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J. Edwin Hendricks holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Furman University and a doctorate in history from the University of Virginia. He taught history at Wake Forest University.

Resources created by J. Edwin Hendricks

Expanding to the west: Settlement of the Piedmont region, 1730 to 1775
In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.1
The population of North Carolina's Piedmont region more than doubled in the decade from 1765 to 1775. Most of the settlers who arrived during that time were European Americans traveling from the North via the Great Indian Trading Path and the Great Wagon Road.
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By Christopher E. Hendricks and J. Edwin Hendricks.