Author: Betty Fagan BurrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tyrrell County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Tyrrell County, North Carolina Minutes
Author: Betty Fagan BurrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tyrrell County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Tyrrell County, North Carolina Minutes
Author: Betty Fagan BurrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Tyrrell County, North Carolina, Minutes, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions: 1755 thru 1761
Author: Betty Fagan BurrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Soil Survey of Tyrrell County, North Carolina
Author: Philip L TantPublications
Author: North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Handbook of County Records Deposited with the North Carolina Historical Commission
Author: North Carolina. State Department of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publications ...
Author: North Carolina. State Department of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
The Historical Records of North Carolina ...
Author: Historical Records Survey of North CarolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Tyrrell County North Carolina Minutes Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Author: Betty Fagan BurrPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911619034
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Brethren
Author: Brendan McConvillePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067424916X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The dramatic account of a Revolutionary-era conspiracy in which a band of farmers opposed to military conscription and fearful of religious persecution plotted to kill the governor of North Carolina. Less than a year into the American Revolution, a group of North Carolina farmers hatched a plot to assassinate the colonyÕs leading patriots, including the governor. The scheme became known as the Gourd Patch or Llewellen Conspiracy. The men called themselves the Brethren. The Brethren opposed patriot leadersÕ demand for militia volunteers and worried that ÒenlightenedÓ deist principles would be enshrined in the state constitution, displacing their Protestant faith. The patriotsÕ attempts to ally with Catholic France only exacerbated the BrethrenÕs fears of looming heresy. Brendan McConville follows the Brethren as they draw up plans for violent action. After patriot militiamen threatened to arrest the Brethren as British sympathizers in the summer of 1777, the group tried to spread false rumors of a slave insurrection in hopes of winning loyalist support. But a disaffected insider denounced the movement to the authorities, and many members were put on trial. Drawing on contemporary depositions and legal petitions, McConville gives voice to the conspiratorsÕ motivations, which make clear that the Brethren did not back the Crown but saw the patriots as a grave threat to their religion. Part of a broader Southern movement of conscription resistance, the conspiracy compels us to appreciate the full complexity of public opinion surrounding the Revolution. Many colonists were neither loyalists nor patriots and came to see the Revolutionary government as coercive. The Brethren tells the dramatic story of ordinary people who came to fear that their Revolutionary leaders were trying to undermine religious freedom and individual libertyÑthe very causes now ascribed to the Founding generation.