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' t ' . -. ..iiTnf rMair r t.l A R;ap ihor i Fron4 the Raleigh Register., " v THE LATE JUDG E; M URPH EY'Sv , KISTORYjOP NOnjH-CiltOLINA: , f . , The public ; was apprised several years g6. that this distinguished ciiizen had un dertaken the. task of writing the history of is native iiaie. nis loituuoss iur rtisearcn, which made bira somewhat acquainted with , almost "ever.y departmentv of knowledge, j econded by bis well known' zeal: tor the .tame and- prosperity of the;State, directed ins enqmrea to inis suujeci ai u eany periou. jSurprisod t learn v ho wVtittle was known concerning the earlier events ! of the State, even among our men of study and education 10w great an indifference Jo the . Subject -prevailcS among our people generally that a large portion of the past was' irrecoverably. consjffnea to oonviou -io wintu luut-tfu ;ine. present was fast; hastening, he determined to rescue; so far as he'i:ouldwhat, 4was ye j?narerlv bv the ravages ot .time. He ac cordingly dsvoied, what' Jeisure' he" lould ommanu from "hi ordinary pursuits to he Investigation of the'memorials bff our History "and iouuht and 4 obtained information from piany " sources huheito - but little known. , ' . When arrested by that4aease which eventu ally terminated his life, be Id been so far - icssfil Jrti jive .collection of materials, as. lvrcbmnjenced,;aiaf written owe pot- -JSrrions-' of his. cbntpmpiate.d work-r-though "much additiohal infoniiaiion had been ex-, pected, which never was received. Proba bly in no point of view has the death of ihis .gentleman been more i generally lamented, than in its disappointment of the public ex- pectationrespeciing Iris History. The fol lowing imperfict expose of the progress and -state o? the.. contemplated work, gathered froni a ' hnsty examination of the materials .and manuscripts left at his deaths is presented to the public,' in the belief that it may af Jbrd some stratification to curiosity on this interesting subject. It seems to have been the author's design to; introduce ihe History v of the. Colony and Slate of North Carolina, by a cursory review of those great events, '.If Avhich, since the revival ; of learning in the fifteenth century, have changed the intellec tual character and moral condition of nations. This was" conceived necessary to give to Xhe reader a just idea of the character of the early colonists, and of the structure, policy, smd tendency of that Government, which 5? they and their posterity have reared. A J manuscript occupying about a quire of fools I cap paperiembraces a succinct History of civilized Europe,,fiom the discovery of Se- . bastian Cabot, A." D. 1494, to the lime of .Sir Walter Baleigh, 1568. Another oi 25 -or 20 oatrcs. is found to contain a brief sketchlof the revival of letters arid science the effects of .their cultivation upon the arts .and improvement of i men- and of the pro tress of personal freedom, and ivil, political tmd religious liberty in all tiiose countries of Europe, fipm which! our Jown was sealed. ' The actual condition of the old world at the ? period when our History commenced, being thus presented inretro?pect, the intention Wh?,; to furnish a complete narative, thence t downward to the present timp. Ah outline , only of the Colonial, Hstory wa finished. It : comprises, however, many jnteriiug facts, and is divided into eras . JEho 1st TYoni the first patent granted to Sir ' , Setlh 30 -?h' D t0 . ; 2d.lem A.! D. 1600 to 1663. ,1 d. Frm the Orant to the Lordi Proprie- . t" tors, 1663 ta 17 12, . 4tb. From 1712totheaholiti6n of thePro- pnetors Government, 1729. i s ,5th. From the establishment of the regal , ' i -CSovernment 1729,. to the death of; i ' Governor Dobbs, 1765. . About this latter period the . stmggle for ''our Independence began, and from this time Xcrward the Historywas probably designed to be more minuted The author's manu - ' script, hoycyer, ceases 'at the period last mentioned, except some detached ' parts : of iur I Revolutionary 4 History, which were .published in the newspapers of this State - many yeai s since. These, together with 'the introductory chapters before mentioned, and an account of four of the most power- frj Indian tribes of North Carolina, to wit, th,. Qbirokces, Catawb,sf Sawra and ... mm V ' ) " --' ; . ..11 ' - m .rj..Mr " ' n , i; ' i , . i , I i - i ' i Tuskaroras, constitute the whole of bis wri-iera, m the year 1722," that Court-houses possession of his executor. Dr. Hosack, of tings pn the subject '...-. I were first established by the General As- New Yoik. , t - ; On the first and second eras of ihe author, sembly, '.the Courts -of Justice' having been -v 'After the year 1765 the period at which it is believed that ho had procured very little ; previously held ; in private houses. The the auihoVs outline of the 1st part of his pro new matter. '. Whatever accounts may exist boundary line between this province a ad posed History terminates his materials besides those already published of the voyages Virginia was begun on the sea-shore, and ran, were much more voluminous and ample. Ma of the ageots of Sir Walter Raleigh,, aid f&i sixty miles, about the same period. 1 ny gentlemen yet living had kindly furnished of their attempts to establish a 'Colony " on , the year' I729r the Crown, purchasod th 'sketches from memory, of events within their Roanoke Island, are probably locked up in interests of .all the Lords Proprietors of; pergonal knowledge, and the descendants 6f the office of the Board of Trade and Planta-1 Carolina, except that of John, Lord Carter, Jalmdst all of the illustrious dead, who bore tions in England. This is no doubt ea t oarts in the formation of our true of the History of the Province from the Island in 1587 to the ''grant ol the Charter Jojmis Deriodexcer iome of those already to the eight J jords Proprietors "by King t mentioned under era Set It appears, how Charles II,,166S. Indeed, with the excep- tever, frorahis manuscript" outline, that he tion of a small settlement in -Currituck, a I colony of Quakers f whom religious persectt-; lion bad driven frooi V jrginia) m the coun- , lies of Peiquimons and Pasquotank,, and at fsmall colony from"' Massachusetts, on old 4 w wi . v- A.t.wa, ...v . eems ta,hi ve been in Carolina, previously tot the 'year 1663, no other;inhdbitants;tban its native beasts pnd savages. " . , , : ' ? Sd era. After the. Graut- to the Lordi PrnnriHtom in lfifia ' Sir WiHinm RprUnlftv. tnen Governor ; of Virginia, was .instructed to organize a Government in Carolina, which was done in the following year,' and Drum inond appointed Governor, Ever since this period, in some form or other, there haS ex- isted an orgonized Government in the piovmce. A General Assembly was first convened iu l667; In the same yeartiLord Ashley being appointed by the Lords . Pro prietors to prepare a form of Government for the Colonies, engaged the sei vices .of the celebrattd Philosopher Mr,. Locke, wha framed a complicated system- which was adopted ?n -16(39. Upon the death of; Gov, Drummond in this year, he was surrd -d by VSarauel-'Sipnwdo survived but ashort ) time' fr0"m the author's raanuscriptj to have sup xutr vuiuuy uunug nils era, appears ported an unstable government asf. once visited by an insurrection and was lorn by the 1'aUior.s of highchurchmen and dissenters.' Heavy'taxes were imposed to support the Clergy'qf the Church of England.' Prin ting presses were forbidden, and the Laws were learned by the Colonists, only by having them read- at the Court-houses. In 1707. a colony'of J UtigugenotiT settled on Trent Riveraand in. 1 709 a colony of Ger mans from Heidelbiirg, wbo weie transpor ted by Lewis Michell and Christopher De GrafFenreid, founded the town of New Berne. The year , 1711 was marked by such an ex traordinary scarcity of money, that hides, deer skins, tallow, &.c. were made a legal tender in the payment of quitrents, and by a most bloody massacre of the colonists by the Indians. j , i On this era, besides thei ordinary histori cal accounts which have been published,- I the author had ptocuted : J 1. Transcripts fron. the Loids Pronrie tors' Minute Book. j 2. Transcripts from the Minutes of the Palatine Court iu Albemarle county from. 1694 to 1712. V i 3, Proceedings of the Governor and , . Council during the same time.. T U 1 the History of the 4 lixtractSi from British Colonies of North-America, from the first discovery by Sabastian Cabot in 1497, to the treaty ot Peace 1763." Printed at London, 1773 authot unknown. I hese extracts were obtained by the Hon. N. Ma con, from the Library of Congress. J Pamphlet containing; a letter of '63 pa ges, written from Charleston 1710, describing Carolina for the edification of those who might be disposed to migrate hither ) ' j" , 6. He had access also to "Lawson's Jour nal of a thousand miles travelled thro1 several nations of Indians" in 1701 being usually styled "Lawson's His . f tory of North-Carol ina.'V The 4tb'era commences with the Indian War, which was brought to a close, by the defeat of the Tuskaroras in 1713, soon afte which they emigrated to the Northward. Hyde, then Governor of the colony, having died about this time, the Government was , administered by Thomas Pollock, President 0f the Council, hhtil the arrival of Charles Eden wb'b' wa3 Appointed Governor, 1714. (The succeeding year 1715, is the period at which the Legislation ofthefcolony firit assumed form and system the commen ,aw of England was declared to be in force . 6ei t t D . tU . and our Statute Book of the present day commences with the acts of that year. At 1 this session was also passed, the first act di- ! reeling bills of credit to be issued, a system ; of relief legislation from which the -Colonists I suffered much m subsequent times. Gov. 1 Eden'a administration terminated - with . bis death in 1722, when the Government" was again committed to President Pollock, who dying in tho course of six months, Wra. Reed President, assumed the reins until the arri val of Governor Barrinktori. 1723. He be- ins found in a short. time inadequate to the government of the"province was removed 1 fry.m office, and Sir Richard Everard waaj appointed his successor. It was during thisf ' :' i, 'eighth part. No materials are found in the j had derived much from tho Acts of ,Assera- bly during that time and from other sources , , 5th erar .The prosperity of the Colony was greatly promoted . by the establishment of the lesah eovernraent-imore esueciallv n-- i . r u: tu. . unci me apuiuiuiciu ui vrisuiioi:uiuiiuu as GoYernor, in 1734.. Ini 1737, the boun i dary line with South-Carolina ; was in part settled."' In 1738, the General -Assembly i first met at Neivbern, 'having held ttsses3ion 1 from 1715 until that tim. at Edenton. In i 1741, jthey first assembled at Wilmington, and enacted many wholesome laws, which yet remain in force. Swan's .Revisal of the Laws, was proposed and published bv act of . ' I 1 - ml . -i-. 't li-'t . , Assemoty in x 4b, ana &Jt tne laws therein contained were confirmed by the Iegislatui e 1749. The line betwien Earl Granville d& the Crqwn was begun in 1743, and in 174c5 was extended west of Sax&pahaw (now Haw) River ' The populalianVof the Colony in? creased largely in the adaniistration of Go vernor Johnston That of he middle and western counties consisted almost en lirel v of dissenters from the established C hurch, and were principally JVloravians and Presbyteri ans. A colony of Highland Scotch, under Neill M'Neill. also settled on Cape-Fear, in Cuipocrland county,. 1743. i On the death of Gov. Johnston 1752,1 the Government was conducted under, the direction of Na thaniel Rice and Matthew-Rowan, Presi dents, successively, of the. ! Council, until the appointment and arrival ojfArthur. Dobbs, Governor,"' in 1754. In ihe, same; year was passed an act of the General. As sembly to' encourage James - Dai vis to set tip Oid carry hi the lusin& of a - Printer in this Province. f : The History of the contests between the prerogative of the Crown and the freedom of the Colonists during the fifth era of our author, is highly interesting. They cont ri buted much to nurture and embolden that spirit of liberty which animated our citizens in the first dawnings of the Revolution. The ministers of the King believeing, that too much freedom was enjoyed by4he Col ony, for the safety and policy of his Govern ment, assailed their privileges, first by redu cing the number of Representatives from five to two, in each county and next, by clam ing for the King the right of erecting counties and boroughs and annulling i them agraio at his pleasure. In 1754 he accordingly de clared void the laws by which thirteen coun ties and five boroughs had been erected in tending to create new counties j and bo- 1 roughs by the royal charter, to exist at his '...ij 4uL . T'k " u 4 SII -k? 8 TF ' h wa PeaPs.f W?1 1 m thet c.ony l-Wl ! that upon cessation ot t n act f corgorat.onthe property of the tors, produced such general indignation, that Gov. Dobbs consented to a law re'establish- in the counties 'saving however the prerog atives of the Crown!.,, As a further protec tion to their' liberties, the General Assembly 'requested that their Judges should be com missioned to hold their offices during good behaviour. The breach hetween the Gov ernor and Council on the one hand and the Provincial Assembly on the other, became so great, thai in 1761, the Matter appointed an agent to reside in London and solicit their affairs at Court. An excessive, jeal ousy continued between the two branches of the Legislature until the abolition of the Co lonial Government. It was so far restrained as not to disturb ordinary legislation, but 1 not unfrequently broke out into open collision.- '" . . ,j , - On this last era, the author had i procee ded:,. . . --, if - I . 1; Bricknell's! North-Carolina contain- ( ing a natural history of the Colony, with an account of the trade, manners and customs' of the ' Christians and Indian inhabitants, strange beasts, birds, fishes, &.C. from' observations in 1730-1, printed at Dublin 1743. 2. Records of the Register's office from . 1754 to 1765; 3. ; North-Carolina Magazine a weekly paper, printed at Newbern, firom;17- ' ; ' tU to 1765. . " , , 4V Copies of Gov. Johnston's correspon- r - ;.jdehce and mannscripts. j .- A valuable addition to the collection on this period, was expected in the papers of ; Gen. Hugh WaddelL a distinguished Colo nial officer, which were loaned to Dr. Hugh Williainsorf when be wrote his History of te iate sicl'VoriQw supposed to bo hi the : v - Z, -j - r"s"' I History, contributed freely, at the solicitation of its author, whatever matter was in then- possession. Arrange! somewhat aacording to chronology, they are a fl lows:- "-- 1. An anonymous Pamphlet on the abuses , of the Government and Courts" of 'Justice generally, ascribed to Her-man-Husbnds, a leader of the Reg ulators in Orange printed. 2. Addrpss of George Sims to the People of Granviiie, on the abuses of the ' Officers of thn Courts of that County MSS. furnished bv the Hon. N. Ma con. ! , i 3. Record of the Superior Coun of Hills boro Entries made by the Regu lators at ihe riot, March Term 1770 when the Court was broken up by ; the rioters. ... 4. A Sermon by the Rev. George Mick- lejobn, preached before Uov. Iryon alter the defeat of the Regulators at the battle of Allemance and the sup- i , pre59ton of the insurrection.' 5. A pamphlet by Maurice Moore, on ' the' right of the parliament to tax: ; the Colonies. 1 6. Records -of the Proceedings of the Committee of Safety at Wilmington 1774-5-6, and of i the Cumberland Association in the County of Cum berland. 7 A Phamphlet on the Mecklenburg Dec laration of Independence, May 20th 1775! Proclamations of Gov. Jo siah Martin on 8ih August 1775 and! 6. A Pamphlet Journal of tho Congress at Hillsborough August 20th, 1775 and of that at Halifax, Apiil 1776, in . the latter of which our Delegat es in i. Congress were; instructed to vote for absolute Independence. 9. A Pamphlet Address of the Presby terian Ministers of the city of Phila adelph'a, to the Ministers and Pres byterian Congregation in North-Car olina, dated 10th day of July 1775, 10. Copies of the Correspondence o Cornelius Harnett, William Hooper Joseph Hewcs, John Penn, Abner Nash. Francis Nash. Governors Caswell, Burke, S. Johnson, Alexan der Martin.' , 11. Military History. Tarleton's Cam naipns. Letters and Statements o Col. Sutherland of Wake, Cbl. . James Saunders of Castvell, Col, William Prtlk nf Rnleiah. Gen. Jni " r r. . , o " : i Graham of Lincoln Gen. Sumner, and others nan ating ma ny particulars ' not recorded in nny H istory of the Revolution, and correcting some er-j rors into which our Historians have ; . fallen.' . ;- .... ' ;.. I After the Peace of 1783 the materials col lected are not very abundant, but many others are supposed to be accessible to re search, i The Acts of 'the Independent State of . . . ! ' '. . , . .1- - Franklin in 1785 a part of our Territory which has since been erected into the State of Tennessee, and which then attempted to resist the authority, of Noth-Carolina are found among the rnanuscripts---the author had also the numbe rs of the North-Carolina Journal a weekly paper published at Hali fax, from 17921 to. 179ft and of the Raleigh Minerva, from 1803 until 10 besides Williams's History of North-Carolina. ' He was very desirous,' during his life that the office of the Board 6f Trade and r la nth lions in England should be searched for in formation respecting our Colonial History and made repeated endeavors to procure from the Hon. F. X. Martin of Louisiana, the documents from which his History was written. It is no doubt recollected that a fewvears aeo be presented a memorial to the Legislature praying pecuniary assistance to accomplish these ends as vel as to prosecute his Work, to completion, according to a plan published at 'the' same tinted The extensiveness of this plan was so generally disappointed, that it te believed to have been abandoned. And had he been blessed with health, evert trbni5the V publication of his membtkl until btteathhr-w probabilityfroht 4tfi0 rbdteriali within bis control; have produced a work, which would headiU& mbcbT o the Credit .of' tk& State j and the general literature ot h the7 Country; What memorials he could -hate obtained from the public records of the State, to which he was allowed access by an act of the Le- " - i . . ,':,: '' ' ., ..' . . . - ' ' " . , This Journal mentions several ineidehts'Tthicb afford additional proof of the authebticity of the Declaration of Independence by ti Feopte f CJecxJeftbtirg County, gislature-A-what facts he had selected frora , ' the books within his reich what msourccif 'J he would have drawn from the rich treasnfo 5 v of learning; with which a Studious" life lnd stored his" mird, there are I no means of tif-;": J certaining. Industry or accident may dfs-.V; cover all the, sources of information to thd f future antiquarian, which werer ppened Ho V' hini, bm; it is greatly toj be -feared that? thk' same spirit, zeal, Patriotism and talent will never be enlisted upon such a srorkj again V Mr. Murphey was cert aiulv the best. qualifi- v ed for the task of all our citizens who Twerd. disposed to undertake it if he Were not sdV ,: He brought to the subject pot only groat skill and facility in composition, capacity and patience for research, a mind inured to con stant and minute observation, and to tracings effects to their appropriate causes,v but he"' nan an intimate personal acquaintance with the people of the State, greater perhaps $ In extent than has fallen to the lot of any other inaivHiuai. ,e had beeri connected witlj the, administration of the Government, in the Legislative and Judicial DepartmenCi ' .. tor many years and i walr animate! by patriotic zealamounti'ng almost toon'huiasnl. " Born in (he midst of the Revolution, ' an ; , educated among those who had been ;ctivO in that struggle, as well as in the difficult and critical operation of settling and establishing, this Government, which 8ucceeddtit ?hs! had accumulated much traditionary lore and formed a kind of connecting link betweea the past and present age; When andther1 son of the State with equal competency shall find leisure or courage to make aftimr ilar attempt, time only can determined Ai ' yet we may with great propriety adopt th complaint of the Roman Orator in his firxj book of Laws, abest enirn historia Uteris ' nostris." ROSCOE. EFFECTS OF yENTRILOQUlSMl 7 M. St. Gille, n grocerlpf St. Germain e& Lay, whose performances have been recorV ded by the Abbe de la Chapelle, had occa sion to shelter himseir from a;stoin& neighboring convent, where the monks wertr in. deep mourning for a much esteemed mem her of their community who had been recent-, r ly buried. , t While lamenting over the tomfJ of their deceased brother-theislif lit-JioDoor&: which had been pe id to his tneinoryapfdjK was suddenly heard to issue irom the ; roof of the choir, bewailing the condition dfthd deceased in purgatory, and" reptovingthtr brotherhood for their want .of zeal. Th6 tidings of this supernatural isyant brought the whole brotherhood to the ohuveh Th) " voice from aboW reoekted its lementatlnnaf1 and reproaches and 'tne Jvhole vcohyetit fell upon their faces, and vowed to make a repa ration of their error. They Accordingly chaunted in full cjioir a dt frofundis during ? the intervals of which the spirit of the de 4 parted monk expressed his satisfactionfai their pious exercises. The prior afterwards inveighed against modern scepticism on thcr subject of apparitions and M. St. Gille had P. great difficulty in. convincing the fraternity l hat the whole was a deception. Another Yentriloquist, Louis. Brabanjv who. had beenr valet de; chambre to Francis I. turned hiap ' power to a more profitable account. Having fallen in love with a rich and autiful heir- ess, he was rejected by her parents as an ua suitable match for their da?ghteiv Onthe death of her father, Louis paid eVish to tb , widow, and he had 60 sooner entered tho house than she heard the'-voice of her dev ceased husband addressing her trora above; -"Give my daughter in marriage to LouiaV Brabant, who is a man of large forfune. ahd excellent character. I endure ! the inex pressible torments of purgatory for having . '.efuse'd ber to him. 4 Obey thisadmoqitJonf t and give everlasting repose tothe soul ,of J. your poor husband.' ; This awlul command could not be resisted, and the vidow an- nounced her coropliancB with it. ;.Ajtomf J t conjuror however required rnoney ior,th? completion of his marriage, be resolved to : work upon the fears of one Cornu, antoldl bankejCat Lyons, bo bad amassed immensjft s immense wealth by usury and extortion. Having obtained an interview .with the muter be introduced the eubjec of demons and '. spectres and the torments of purgatpryf and , during an interval of silence, the voice of -4the) miser's deceased iitber was heard complain ing of his dreadful situation ; in purgatory, and calling upon bis son to rescue him from bis sufferings' by enabling Louis Brabant to redeem the Christians that were enslaved , by the Tbrtsl The awe-struck miser wasr r also threatened with eternal damnation if b did pot thus'expiate his own1 sins; bat snch . was the grasp that the banker took of his gold tbat the ventnloqaist was obliged ta . Say - Bins antW - visit. ? On; ihis occasion, not only his father fbut all pis deceased-re latio'ns, appealed to bim in behalf df bis own soul and ibeirssnd J 'soci' wsirthr-londnea. of their complaints r ; that the f pirit of banker was subdued, and he jjavo the vea triloqurst ten tboosand crowesto Ilbcrata tho Christian captryes. When the taiser was 1 afterwards ondecerred, be is said to ' hattf brsasoTmirtifitd tjat bs dld Cf veticjji .
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