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Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763) North Carolina’s proprietors envisioned elaborate courts, feudal manors, and silk production, but managing a colony was more complicated than they’d expected. In the colony’s first fifty years, North Carolina’s settlers faced corrupt officials, violent rebellion, Indian war, isolation, disease ...
- The French and Indian War (Intro)
North Carolina contributed men to colonial armies and saw...
- Daily Life and Work
Daily Life and Work - Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763) -...
- Settling The Piedmont
Settling The Piedmont - Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)...
- Planting a Colony
Planting a Colony - Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763) -...
- Introduction to Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
Introduction to Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763) Twenty...
- Who Owns The Land
1. Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists,...
- The French and Indian War (Intro)
The Proclamation of 1763 is intimately tied to the history of English - Native American relations during the colonial era. The purpose of the proclamation was to stop white settlers or traders from exploiting American Indians. Although that relationship varied from one colony to another, by the eighteenth century most coastal tribes had already ...
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The Land Grant Process. Various royal, colonial, state, and federal governments established the first claims to land in what is now North Carolina. These governments later gave or sold much of this land to individuals. The person who obtained title to the land from government agents received a land grant, also known as a land patent. Obtaining a gr...
Provincial or Proprietary Era(1663–1729). In 1663 King Charles II of England granted land in the Carolinas to eight men who had helped him regain the throne. These men were called the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, and they had the right to grant land to others. The boundaries of their grant extended from the present-day North Carolina-Virginia bor...
Three alphabetical name indexes of those who received a land grant either in North Carolina or for land that later became a part of Tennessee are: DOC: Discover Online Catalog (Formerly known as MARS catalog) This online catalog for the North Carolina State Archives indexes land grants, all warrants that have been microfilmed in the North Carolina ...
County Records. After land was transferred to individual ownership, later transactions, including deeds and mortgages, were recorded by the county registers of deeds, clerks of the superior courts, and sheriffs. Recording for most counties was incomplete in the early years. Probate records and wills were also used to transfer property. They were us...
Dec 20, 2023 · The land office in the upper portion of the state closed in 1763 upon the death of the Earl of Granville, and in 1775, the British Crown closed land offices in the lower portion of the state before royal authority collapsed. In 1776, North Carolina was declared a sovereign state.
- Erin Bradford
- 2017
Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763) Skills: Transcription, reading comprehension, historical analysis, and information literacy: Grade level: High school, advanced placement high school, and college level: Standards (as of Fall 2021: North Carolina Social Studies I.1.3 Gathering and Evaluating Sources
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The American Revolution also splits American Indian groups in North Carolina; the Coharie, Catawba, and ancestors of the Lumbee all decided to join the side of the Patriots, while the Cherokee decided to support the British. The American Revolution officially ended in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris, although technically the document was not ...
A Chronicle of North Carolina during American Revolution, 1763-1789 provides a brief overview of significant events in North Carolina from Great Britain’s “new colonial policy” in 1763 to ratification of the federal Constitution in 1789. The text is conveniently arranged, with events listed in chronological order and briefly explained in ...
