"The 'Carolina Federal Republican was published once a week in the town of Newbern [i.e. New Bern]. . . . Advertisements cost seventy-five cents a square for the first week and thirty-five cents for each continuance. "These advertisements . . . are compiled in this volume. In them the citizens of Craven County and the surrounding area sold and rented their houses, sold lots, plantations, personal property, and slaves; owners sought runaway slaves;...