Colonial Period

What was the purpose of Raliegh Gilberts Trip?

Comment response:

I'm afraid we're not sure which individual or trip you are referencing. We would very much like to help. Please either post more information about what you are looking for here or send an email to Reference Services at the Government & Heritage Library. Their email address and other contact information may be found at: http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/contact.html.

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Good luck in your research! We look forward to hearing from you!

Michelle Czaikowski, Government & Heritage Library

do you know the main historical religious groups of north carolina???

Comment response:

There is some general information about different religions in North Carolina, both current and historical, at http://ncpedia.org/category/subjects/religion. You may wish to review the entries about the Quakers and the Moravians.

You may find this guide from the Wilson Library (UNC Chapel Hill) helpful in your research, http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/study/religion.html.

I would consult the Encyclopedia of Religion in the South edited by Samuel S. Hill and Charles H. Lippy, which I mentioned in my earlier email. It looks like most libraries have this in their collection. If you don’t have access to it I would be happy to send you photocopies of the overview of  the colonial and antebellum sections.

According to the book, North Carolina Portraits of Faith, http://catalog.ncdcr.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=11348 . The Episcopal Church known as the Anglican Church was the legally established religious body in the North Carolina colony. After the Revolutionary War the state constitution of 1776 declared that there would be no established church.  Jews, Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Moravians, Methodists, Unitarians, Catholics, Christians, Mormons, Adventists, Christian Scientists, Mennonites, Pentecostals, and Eastern Orthodox settled across the state. By 1860 , 80% of the churchgoing population was Baptist or Methodist. Please note that I gave you a very brief overview and you will need to consult the books I mentioned for further details.

North Carolina through Four Centuries  by William S. Powell, http://catalog.ncdcr.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=67826 mentions that the Quakers had settled in NC in the late 1600s. There is a large section of religion in North Carolina in this book.

Some additional resources that may help you:

The Tar Heel State A History of North Carolina by Milton Ready, http://catalog.ncdcr.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=273212 . Section on religion in North Carolina. 

Encyclopedia of North Carolina by William S. Powell, http://catalog.ncdcr.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=279212 .

 If your library does not have these titles you can request them through your library's inter-library loan program. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Thank you,

Rebecca Hyman, Government & Heritage Library.

hey i was wondering if you knew why people settled in North Carolina?

Response:

These entries may help you answer that question:

• http://ncpedia.org/history/colonial/overview
• http://ncpedia.org/history/colonial/coastal-plain

Good luck in your research!

Michelle Czaikowski, Government & Heritage Library

The Lumbee Indians claim that they are from the Lost Colony and have fought this for a very long time. Curious though cause in the early 1700's settlers came appon this big Lumbee Indian tribe and were very supprised that they spoke english very well when no other tribes did and had already been living a white mans way and some with 2 story houses, they also worshipped the Christian god and rumors before that of these Indians with blonde hair and blue eyes. Not to mention Smithsonian investigated it and agrees with this tribe. Now DNA testing is being done to validate it all. But it's just my opinion.

some people post stuff on here that they say is what happened but really, NO ONE HAS FIGURED IT OUT YET!! what is your theorie?