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The rulers of Mecklenburg were styled Duke of (from 1815 Grand Duke of) Mecklenburg, Prince of the Wends, Schwerin and Ratzeburg, and Count of Schwerin, Lord of the Lands of Rostock and Stargard (Herzog zu / Großherzog von Mecklenburg, Fürst zu Wenden, Schwerin und Ratzeburg, auch Graf zu Schwerin, der Lande Rostock und Stargard Herr).
1763 - Chief of the Catawbans. 1763 - Native Land Deals. 1764 - Slave Trade. 1766 - The First Mecklenburg County Courthouse. 1766 - Colonial Physicians. 1767 - A President Born. 1767 - Land Grants. 1768 - Creating New Counties. 1768 - Charlotte Chartered.
Of the committee on the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the State, the members from Mecklenburg were Messrs. Alexander, Rutherford, Sharpe, Avery, Irwin and Hill. All this had transpired in North Carolina before the battle had been fought at Lexington.
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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. These attempts such as the Stamp Act and the Tea Taxes were ...
The spirit of the people who built them is, perhaps, the most significant feature to be found in the historical records of Charlotte and Mecklenburg, and has greatly influenced the lives of each succeeding generation. Living conditions in early Mecklenburg were harsh, inconceivably so to people of the mid-twentieth century.
King George III still ruled the Colonies when European settlers chartered the town back in 1768. They named the new hamlet after the King’s wife, Queen Charlotte, and gave the surrounding county the name Mecklenburg in honor of her majesty’s birthplace in Germany.
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.
