Rowan Wills, Hall of Records, Shenandoah Valley, Maryland Calendar of Wills, New York, Office of Registrar of Deeds, New Castle County, Bucks County, James Carter, Anson County, Clerk's Office, Davidson's Creek, Pennsylvania Archives, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Lancaster Wills, Chapel Hill, Tinkling Spring, Fourth Creek New!
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- The Maryland Calendar of Wills : Wills from 1635-1743 (Vol. I: 1635-1685; Vol. II: 1685-1702; Vol. III: 1703-1713; Vol. IV: 1713-1720; Vol. V: 1720-1726; Vol. VI: 1726-1732; Vol. VII: 1732-1738; Vol. VIII: 1738-1743. 8 Volumes in 4) by Jane Baldwin Cotton on 8 pages
- Kegley's Virginia Frontier by F. B. Kegley on 7 pages
- Anson County, North Carolina: Abstracts of Early Records by May Wilson McBee on 7 pages
- Pennsylvania German Pioneers: The Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia (Volume 1) by Strassburger on 5 pages
- Sketches of North Carolina by William Henry Foote on 4 pages
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- Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina by Marjoleine Kars on 7 pages
- A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) by Jon F. Sensbach on 4 pages
- A River in Time by Suzanne Cameron Linder in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Four Generations: Population, Land and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts by Philip Greven on page 162, page 167, and Back Matter
- Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (Early American Studies) by Aaron Spencer Fogleman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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