OF

NORTH CAROLINA,

From 1584 to 1851.

COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL RECORDS, OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS,
AND TRADITIONAL STATEMENTS.

WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF HER DISTINGUISHED
STATESMEN, JURISTS, LAWYERS, SOLDIERS,
DIVINES, ETC.

BY

JOHN H. WHEELER,

LATE TREASURER OF THE STATE.

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"Truth is stranger than Fiction."

ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS.

VOL. I. -

PHILADELPHIA:

LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO AND CO.

SUCCESSORS TO GRIGG, ELLIOT AND CO.

H

LIBRARY OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY,

HISTORY maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconvenience thereof.

FULLER'S Holy War.

Ill fares it with a State, whose history is written by others than her own sons.

PRESCOTT.

The archives of the State, and the desks of ancient families, now bury the story of the rise and progress of the State of North Carolina: ignorance and wickedness may misrepresent the character of her history, if efforts are not made to break away the darkness that surrounds it. Such are the inducements of this publication.

JONES.

The world will not be able fully to understand North Carolina, until they have opened the treasures of history, and become familiar with the doings of her sons previous to the Revolution, during that painful struggle, and the succeeding years of prosperity. Then will North Carolina be respected as she is known.

FOOTE.

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MAR S. 1905

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

JOHN H. WHEELER,

in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, printers.

ΤΟ

GEORGE BANCROFT, LL. D.,

WHOSE WRITINGS HAVE MARKED THE AGE IN WHICH HE LIVES, AND THE ONLY HISTORIAN WHO HAS DONE JUSTICE TO NORTH CAROLINA;

TO

PETER FORCE,

OF WASHINGTON CITY,

WHOSE PATIENT LABOR AND INDEFATIGABLE RESEARCH HAVE PROVED HER EARLY

PATRIOTISM;

AND TO

DAVID L. SWAIN, LL. D.,

WHOSE NATIVE WORTH, WHOSE SERVICES AND WHOSE TALENTS, ARE ALIKE HER PRIDE AND

ORNAMENT;

TO THESE,

BY WHOSE COUNSEL THESE SKETCHES HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN, WHOSE EXAMPLE HAS ENCOURAGED, AND WHOSE LABORS HAVE AIDED;

AND TO

THE YOUNG MEN

OF THE

State of Lorth Carolina,

THIS WORK

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.