Oral Histories, Journals

Arnold, Robert.  Excerpt.  The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond:  Early Recollections: Vivid Portrayal of Amusing Scenes.

Brickell, John. The Natural History of North Carolina. http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Bookshelf/Natural/Default.htm

Byrd, William, Colonel.

(1729). Excerpts.  History of the Dividing Line Run in the Year 1728.  Documenting the American South.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/byrd/byrd.html  (Of interest is Byrd's descriptions:  of the couple he meets combing the rocks for oysters, of Maryland's and Virginia's sending conjurers and others to North Carolina, of the actual crossing of the swamp, of the mulattoes he met hiding out, of people on the line's fears of Virginia taxes, and of some of Byrd's lodgings in North Carolina.

(1729).  First Survey in the Dismal Swamp.  Excerpt from History of the Dividing Line Run in the Year 1728. 4Literature.net http://www.4literature.net/William_Byrd/First_Survey_in_the_Dismal_Swamp/

(1729; 1922).  Proposal to Drain the Dismal Swamp.  The Capital and the Bay:  Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925.   

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbcbbib:@field(TITLE+@od1(Description+of+the+Dismal+Swamp+and+a+proposal+to+drain+the+swamp++))

The Secret Diary of William Byrd.  W. W. Norton & Company .com.   Excerpt from Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinlin, eds.  (1941).   http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ushist/workbook/tinprs3a.htm

Culpepper, Benjamin Ferryman.  Will.  Ancestry.com.  http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=johnrobison&id=I5953

Culpepper, Elizabeth. Will.  Ancestry.com.  http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=johnrobison&id=I5954

Grandy, Moses.  From Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy.

Lawson, John.  (1709; 2001).  A New Voyage to Carolina;  Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And A Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/lawson/lawson.html  (Excerpts to read include all those relating to North Carolina and Tuscacora, beginning p. 55, where Lawson meets Indian Guide Enoe Will and through description of Carolina to the end.)

Patton, James. (1850; 1996).  Biography of James Patton.  Documenting the American South.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/patton/patton.html

Schaw, Janet.  Journal of a Lady of Quality.  Documenting the American South.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/schaw/schaw.html

Whitted, Anderson.  Interview with Anderson Whitted. Born in Slavery.  American Memory.   http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mesn&fileName=050/mesn050.db&recNum=215&itemLink=S?ammem/mesnbib:@field(AUTHOR+@od1(Whitted,+Anderson))

Whitted, Jehu.  Will.  RootsWeb.com. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/orange/wills/whitted02.txt

Narratives of Slave Ship Journeys

Cugoano, Ottobah.  Excerpt. Narrative of the Enslavement of Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa; Published by Himself, in the Year 1787. Documenting the American South.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/cugoano/cugoano.html

Equianoh, Olaudah.  Excerpt.  The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. Vol. I  Documenting the American South.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/equiano1.html

Bluett, Thomas.  Exceprt.  Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa; Who was a Slave About Two Years in Maryland; and Afterwards Being Brought to England, was Set Free, and Sent to His Native Land in the Year 1734.  Documenting the American South.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/bluett/bluett.html

Said, Omar Ibn.  Autobiography.    Documenting the American South.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/omarsaid/omarsaid.html

Arguments on Slavery

Fitzhugh, George.  Cannibals All (or Slaves Without Masters).   Documenting the American South.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/fitzhughcan/fitzcan.html

Newspaper Sources

Announcements from the Virginia and Pennsylvania Gazettes.

Laws

An Act for Regulating Ordinaries and Houses of Entertainments; and for other Purposes ActforRegulatingOrdinariesandHousesofEntertainment.doc.

Constitution of the Iroquois Nation.  http://www.constitution.org/cons/iroquois.htm

Constitution of the United States.  Constitution.org.  http://www.constitution.org/constit_.htm

Locke,. John.  (March 1, 1669).  The Fundamental Constitution of Carolina.  The Avalon Project at Yale.  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nc05.htm

Jefferson, Thomas.  Senate Executive Journal.  Tuesday, January 18, 1803.   http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(ej001749))

Songs, Folk Tales

American Indian Folk Tales.  From Stonee Lodge.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.  Song of Hiawatha.  There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays.  Jeanne Pasero.com.   http://www.jeannepasero.com/Thanksgiving/hiawatha.html 

Lore from the Dismal Swamp. 

North Carolina Legends.  From Richard Walser (1994), North Carolina Legends.

Song.  Kitty Hall, narrator.  Pateroller Cornfield Song

Maps

Mosley,  Edward.  (1733). A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina.  The Colonial Records Project.  Raleigh: North Carolina Office of Archives and History/Department of Cultural Resources.  http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Maps/Moseley/

National Audubon Society.  North Carolina State Office.  Dismal Swamp.  http://www.ncaudubon.org/IBAs/Coast/Dismal.htm

New River Group/Smithsonian Institution. (1974).  Indian Tribes of the Mid-Atlantic States.  http://www.ls.net/~newriver/gif/earlyind.htm

Thornton, John.  (ca.  1700).  Chart of the Sea Coasts of Europe, Africa, and America.  London.  Library of Congress.  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/01/0111001r.jpg

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  Clickable Map of Resource Conservation Areas.  http://rtncf-rci.ral.r4.fws.gov/HTML/Multimedia/MAPS/ResourceConservationArea/clickablemap.htm

Graphs

Great Dismal Swamp Baordwalk Project.  Great Dismal Swamp Water Quality Analysis.  Elizabeth City State University.  http://abyssal_night.tripod.com/data.html

Images

American Environmental Photographs.  Ohotographs of North Carolina.  American Memory.  http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/aep:@field(SUBJ+@1(States++North++Carolina)):heading=Photographs+of+North+Carolina

Plantation America:  "The Work of Slaves."  Scriptorium (Rare Book, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library).  Duke University.  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/plantation.html

Great Dismal Swamp Boardwalk Project.  Photos of Dismal Swamp Animal and Plant Life.  Elizabeth City State University.   http://abyssal_night.tripod.com/pics.html

Handler, Jerome S.; and Michael  L. Tuite, Jr.  The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas:  A Visual Record.  http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.html 

Hogarth, William.  The Tavern Scene. Olga's Gallery.  http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hogarth/hogarth10.html

Library of Congress.   Secotan Village Showing Space Utilization.  Based on Engraving by John White, 16th Century.  In "What Came to Be Called America."  1492:  An Ongoing Voyage.   http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/images/secotan.jpg

North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.  Images of Tobacco Barns.  http://www.hpo.dcr.state.nc.us/ctb/ctb.htm