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Carolina cradle : settlement of the northwest Carolina frontier, 1747-1762
Record details
- OCLC: ocn870994526
- ISBN: 9780807841891
- ISBN: 0807841897
- ISBN: 9780807809341
- ISBN: 0807809349
- ISBN: 1469616807
- ISBN: 9781469616803
- ISBN: 1469616793
- ISBN: 9781469616797
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : facsimile, maps
remote - Published: Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,1987.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
- Copyright: ©1964
Content descriptions
| Note: | Reprint. Originally published: ©1964. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references pages (219-238) and index. |
| Contents: | The setting -- General causes of the southward migration -- The first settlements, 1747-1751 -- Growth of the western settlement, 1750-1751 --March 25, 1752 -- In the forks of the Hadkin, 1752-1762 -- The Germans of the present Rowan County -- The western settlements, 1752-1762 -- The trading camp settlement, 1750-1762 -- Growth of the Irish settlement, 1752-1762 -- Quakers and baptists of the northwest frontier -- The Scotch-Irish migration -- The German migration -- Establishment of Salisbury -- The economic order -- Life of the people -- French and Indian war -- Conclusion. |
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| Subject: | Rowan County (N.C.) -- History Land settlement -- North Carolina -- Rowan County Migration, Internal -- United States |
