Statistics for occurrence #1 of “North Carolina” in chapter 4, page 34 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.:
...nessee, left no memorial of his passing by but the name of Stone, one of his companions, which he gave to a branch above Nashville. Most of the party proceeded to the country of the Illinois.
In North Carolina , the people along the upland frontier, many of whom had sprung from Scotch-Irish
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