State launches digital exhibit featuring NC’s first governor

North Carolina Colonial Records Project has launched a new, online exhibit featuring the letters of the state’s first governor, who served 1776-1780, as part of the ongoing America 250 commemoration.

The exhibit, “Governor Richard Caswell and Revolutionary North Carolina,” contains 337 newly transcribed and searchable documents about Caswell’s career, the mobilization of patriot troops during the early days of the American Revolution, loyalists in North Carolina, and interactions with the Cherokee Nation.

The North Carolina Colonial Records Project is part of the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, which manages more than 100 historic, cultural and natural sites across the state, and oversees America 250 NC, the state’s official commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence taking place this year.

MosaicNC is hosting the exhibit. The North Carolina Office of Archives and History, under the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, oversees the online digital resources that features interactive exhibits and transcribed primary sources from a wide array of topics in the state’s history.