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Colonial Records of North Carolina, 1765-1768

The seventh volume of the Colonial Records of North Carolina details the turbulent period under Governor Tryon, highlighting four major challenges: the Stamp Act Trouble, the costly Palace construction and Cherokee Boundary Line definition, and the widespread Regulation Troubles. For genealogists, the Colonial Records of North Carolina is an important resource as it contains some of the earliest documentary evidence of individuals and families living in the colony from the late 1600s to the Revolutionary era.

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