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DeBow, J. D. B.  Statistical View of the United States.  Washington:  A.O.P. Nicholson, Public Printer, 1854.

Haywood, John.  A Manual of the Laws of North Carolina:  Arranged Under Distinct Heads in Alphabetical Order With References from One Head to Another When a Subject is Mentioned in Any Other Part of the Book Than Under the Distinct Head Where it is Placed.  Volumes I and II.  Raleigh:  J. Gales and W. Boylan, 1808. 

Haywood, John.  A Manual of the Laws of North Carolina:  Arranged Under Distinct Heads, in Alphabetical Order, With References from One Head to Another, When a Subject is Mentioned in any Other Part of the Book Than Under the Distinct Head to Which it Belongs. 2nd ed.  Raleigh:  J. Gales, 1819.

Haywood, John.  Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Superior Courts of Law and Equity of the State of North Carolina:  From the Year 1789 to the Year 1798.  Halifax:  Abraham Hodge, 1799.

Jones, Charles R.  “A Sketch of Charlotte.”  In Beasley and Emerson’s Charlotte Directory for 1875-76.  Charlotte:  Beasley and Emerson, 1875.

Marriages of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina:  1783-1868.  Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc:  1981.

Martin, Francois-Xavier.  Collection of the Statutes of the Parliament of England in Force in the State of North-Carolina.  Newbern, N. C.:  Editor’s Press, 1792.

Mecklenburg County Court Minutes:  Book I:  1774-1780.  Abstracted, Compiled, and Edited by Doris Futch Briscoe.  Charlotte, N. C.:  Doris Futch Briscoe, 1966.

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1780-1800.  Transcribed by Herman W. Ferguson.  Rocky Mount, N.C.:  Herman W. Ferguson, 1995.

Mecklenburg County, N.C. Court Minutes, Book 1 1774-1780.  Greenville, S.C.:  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1996. 

Mecklenburg County Court Pleas and Quarter Sessions, vols. 4-8 (1801-1839), North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, N.C.

State of North Carolina.  An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives.  Raleigh, N. C.:  North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977.

U.S. Bureau of the Census.  Heads of Families At the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790, North Carolina.  Washington:  Government Printing Office, 1908.

U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1800.

U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1820.

U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1830.

U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1840.

 

Manuscript:

Woodmason, Charles.  The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution:  The Journal and other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant.  Richard J. Hooker, ed.  Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1953.

Jetton Family Papers, UNC Charlotte Special Collections.

 

Microform:

County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Minutes from Mecklenburg County, 1774-1791.  Raleigh, N. C.:  Microfilmed by North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Manuscripts, 1966.

Mecklenburg County, Providence Presbyterian Church, Matthews, N.C. Church Minutes and Register, 1839-1961.  Raleigh, N.C.:  Microfilmed by Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1981.

Philadelphia Presbyterian Session Minutes 1837-1911, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, N.C.

Rocky River Presbyterian Church, Concord, North Carolina, Church Register.  Raleigh, N.C.:  Microfilmed by Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1981.

Superior Court Minutes from Mecklenburg County, Civil and Crime Cases, 1811-1851.  Charlotte, N. C.:  Carolina Room Microfilms.

Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church Session Minutes 1826-1847, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, N.C

 

Newspapers:

Catawba Journal (Charlotte, N.C.).

Miners’ and Farmers’ Journal (Charlotte, N.C.).

Religious Herald (Richmond, V.A.).

 

Other:

Pearson, Wm. Glenn.  “The Church Minutes for Cashaway Neck Church of Christ, 1757-1772.”  Marlboro County, SC Churches.  Contributed in May 2000.  Transcribed from microfilm of Original Documents held by Furman University. http:// sciway3.net/proctor/marlboro/church/Cashaway_Baptist.html.

 

 

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Newcomer, Susan F.  “Out of Wedlock Childbearing in an Ante-Bellum Southern County.”  Journal of Family History 15, no. 3.  (1900):  357-368.

 

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Alexander, J. B.  The History of Mecklenburg County:  From 1740 to 1900.  Charlotte:  Observer Printing House, 1902.

Ambivalent Legacy:  A Legal History of the South.  Edited by David J. Bodenhamer and James W. Ely, Jr.  Jackson, Miss.:  University Press of Mississippi, 1984.

Beeman, Richard R.  The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry:  A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia 1746 -1832.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.

Berlin, Ira.  Many Thousands Gone:  The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.  Cambridge, Mass.:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

Blackwelder, Linda Lawless.  A History of Central Steele Creek Presbyterian Church.  Charlotte, N. C.:  1978.

Blyth, LeGette and Charles Raven Brockmann.  Hornets’ Nest:  The Story of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.  Charlotte:  Heritage Printers, Incorporated, 1961.

Bushman, Richard.  The Refinement of America:  Persons, Houses, Cities.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1992.

Bynum, Victoria E.  Unruly Women:  The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South.  Chapel Hill:  The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Cable, Mary and the Editors of American Heritage.  American Manners and Morals:  A Picture History of How We Behaved and Misbehaved.  New York:  American Heritage Publishing Co., Incorporated, 1969. 

Carwardine, Richard.  Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1993.

Clebsch, William A.  From Sacred to Profane America:  The Role of Religion in American History.  New York:  Harper and Row, 1968.

Dayton, Cornelia Hughes.  Women before the Bar:  Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789.  Chapel Hill, N. C.:  The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. 

Dupre, Daniel S.  Transforming the Cotton Frontier:  Madison County, Alabama 1800-1840.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

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Forret, Jeff.  Race Relations at the Margins:  Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 2006.

Gallay, Alan.  The Indian Slave Trade:  The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670 – 1717.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2002.

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Johnson, Walter.  Soul by Soul:  Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1999.

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Unpublished Materials:

Moore, Crystal Gale.  “‘To Chain a Man to Misery ‘til Death’:  Marital Strife in Colonial and Early Republic Virginia.”  Master’s thesis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2011.