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Historical Background
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NORTH CAROLINA RESEARCH
Seattle Genealogical Society
Program Meeting
28 February 2009
Gary A Zimmerman
Fiske Genealogical Foundation
Spanish, French, Spanish
English claim Carolina
Proprietary Carolina
Spanish relinquish claim
Scots land at Port Royal
Tuscarora War
Yamassee War
1514-1586
1629
1663
1670
1684
1711-1712
1715-1716
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Historical Background
• Southern Carolina in revolt
1719
• Royal governor for southern area 1721
• Crown buys out proprietors
1729
North Carolina
• Royal Colony
Revolutionary War
1729-1775
– New settlement boomed
– Regulation Movement
– Urge toward independence
• Revolutionary War in North Carolina
1760’s
1770’s
– http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NC/HISTORY/HISTORY.HTM
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Statehood
• North Carolina
– Delayed approval of the US Constitution
– Finally agreed to accept it in May 1789
• South Carolina
– Approved the Constitution in May 1788
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Civil War
• South Carolina
– First state to secede
– Readmitted to Union
20 Dec 1860
08 July 1868
• North Carolina
– Tenth state to secede
– Readmitted to Union
20 May 1861
04 July 1868
NC Records of Significance
North Carolina Resources
• Land Records
– Proprietary
– Royal Colony
• NC Office of Archives and History
• http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/
• 109 E. Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27601
1669 – 1729
1729 – 1775
• Granville Land offices
• McCullough Land office
• Secretary of State Land office
• NC State Library
• http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us
• 109 E. Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27601
– State of North Carolina 1778 – 1959
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North Carolina Resources
North Carolina Resources
• Univ North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• NC State Archives
– http://www.lib.unc.edu/
• http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/
– County records
• Finding aid to county records
• http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/FindingAids/
co_guide.pdf
– State records
– MARS (Manuscript and Archival materials)
– North Carolina Collection
– Biographical Database
– Newspaper Clipping Files
– Manuscript Collection
– Southern Historical Collection
– “How to Proceed” procedures manual
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North Carolina Resources
• Duke University Libraries Durham NC
• http://library.duke.edu/
• NC Baptist Historical Collection
• Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC
• http://zsr.wfu.edu/collections/special/
– Special Collections Library
• Collections
• Research Guides & Pathfinders
• “Finding Materials”
• Free Will Baptist Historical Collection
• Mount Olive College, Mount Olive NC
• www.mountolivecollege.edu/moyelibrary/fwbhc/ind
ex.cfm
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North Carolina Resources
• North Carolina Genealogical Society
– http://www.ncgenealogy.org/
• Friends Historical Collection
– Guilford College, Greensboro NC
– Contact info for all local societies in the state
– Hot links to NC libraries and archives
– Research assistance for a fee
– Publications
– (No library – all of their books go to the
Genealogy Section at the State Library)
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Useful References
Useful References
• The History of a Southern State: North
Carolina
• FHL Research Outline: North Carolina
– By Hugh Talmage Lefler and Albert Ray Newsome
– University of North Carolina Press, 1963 (revised)
• FHL Research Outline: South Carolina
• North Carolina Through Four Centuries
– By William S Powell
– University of North Carolina Press, 1989
• http://books.google.com
• North Carolina Research: Genealogy & Local History
– By Helen F.M. Leary
– NC Genealogical Society 1996 (2nd Edition)
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