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Location
The Center for Southeast North Carolina Archives and History is located on the 2nd floor of Discovery Hall in the UNCW Library.
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From May 19th through August 15th, 2025, the Center will be open by appointment only due to reduced staffing. 48 hours' advance notice is required for appointment requests. Visit our website to request an appointment.
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Introduction
The publications listed in this section of the guide are primarily held in the Center's book collections and accessible in the CSENCAH reading room. Circulating copies of some titles may also be available for checkout from the library's general collection. For more information, click the links below to view the catalog records for individual titles. In addition, many publications in this list have been digitized. Depending on the title, this guide may link directly to the digitized version or link to the item's record in the UNCW Library catalog, which will refer out to a digitized edition.
Please note that this list is arranged into four different topical sections (The Cape Fear Region, Published Primary Sources, The Revolution in NC, and Secondary Histories of Colonial NC) accessible by clicking on the tabs at the top of the box below.
Published Works
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An account of Negro slavery in the Cape Fear Region prior to 1860 byCall Number: F262.C2 B7 1949Publication Date: 1949
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Addresses delivered under the auspices of the North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1900-1926Call Number: E186.4 .N862 1926Publication Date: 1926Contents: Early explorers of the Cape Fear / by Alfred Moore Waddell -- Old Brunswick / by James Sprunt -- Spencer Compton, the only Earl of Wilmington / by James Sprunt -- Defense of Fort Anderson, 1865 / E.S. Martin -- Lower Cape Fear leaders in the struggle for freedom / by H.G. Connor -- The Stamp Act on the Cape Fear / by S.A. Ashe -- Our debt to Cornelius Harnett / by C. Alphonso Smith -- The site of Fort Johnston / by J.G. DeRoulhac Hamilton -- Colonial governors of the Cape Fear / by John J. Blair -- In commemoration of the famous 20th of May, 1775 / by Walter Clark -- Activities of the S.P.G. at old Brunswick / by William B. McKoy -- William Houston, the stamp agent -- Tower Hill / by Robert D.W. Connor -- John Lawson, gentleman / by Matt. H. Allen -- Early history of Bath / by L.C. Warren --"Spratt meeting place" / by Edmond Randolph Preston
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Cape Fear : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 byCall Number: F263.3 .C36 1975Publication Date: 1975
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Charles Towne on the Cape Fear : a Carolina experiment byCall Number: LD3971.7.H6 2013 .F79Publication Date: 2013
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Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916 byPublication Date: F262.C2 S68 1992
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The coastal chronicles. Vol. II. : popular history series of the Carolina Coast, as seen in Coastal Chronicles, the magazine of coastal Carolina history and tourism byCall Number: F262.A84 F793 2004Publication Date: 2004Contents: An ounce of prevention -- The battle at widow Moore's Creek -- False starts & firing first -- Flora MacDonald -- The repulse of the sea soldiers -- Cape Fear's ablest soldier -- The governor and the African prince -- And they all rest together: Beaufort's old burying ground -- King Hancock and the bloody warpath -- When the pot boiled over: 1898 -- Swords for the south -- Louis Froelich's Confederate arms factory -- Tar, pitch and gold: Wilmington's California connection -- The Tar Heel and the torpedoes -- Burnside's military trains of the Albemarle -- The strange legend of King Louis' doctor -- King of the pirate scourges -- Blackbeard and the North Carolina coast -- You can't get t here from here -- Travel in colonial North Carolina -- Threading the needle: running the Union blockade -- Redcoats on the waterfront -- The British invasion of Beaufort -- "My Dearest Friend..." a long distance Civil Ear love story
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A coat of many colors : religion and society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina byCall Number: BR555.N78 C66 2006Publication Date: 2006
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A colonial officer and his times, 1754-1773 : a biographical sketch of Gen. Hugh Waddell, of North Carolina byCall Number: F257.W25 W32Publication Date: 1890
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Early New Hanover County records / as understood by Elizabeth F. McKoyCall Number: F262.N5 M3 1973Publication Date: 1973
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Early Wilmington block by block : from 1733 on byCall Number: F263.3 .M3 1967Publication Date: 1967
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The formation of a region in colonial North Carolina : the lower Cape Fear, 1725-1775 byCall Number: F262.B6 1999 .W66Publication Date: 1999
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A glimpse of Carolina medicine and the lower Cape Fear area : from Colonial times to 1860 byCall Number: R295.W5 G7 1975Publication Date: 1975
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Handmade earthenwares in colonial North Carolina : toward the cultural meaning of Brunswick Town colono ware? byCall Number: LD3971.7.H6 1998 .R52Publication Date: 1998
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Harnett, Hooper & Howe : revolutionary leaders of the Lower Cape Fear byCall Number: E263.N8 W37Publication Date: 1979
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Historic Wilmington-New Hanover County, North Carolina byCall Number: F262.N5 K4 1958Publication Date: 1958
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A history of New Hanover County and the lower Cape Fear region. 1723-1800 byCall Number: F262.N5 W2Publication Date: 1909
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Land of the golden river : historical events and stories of southeastern North Carolina and the Lower Cape Fear byCall Number: F262.C2 H3Publication Date: 1975
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Letters and documents relating to the early history of the lower cape Fear, with introduction and notes by Kemp P. Battle, LL. DCall Number: F262.C2 B3Publication Date: 1903
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The Rose Hill wreck : historical and archaeological investigations of an eighteenth century vessel at a colonial river landing near Wilmington, North Carolina byCall Number: Accessible onlinePublication Date: 1992
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St. James Church, Wilmington, North Carolina : historical records, 1737- byCall Number: BX5980.W5 S28Publication Date: 1965
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Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 byCall Number: F262.C2 S7Publication Date: 1896
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This remote part of the world : regional formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775 byCall Number: F262.B9 W66 2004Publication Date: 2004
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Wilmington-New Hanover Safety Committee minutes, 1774-1776 byCall Number: F263.4 .W65 1974Publication Date: 1974See also: 1844 edition, https://libcat.uncw.edu/record=b1239307~S4
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Wilmington town minutes [microform] byCall Number: F262.W7 W54Publication Date: 1743-1973Note: these minutes are accessible in the UNCW Library general collection. See the microfilm collection on the 2nd floor of Randall Hall.
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The American drawings of John White, 1577-1590 : with drawings of European and oriental subjects byCall Number: NC242.W53 H8
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A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia... [digitized edition] byPublication Date: 1590
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Captain James Wimble, his maps, and the colonial cartography of the North Carolina coast byCall Number: GA442 .C8 1969Publication Date: 1969
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Carolina Lords Proprietors' account of disbursements & receipts, 1663-1666 : listing fees in passing ye charter & duplicate of CarolinaCall Number: F272 .C27 1963Publication Date: 1963
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Christoph von Graffenried's account of the founding of New Bern [digitized edition] byPublication Date: 1920
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The Church of England in North Carolina : documents, 1699-1741 byCall Number: F251 .N612 v.10Publication Date: 1999
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The Church of England in North Carolina : documents, 1742-1763 byCall Number: F251 .N612 v.11Publication Date: 2007
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The correspondence of William Tryon and other selected papers byCall Number: F257.T79 A4 1980Publication Date: 1980
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Digest of prefaces of the colonial records of North Carolina, volumes I-X byCall Number: F251 .N62Publication Date: 1935
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The first voyage to Roanoke, 1584 [digitized edition] byPublication Date: 1898
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The history of Carolina : containing the exact description and natural history of that country, together with the present state thereof and a journal of a thousand miles traveled through several nations of Indians, giving a particular account of their cus byCall Number: E257 .L42 1860Publication Date: 1860
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Journal of a lady of quality : being the narrative of a journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776 byCall Number: F257 .S34 1921Publication Date: 1921
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Journal of a tour to North Carolina by William Attmore, 1787 [digitized edition]Publication Date: 1922
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The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands byCall Number: QH41 .C292 1771Publication Date: 1771
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A new map of North AmericaCall Number: G3300.S2 1779 .N48 1990
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A new voyage to Carolina [digitized edition] byPublication Date: 1709
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North Carolina higher-court minutes, 1709-1723Call Number: F251 .N612 v.5
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North Carolina higher-court minutes, 1724-1730Call Number: F251 .N612 v.6
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North Carolina higher-court recordsCall Number: F251 .N612
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North Carolina higher-court records, 1702-1708Call Number: F251 .N612 v.4
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Raleigh's first Roanoke Colony : the account [digitized edition] byPublication Date: 1902
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Records of the executive council, 1664-1734Call Number: F251 .N612 v.7
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Records of the executive council, 1735-1754Call Number: F251 .N612 v.8
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Records of the Executive Council, 1755-1775Call Number: F251 .N612 v.9
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The Southeast in early maps ; with an annotated check list of printed and manuscript regional and local maps of southeastern North America during the colonial period byCall Number: GA405 .C8 1962Publication Date: 1962
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Benson J. Lossing's pictorial field-book of the Revolution in the Carolinas & GeorgiaCall Number: E208 .L883 2004Publication Date: 2004
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The Black experience in Revolutionary North Carolina byCall Number: E185.93.N6 C76 1977Publication Date: 1977
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A chronicle of North Carolina during the American Revolution, 1763-1789 byCall Number: E263.N8 C74 1975Publication Date: 1975
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A defence of the revolutionary history of the state of North Carolina from the aspersions of Mr. Jefferson byCall Number: E263.N8 J7Publication Date: 1834
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The emergence of North Carolina's revolutionary state government byCall Number: E263.N8 G25Publication Date: 1978
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The family quarrel : a journey through the years of the Revolution byCall Number: E208 .T42 1959Publication Date: 1959
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Farming dissenters : the Regulator movement in Piedmont North Carolina byCall Number: F1 2:F23Publication Date: 2011
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Greene and Cornwallis : the campaign in the Carolinas byCall Number: E241.G9 R32Publication Date: 1976
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Heritage '76 calendar : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 byCall Number: F262.N5 H47 1976Publication Date: 1976
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North Carolina, 1780-'81 : being a history of the invasion of the Carolinas by the British Army under Lord Cornwallis in 1780-'81... byCall Number: E263.N8 S3Publication Date: 1889
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North Carolina and the coming of the Revolution, 1763-1776 byCall Number: F257 .B93Publication Date: 1976
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North Carolina Bicentennial newsletter [periodical] byPublication Date: 1973-1976
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The North Carolina Continental line in the American Revolution byCall Number: E263.N8 R292Publication Date: 1977
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North Carolina Masons in the American Revolution byCall Number: HS537.N82 S67 1975Publication Date: 1975
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Not a conquered people : two Carolinians view parliamentary taxation byCall Number: E215.2 .N67 1975Publication Date: 1975
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A paper by Hon. H.G. Connor ... / read before the Society of the Colonial Dames of North Carolina, at their annual pilgrimage to St. Philips Church, Old Brunswick, on the Lower Cape Fear byCall Number: F257 .C65 1902Publication Date: 1902Discusses the Revolution in North Carolina, with brief remarks on the revolutionary and colonial history of the Cape Fear region.
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Redcoats on the river : southeastern North Carolina in the Revolutionary War byCall Number: E230.5.N8 D86 2008Publication Date: 2008
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Religion and the American Revolution in North Carolina byCall Number: E263.N8 C25Publication Date: 1976
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Revolutionary incidents : and sketches of character, chiefly in the "Old North state" byCall Number: E263.N8 C3Publication Date: 1854
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The Revolutionary War sketches of William R. Davie byCall Number: E263.N8 D24 1976Publication Date: 1976
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The Carolina pirates and colonial commerce, 1670-1740 byCall Number: F280.P4 H8 1971Publication Date: 1971
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England, Sir Walter Raleigh, and the Roanoke colonies byCall Number: F50 13:E57Publication Date: 1983
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A history of African Americans in North Carolina byCall Number: F1 2:A25 2011Publication Date: 2011
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History of North CarolinaCall Number: F254 .H67 1973Publication Date: 1973Contents: Connor, R. D. W. The Colonial and Revolutionary periods, 1584-1783.--Boyd, W. K. The Federal period, 1783-1860.--Hamilton, J. G. de R. North Carolina since 1860
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History of North Carolina : with maps and illustrations byCall Number: F257 .H39Publication Date: 1857-1858
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John Lawson's exploration of the Carolinas [sound recording] : a conversation with Jeanne Marie Warzeski, North Carolina Museum of HistoryCall Number: Accessible onlinePublication Date: 2009?
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The lost rocks : the Dare Stones and the unsolved mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony byCall Number: F229 .L3 2011Publication Date: 2011
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Malaria and colonization in the Carolina low country, 1526-1696 byCall Number: F212 .C483 1940Publication Date: 1940
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New voyages to Carolina : reinterpreting North Carolina history byCall Number: F253.2 .N49 2017Publication Date: 2017
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North Carolina, a study in English colonial government byCall Number: JK99.N79 R3 1973Publication Date: 1973
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North Carolina genesis : Seventeenth-Century Albemarle County byCall Number: F262.A33 B88 1989Publication Date: 1989
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Notes on colonial North Carolina, 1700-1750 / written for the North Carolina booklet byCall Number: F257 .G74Publication Date: 1905
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Patent medicines in North Carolina : aspects of home medicine from colonial times to the twentieth century byCall Number: RM671 .C73 1980Publication Date: 1980
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The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in the Province of North Carolina / by David D. Oliver. Correspondence of John Rust Eaton / edited by J. G. de Roulhac HamiltonCall Number: BV2500.A6 O44 1910Publication Date: 1910
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Society in early North Carolina : a documentary history byCall Number: F257 .S66 2000Publication Date: 2000
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A study in colonial history : a lecture delivered before the Historical Society, of Wilmington, the 26th day of November, A.D. 1879 byCall Number: F257 .D26 1880Publication Date: 1880
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Tryon's palace : North Carolina's first state capitol byCall Number: F257.T7 C3 1945Publication Date: 1945
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The winds of war and change : the impact of the Tuscarora War on proprietary North Carolina, 1690-1729 byCall Number: E99.T9 S79 1990aPublication Date: 1990