Lindley S Butler
Author
Language
English
Description
In this book, Lindley S. Butler traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. In the wake of the English Civil Wars in the mid-seventeenth century, King Charles II granted charters to eight Lords Proprietors to establish civil structures, levy duties and taxes, and develop a vast tract of land along the southeastern Atlantic coast. Butler argues that unlike the New England theocracies...
Author
Language
English
Description
This collection of nineteen original essays on selected topics and epochs in North Carolina history offers a broad survey of the state from its discovery and colonization to the present. Each chapter consists of an interpretive essay on a specific aspect of North Carolina's history, a collection of supporting documents, and a brief bibliography.Selections cover historical periods ranging from Elizabethan to contemporary times and examine such issues...
Author
Series
North Carolina bicentennial pamphlet volume 6
Publisher
North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Briarpatch Press
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
This edition, based on recently discovered material as well as extensive research in archival sources, allows Fanning, one of the most notorious and successful of the Loyalist partisan leaders in the Southern colonies, to speak in his own words and his own peculiar orthography.