Carolina Cradle : Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762 /

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Describes the "invasion" of emigrant families into the area and their socio-economic and religious reasons for migrating during the period. A #87-442 Gift-Friends of the Genealogy Collection

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramsey, Robert Wayne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Land settlement.
Migration, Internal.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Migration, Internal > United States.
Land settlement > North Carolina > Rowan County.
North Carolina > Rowan County.
United States.
Rowan County (N.C.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The setting
  • General causes of the southward migration
  • The first settlements, 1747-1751
  • Growth of the western settlement, 1750-1751
  • March 25, 1752
  • In the forks of the Hadkin, 1752-1762
  • The Germans of the present Rowan County
  • The western settlements, 1752-1762
  • The trading camp settlement, 1750-1762
  • Growth of the Irish settlement, 1752-1762
  • Quakers and baptists of the northwest frontier
  • The Scotch-Irish migration
  • The German migration
  • Establishment of Salisbury
  • The economic order
  • Life of the people
  • French and Indian war
  • Conclusion.

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