Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Hundred and Thirty-First Anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: Souvenir Programme, May 20th, 1906, Charlotte, North Carolina
Martin's manuscript is shown to have been neither revised nor enlarged after the author became a citizen of Louisiana in 1809, by the fact that he refers to Captain Jack in his narrative as still living, where he says James Jack, then of Charlotte, but now residing in the State of Georgia, was engaged to be the bearer of the resolutions to the President of Congress. Yet we find in Hunter's Sketches of Western North Carolina that Jack died in 1822, thirteen years after Martin's History was written, and seven years before it went to press. That the publication of Martin's manuscript was deferred long after the author had written it and removed to the Southwest is made evident by the following remark in the preface: The determination has been taken 0 put the work to press in the condition it was when it reached New Orleans; this has prevented any use being made of Williamson's History of North Carolina (printed in a copy of which did not reach the writer's hands until after he arrived in Louisiana.
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