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The North Carolina Hyde Park settlement. N. P. N. D. [c. 1870.] 8°. pp. 32.

Pubd by Southern Land Company to describe their lands in Hyde, Washington, and Tyrrell counties, N. C. The company has also pubd a map of its settlement and of the surrounding sections.

Information concerning the province of. Glasgow: James Knott. 1773. 8°. pp. 32. Addressed to emigrants from the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland by an impartial hand, and signed "Scotus Americanus."- SABIN, No. 34708.

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Its debt and financial resources. H. Bowlby Willson. New York. John Medole. 1869. 8°. pp. 32.

Its resources and progress, its beauty, healthfulness and fertility; and its attractions and advantages as a home for immigrants. Raleigh: Daily News. 1870. 8°. pp. 107.

Compiled by board of immigration, statistics, and agriculture.

Letters from. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Register, Oct. 1859, xiii. 329, 330.

Minerals of. Land We Love, 1866, i. 162.
Mountain regions of, and Tenn.

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Rose of. Scribner's Monthly, Oct. 1874. viii. 723-726.

Scenery of mountain region of. De Bow's Review, Nov. 1860, xxix. 649-658.

Statistics of, 1869. Amer. Jour. Educ., 1869, xviii. 421-426.

Swamp lands of the State of North Carolina; facts for emigrants and capitalists. Raleigh, N. C.: W. E. Pell. 1867. 8°. pp. 31.

Noble, Marcus Cicero Stevens (1856-). Portrait and sketch of. N. C. Teacher.

Norment, Mrs. Mary C. The Lowrie history, as acted in part by Henry Berry Lowrie, the great North Carolina bandit. Wilmington: Daily Journal. 1875. 8°. pp. 161.

An account of a very daring set of bandits who infested Robeson county, N. C., and the adjoining sections for nearly ten years from 1864, with biographical sketches, written by Joseph B. McCallum; the chapter on the genealogy of the Lowrie family is "notoriously unreliable." Cf. Weeks on the Lost Colony of Roanoke, pp. 471-476, in Papers Amer. Hist. Association, vol. v.

Oertel, Mrs. J. A. Hand in hand through the Happy Valley. Brooklyn. 1891. 16o. pp. 97.

Contains some scraps of local history.

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Olmsted, Denison (1791-1859), LL.D. Sketch of. N. C. Univ. mag., 1860–61, 309–311, portrait. Geology of North Carolina. Amer. Jour. Science, July, 1828, xiv. 230-251.

See also Geological Surveys of N. C. Orphan Asylum, St. Johns, Oxford, N. C. Sketch of. South Atlantic, 1880, vi. 236-244.

Our Folks in War. A series of articles on N. C. in civil war, in Wilmington Messenger, Jan., Feb., and March, 1888.

Our Living and Our Dead.

A publication first launched as a weekly newspaper by Col. Stephen D. Pool, about July 1, 1873. In Sept., 1874, the first of the monthly series was issued in Raleigh, T. B. Kingsbury [q. v.] becoming editor with the October number. Vol. i. has numbers for Sept. 1874-Feb. 1875; vol. ii., Mar.June, 1875; vol. iii., July-Dec. 1875; vol. iv., March, 1876. There were no numbers for Jan. and Feb. 1876, and the publication was suspended after the March issue for lack of support. It is devoted principally to the history of North Carolina in the civil war, other States and other subjects not being excluded, and contains a mass of valuable material in the form of company and regimental histories, etc.

Paris, John, Meth. Prot. minister.

History of the Methodist Protestant Church: giving a general view of the causes and events that led to the organization of that church; and a more particular account of transactions in North Carolina. Baltimore: Sherwood & Co. 1849. 12o. pp. 411.

This work is based on original materials collected by Dr. John F. and Rev. Wm. Bellamy for a history of the reform movement against the polity of the M. E. Church in the Roanoke district, North Carolina. The object of Mr. Paris was at first to write the history of the M. P. Church in N. C. alone. It contains an appendix on the organization of the M. E. Church and the introduction of Episcopacy.

The first settlement on the Atlantic coast. Meth. Prot. mag., 1880, N. s. ii. 460–464.

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Peele, William J. History of the Agricultural and Mechanical college. N. C. Teacher.

Peet, Harvey Prindle (1794-1873), M.A. Address on occasion of laying the corner-stone of the North Carolina institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, April 14, 1848. New York. 1848. 8°. pp. 47.

Appendix describes ceremonies, buildings, situation, accommodations, etc.

Pender, William Dorsey (d. 1863), Maj. Gen. C. S. A. Sketch of. South Atlantic, Jan. 1878, 228-235.

Pendleton, George H. (1825-1889). Oration at Charlotte at the celebration of the 109th anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1884. Washington, D. C.: R. O. Polkinhorn & Son. 1884. 8°. pp. 8.

"On the 31st of May they declared, etc." Not a word of the 20th of May.

Pension Roll, North Carolina. Names of Revolutionary pensioners which have been placed on the roll of N. C. under the law of the 18th of March, 1818, with the rank they held and the lines in which they served. Ex. Papers, no. 55, 16 Cong. 1st sess., 1820. pp. 7.

North Carolina. [Washington?] [c. 1835.] 8°. pp. 120.

A statement by counties of the names, rank, &c., of the invalid pensioners residing in North Carolina.

Perry, William Stevens (1832–), DD., LL.D., Bp. of Iowa. Services and sacraments at Raleigh's colonies at Roanoke Island, on the North Carolina coast. Amer. Epis. Church, i. 18–25.

The first Christian born in Virginia [Virginia Dare]. The lowa Churchman, Jan. and Feb. 1893.

Pettigrew, James Johnston (1828-1863), Brig. Gen. C. S. A. Memorial of. See TRESCOTT, William H.

Death of. Our Living and Our Dead, 1874-75, i. 29-32.

Address on life of. See Confederate memorial addresses.

Sketch of, by William S. Pettigrew. N. C. Univ. Mag., 1886-87, vi. 43-50, portrait. Pickett or Pettigrew? See BOND, W. R. Phifer, John. Memoir of. N. C. Univ. mag., 1856, v. 418-420.

Phillips, Alexander Lacy. Sketch of the Presbyterian church of Fayetteville, N. C. Fayetteville, N. C.: J. E. Garrett. 1889. 8°. pp. 44.

Delivered 3 Feb. 1889; appendix contains list of ministers, 1755 to 1889; elders, from 1800; organization and membership, 1 Nov. 1889.

Phillips, Charles (1822-1889), D.D., LL.D., Professor of engineering and of mathematics, Univ. of N. C. Memoir of; portrait. BATTLE, R. H.

See

Twentieth May, '75. The Mecklenburg Declaration. N. C. Univ. mag., 1853, ii. 37-40. May, 1775. Ibid., 1853, ii. 168-177. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was there a Declaration? Raleigh News, Nov. 12, 1873.

Signed X, but the work of Prof. Phillips. Republished in National Republican, Washington, Nov. 20, 1873. More decided in character than the former publication in 1853.

Alleged Declaration of 20th May. New York Evening Post, May 21, 1875. Contributed by "X," understood to be Prof. Phillips.

"May, 1775," article on the alleged Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Greensboro: Thomas, Reece & Co. 1887. 8°. pp. 30. Republished by Col. Paul B. Means from N. C. Univ. mag., May, 1853. Dr. Phillips denies the genuineness of the declaration of the 20th May, and says that Gov. Swain affirmed the position here taken. This republication was suppressed for typographical blunders only.

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Phillips, James J., M.D. Sketch of. N. C. Medical Journal, Jan. 1893.

Phillips, Samuel Field, LL.D., Solicitor Gen. U. S. Sketch of William H. Battle. Livingston's Biographical Magazine [c. 1850], pp. 771-778, portrait. Also reprinted.

Address at the Columbian University.

Washington. 1884. 8°. pp. 15.

Delivered 8 Oct. 1884; largely on William Gaston. Phillips, William Battle, Ph. D. North Carolina phosphates. Wilmington, 1883. 12°. pp. 19. Mica mining in North Carolina. Journal Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 1888, pp. 73-97. This paper had appeared in the Engineering and Mining Journal.

Address commemorative of the erection of a monument on Mitchell's High Peak to Elisha Mitchell. N. C. Univ. mag., 1888-89, viii. 39-53.

Piedmont Air Line, The, and the mountain resorts of western North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Philadelphia: James W. Nagle. N. D. 8. pp. 78. Many illustrations of scenery. A railroad publication prepared by Prof. Charles S. Morris of Randolph Macon College, Va., with illustrations by Frank H. Taylor.

Poe, E. A., Bap. Minister. A historical sketch of the Catawba River Baptist Association from its organization, 1827 to 1867. 8°. pp. 31.

Poisson, William M. Reminiscences of Methodism in Wilmington. Raleigh Christian Advocate, Oct. 31, Nov. 7, 1888.

Polk, James Knox (1795-1849). Sketch of. N. C. Univ. mag., 1860-61, x. 321-332, portrait. Polk, Leonidas (1806–1864), Bishop and General. Life of, by William M. Polk, M.D., LL.D. 2 vols. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. In press.

Bishop Polk was born and reared in North Carolina. Polk, Leonidas Layfayette (1837-1892). Hand Book of North Carolina. Raleigh: Raleigh News. 1879. 8. pp. ix. 290. Physiographical map by W. C. Kerr.

The best of the Hand Books; contains historical, biographical, and physiographical sketches, with statistics and other information relating to industries, resources, and political condition.

Pool, Gaston. The North Carolina coast. Goldthwaite's Geographical mag., Oct. 1892.

Poore, Ben: Perley (1820-1887). See Charters and constitutions of the United States.

Potest, Wm. L., Prof. Nat. Hist. Wake Forest North Carolina Desmids a preliminary Journ. E. Mitchell Sci. Soc., 1888, v. pt. 1,

pp. 1-4.

Potts, Joshua.

N. C., 1 May, 1815. 1874-75, i. 50-55.

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On the trade of Wilmington,

Our Living and Our Dead,

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Provincial Congresses of North Carolina. 1. New Bern, 25 Aug. to 27 Aug., 1774.

In Col. Rec., ix. 1041-1049. Col. Saunders once told me that there was a copy of the journal of this Congress, printed soon after, in his office, but I have never seen it.

2. New Bern, 3 April to 7 April, 1775. In Col. Rec. ix. 1178-1185.

3. Hillsborough, 20 Aug. to 10 Sept., 1775. In Col. Rec., x. 164-220. A printed copy of the original edition of this journal is in the Public Record office in London. 4. Halifax, 4 April to 13 May, 1776. Bern: [James Davis. 1776. 8. pp. 46. Re

printed, 1831, in 8°. pp. 66.

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In Col. Rec., x. 499-590. This convention instructed its delegates to vote for independence.

5. Halifax, 12 Nov. to 23 Dec., 1776. Newbern: James Davis. 1777.

Col. Rec., x. 913-1003; cf. Weeks' Bibliography of the eighteenth century press, nos. 36-39.

This congress framed a constitution, secured religious liberty, and provided for the State University.

Public Improvements. Report on, for 1820. Raleigh J. Gales. : 8°. pp. 56.

Annual report of the board of, to the General Assembly of North Carolina, Dec. 10, 1822. Raleigh: J. Giles & Son. 1822. 8°. pp. 72. The report of the board is signed by Gabriel Holmes, chairman, and serves as an introduction to the reports of Hamilton Fulton, civil engineer to the State. This report, one of the products of the canal craze, is of much value.

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Ramsey, James Gattys McGregor (1796-1884). The annals of Tennessee to the end of the eighteenth century: comprising its settlement, as the Watauga association, from 1769 to 1777; a part of North-Carolina, from 1777 to 1784; the State of Franklin, from 1784 to 1788; a part of North-Carolina, from 1788 to 1790; the territory of the U. States, south of the Ohio, from 1790 to 1796; the State of Tennessee, from 1796 to 1800. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1853. 8°. pp. viii. 744. Map.

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Reade, Edwin Godwin (1813-), LL.D., Lawyer, Justice Supreme Court of N. C. Address before the convention of the legal profession of North Carolina, in Asheville, 9 July, 1884. Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co. 1884. 8°. pp. 16. On the legal profession of North Carolina, what it is, and ought to be.

Regulation, War of the. An impartial relation of the first rise and cause of the recent differences in publick affairs, in the province of North Carolina; and of the past tumults and riots that lately happened in that province, containing most of the true and genuine copies of letters, messages, and remonstrances between the parties contending. By which any impartial man may easily gather and see the true ground and reasons of the dissatisfaction that universally reigns all over said Province in a more or less degree. Printed for the compiler 1770. 12. pp. 104.

Reprinted in Wheeler's North Carolina, ii. 301-331, who ascribes it to Husband.

There is a copy of this rare volume in the Carter Brown library, at Providence, R. I.; the title given here is taken from the catalogue of that library.

A fan for Fanning and a touchstone to Tryon; containing an impartial account of the rise and progress of the so much talked of Regulation in North Carolina. By Regulus. Boston. 1771.

This appeared in 10 weekly parts of 8 pp. each. It brings the history of the movement down to 1769, after Husband's acquittal at Hillsboro Court in Sept. 1768, and Fanning's conviction. It is usually ascribed to Herman Husband. Reprinted in N. C. Univ. mag., 1858-59, viii. 193-222, 289–301. N. C. Journal of Education on, Oct. and

Nov. 1859.

Reichel, Levin Theodore (1812-1878). The Moravians in North Carolina. An authentic history. Salem, N. C.: O. A. Keehln; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1857. 24. pp. 206.

See also Martin's History of North Carolina, appendix, vol. i., pp. xxiv.-lvi., for a sketch of the Moravians, which is believed to be by Bishop Reichel.

Reid, James W., and Frank L., Editors. Life, sermons, and speeches of Numa F. Reid [1825– 1873], D.D., late of the North Carolina conference. By his sons. New York: E. J. Hale & Son. 1874. 12o. pp. 536.

Portrait, and sketch by Rev. John W. Lewis.

Reilly, J. S. Wilmington, past, present, and future, embracing historical sketches of its growth and progress from its establishment to the present time, together with outline of North Carolina history. N. P., N. D., J. S. Reilly. [c. 1884.] 8°. pp. 130. Illustrations.

Contains also a review of its manufacturing, mercantile, naval, and general business advantages, with statistics and with sketches of the principal business houses and manufactures.

Representative men, Eminent and, of the Carolinas in the nineteenth century. See BRANT and FULLER, compilers.

Representative men of the South. Philadelphia: Charles Robson. 1880. 4o.

This volume contains a number of sketches of prominent North Carolinians: K. P. Battle, 370-373; W. T. Blackwell, 506-510; Julian S. Carr, 507; David M. Carter, 418-420; Wm. R. Cox, 301-304; Jos. Adolphus Englehard, 317-318; Thos. C. Fuller, 315-317; Eugene Grissom (with portrait)," 271-278; E. B. Haywood (with portrait), 523-527; Jonathan McGee Heck (with portrait), 250-252; Thos. J. Jarvis, 522523; B. F. Moore, 514-519; Richmond M. Pearson (with portrait), 350-354; T. II. Pritchard, 373-375; Aldert Smedes (with portrait), 289-290; W. N. H. Smith (with portrait), 38-40; R. S. Tucker (with portrait), 439-440; W. H. H. Tucker (with portrait), 238-239; Z. B. Vance, 292-296; W. M. Wingate, 323–324.

Revolutionary North Carolina. Stray leaves of history. N. C. Univ. mag., 1844, i. 30-31, 79-81, 143-149.

Rivers, William James (1822-). A chapter on the colonial history of the Carolinas. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co. 1885. 8°. pp. 67.

N. C. pp. 28. Printed for corrections only; published under next title.

The Carolinas. Nar. and Crit. Hist. of Amer., vol. v., pp. 285-335. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1887. 8o.

With a critical essay on the sources of information, pp. 335356, by the editor, Justin Winsor.

Roan Mountain. South Atlantic, Sept. 1878, pp. 459-464.

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Contents: - Rowan committee of safety, its action on the tea tax, etc.; (2) list of the committee of safety in Rowan in 1774-76; (3) Women of North Carolina in 1776; (4) acts and proceedings of the committee of safety in Rowan, 1774-76; (5) Dunn & Boote.

John Thompson, the gospel pioneer in western North Carolina, 1744-1753, Aug. 1869, 2 ser., vi. 78-83.

Note on James Hall, father of James Hall, D.D., Aug. 1873, 3d ser., ii. 105.

Rogan, J. P. Description of prehistoric mounds in Caldwell county, N.C. Contributions to North American Ethnology, ix. Washington, D. C. [U. S. Geog. and Geol. Survey of the Rocky Mt. Region.]

Mounds in Wilkes county. Ibid.

Roll of Honor, The North Carolina. Account of its inception, preparation, etc. Our Living and Our Dead, iv. 25-32.

The Ms. roll of honor of North Carolina troops in the C. S. A. is preserved in the State library in Raleigh.

Ross, James (1801-1878). Life and times of elder Reuben Ross, by his son. Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rogers. 12o. pp. 426. Portrait.

Elder Reuben Ross (1776-1860) was born and reared in North Carolina; the greater part of his life was spent in Tennessee, and he died in Kentucky; sketch and portrait of author; introduction and notes by J. M. Pendleton.

Rosters of North Carolina Troops. North Carolina troops in the Continental line [Raleigh, c. 1886]. 8°. pp. 15.

Summarized in Moore's History of North Carolina, ii. 443-444, and reprinted in full in Schenck's North Carolina, 1780-81, pp. 473-485.

Muster rolls of the soldiers of the war of 1812: detached from the militia of North Carolina, in 1812 and 1814. Raleigh: Ch. C. Raboteau. 1851. 8°. pp. 140.

Published by adjutant-general, under resolution of General Assembly of 28 Jan. 1851.

Another edition. Raleigh: Stone & Uzzell. 1873. 8°. pp. 229.

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