The State Records Of North Carolina Miscellaneous

Author : Walter Clark
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396354649
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book The State Records of North Carolina, Vol. 22 written by Walter Clark and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The State Records of North Carolina, Vol. 22: Miscellaneous The editor has thought that it would be interesting to embrace in this volume the wills of Governor Gabriel Johnston, Matthew Rowan, Arthur Dobbs, and Colonel Thomas Pollock as throwing light on the period in which they lived. On page 314 in the return of Colonel Rutherford's Regiment of the Bladen Militia for the year 1754 will be found some remarks of interest in regard to the inhabitants on Drowning Creek, on the head of Little Peedee, fifty men, a mixed crew, a lawless people, filleth the lands without patent or paying quit-rent. Shot a surveyor for coming to view their lands, being enclosed in great swamps. No arms, stores, or Indians in the County. Another item of interest is a recommendation of Colonel Rutherford that the Quakers in Bladen should be required to attend musters or pay as they do in the northern counties. Although there were no Indians in Bladen, which then embraced Robeson, evidently there was a Quaker settle ment as early as 1754. The rosters of the militia at that date given for many of the counties will be found interesting and instructive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.