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| Books on Land Speculation | Other Books | Articles | |
| Books on Land Speculation | |
| Cherokee Indian Reservation Eastern Band Cherokee Indians field notes of the Qualla Boundarysurvey. 1878.Microfilm. Raleigh, N.C. : North Carolina Dept. of Archives and History, Division ofArchives and Manuscripts, [19--]. 2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. This contains land survey field notes of the General Land Office, Department of theInterior, 1878 from a survey of the Qualla Boundary. Includes surveysof land from the adjoiningcounties of Swain, Graham, Jackson, Macon and Cherokee. | |
| Connor, Henry G. "The Granville Estate and North Carolina." University of PennsylvaniaLawReview, vol. 62, no. 9, Philadelphia, PA, October 1, 1914. | |
| Costa, Tom. "Paradise on the Clinch: Land Speculation and the Early Settlement of Russell County. Paper presented to theShenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar, 1996. | |
| Cowan, Helen I. Charles Williamson: Genessee Promoter, Friend of Anglo-American Rapprochement. Rochester, NY.: 1941. | |
| Evans, Paul O. The Holland Land Company. Buffalo, NY:? , 1924. | |
| Exhibits 3 - 12, Trial of the Trustees v.
the heirs of Isaac Bronson. March 1920 Term of the Superior Court, Henderson County. |
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| Final Report of George W. Justice as Commissioner, to the Superior Court of Henderson County. Dated March 15, 1920 | |
| Hughes, Sarah S. Surveyors and Statesmen: Land Measuring in Colonial Virginia.Richmond, Va.: Virginia Surveyors Foundation, 1979. | |
| Magrath, C. Peter. Yazoo: Law and Politics in the New Republic: The Case of Fletcher v. Peck. Providence, RI:, 1966. | |
| Patton, Sadie Smathers. Buncombe to Mecklenburg Speculation Lands. Forest City, North Carolina: The Western North CarolinaHistorical Association, 1955. | |
| Report of Commissioner, S. S. Rozier, appointed by the Court. Dated July 9, 1931. | |
| Report of Referee, I. G. H. Valentine, appointed by the Court. Dated 1912. | |
| Rohrbough, Malcolm J.. The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837.New York: 1968. | |
| ———. The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, andInstitutions, 1775-1850. New York: Oxford University Press,1978. | |
| Royster, Charles. The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story ofGeorge Washington's Times. New York:Knopf, 1999. | |
| Saklowski, Aaron Morton. The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and BoomsFrom Colonial Days to the Present Time. New York: 1982. | |
| Wilkinson, Norman B. Land Policy and Speculation in Pennsylvania, 1779-1800. Ph.D.diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1958. [unpublished] | |
| Wheeler, Earl Milton. "The Role of the North Carolina Militia in theBeginning of the American Revolution." Ph.D. Dissertation,TulaneUniversity, 1969. | |
| Other Books: | |
| Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America during the Administration ofJefferson and Madison, 9 vols. New York:1889-1891 [New York, 1951]. | |
| Albertson, Catherine Seyton. In Ancient Albemarle. Raleigh: Commercial Printing Co., 1914. | |
| Allen, Penelope Johnson, editor. Tennessee Soldiers in the Revolution, a Roster of Soldiers Living During the Revolutionary War in the Counties of Washington and Sullivan, Taken from the Revolutionary Army accounts of North Carolina. Bristol:King Printing Co., 1935. | |
| Arthur, John Preston. Western North Carolina: A History (From 1730 to 1913). Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1914. | |
| Ashe, Samuel A'Court. Rutherford's expedition against the Indians, 1776, by Captain S. A. Ashe. Raleigh: E. M. Uzzell & Co.,1904. | |
| ———, editor. Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present. 8 vols. Greensboro: C. L. VanNopper, 1905-1917. | |
| Bartholomees, James Boone, Jr. "Fight or
Flee: The Combat Performance of the North Carolina Militia in the
Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign, January to March 1781." Ph.D. Dissertation, Duke University, 1978. |
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| Beasley, Paul W. "The Life and Times of Isaac Shelby 1750-1826." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1968. | |
| Boyd, William K. History of North Carolina. Volume II. The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York. 1919. | |
| Caruthers, E[li] W[ashington]. Revolutionary
Incidents; and Sketches of Character, chiefly in the 'Old North State'.
Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell, 1854. |
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| ———. Interesting Revolutionary
Incidents; and Sketches of Character, chiefly in the 'Old North State'.
Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell, 1856. |
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| Cheney, John L., Jr. Editor. North Carolina Government 1585 - 1979. North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State, Raleigh, North Carolina. 1981. | |
| Clark, Walter, et al., editors. The State
Records of North Carolina. 16 vols. Winston and Goldsboro: Various
publishers, 1895-1907. |
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| Connor, Robert D. W. Revolutionary Leaders
of North Carolina. High Point: North Carolina State Normal &
Industrial College, 1916. |
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| Corbitt, David Lercy. The Formation of the
North Carolina Counties, 1663-1943. Raleigh: Department of Archives
and History, 1950. |
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| Crabtree, Beth G. North Carolina Governors 1585 - 1974. State of North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, North Carolina. 1974. | |
| Daves, Edward Graham. Maryland and North
Carolina in the campaign of 1780-1781; with a preliminary notice of the
earlier battles of the revolution, in which the troops of the two states won distinction. Baltimore: J. Murphy & Co., 1893. |
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| Davis, Charles L. A Brief History of the North Carolina Troops on the Continental Establishment in the War of the Revolution. Philadelphia: N.P., 1896. | |
| Davis, Joseph S. Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations, 2 vol.Cambridge, MA: 1917. | |
| Davis, Sallie J. "North Carolina's Part
in the Revolution." South Atlantic Quarterly, 2 (October
1903), pp. 314-324; 3 (January, April 1904), pp. 27-38, 154-165. |
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| Driver, Carl S. John Sevier, Pioneer of the Old Southwest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932. | |
| FitzSimons, Frank L. From the Banks of the Oklawaha, Volume III. Golden Glow Publishing Company, Hendersonville, North Carolina. 1979. | |
| Ganyard, Robert Loyal. "North Carolina
During the American Revolution: The First Phase, 1774-1777." Ph.D.
Dissertation, Duke University, 1963. |
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| Gibson, Robert. A treatise of
practical surveying. Philadelphia: : Printed for Joseph Crukshank, no. 87, High-Street,, 1796. |
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| Graham, William A. General Joseph Graham
and His Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History. Raleigh:
Edwards & Broughton, 1904. |
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| Griffin, Clarence W. Essays on North
Carolina History. Forest City, North Carolina: The Forest City Courier, 1951. |
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| Hay, Gertrude Sloan, editor. Roster of
Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution with an Appendix
Containing a Collection of Miscellaneous Records. Durham: North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution, 1932. |
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| Iredell, James. The Papers of James Iredell. Edited by Don Higginbotham. Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, 1976. | |
| Johnson, Allen and Malone, Dumas, Editors. Dictionary of American Biography, Volume II. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1958. | |
| Jones, Joseph Seawell. A Defense of the
Revolutionary History of the State of North Carolina from the Aspersions
of Mr. Jefferson. Boston and Raleigh: C. Bowen and Turner and Hughes, 1834. |
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| Lazenby, Mary Elinor. Catawba Frontier 1775-1781: Memories of Pensioners. Washington: Privately printed, 1950. | |
| Lefler, Hugh, and Paul Wager, editors. Orange County, 1752-1952. Chapel Hill: Privately printed, 1953. | |
| Lightfoot, Marise Parish. Let The Drums
Roll: Veterans and Patriots of the Revolutionary War Who Settled in
Maury County, Tennessee. Nashville: Parthenon Press for the Maury County Historical Society, 1976. |
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| Long, John H., ed. and Gordon DenBoer, comp..
North Carolina: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1998. |
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| McEachern, Leora H., and Isabel M. Williams,
editors. Wilmington-New Hanover Safety Committee Minutes, 1774-1776. Wilmington: Wilmington-New Hanover County American Revolution Bi-centennial Association, 1974. |
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| McMurtrie, Douglas C. The Proceedings of
the Revolutionary Committee of the Town of Newbern, North Carolina,
1775. Chicago: Chicago School of Printing, 1938. |
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| Massengill, Stephen E. North Carolina
Votes on the Constitution: A Roster of Delegates to the State
Ratification Conventions of 1788 and 1789. Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1988. |
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| Medley, Mary L. History of Anson County, North Carolina, 1750-1976. Wadesboro: Anson County Historical Society, 1976. | |
| Merrens, Harry Roy. Colonial North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Historical Geography. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1964. | |
| North Carolina Historical Records Survey Project, Works Progress Administration. Guide to the Manuscripts in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. | |
| Patton, Sadie Smathers. Buncombe to Mecklenburg -- Speculation Lands, Forest City, N.C. Forest City Courier, 1955. | |
| ———. Sketches of Polk County History, Spartanburg, S.C. : Reprint Co., 1976 [1950] | |
| ———. Kingdom of the Happy Land, Asheville, N.C. : Stephens Press, 1957. | |
| ———. The Story of Henderson County, Asheville, N.C., Printed by the Miller Printing Company [1947] | |
| ———. A Condensed History of Flat Rock (the little Charleston of the mountains), Asheville, N.C., Church Printing Co. 1961. | |
| Perkins, Bradford. The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795-1805.Philadelphia, PA: 1955. | |
| Pomeroy, Kenneth B. and James G. Yoho. North Carolina
lands: ownership, use, and management of forest and related lands, Washington, American Forestry Association [distributed by the Livingston Publishing Company, Narberth, PA], 1964. |
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| Rankin, Hugh F. The North Carolina Continentals. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971. | |
| Robinson, Blackwell P. William R. Davie. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957. | |
| Russell, Phillips. North Carolina in the Revolutionary War. Charlotte: Heritage Printers, 1965. | |
| Saunders, William L., editor. The Colonial Records of North Carolina. 10 vols. Raleigh: Various publishers, 1886-1890. | |
| Schmidt, William John. "The North
Carolina Delegates in the Continental Congress, 1774-1781." Ph.D.
Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968. |
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| Spence, Thomas [land surveyor]. The Settler's Guide in
the United States and British NorthAmerican Provinces ... [microform]. New York: Davis &Kent, 1862. |
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| Sweeny, William M., editor. Captain Thomas Cook (1752-1841); A Soldier of the Revolution. N.P.: N.p., [1909]. | |
| Wheeler, John H. Historical Sketches of North Carolina. Regional Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland. 1964. | |
| Articles: | |
| Alexander, C. B. "Richard Caswell." North Carolina Historical Review, 23 (1946), pp. 13-31, 119-141, 287-312. | |
| Angellotti, Mrs. Frank M. "The Polks of
North Carolina and Tennessee." New England Historical and
Genealogical Register, 77 (1923), pp. 133-145, 213-227, 250-270; 78 (1924), pp. 33-53, 159-177, 318-330. |
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| Battle, Kemp Plummer. "Career of
Brigadier-General Jethro Sumner One of North Carolina's Revolutionary
Officers." Magazine of American History, 26 (December 1891), pp. 415-433. |
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| Clark, Walter. "General William
Richardson Davie 1756-1820." Magazine of American History,
28 (December 1892), pp. 415-430. |
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| French, Laura P. "The Wilmington
Committee of Public Safety and the Loyalist Rising of February
1776." North Carolina Historical Review, 41 (June 1964), pp. 21-33. |
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| Lutz, Paul V. "A State's Concern for the
Soldier's Welfare: How North Carolina Provided for Her Troops During the
Revolution." North Carolina Historical Review, 42 (July 1965), pp. 315-318. |
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| McMaster, Fitzhugh. "Some Notes on North Carolina." Military Collector and Historian, 33 (Summer 1981), p. 80. | |
| Mitchell, Thornton W. “The Granville District Land Records.” North Carolina Historical Review 70 (April 1993), p.103-129. | |
| Morris, Francis Grave, and Phyllis Mary
Morris, “Economic Conditions in North Carolina about 1780, Part
I-Landholding.”North Carolina Historical Review 16 (April 1939), p. 107-133. |
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| ———. “Economic Conditions in North
Carolina about 1780, Part II-Ownership of Town Lots, Slaves, and
Cattle.” North Carolina Historical Review 16 (July 1939), p. 296-327. |
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| Murfree, W. L. "Colonel Hardy Murfree of
the North Carolina Continental Line." North Carolina Booklet,
17 (January 1918), pp. 160-164. |
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| Naisawald, L. Van Loan. "Major General
Robert Howe's Activities in South Carolina and Georgia, 1776-1779."
Georgia Historical Quarterly, 35 (March 1951), pp. 23-30. |
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| ———. "Robert Howe's Operations in
Virginia, 1775-1776." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
60 (July 1952), pp. 437-443. |
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| Nash, Frank. "The Continental Line of North Carolina." North Carolina Booklet, 17 (January 1918), pp. 105-134. | |
| Neal, John Washington. "Life and Public
Services of Hugh Williamson." Trinity College Historical Society
Papers, 13 (1919), pp. 62-115. |
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| Rockwell, E. F. "Rowan County, North Carolina, In 1774." Historical Magazine, 2d Ser., 5 (February 1869), pp. 118-123. | |
| Sappington, Roger E. "North Carolina and
the Non-Resistant Sects During the American War of Independence."
Quaker
History, 60 (Spring 1971), pp. 29-47. |
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| Skaggs, Marvin Lucian. “The First Boundary
Survey Between the Carolinas.” North Carolina Historical Review
12 (July 1935), p. 213-232. |
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| ———. “Progress in the North
Carolina-South Carolina Boundary Dispute.” North Carolina
Historical Review 15 (October1938), p. 341-353. |
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| Wheeler, Earl Milton. "Development and Organization of
the North Carolina Militia." North Carolina Historical
Review, 41 (July 1964), pp. 307-323. |
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| Wolf, Jacquelyn H. “Patents and Tithables
in Proprietary North Carolina, 1663-1729.” North Carolina
Historical Review 56 (July 1979), p.263-277. |
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| Wheeler, John H. Sketch of the Life of Richard Dobbs Spaight of NorthCarolina. Baltimore: William K. Boyle, 1880. | |
| Williamson, Hugh. The History of North Carolina. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1812. | |
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