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Created from parts of Anson County in 1762, Mecklenburg County contains the largest city in North Carolina and was the birthplace of the eleventh President of the United States, James K. Polk.
- James K. Polk
Two presidents dominated the landscape of mid-19th century...
- Anson County
Formed out of the western section of Bladen County, Anson...
- James K. Polk
159-163. IN America there were centuries of frontiers. The Piedmont frontier of the Carolinas was first described by an explorer sent out, in 1670, by Governor Berkeley of Virginia. To this traveler, John Lederer, belongs the credit for opening the trading path used later by the colonists of Virginia for trading with the Indians of the Carolinas.
William L. Saunders, Ed., The Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. 23 (Goldsboro, NC, 1904 reprint Wilmington, NC 1944). Ellen Poteet, “Alexander Lewis: First Sheriff of Mecklenburg County” OMGS Quarterly Vol. 28 (2010) 2: 13. Cash receipt to the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County for taxes for the year 1763.
In Mecklenburg County more than a quarter of a million people make their homes, most of them within 65 square miles that is Charlotte. In the county are five towns: Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Matthews, and Pineville, and the villages of Newell, Derita, Mint Hill, and Paw Creek. Government. Prior to the Civil War, the government of ...
History Timeline. January 1, 1587. 1587 - John White Colony. 1585 - Ralph Lane Colony. 1587 - John White Colony. 1607 - Brave New World. 1609 - In Search of Land. 1640 - The Catawbans. 1654 - Carolina's First Settler. 1663 - Lords Proprietors. 1670 - Inland Explorations. 1700 - The Lawson Expedition. 1706 - First North Carolina Town.
The Mecklenburg Resolves of May 31, 1775, declared the “authority of the King or Parliament” to be “null and void.” Tradition holds that there was even a full-blown Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence created on May 20, 1775.
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The Mecklenburg Declaration – History. In early 1775 the 13 British Colonies in North American were in ferment. In the 12 years since the end of the French and Indian War the King and Parliament had attempted to increase their power over these independent minded citizens.
