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CHRISTOPH VON GRAFFENRIED'S ACCOUNT OF THE FOUNDING OF NEW BERN
by Todd, Vincent H., ed
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- ISBN 13
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Orig. pub. Raleigh 1920. Reprinted 1973. Print on Demand Edition 2010. (vi), 434 pp., map, index
This is an account of the efforts of Baron Christoph von Graffenried, along with a partner, to settle a colony of German Palatines and Swiss in 1710 on the tongue of land he acquired between the Trent and Neuse rivers. It would be called New Bern in honor of his native home in Bern, Switzerland. The first one hundred pages of text is a substantive historical introduction by Editor Todd. That essay is followed by von Graffenried's own account in German with an English translation and parts of his French text and translation that differ from the German. The colonists could not have come at a more unfortunate time and von Graffenried's utmost efforts could do little to relieve the situation. The province was in the midst of internal strife and this trouble was barely settled before the Tuscarora Indian War broke out. Finally, in desperation, von Graffenried went to Virginia to try to arrange for their resettlement on the Potomac. He had earlier expected to make his fortune from reported veins of silver ore in that area. His negotiations failed; and, broken in fortune and spirit, he returned to Europe and his colony soon ceased to exist as a distinct settlement. By 1723, however, having recovered somewhat from the disaster of the Indian War, New Bern was incorporated, its boundaries enlarged, it soon became the largest town, and would become the colonial capital of North Carolina
This is an account of the efforts of Baron Christoph von Graffenried, along with a partner, to settle a colony of German Palatines and Swiss in 1710 on the tongue of land he acquired between the Trent and Neuse rivers. It would be called New Bern in honor of his native home in Bern, Switzerland. The first one hundred pages of text is a substantive historical introduction by Editor Todd. That essay is followed by von Graffenried's own account in German with an English translation and parts of his French text and translation that differ from the German. The colonists could not have come at a more unfortunate time and von Graffenried's utmost efforts could do little to relieve the situation. The province was in the midst of internal strife and this trouble was barely settled before the Tuscarora Indian War broke out. Finally, in desperation, von Graffenried went to Virginia to try to arrange for their resettlement on the Potomac. He had earlier expected to make his fortune from reported veins of silver ore in that area. His negotiations failed; and, broken in fortune and spirit, he returned to Europe and his colony soon ceased to exist as a distinct settlement. By 1723, however, having recovered somewhat from the disaster of the Indian War, New Bern was incorporated, its boundaries enlarged, it soon became the largest town, and would become the colonial capital of North Carolina
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- CHRISTOPH VON GRAFFENRIED'S ACCOUNT OF THE FOUNDING OF NEW BERN
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- Todd, Vincent H., ed
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- Print on Demand Edition 2010
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- ISBN 10
- 0871521415
- ISBN 13
- 9780871521415
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- Orig. pub. Raleigh 1920. Reprinted 1973
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- 1973-01
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The Reprint Company Publishers dates its origins to the mid-1950s when my father, who was editor of the local Spartanburg SC Journal, an afternoon newspaper, became involved with the serialized publication of John B.O. Landrum's History of Spartanburg County in the paper. He then issued that as a hardback book in 1959. Over the next ten years, he published about thirty reprints. I became publisher in 1970 and began moving it from a hobby-business to a fulltime occupation.In the early 1970s, I was contacted by the North Carolina Library Association concerning a list of out-of-print North Carolina titles which they felt should be reprinted. Jointly we developed a project which allowed all of the books to be published. Over the next fifteen years, I worked with library associations throughout the South and published reprint editions of approximately three hundred books.From that time to the present, I have been involved in the publication of over six hundred titles with the areas of specialization remaining local and regional history, scholarly material, and genealogical source material for the Southeastern area.The vast majority of our books are hardback and are printed on a long-life paper with a neutral pH factor. We are using Print on Demand technology to bring the better of our backlist titles back into print. Those titles are listed as Print on Demand and are printed upon receipt of an order and ship directly from the bindery within three to ten business days.
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