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Synopsis
Excerpt from Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina: And Eminent North Carolinians
An early historian has recorded our people, as being gentle in their manners, advocates of freedom; jealous of their rulers, impatient, rest less, and turbulent when ruled by any other government than their own; and under that and that only were they satisfied.
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Essentially a continuation of Wheeler'sHistorical Sketches of North Carolina from 1584 to 1851, this scarce work contains extensive genealogies of over sixty-five eminent families, with reminiscences of their times and additional biographical and historical material. Once again, chapters are arranged by counties in alphabetical order, with sixty-two of the early counties treated, largely from the viewpoint of family history. Further information is given in two separate articles by other authors: "North Carolina in the Colonial Period," by Daniel R. Goodloe; and "Early German Settlers in Eastern Cabarrus County," by Gen. Rufus Barringer.