Carolina cradle : settlement of the northwest Carolina frontier, 1747-1762 / Robert W. Ramsey.
Describes the "invasion" of emigrant families into the area and their socio-economic and religious reasons for migrating during the period.
Record details
- ISBN: 0807809349
- ISBN: 9780807809341
- ISBN: 0807841897
- ISBN: 9780807841891
- Physical Description: xiii, 251 pages : maps, facsimile ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1964]
- Copyright: ©1964
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- General Note:
- Publication dates may vary.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references pages ([219]-238) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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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