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ACTS of assembly, early style of, 139.
Advertisement, 5.

Alamance, battle-ground of, 55-battle of,
183 to 186.

Alamance, verses on, S. W. Whiting, 56.
Albemarle region, description of, 21.
Almanacs, origin of name, 318.
Amidas, Philip, one of the commanders of
the first expedition to North-Carolina, 91.
Anson county, female school in, 75.
Ashe, Colonel John, 163-heads a tumult of
citizens, 164.

Ashville, 80.

Ashville, female college in, 75.

Assembly, last session of, under the royal
government, in North-Carolina, 191.
Asylum, lunatic, 47.

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Carolina, origin of the name, 100.
Carteret, 112.

Caruthers, his life of Caldwell, 218.
Caswell, fort, 41.

Catawba, flower of, Hornet's Nest, 69.
Catawba grape, 68.
Catawba Indians, 94.
Catawba river, 67.

Cathmaid, colony of, 101.
Census of North-Carolina, 328.
Census of the United States, 330.
Central railroad, 48.

Chapel Hill, university of North-Carolina,
48, 49.
Charlotte, 62.

Cherokee Indians, 94.

Cherokee Indians, expeditions to conciliate,
141, 142.

Cherokee Indians present the diadem of the
nation to Sir Alexander Cumming, 142.
Childs and Corbin, rascality of, 159.
Chowan institute, 75.
Chowan river, 31.

Chronological table of inventions, 317.
Chronological tables, eras in history, 316.
Church, Episcopal, established by law in
North-Carolina, 135.

Church, the first built in North-Carolina,

119.

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Coree Indians, 94.

Granganemo, Indian chief, 92.

Cornwallis, his first entrance into North- Grapes in North-Carolina, Isabella, Cataw-

Carolina, 212-his second, 214.

Croatan, peninsula, 33.
Cross Creek, 43.

Culpepper, 113.

DAN, lands on, 56.

Daniel, deputy governor, 119.

Dare, Virginia, first child born of the Anglo-
Saxon race, on the soil of America, 22.
Davidson college, 74.

Davie, his reception of Cornwallis, 212, 213.
Days, when they begin, origin of the names
of, 318.

Deaf and dumb asylum, 47-view of, 248.
Definitions of foreign phrases, 328.
Deputies to the first continental congress,
190.

Deep river, 44, 57.
Dismal Swamp, 24.
Dobbs, Arthur, governor of North-Carolina,
153 to 160.

Donald McDonald, general, unfurls the
royal standard at Cross creek, 196-is
taken prisoner, 201.
Drummond, lake, 28.

ba, and Scuppernong, the three best grown
in the United States, all natives of North-
Carolina, 352.

Granville, earl of, has his eighth of the
province of North-Carolina run off, 146-
his agents, 159.

Great Bridge, battle of, 198, 199.
Greensboro', 57.

Greensboro' female college, 74.
Grenville, Sir Richard, 93.
Guilford, battle-ground of, 57.
Guilford, battle of, 216.

Guilford, Quaker college in, 75.

HALF-WAY house, 25.
Hall, 147.

Harvey, Thos., president of the council, 119.
Harvey, John, elected moderator of the first
provincial congress, 190.

Hasel, James, president of the council, 187.
Hatteras, cape of, 45.
Haw river, 44.
Hickory-nut gap, 77.

Highlanders, colony of, come to North Caro-
lina, 147, 148, 149.

Drummond, William, first governor of North- Hillsboro', 49.
Carolina, 25.

Durant's neck, 22.

Durant, George, grant of lands to, by the
chief of the Yeopim Indians, the oldest re-
cord of the State, 101.

EDEN, Charles, governor of North-Carolina,
125.

Edenton, 30.

Education in North-Carolina, 75.

Electors, qualifications of, fixed, 146.
Elizabeth city, 31.

Everard, Sir Richard, governor of North-
Carolina, 128.

Explanations of technical terms, 320.

FANCY Sketch, 53.

Fannen, David, 217.

Fanning, Edmund, 173, 177, 179.
Fayettville, 43.

Fayetteville and Salem plank-road, 44.
Fisheries of North-Carolina, 33.
Floral female college, 75.
Florida, origin of the name, 100.

Foote, his sketches of North Carolina, 218.
Fort on Roanoke island, 22.

Foundations of the "City of Raleigh" laid
on Roanoke island, 97.

Fox, George, the founder of the Quaker sect,
visits North-Carolina, 111.
Frankland, State of, 219.
French Broad river, 80.

GALE, Christopher, 129.

General description of North Carolina, 84.
General view of the upland region of North-
Carolina, 7C.

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History, general, synopsis of, 310.

History of North-Carolina from 1730 to 1734,

140-144.

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INDEPENDENCE declared for by the provincial
congress of North-Carolina, 202, 203-
national declaration read at Halifax, 207,
208.

Indian-corn, discovery of, 95.
Indians of North-Carolina, 94.
massacre by, 124.

Indians, treatment of, in North-Carolina, | New Berne, 35, 36.

120.

Innis, Colonel James, 151.

Introduction, 9.

JERSEY Settlement, 58.

Johnston, fort, 147, 148, 149, 150.

Johnston, Gabriel, governor of North-Caro-
lina, 143, 144, 145.

New river, 40.

Newspapers, the first published in North-
Carolina, 161.

Normal college, in Randolph-Rev. B. Cra-
ven, principal, 76.

OCRACOCKE inlet, 36.

Officers of Tryon's army, 182.

Jones, Jo. Seawell, his defence of North-Old Topsail inlet, 37.
Carolina, 218.

Jones, Sir William, verses, "What consti-
tutes a State," 41.

Juniper and cypress timber, &c., 22.

KING'S Mountain, battle of, 202.
Knight, Tobias, 127.

LANE, Richard, his early explorations in
North-Carolina, 94-his romantic expedi-
tion up the Roanoke river, 95.
Laws, original mode of publishing, 118.
Lawson, John, surveyor-general and first
historian of North-Carolina, murdered by
the Indians, 123, 124.

Legislature, the first ever convened in North-
Carolina, 107.
Lexington, 58.
Lines, 80.

Lines, by Mrs. W. J. Clarke, 66.
Lines, by Wm. Cullen Bryant, 83.
Locke, John, the celebrated author, legis-
lates for North-Carolina, 108-116.
Ludwell, Philip, governor of North-Caro-
lina, 117.
Lumber, 43.

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Old Town creek, early settlement on, 101.
Orange, disturbances in the court-house,
178, 179.
Oxford, 75.

PALACE built by Gov. Tryon, 167.
Palatines, arrival of, in North-Carolina,

121.

Pamlico river, 36.

Pamlico, sound and county of, 34.
Peaches, 45.

Pilot mountain, view of, 268-verses on, by
James B. Shepard, 58.
Pines, the, 39.

Pirates, incursions of, into North-Carolina,
125-127.

Pollock, Thomas, 125–128.

Population of the world, 331-of the priu-
cipal cities in the United States, 331.
Portage railroad, 61.

Post-routes, the first in North-Carclina,

161.

Potato, discovery of, 94.

Precincts, 138-changed to counties, 140.
Proprietaries of Carolina, with one excep-
tion, surrender their interests to the king,
(George II.,) 130.

Pyle, colonel, defeat of, 215.

QUAKERS persecuted in Virginia and Massa-
chusetts, 101, 102.

RALEIGH, Sir Walter, his character, 98, 99.
Raleigh, city of, 47.

Raleigh and Gaston railroad, 48.
Ramsour's mill, battle of, 202.
Reed, William, 128.

Regulators, origin of, 171-organization of,
173-progress of, 174, 175, 176, 177-vio
lence of, 178, 179-run together, 173-
battle of Alamance, 184, 185, 186.
Representatives, apportionment of, fixed,
146.

Resources of North-Carolina, 338.
Revolution in North-Carolina, 208.
Rice, 42.

Rice, Nathaniel, acts as governor, 150.
Roanoke, inlet of, 23-island of, 21.
Roanoke river, 31, 95.

Rogue's Harbour, origin of the name, 130.
Rowan, Matthew, president of council,

150.

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