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The Colonial Records Of North Carolina (Volume I) 1662 To 1712

The Colonial Records Of North Carolina (Volume I) 1662 To 1712

L. Saunders, William

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General ReferenceGeneral World HistoryRegional: West

ISBN10: 9354488617
ISBN13: 9789354488610
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 1030
Weight: 3.26
Height: 2.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before North Carolina was a state, it was a struggle on paper: orders, petitions, grants, and urgent decisions sent across the Atlantic. Let the colony speak plainly. Covering 1662 to 1712, William L. Saunders gathers a defining colonial records collection into one essential historical documents volume: a primary source anthology drawn from the working life of government and settlement. Here are colonial laws and ordinances shaping daily conduct and commerce; settlement and land grants that map ambition onto rivers, forests, and boundary lines; and governors letters and dispatches that reveal how local reality collided with distant authority. For readers drawn to seventeenth century North Carolina, these pages offer the texture of lived governance, from contested titles to the mechanics of courts, councils, and property. For early American history research, it is a grounded guide to how communities formed, argued, and endured under British colonial administration, and a cornerstone of American colonial archives. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Whether you are tracing names and places through a North Carolina genealogy reference, building context for scholarly work, or simply fascinated by the origins of civic life, Saunders provides the documentary bedrock: not legend, but record. A serious addition to any library of early America, and a quietly compelling read for anyone who wants to see a colony assembling itself, line by line.

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