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Colonial America and the Revolution 973.2 to 973.3: 28 titles as they stand on the shelf at OCPL, in call-number order. North Carolina history bookshelf, E-1: North Carolina histories of every kind, from the university and the State Fair to the state’s natural history and Durham’s Hayti.

• The Jamestowne Society: Register of Qualifying Seventeenth Century Ancestors 1994

  Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis's register of the seventeenth-century ancestors through whom members qualify for the Jamestowne Society, a lineage society founded in 1936 for descendants of Virginia Company stockholders and of people who owned land or lived at Jamestown before 1700. Published by the society in Richmond in 1994; 94 pages with maps.

  Call number NC 973.2 JAM View in OCPL catalog →
• A Brief History of the North Carolina Troops on the Continental Establishment: In the War of the Revolution : With A Register of Officers of the Same Davis, Charles Lukens · 1896

  Charles L. Davis, an army officer teaching military science at the Bingham School in Asheville, traces North Carolina's Continental regiments from the provincial congresses of 1774 and 1775 through the Revolution and adds a register of their officers. Bound in is Henry Hobart Bellas's sketch of the state's Society of the Cincinnati from its founding in 1783 to its reputed dissolution after 1790. Printed in Philadelphia in 1896, 106 pages with plates and portraits.

  Call number NC 973.3 DAV View in OCPL catalog →
• The Narrative of Colonel David Fanning (a Tory in the Revolutionary War With Great Britain): Giving An Account of His Adventures in North Carolina From 1775 to 1783, as Written by Himself Fanning, David · 1865

  David Fanning's own account of his years as a Loyalist partisan in North Carolina, 1775 to 1783, including his 1781 raid on Hillsborough, where he captured Governor Thomas Burke. Edited by Thomas H. Wynne and first printed privately at Richmond in 1861, it was reissued in 1865 by Joseph Sabin of New York with an introduction by John H. Wheeler and notes partly by former governor David L. Swain; 86 pages.

  Call number NC 973.3 FAN View in OCPL catalog →
• The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: A Study of Evidence Showing That the Alleged Early Declaration of Independence by Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on May 20th, 1775, Is Spurious Hoyt, William Henry · 1907

  William Henry Hoyt tests the claim that Mecklenburg County declared independence on May 20, 1775, and concludes that the text was a later reconstruction, a garbled memory of the Mecklenburg Resolves of May 31, 1775, which newspapers of the time confirm. Most North Carolinians ignored the book, though the historian Samuel A. Ashe accepted it. Published in New York by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1907, 284 pages with facsimiles; reprinted in 1972.

  Call number NC 973.3 HOY View in OCPL catalog →
• The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas: With Remarks Historical and Critical on Johnson's Life of Greene : to Which Is Added An Appendix of Original Documents, Relating to the History of the Revolution Lee, Henry · 1975

  Henry Lee IV's account of Nathanael Greene's 1781 campaign in the Carolinas, with critical remarks on William Johnson's life of Greene and attention to the part played by his father, the Revolutionary cavalry officer Light-Horse Harry Lee. An appendix prints original documents of the Revolution. First published in Philadelphia by E. Littell in 1824; this is the Reprint Company's 1975 edition from Spartanburg, South Carolina, 511 and xlvii pages.

  Call number NC 973.3 LEE View in OCPL catalog →
• Copy of the Original Index Book Showing the Revolutionary Claims Filed in South Carolina Between August 20, 1783 and August 31, 1786 South Carolina · 1990

  Janie Revill's copy of the index book kept by James McCall, South Carolina's auditor general, naming the people who filed Revolutionary War claims with the state between August 20, 1783, and August 31, 1786. First published in 1941 and reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company in 1969, it was reissued by Clearfield Company of Baltimore in 1990; 387 pages.

  Call number NC 973.3 REV View in OCPL catalog →
• Revolutionary War Gravesites of Soldiers, Patriots, and Ancestors Buried in North Carolina 2007

  A roster of Revolutionary War soldiers, patriots and other ancestors buried in North Carolina and the sites of their graves, compiled by the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and published in 2007 with sketches by Morgan Harris. Unpaged and illustrated.

  Call number NC 973.3 REV View in OCPL catalog →
• The Pension Roll of 1835 United States · 1992

  The War Department's 1835 report to the Senate on the pension establishment of the United States, listing military pensioners, largely of the Revolutionary War, state by state. First printed in Washington by Duff Green in three volumes, it was later rearranged into four regional volumes for New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Southern and the Mid-Western states, and this 1992 Genealogical Publishing Company printing adds a new index. North Carolina falls with the Southern states.

  Call number NC 973.3 UNI View in OCPL catalog →
• The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America 1990

  A one-volume encyclopedia of colonial and Revolutionary North America, edited by the historian John Mack Faragher and published by Facts on File in 1990. Its alphabetical entries run from the English settlements through the Revolution and take in New France, with illustrations, bibliographical references and an index; 484 pages.

  Call number NC 973.303 ENC View in OCPL catalog →
• Uzal Johnson, Loyalist Surgeon: A Revolutionary War Diary Johnson, Uzal · 2000

  The Revolutionary War diary of Uzal Johnson (1757? to 1827), surgeon to the New Jersey Volunteers, a Loyalist regiment, kept during the British campaign in the Carolinas, where he served with Major Patrick Ferguson's troops; he later practiced medicine in Newark. Bobby Gilmer Moss edited it with maps, notes, a long bibliography and an index. Scotia Hibernia Press, Blacksburg, South Carolina, 2000; xxiv, 215 pages.

  Call number NC 973.309 JOHNSON View in OCPL catalog →
• Not A Conquered People: Two Carolinians View Parliamentary Taxation 1975

  Two pamphlets from the Stamp Act crisis of 1765, reprinted in full. Martin Howard, later chief justice of North Carolina, supported the act in 'A Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax'; Maurice Moore argued against it in 'The Justice and Policy of Taxing the American Colonies'. William S. Price Jr. adds an introduction on the crisis and sketches of both men. The second North Carolina Bicentennial Pamphlet, 1975; 49 pages.

  Call number NC 973.311 PRI View in OCPL catalog →
• North Carolinians in the Continental Congress Morgan, David T. · 1976

  David T. Morgan and William J. Schmidt study the men North Carolina sent to the Continental Congress, among them William Hooper, Joseph Hewes and John Penn, and their part in the Revolution. The authors had earlier written on the delegation of 1774 to 1776 for the North Carolina Historical Review. Published in Winston-Salem by John F. Blair in 1976, 150 pages with illustrations, notes and an index.

  Call number NC 973.312 MOR View in OCPL catalog →