Newspapers constitute an important and frequently overlooked source for colonial American history.
Indeed, the information in their accounts very often is found nowhere else. The 67 for the years between the end of that conflict and the Declaration of Independence represent only a handful of those published in the colony during that momentous time, and there are none at all for 1776. For the remainder of the Revolutionary War only 42 issues are extant, all of them for the years 1777 and 1778. Fortunately, other newspapers both in the colonies and in Britain sometimes carried items about North Carolina, many of them reprinted from North Carolina newspapers no longer extant. As our search progresses, the Colonial Records Project will post at this site entries from various titles.