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. Church and State in North Carolina (Johns Hop- kins Studies in History and Political Science, Baltimore, 1893).
. Religious Development of the Province of North Carolina (Johns Hopkins Studies in History and Po- litical Science, Baltimore, 1892).
The Press of North Carolina in the Eighteenth Cen- tury (Brooklyn, 1891).
. Libraries and Literatures (Annual Report Ameri- can Historical Association, 1895).
The Beginning of the Common School System in the South (Annual Report U. S. Commissioner of Edu- cation, 1897).
Williams, C. B. History of the Baptists in North Caro- lina (Raleigh, 1901).
7. Monographs and Miscellaneous Works.
Bassett, J. S. The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (Johns Hopkins Studies in History and Po- litical Science, Baltimore, 1894).
. The Regulators of North Carolina (Annual Re- port, American Historical Association, 1894).
. Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina (Johns Hopkins Studies in History and Political Science, Bal- timore, 1896).
. History of Slavery in the State of North Carolina (ibid, 1899).
. Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina (ibid, 1899).
. Suffrage in North Carolina (Annual Report, Amer- ican Historical Association, 1895).
Bullock. Essays in the Monetary History of the United States (New York, 1900).
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Cook, WV. D. (Editor). The Revolutionary History of North Carolina (Raleigh, 1853).
Cox, S. S. Three Decades of Federal Legislation.
Five Points in the Record of North Carolina in the Great War of 1861-65 (State Literary and Historical Asso- ciation, 1904).
Faust, A. B. The German Element in the United States, 2 vols. (New York, 1909).
Graham, G. W. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde- pendence (New York, 1905).
Graham, WV. A. Address on the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (New York, 1875).
Hamilton, J. G. deR. Reconstruction in North Carolina (Chapel Hill).
Herbert, H. A. Why the Solid South (Baltimore, 1890). Hoyt, William H. The Mecklenburg Declaration of In- dependence (New York, 1907).
Hughson, The Carolina Pirates and Colonial Commerce (The Johns Hopkins Studies in History and Political Science, Baltimore, 1894).
Jones, J. S. Defense of Revolutionary History of North Carolina (Boston, 1834).
Kellogg, L. P. The American Colonial Charter (Annual Report, American Historical Association, 1903, vol. 1). Moore, J. H. Defense of the Declaration of Independ- ence (Raleigh, 1908).
Raper, C. L. North Carolina, a Study in English Colonial Government (New York, 1904).
Schwab. The Confederate States of America (New York, 1901).
Stephenson, G. T. Race Distinctions in American Law (New York, 1910).
Sykes, E. W. Transition of North Carolina from Colony to Commonwealth (Johns Hopkins Studies in History and Political Science, Baltimore, 1898).
Thompson, Holland. From Cotton Field to Cotton Mill (New York, 1906).
Weeks, Stephen B. (See above, Studies in Social and Re- ligious History.)
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Wagstaff, H. M. State Rights and Political Parties in North Carolina, 1776-1861 (Johns Hopkins Studies, 1906).
8. Periodicals and Transactions of Societies.
Bulletins of the North Carolina State Historical Com- mission (Raleigh, N. C.).
The James Sprunt Historical Publications ( formerly the James Sprunt Historical Monographs) The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.
The John Lawson Monographs of The Trinity College Historical Society (Durham, N. C.).
Historical Papers of the Trinity College Historical So- ciety (formerly Annual Publication of Historical Pa- pers), Series I-IX, Durham, N. C.
The North Carolina Baptist Historical Papers (Wake Forest, N. C.).
Papers of the North Carolina Conference Historical So- ciety, I-II (Durham, N. C.).
The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register (vol. I, II, Edenton, N. C.).
The North Carolina Day Programme (Raleigh, State De- partment of Education).
The North Carolina Review (monthly supplement to the News and Observer, Raleigh, N. C.).
The North Carolina University Magazine (Chapel Hill, N. C.).
The North Carolina Booklet (Raleigh, N. C.).
Our Living and Our Dead (Raleigh, 1874-1876).
The Land We Love (Charlotte, N. C., 1866-69).
The South Atlantic Monthly (Wilmington, 1877-1881).
The South Atlantic Quarterly (Durham, N. C.). The Trinity Archive (Durham, N. C.).
The Wake Forest Student (Wake Forest, N. C.).
Publications of the Southern History Association (Wash- ington, D. C., 1897-1907).
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II. THE LAND AND RESOURCES
1. Boundaries and area.
2. Geological formation, (Kerr, Report of the Geological Sur- vey of North Carolina, vol. 1, 1875).
a. Antiquity.
b. The "systems."
3. Natural divisions.
4. The mountain region : Elevation.
. The mountain ranges.
b. Soil and resources.
c. Minerals ; Forestry.
5. The Piedmont Plateau : Elevation.
a. Boundaries.
b. Soil and products.
c. Water power.
d. Mineral resources.
6. The Coastal Plain : Elevation.
-a. Boundaries.
b. Soil and products.
c. River courses and harbors.
d. Fish and Game.
7. Climate and Rainfall.
8. Influence of Geography on History.
a. Sectionalism of Nature: Drainage: Political Sec- tionalism.
b. Diversity of resources : Democracy.
c. Sea Ports : Early Immigration and Trade.
REFERENCES : Laney and Wood, Bibliography of North Carolina Geology, Mineralology, and Geography, (Bulletin of the North Caro- lina Geological and Economic Survey, No. 18) ; North Carolina and Its Resources, (Department of Agriculture, 1896) ; Kerr, Report of the Geological Survey of North Carolina, (1875) ; Emmons, Geological Report of the Midland Counties of North Carolina, (1856) ; Emmons, Report of the North Carolina Geological Survey: Agriculture of the Eastern Counties, (1858) ; Emmons, North Carolina Geological Survey, part II, Agriculture (relating to soils of the Swamp Lands), 1860; Ruffin, Sketches of Lower North Carolina, (Raleigh, 1861) ; Curtis, Woody Plants of North Carolina (1860) ; reprinted by Hale, Woods and Timbers of North Carolina (1883). Bulletins of the North Caro- lina Geological Survey; Papers of North Carolina Economic Survey; Geographies.
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III. THE INDIANS OF NORTH CAROLINA
1. Origin and numbers of the North Carolina Indians.
2. Principal Tribes, their Territory and Hunting Grounds.
a. The Cherokee (the Iroquoian Family).
b. The Catawbas. c. The Eastern Tribes (The Algonquin Family).
3. Physical Characteristics.
4. Customs and Religion.
5. Government.
6. Prominent Indian Chiefs of North Carolina.
REFERENCES : Ashe, History of North Carolina, Vol. I, pp. 179-180; Hill, School History of North Carolina; Royce, The Cherokee Nation of Indians (Bureau of American Ethnology, 5th Annual Report) ; Stringfield, The North Carolina Cherokee Indians (Booklet, Vol. III, No. 2) ; Rand, The North Carolina Indians (James Sprunt Publication Vol. XII) ; Hoyt, Murphey Papers II, 382-383.
SOURCES : Lawson's History of North Carolina, 277-390 (Edition of 1860); Brickell, Natural History of North Carolina, 277-408 (Reprint of 1910).
IV. FIRST EUROPEAN EXPLORATIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA
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1. The French under Verrazano.
a. Cape Fear ; Roanoke.
b. Relation to French colonization. :
2. English under auspices of Sir Walter Raleigh.
a. Life and Character of Raleigh; causes of interest in the new world.
b. The charter of 1584, (Hawks, vol. I, pp. 11-17).
c. The expedition of Amadas and Barlowe (1584).
1. Roanoke Island.
2. Indians.
3. "Virginia."
3. First Attempt at Colonization (1585-1586).
a. Leaders : Lane, Cavendish, White, Hariot, Grenville, Amadas.
b. Landing and exploration.
c. Difficulties of the Colonists.
1. Character and aims.
2. Indians.
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d. Return to England; Grenville's Relief Expedition.
e. Results : Tobaccoo, Indian Corn, Potato.
4. The Second Attempt at Colonization (1587).
a. Governor White; Numbers; Destination; Roanoke Island.
b. Baptism of Manteo.
c. Virginia Dare.
d. White's return; expedition of 1590.
e. Fate of the Colony; Search Expeditions.
f. The White Pictures ( Booklet, July, 1906).
REFERENCES : Ashe, History of North Carolina, chs. II, IV .; Hawks, History of North Carolina, Vol. I, pp. 1-31; Connor, Beginnings of English America, (North Carolina Historical Commission, Raleigh, 1907) ; Hill, Young Peoples History of North Carolina, chs. I-II-III; Peele, First English Settlements in America; A study in Location, (North Carolina Booklet, Vol. IV, No. 7, and Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission, Vol. I, pp. 267-291) ; Hamilton McMillan, Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony; Weeks, Lost Colony of Roanoke (Papers of the American Historical Association, Vol. V.) ; Williams, The Surroundings of Raleigh's Colony (ibid.); Edward G. Daves, Raleigh's New Fort in Virginia, 1585, (Papers of the Trinity College Historical Society, Series I); Cobb, Some Changes in the North Carolina Coast Since 1585, (Booklet IV, No. 9.)
SOURCES : Contemporary accounts of the Voyage of Barlowe and Grenville, Hariot's Description of "Virginia" and the Expeditions of White, first published in Hakluyt's Voyages, are reprinted in Hawks, Vol. I, pp. 69-231).
V. THE LORDS PROPRIETORS
1. The Proprietary.
a. The English precedent; The County Palatine of Durham; Characteristics.
b. Application to Colonies.
1. Causes.
2. Proprietary Charters of Raleigh and Sir Rob- ert Heath.
c. Carolana or Carolina?
2. Colonial Interests of Charles II.
a. The Trade Laws.
b. The New England Commission.
c. New Territory.
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3. The Charters of 1663 and 1665.
a. Territory.
b. Governmental provisions.
c. "The Lords Proprietors."
REFERENCES : Bassett, Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina, pp. 17-34; Osgood, American Colonies in the 17th Century, vol. II, passim ; Andrews, Colonial Self Government, (American Nation Series,) passim; Channing, History of the United States, II, ch. I; McCrady, History of South Carolina, 1670-1715, pp. 50-68; Ashe, History of North Carolina, ch. V, Vol. II.
SOURCES : Colonial Records of North Carolina, I, pp. 1-13: 20-33 : 102-114; Hawks, I, pp. 11-17.
VI. COLONIZATION OF THE LORDS PROPRIETORS: THE COUNTY OF CLARENDON AND THE ASHLEY RIVER SETTLEMENT
1. Problems of Settlement.
a. The Heath Claimants; the second Charter.
b. The New England and London proposals (C. R. I, 36) .*
c. The Barbadian interest.
1. The People; economic conditions; political affairs.
2. The exploration of the Cape Fear in 1662 and 1663 (C. R. I, 67).
3. Sir John Colleton.
2. The Declaration and Proposals of 1663 (C. R. I, 113).
a. Aims.
b. Provisions.
c. Immigration; The County of Clarendon (C. R. I, 71-73) ; Charlestown; lack of prosperity.
3. The Second Migration.
a. Sir John Yeamans; the Adventurers.
b. The Concessions and Agreement (C. R. I, 75).
c. Progress and discontent.
1. Causes (C. R. I, 145).
2. Abandonment of Clarendon; significance in the history of North Carolina.
*C. R. here and elsewhere refers to Colonial Records.
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4. The Ashley River Settlement.
a. Anthony Ashley Cooper.
b. The Fundamental Constitutions.
1. Political ideal.
2. Social organization.
3. Popular liberty.
c. Charlestown (Charleston, S. C.).
REFERENCES : Ashe, History of North Carolina, pp. 72-83; McCrady, History of South Carolina, 1670-1719, pp. 68-128; Hawks, History of North Carolina, II, pp. 68-84; Bassett, The County of Clarendon, (N. C. Booklet, Vol. II, No. 9) ; idem, Constitutional Beginnings of N. C., pp. 35-43.
SOURCES : Colonial Records, Vol. I.
VII. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE PROPRIETORS
1. Governmental System of the Fundamental Constitutions.
2. Modified Application : The Instructions (C. R. I, 181 :235 : 333 :373).
3. The Governor.
a. Relation to Proprietors and Deputies.
b. Independent Functions.
4. The Council.
a. Periods of development : 1665-1670; 1670-1691; 1691-1724.
b. The Grand Council ; the Palatine's Court.
5. The Assembly.
a. Membership.
b. Development.
c. Powers.
6. The Courts.
a. The General Court.
b. The Precinct Court.
c. The Court of. Chancery.
d. The Court of Admiralty.
e. The Judicial Functions of the Council.
7. Financial Officers.
REFERENCES : Bassett, Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (Johns Hopkins Studies Series XV,) Ch. IV; Ashe, History of North Carolina, pp. 98-104: 106-108; Hawks, History of North Carolina, II,
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pp. 187-212; Daves, Locke's Fundamental Constitutions (North Caro- lina Booklet, July, 1907.)
SOURCES : The Fundamental Constitutions (edition of 1669) C. R. Vol. I, pp. 187-206; Instructions of the Proprietors, (C. R. Vol. I, cited above.)
VIII. THE GENESIS OF ALBEMARLE
1. Early Exploration and Settlements.
a. Causes.
b. Leaders.
c. Relation to Virginia.
2. Proprietary Authority Established.
a. The first Governor : Drummond: Nathaniel Batts.
b. The name Albemarle.
3. Economic Policy of Proprietors.
a. Berkeley's instructions (C. R. I, 50).
b. The Concessions of 1650 (C. R. I, 79).
4. Early Political Activities.
a. The First Assembly (1665), (Unveiling of Tablet at Nixonton, Booklet, July, 1910).
b. The Great Deed of Grant.
c. The First Laws, (C. R. I, 183).
5. Character of the People: Evidence.
a. Debtor laws (C. R. I, 665 :682).
b. Small plantations (C. R. I, 690).
c. Virginia testimony; Governor Nicholson; William Byrd, Etc.
d. Early wills.
e. Religion (Edmundson and Fox; C. R. I, 215).
REFERENCES : Ashe, History of North Carolina, I, chs 6 and 8; Hawks, History of North Carolina, II, 441-453; Hill, Young Peoples History of North Carolina, ch 3; Introduction to the Colonial Records, Vol. I; Cheshire, First Settlers in North Carolina not Religious Refugees, (Booklet, April, 1906.)
SOURCES : Colonial Records (pp. cited) ; Byrd, History of the Divid- ing Line; Grimes, Early North Carolina Wills; The Discovery of New Brittaine (1650) and Francis Yeardley's Narrative of Excursions into North Carolina, 1654, in Salley, Narratives of Early Carolina, pp. 5-29; Hawks, Vol. II, pp. 15-22: 26-29.
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IX. POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALBEMARLE, I THE NAVIGATION ACTS
1. Discontent.
a. Of the Proprietors (C. R. I, 228-230 : 230-232).
b. Of the people.
2. The Navigation Acts.
a. Acts of 1660, 1662 and 1663 (MacDonald, Select Charters and other Documents 1606-1775, Nos. 23, 25, 28).
b. Illicit trade of Albemarle; the New England Mer- chantment (C. R. I, 244-246).
"c. The Act of 1672 (MacDonald, No. 34) ; Applica- tion to North Carolina.
3. Indian War; Durant; Reduction of Duties.
4. Quarrels of Governor Jenkins; Miller; The Assembly.
5. Eastchurch and Miller.
a. Enforcement of customs.
b. Gilliam and Culpepper.
6: The Culpepper Rebellion.
a. The "Free Parliament."
b. Trial of Miller.
c. "Free Trade."
d. Policy of the Proprietors.
REFERENCES : Ashe, History of North Carolina, ch. X; Hawks, His- tory of North Carolina, Vol. II, 462-484; Hill, Young Peoples History of North Carolina, ch 8; Connor, Makers of North Carolina History, ch. 2.
SOURCES : Colonial Records, Vol. I, 248-261 : 262-283 : 284-301 : 303- 3II : 313-333.
X. POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALBEMARLE, II
1679-1698
1. The Policy of Conciliation.
. Governor Sothel; John Harvey and Henry Wilkin- son, acting Governors.
b. The Council and other officials.
c. The rights of Quakers restored.
d. Damage Cases: the Act of Oblivion: Customs restored by Tax.
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2. Administration of Sothel (1683-1689).
a. Period of satisfaction (1683-1686).
b. Period of oppression and corruption (1686-1689) ; Charges of the Proprietors (C. R. I, 367-371).
3. The Revolution of 1688 in Albemarle.
a. The Revolution in England ; in the colonies (Chan- ing's History of the United States, II ch. 7).
b. Leaders in Albemarle.
c. Arrest of Sothel; citation to England; expulsion from the colony.
d. Sothel's subsequent history.
REFERENCES : Ashe, History of North Carolina, ch. II; Hawks, His- tory of North Carolina, Vol. II, pp. 484-490; Channing, History of United States, Vol. II, ch. 7.
SOURCES : Colonial Records, Vol. I, passim.
XI. POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALBEMARLE, III
REORGANIZATION: ALBEMARLE BECOMES NORTH CAROLINA
1. Administration of Philip Ludwell.
a. Character and experience of Ludwell.
b. Resistance of Captain John Gibbs (C. R. I, 363-365).
c. Constitutional changes under Ludwell (C. R. I, 362).
1. Governor of Carolina N. and E. of the Cape Fear (1689), (C. R. I, 360).
2. Governor of Carolina; Deputy for North Carolina (C. R. I, 373, 380-381).
3. Permission for North Carolina to have a special Assembly (C. R. I, 380).
4. Choice of Governor (Instructions, C. R. I, 373).
5. Separation of Council and Assembly (1691).
6. The General Court.
d. The Great Deed of Grant.
2. Administration of Archdale.
a. . The Great Deed of Grant confirmed.
b. New precincts.
c. The Virginia Boundary Dispute.
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REFERENCES : Ashe, History of North Carolina, ch. XII, to p. 149; Hawks, Vol. II, 491-502; Hill, Young Peoples History of North Caro- lina, ch. X.
SOURCES : Colonial Records, Vol. I, (pp. cited and passim )
XII. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE CARY REBELLION
1. Religious Conditions in Albemarle.
2. Religious Policy of the Proprietors.
a. Religious provisions in the charters and the Funda- mental Constitutions.
3. The First Church Law.
a. Henderson Walker.
b. The Vestry Act (1701).
c. The Reaction in 1803; Protest through John Porter ; the Proprietors and the Vestry Act.
4. The Second Movement to Establish the Church.
a. The Bishop of London; Dr. Thomas Bray; The S. P. C. K.
b. Lord John Granville; Sir Nathaniel Johnston, and the South Carolina Vestry Law of 1704.
c. Robert Daniel, Deputy Governor of North Carolina ; The oaths of allegiance; The vestry law of 1705.
d. Protest of the dissenters; removal of Daniel.
5. Thomas Cary : Life and Character.
a. The test oath (C. R. I, 709).
b. Second protest through John Porter: Removal of Cary.
6. William Glover, President of the Council and Deputy Governor.
a. The test oaths again administered.
7. Restoration of Cary and the Dual Administration.
a. The Council divided.
b. The Assembly of 1708; Edward Mosely; repeal of the test laws.
c. Flight of Glover.
8. Edward Hyde.
a. President of Council : First Governor of North Car- olina (C. R. I, 775).
b. Assembly of 1711; sedition law ; vestry act (C. R. I, 769).
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c. Armed resistance under Cary : Intervention of Gov- ernor Spotswood of Virginia.
d. Policy of the English authorities in arrest of Cary and others.
9. Significance and Results.
REFERENCES : Weeks, Religious Development in the Province of North Carolina (Johns Hopkins Studies, series X, Nos. V-VI) ; Ashe, History of North Carolina, chs. 13-14; DeRossett (editor), Church History of North Carolina, ch. 3; McCrady, History of South Carolina, 1670-1719, passim; Connor, Makers of North Carolina History, ch. IV. SOURCES : Colonial Records, Vol. I, passim.
XIII. SOUTHWARD EXTENSION OF SETTLEMENTS
1. The French.
a. The Pamlico River Colony.
b. The Neuse and Trent Settlement.
2. The Swiss.
a. De Graffenried and Michel.
b. The Swiss Protestants of Berne.
3. The Palatines.
a. Causes of persecution.
b. Migration to England.
c. Queen Anne, the Proprietors, and De Graffenreid.
4. Settlement of the Cape Fear.
5. New Towns: Bath, Newbern, Edenton.
REFERENCES : Ashe, History of North Carolina, I, pp. 169-171; Hawks, History of North Carolina, II, pp. 84-91; De Graffenried and the Swiss and Palatine Settlement of New Berne, (Papers of the Trinity College Historical Society, series, IV) ; Hill, Young Peoples History of North Carolina, ch. 12; Colonial Newbern, (Booklet, June, 1901) ; Goebel, Early Newbern (N. C. Review, August, 1910) ; Waddell, History of New Hanover County, passim.
SOURCES : Colonial Records, Vol. I, passim.
XIV. THE TUSCARORA WAR
1. Causes.
2. Opening of the Conflict.
a. Capture of De Graffenried and Lawson, September 10, 1711; Fate of Lawson.
b. The Massacre of September 22, 1711.
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3. Appeal to Virginia and South Carolina for Aid; Governor Spotswood.
4. The First South Carolina Expedition.
a. Colonel Barnwell and his troops; route; battles.
b. The truce; Dissatisfaction of Governor Hyde: Re- turn of the South Carolina Indians.
5. The War Renewed.
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a. Military measures (C. R. I, 877).
b. Yellow fever; Death of Governor Hyde.
c. Treaty with Tom Blount.
d. The Second South Carolina Expedition under James Moore; route.
6. The Final Battles.
a. Fort Naharoco.
7. The Removal of the Tuscaroras.
8. Political Development during the War.
a. Leadership of the Assembly.
b. Paper money. +
REFERENCES : Ashe, History of North Carolina, I, ch. XV; Hawks, History of North Carolina, II, 525-552; Clark, Indian Massacre and Tuscarora War (Booklet, July, 1902).
SOURCES : The Journal of De Graffenried, Correspondence of Spottes- wood and Pollock, etc. (C. R. Vols. I, II); The Journal of John Barnwell, (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vols. V, VI) ; Letters of Barnwell (South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, January, 1908).
XV. THE LAST YEARS OF PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT
1. Recovery after the Tuscarora War.
a. Policy of Proprietors toward Land Grants.
2. The aggressive spirit of the Assembly.
a. Compilation of Laws.
b. The Church Law.
c. Representation of the Precincts in the Lower House.
3. Governor Eden.
a. Character.
b. Quarrel with the Lower House.
c. Relation with the Pirates.
d. Quarrels with Moseley and Moore.
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4. Governor Burrington.
a. Previous life and character.
b. Sympathies with the people.
c. Quarrels and removal.
· 5. Sir Richard Everard.
a. Character.
b. Conflict with Assembly ; constitutional privileges de- manded.
6. Personal Quarrels.
REFERENCES : Ashe, History of North Carolina, pp. 196-215; Hill, Young Peoples History of North Carolina, ch. 2; Hawks, History of North Carolina, II, 553-570; Haywood, Sir Richard Everard (Publica- tions of the Southern History Association, Vol. II) and Geo. Burring- ton (Biographical History of North Carolina, Vol. I.)
XVI. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS UNDER THE PROPRIETORS
1. Growth of Population (C. R. II, xvii).
2. The Land System.
a. Average number of acres in each grant.
b. The quit rent.
3. Trade and Commerce.
a. Influence of geography.
b. Virginia.
c. The New England Traders.
4. The Pirates.
a. Causes of piracy.
b. North Carolina a resort for pirates.
c. Careers of Teach and Bonnett.
5. The Products of North Carolina.
6. The Labor System.
7. Money.
8. The Towns : Bath, Edenton, Newbern, Wilmington.
REFERENCES : Hawks, Vol. II, chs. 3 and 4; Hughson, Carolina Pirates and Colonial Commerce (Johns Hopkins University Studies, Series XII, Nos. V, VI, VII) ; Bullock, Essays in the Monetary System of United States, 175-139; Ashe, Our Own Pirates (Booklet, June, 1908) ; Bassett, Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina, (Johns Hopkins Studies, Series XIV, No. IV) ; Bassett, Land Holding in Colonial Carolina (Papers of the Trinity College Historical Society, Series
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VII) ; Morgan, The Land System of North Carolina, in press (James Sprunt Historical Publication).
SOURCES : Colonial Records, Vol. I, II, III, passim; Laws of North Carolina (State Records, Vol. XXIII).
XVII. TRANSFER OF THE COLONY TO THE CROWN
1. Failure of Proprietary Colonization.
a. Conditions among the Proprietors; the changing personnel ; law suits (ex. the share of Lord Clar- endon : Sir William Berkeley :) ; Lack of Interest in the Colony; Rare meetings of the Proprietary Board (McCrady, 276-7, 636).
b. Relations of the Proprietors with the Colony.
1. Little investment of money.
2. Character of Governors.
3. Failure to approve laws.
4. Failure to protect people from Indians and Pirates.
2. The Colony in Resistance to the British Government.
a. The Culpepper Rebellion.
b. The church law of 1704; the Cary. Rebellion.
3. Movements to Annul the Charters to 1689.
a. Complaint and activity against New England (1675-1684).
b. Dissolution of Bermuda Company (1683) ; policy of the Proprietors in the trial of Culpepper.
c. Quo Warranto Measures of 1685 (Pennsylvania and Carolina excepted, C. R. I, 353).
4. Significance of the Revolution of 1688.
a. In the constitutional history of the Colonies.
b. In the relation of Colonies to England. All govern- ors to be approved by the crown and under oath to enforce the law; admiralty courts.
5. Later Movements to Annul the Charters.
a. Bill of 1701.
b. Bill of 1706.
c. Bill of 1715.
6. The Revolution in South Carolina.
a. Causes.
. b. Appeal of the People to the Crown.
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c. Royal Government established (1719). 7. The sale of Carolina to the Crown.
REFERENCES : Kellog, The American Colonial Charter, (Annual Re- port, American Historical Association, 1903) ; pp. 201-207 ; 246-250 and ch. IV; McCrady, History of South Carolina (70-719, ch. XXX) ; Carr, The Sale of Carolina to the King (Trinity Archive, March, 1902.)
SOURCES : The Colonial Records, Vol. II, (passim.)
XVIII. NATURE OF THE ROYAL ADMINISTRATION
1. Established Forms Remain: The Spirit of Institutions Changed.
a. The Governor (the commission of Burrington, C. R. III, 66).
1. Representatives of the Crown : Oath.
2. Power to embody the militia and erect forts.
3. Administration of public lands.
4. With the courts: to establish markets and fairs.
5. With the Council: to establish courts: ap- pointment of judges in the hands of the gov- ernor.
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