Edited by Alan D. Watson

Presents the marvelous diversity of life among North Carolinians prior to 1800 through carefully selected correspondence, journals, travel accounts, court proceedings, deeds, wills, inventories of estates, church records, newspapers, and other documentary evidence. The documents in this volume reveal the character of early Carolinians, their homes and furnishings, and family life. Other chapters focus on religion, education, recreation and entertainment, criminality, health and mortality, towns, travel, and taverns.

Paperbound. Pp. xiii, 359. Illus. Index. (2000) (t)