Brunswick Town and Wilmington

This story of Brunswick Town the Cape Fear region's first port city provided a deep-water port that accommodated trans-Atlantic shipping on the only easily accessible river in the colony of North Carolina. Contemporary accounts stated that it was like to be a flourishing place while town lot sales reflected its profitability in 1731. However Brunswick Town was not destined to remain and its founder Maurice Moore and his family would suffer great economic trials as a result of the founding of Wilmington across the river. Gov. George Burrington's opposition to the Family was wholly political. Brunswick Town barely lasted until the American Revolution and today remains only a vague memory. Baylus C. Brooks author of Blackbeard Reconsidered: Mist's Piracy Thache's Genealogy delivers another brand new view of North Carolina's history!