Presents the results of exhaustive research and the coordination of facts by an historian of broad intellect and vision.
"Colonial and State Records of North Carolina." 30 vols.

The chief fountain source of the early history of North Carolina and Tennessee.
W.H.Hoyt, "The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence." New York, 1907.

This book presents the view generally adopted by historians, that the alleged Declaration of May 20, 1775, is spurious.
Justin Winsor (editor), "Narrative and Critical History of America." 8 vols.

(1884-1889).

Also "The Westward Movement." Cambridge, 1897.