A Little History of Knotts Island
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Preface and Introduction

Chapter 1
Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement


Chapter 2
The Source of a Name


Chapter 3
The Great Dispute


Chapter 4
The History of Currituck Inlet


Chapter 5
Knotts Island Today


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THE HISTORY OF KNOTTS ISLAND, NORTH CAROLINA: CORNERSTONE OF THE STATE AND THE ENCLOSED SEA, 1585—1728

by Hal James Bonney, Jr.
University of Richmond, Virginia, 1951

 

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Manuscript Materials

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Richards, J. E., Letter to the Author, November 8, 1948. The Guildhall, Nottingham, England.

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Government Publications

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Saunders, William L., editor, The State Records of North Carolina. 26 vols., vols. 1 - 10 edited by William L. Saunders- vols. 11 - 26 edited by Walter Clark. Goldsboro, North Carolina: Nash Brothers, 1886 – 1907.

Senate Documents. 7lst. Congress, 1st. Session (April 15 - November 22, 1929) "Miscellaneous". Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1929.

Writings or Public Men

Boyd, W. K., editor, William Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line Between Virginia and North Carolina. Raleigh: The North Carolina Historical Commission, 1929.

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Lawson, John, Lawson's History of North Carolina. Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country, Together With the Present State Thereof and a Journal of a Thousand Miles Traveled Through Several Nations of Indians, Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, etc., etc, Edited by Frances Latham Harris. Richmond: Garrett and Massie, 1937.

General Histories

NOTE: While secondary material read for general background, these works contain excerpts from primary sources.

Albertson, Catherine, In Ancient Albemarle. Raleigh: The Daughters of the Revolution, Commercial Printing Company, 1914.

Bancroft, George, History of the United States From the Discovery of the American Continent. 10 vols. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1852- 1878.

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Weeks, Stephen Beauregard, The Lost Colony of Roanoke, Its Fate and Survival. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1891.

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Periodicals

The Lower Norfolk Count Antiquary . 5 vols. edited by Edward Wilson James. Baltimore: The Friedenwald Company, 1897.

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Miscellaneous

State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina. "Map of the Virginia and North Carolina Boundary...1887...."Photographic copy made April 6, 1951.

Swem, E. G., editor. The Virginia Historical Index In Two Volumes. Roanoke, Virginia: The Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company, 1934, 1936.

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