Record #:

44230

Author(s):

McBride, Ransom

Abstract:

In 1753, John Saunders, agent for a British mercantile company made a journey from Suffolk, Virginia to Orange County, N.C. He recorded his travels in a journal that was discovered in a shop in Edenton by a Union solder during the Civil War. It is not certain from that point how it finally made its way back to North Carolina and the North Carolina State Archives. The item records many names places as well as information about living situations at the time. The period covered here is September 1-19, 1753.

Source:

North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (F253 .N882A), Vol. 5 Issue 3, August 1979, p146-149

Subject(s):

Travel Accounts--18th Century--North Carolina; Orange County--History

Record #:

44233

Author(s):

Leon, Robert; Shaw, Betsy J.

Abstract:

The city cemetery in Raleigh was established in 1798. Records of the cemetery were destroyed by fire in the 1890s and again in the 1930s. Interesting is a handwritten notebook by cemetery superintendent in 1934 with two pages entitled "People Buried in the Colored Part of the Cemetery". The listing abstracted here combines the superintendent's list with the available recorded tombstones.

Source:

North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (F253 .N882A), Vol. 5 Issue 3, August 1979, p173-176, map

Subject(s):

Cemeteries--Raleigh--African American; Tombstones; African Americans--Cemeteries--Raleigh