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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE |
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
For the entire period (1740-1790) covered by
this volume, an exceptionally rich store of materials
is to be found in the Colonial Records of North
Carolina, 1662-1775 (published 1886-1890), and
its continuation, the State Records of North Carolina,
1776-1790 (published 1895-1905), thirty
volumes in all, including the four volumes of index.
The introductions and supplementary matter in
these volumes constitute a survey of the period.
Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West
(1889-1896; various editions), a vigorous and
stirring narrative, over-accentuates the strenuous
life, largely underemphasises economic and governmental
phases, and is by no means free from error.
For the Scotch-Irish migrations one should read
C. A. Hanna, The Scotch-Irish (2 vols., 1902), a
large collection of original materials, imperfectly
coördinated; and the excellent historical sketch by
H. J. Ford, The Scotch-Irish in America (1905).
For the German migrations, adequate and readable
accounts are A. B. Faust, The German Element in
the United States (2 vols., 1909); J. H. Clewell,
History of Wachovia in North Carolina (1902);
J. W. Wayland, The German Element of the
Bernheim, History of the German Settlements and
of the Lutheran Church in North and South
Carolina (1872).
The best original sources for the life of the people
in this period are: the State Archives of North
Carolina at Raleigh, scientifically ordered and
accessible to collectors; the Lyman C. Draper Collection
at Madison, Wisconsin; the Reuben T.
Durrett Collection at the University of Chicago;
the State Archives of South Carolina, especially
rich in collections of contemporary newspapers; the
collections of the North Carolina Historical Society
at Chapel Hill; and the Archives of the Moravian
Church, in Pennsylvania and at Winston-Salem,
North Carolina. The State Archives of Virginia,
an unexplored mine of great riches, are as yet inaccessible,
properly speaking, to investigators. The
state of Tennessee has not yet made any provision
for the conservation of historical materials; but
the Tennessee Historical Society has preserved
much valuable documentary material.
Books shedding light, from various quarters, upon
the life of the people in this period are: W. H.
Foote, Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and
Biographical (1846; reprinted 1913), dealing almost
exclusively with the Presbyterian Church and the
Scotch-Irish; J. F. D. Smyth, A Tour in the United
States of America (2 vols., 1784), untrustworthy
as to historical events and partisan as to politics,
country; William Bartram, Travels through North
and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida
(1791), delightful in its simplicity and genial tone;
William Byrd, History of the Dividing Line and
other writings (J. S. Bassett's edition, 1901), of
sprightly style and instinct with literary charm,
pungently satirical, untrustworthy as to North
Carolina; Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlement
and Indian Wars &c. (1824; reprinted 1912),
photographic in its realistic delineation of backwoods
conditions; J. H. Logan, History of Upper
South Carolina (1859); J. Rumple, Rowan County
(1881; reprinted 1916); Biographical History of
North Carolina (8 volumes printed, 1905-); S.
Dunbar, A History of Travel in America (4 vols.,
1915), first volume; Travels in the American Colonies,
1690-1783 (Edited by N. D. Mereness, 1916);
and O. Taylor, Historic Sullivan (1909).
Many valuable articles, of both local and national
interest, are found in the excellent periodical publications:
James Sprunt Historical Monographs
and Publications (16 vols., 1900-), published by
the University of North Carolina; North Carolina
Booklet (18 vols., 1901-), published by the N. C.
Society, D. A. R.; Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography (27 vols., 1893-); American Historical
Magazine (8 vols., 1896-1903); Tennessee
Historical Magazine (4 vols., 1915-); Register of
the Kentucky State Historical Society (17 vols.,
vols., 1914-). A notable study is F. J. Turner,
The Old West (Wisconsin Historical Society Proceedings,
1908).
There is no adequate account in print of the
French and Indian War, in the Old Southwest.
Useful sources are E. McCrady, South Carolina
under the Royal Government, 1719-1776 (1899);
S. A. Ashe, History of North Carolina, 1584-1783
(1 vol., 1908); L. P. Summers, History of South-West
Virginia, 1746-1786 (1903); J. P. Hale,
Trans-Alleghany Pioneers (1886); J. A. Waddell,
Annals of Augusta County, Virginia (1886); S.
Kercheval, A History of the Valley of Virginia
(third edition, 1902); A. S. Withers, Chronicles
of Border Warfare (R. G. Thwaites' edition, 1908);
B. R. Carroll, Historical Collections of South
Carolina (2 vols., 1886); E. M. Avery, History of
the United States (7 vols., 1908), fourth volume;
J. G. M. Ramsey, Annals of Tennessee (1853);
Calendar Virginia State Papers (11 vols., 18751893).
An interesting biography is A. M. Waddell,
A Colonial Officer and his Times (1890).
The early explorations of the West, and the career
of Boone, are treated with reasonable fullness in
the admirable publications of the Filson Club of
Kentucky (27 vols., 1884-); C. A. Hanna, The
Wilderness Trail (2 vols., 1911); John Haywood,
Civil and Political History of Tennessee (1823;
reprinted 1891), written in delightfully quaint style;
1882), a mine of conglomerate material; N. M.
Woods, The Woods-McAfee Memorial (1905); A. B.
Hulbert, Pilots of the Republic (1905) and Boone's
Wilderness Road (1903), attractively written; R. G.
Thwaites, Daniel Boone (1911), a lifeless condensation
of Draper's sprawling projected (MS.) biography;
and John Filson, Kentucke (1784).
Of the voluminous mass of literature dealing with
the Regulation in North Carolina, one should read:
J. S. Bassett, The Regulators of North Carolina,
1765-1771 (American Historical Association Report,
1894); M. DeL. Haywood, Governor Tryon of
North Carolina (1903); H. Husband, An Impartial
Relation of the First Rise and Cause of the Present
Differences in Publick Affairs, in the Province of
North Carolina (1770); and Archibald Henderson,
The Origin of the Regulation in North Carolina
(American Historical Review, 1916).
In addition to titles already mentioned, the following
books and monographs give the best accounts
of the Watauga and Cumberland settlements and
of the State of Franklin: A. W. Putnam, History
of Middle Tennessee (1859), a remarkably interesting
book by a real "character"; J. W. Caldwell,
Constitutional History of Tennessee (second edition,
1907); F. M. Turner, Life of General John
Sevier (1910), in pedestrian style, reasonably accurate
for the romantic period only; G. H. Alden,
The State of Franklin (American Historical Review,
Association Report, 1894); Archibald Henderson,
Isaac Shelby (North Carolina Booklet,
1917-1918). The source book for the Indian war
of 1774 is Documentary History of Dunmore's War
(Edited by R. G. Thwaites and L. P. Kellogg,
1905). For exhaustive data concerning the King's
Mountain campaign and its preliminaries, read L. C.
Draper, King's Mountain and its Heroes (1881),
though the book is lacking in discrimination and
deficient in perspective. For a briefer treatment,
read D. L. Schenck, North Carolina, 1780-1781
(1889).
Other books and monographs dealing with the
period, the westward movement, the settlement of
the trans-Alleghany, and the little governments, to
be consulted are: James Hall, Sketches of the West
(2 vols., 1835) and The Romance of Western History
(1857); Journals of the House of Burgesses
of Virginia for 1766-1769 and 1770-1772 (published
1906); G. H. Alden, New Governments
West of the Alleghanies before 1780 (published
1897); C. W. Alvord, The Mississippi Valley
in British Politics (2 vols., 1917), a notable
work, ably written and embodying an immense
amount of information; J. T. Morehead, Address at
Boonesborough, May 25, 1840 (published 1840);
F. J. Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in
American History (Wisconsin Historical Society
Proceedings, 1894) and Western State-Making in
1895-1896), papers characterised by both
brilliance and depth; and Archibald Henderson, The
Creative Forces in Westward Expansion (American
Historical Review, 1914), The Occupation of Kentucky
in 1775 (Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
1914), The Founding of Nashville (Tennessee Historical
Magazine, 1916), and The Spanish Conspiracy
in Tennessee (Tennessee Historical Magazine,
1917).
On the subject of Indian tribes and Indian
treaties, the Annual Reports of the Bureau of
Ethnology, in especial numbers 5, 18, and 19, although
compiled from secondary historical sources
and occasionally erroneous in important matters,
are useful—as is also Bulletin 22: J. Mooney, Siouan
Tribes of the East (1895). Rare and interesting
works dealing with the Eastern Indian tribes are
H. Timberlake, Memoirs (1765); J. Haywood,
Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee
(1823); and J. Adair, American Indians (1775).
For both wider and more intensive reading in
the history of this period, consult: F. J. Turner,
List of References on the History of the West
(Edition of 1915); A Critical Bibliography of
Kentucky History, in R. M. McElroy, Kentucky in
the Nation's History (1909); S. B. Weeks, A
Bibliography of the Historical Literature of North
Carolina (1895); E. G. Swem, A Bibliography of
Virginia (Part I, 1916); and the bibliographies in
South Carolina under the Royal Government,
1719-1776 (published 1899) and South Carolina
in the Revolution, 1775-1780 (published 1901); and
E. M. Avery, A History of the United States
(1908), volumes 4, 5, and 6.
Note. For the use of a complete set of transcripts
of the Richard Henderson Papers in the
Draper Collection, I am indebted to the North
Carolina Historical Commission through the courtesy
of the Secretary, Mr. R. D. W. Connor.
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