Throughout the years, many documents and print materials have been developed to commemorate "Meck Dec" Day. This is a comprehensive listing of historical documents found in this online exhibit.

1801 - reference to "the citizens of Mecklenburg, being first in their declaration of independence" Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Weekly Advertiser, April 14, 1801, p.3, cols.2-3 [2]. The reference is in #10 in the list of toasts drunk.

1809 - Valedictory Address of James Wallis [3] reprinted in the Raleigh Minerva of Raleigh, NC,  August 19, 1809, p.2, cols.1-3. See LeGette Blythe and Charles Brockman, Hornets' Nest, Chapter 3 [4], for more about Wallis. 

1813 - Article in The Star of Raleigh, NC [5], acknowledges Mecklenburg's early declaration of independence. (The Star, Oct 29, 1813, Volume 5, Issue 44, p.175)

1831: The Mecklenburg  Declaration . . . and Accompanying Documents [6] - Published by the Governor

1833: Alexander Porter's Obituary [7]

1860: Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution [8], Vol. II, pp.411-417 - B. J. Lossing

1875: Harper's Weekly "Meck. Dec." Feature [9]

1875: May 20th Speech of John M. Bright of Tennessee [10] at Charlotte

1875 : "Mecklenburg Declaration Fully Established [11]" (reprinted in 1891)

1875: The Lives and Characters of the Signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, of the 20th of May, 1775 [12].

1891: "Rev. A. W. Miller Replies to Recent Criticism [13]"

1898: Unveiling of the Monument to the Signers of the Meck. Dec. - Commemorative Booklet [14]

1906: Meck. Dec. Celebration - Program of Events [15]

1916: Meck. Dec. Celebration - Program of Events [16]

1925: "The Pageant of Charlotte and Old Mecklenburg" [17] - Official Program

1948: "Shout Freedom!" - Official Program [18]

1948: "Shout Freedom!" - Complete Transcript of Shout Freedom! : A Symphonic Drama in Two Parts [19]by LeGette Blythe with music by Lamar Stringfield.

1954: May 18th - The Meck. Dec. Booklet Done for the visit of President Dwight David Eisenhower [20]

• Chain of Error and the Mecklenburg Declarations of Independence [21], by V. V. McNitt

• The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: A Bibliography [22] (1975)

• Mecklenburg Resolves: Full Text of the Mecklenburg Resolves signed May 31,1775 [23]

• Sketches of North Carolina  [24]by Rev. William Henry Foote, 1846, pp.33-45

• Truth & Justice for the History of North Carolina: The Mecklenburg Resolves of May 31, 1775 vs. the "Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20th, 1775" [25] by Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1865-1918), n.d.