Since 1961, the North Carolina Colonial Records Project has sought to increase accessibility to the State’s colonial, Revolutionary, and early national history. In order to realize this goal, the project publishes a series of volumes containing documents essential to an understanding of the colonial period. In 1963 a new series of Colonial Records was launched. The inaugural volume of The Colonial Records of North Carolina [Second Series] printed the key constitutional documents of early Carolina, such as royal charters and the Fundamental Constitutions. Volumes II - VI focus on records of the various higher courts in the colony to 1730, while volumes VII - IX concern the Executive Council, the body advising proprietary and royal governors on the exercise of their extensive powers. The documents in volumes X - XII will tell the story of the Church of England in colonial North Carolina. Subsequent volumes will have as their themes the governorship of Arthur Dobbs (1754-1765) and the Regulation, the important sociopolitical movement of the later colonial era. The exacting editorial standards of selection, transcription, annotation, and indexing so apparent throughout the second series have drawn scholarly acclaim, as have the substantial introductions to each volume. |
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