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Colonial Records of North Carolina: 1662-1790.

Call Number:
HIL-MICL FC LPR.A4P8C6N7
Category:
United States
Creator:
America. Public Records.
Material Description:
15 microfilm textual records (3 titles) ; 35 mm
Background:

Research Publications has assembled and microfilmed the most important published colonial and state records of the original Thirteen Colonies, Maine, and Vermont. The series is comprised of sixty-seven titles which span the years from the earliest available records for each colony until approximately 1800.

Contents:

Online: An electronic edition of this material is available; see Finding Aids.

 

The Colonial Records of North Carolina have been microfilmed on fifteen reels and contain thirty volumes of material.

CR 43. State Records of North Carolina. 1777-1790. 20 vols. 

Volumes 1-10 are found in CR 44. 

Volume 11, 1776. Includes: Supplement to Volumes 1-10, 1730-1776. These papers were obtained after the publication of the 10 volumes in CR 44. Includes prefatory notes and maps. 

Volume 12, 1777-1778 

Volume 13, 1778-1779

Volume 14, 1779-1780

Volume 15, 1780-1781

Volume 16, 1782-1783 

Volume 17, 1781-1785

Volume 18, 1786. Includes: Supplement to 1779, and Fragments of House Journal, April-May 1779

Volume 19, 1782-1784. Includes: Supplement to 1771-1782

Volume 20, 1785-1788 

Volume 21, 1788-1790

Volume 22, Miscellaneous. Includes: The Narrative of Colonel David Fanning (Loyalist) Written by Himself Detailing Astounding Events in North Carolina from 1775-1783 

Volume 23, Laws of North Carolina, 1715-1776 

Volume 24, Laws of North Carolina, 1777-1788

Volume 25, Laws of North Carolina, 1789-1790. Includes: Omitted Laws 1669-1783, and Index to Volumes 23, 24, 25 

Volume 26, North Carolina Census of 1790 (First Federal Census). The census is arranged by county and includes the names of heads of families. The volume begins with an Index to North Carolina Census of 1790. Each volume of CR 43 contains a prefatory note.

 

CR 44. Colonial Records of North Carolina, 1662-1776. 10 vols. 

Volume 1, 1662-1742 

Volume 2, 1713-1728 

Volume 3, 1728-1734

Volume 4,1734-1752

Volume 5, 1752-1759

Volume 6, 1759-1765

Volume 7, 1765-1768

 Volume 8, 1769-1771

Volume 9, 1771-1775

Volume 10, 1775-1776. There is a prefatory note at the beginning of each volume. 

Volumes 2, 5, 7, 8, and 9 have appendices. There are no indexes at the end of individual volumes.

 

CR 45. Index to Colonial and State Records of North Carolina Covering 

Volumes 1 - 25. 4 vols. 

Volume 27, A - E 

Volume 28, F - L 

Volume 29, M - R

Volume 30, S - Z. At the end of Volume 30 (Volume 4 of the Index) there is an Historical Review of the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, which ends abruptly on page 167 and is incomplete on the microfilm.

Archival Ref. No.:

CR 43 - CR 45.

Finding Aids:

Online: The University of North Carolina has made available a digital edition, including the Indexes, on the website Documenting the American South.

A microfilm shelf list which correlates the microfilm reel numbers with the Colonial Record numbers and the volume numbers is available in print and as a PDF.

Index is available on Reel 15; includes proper names and subjects (see Contents section under subsection CR 45 for more details).

 

PDF Finding Aid:
Public Records Colonial Records of North Carolina Shelf List.pdf
Related Records:

Published American Colonial Records