. Historic towns of the Southern States. at the mouth of thePotomac, and their Lutheran neighbors sentback to Hanover for teachers and ministers,and had their services in the German tongueuntil well on in the nineteenth century. Not only was there no metropolis—for thefirst fifty years there were no towns. ThePalatines and Swiss at the confluence of theNeuse and the Trent laid out the little townof Newbern, and the Moravians, soon afterI 750, began their town of Salem, but nowhereelse in the Province was a town made thebasis of the settlement. The Anglo-Saxonself-reliance and freedom never sho
. Historic towns of the Southern States. at the mouth of thePotomac, and their Lutheran neighbors sentback to Hanover for teachers and ministers,and had their services in the German tongueuntil well on in the nineteenth century. Not only was there no metropolis—for thefirst fifty years there were no towns. ThePalatines and Swiss at the confluence of theNeuse and the Trent laid out the little townof Newbern, and the Moravians, soon afterI 750, began their town of Salem, but nowhereelse in the Province was a town made thebasis of the settlement. The Anglo-Saxonself-reliance and freedom never showed itselfmore self-reliant and free than in the uncon-scious daring which spread over thousands ofsquare miles of savage wilderness with nevera centre of strength or of succor providedaofainst a time of danp-er. Wilmington 22^ Fifty years after the beginning of its per-manent settlements, its first town, Bath, hadonly a dozen small houses, and its second,Newbern, was just founded. Edenton datesfrom 1716; Beaufort from 1723; Brunswick. RESIDENCE OF JAMES SPRUNT. FORMERLY THE RESIDENCE OF GOVERNOR DUDLEY. from 1725, though not incorporated until 1745 ;and Wilmington from 1730 or 1735. At theend of one hundred years of settlement, NorthCarolina had only these six villages, and it isdoubtful if the most populous had as manyas six hundred inhabitants, though there wasa population of over fifty thousand in theProvince. 224 Wilmington Bath, incorporated in i 705, was never morethan the inconsiderable village which it is to-day. The first town to become of any im-portance was Edenton, looking southward froma gentle elevation at the head of a beautifullittle bay on the north side of the upper end ofAlbemarle Sound. Over against this bay thebroad mouths of the Chowan and the Roanokebrought her the trade of the back country,and down the sound and across the shiftingbars at Ocracoke and New Inlet a little tieetof schooners and briers be^an to carr^? on tradecoastwise and with the West I
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