Record #:

20615

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

Richard Jordan Gatling invented the Gatling gun, a revolutionary weapon first used during the Civil War. The author discusses Gatling's family history, his early life in Hertford County, and his other entrepreneurial endeavors before he created the Gatling gun. The original patent and schematics of the Gatling gun are included in the article.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 41 Issue 1, Jan 1964, p54-61, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Hertford County--History; Gatling, Richard Jordan, 1818-1903; Gatling gun

Record #:

20826

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

Elkanah Watson was a notable noted 19th century author who spent two years in eastern North Carolina as a planter-merchant. During this period, the state was grappling over the issue of ratifying the newly written constitution. The author examines primary documentation from Watson's manuscript collection to argue that the author played a significant role in supporting state Federalists and the eventual ratification of the constitution by state representatives.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 41 Issue 4, Oct 1964, p448-463, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--1775-1865

Record #:

20929

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

John Alexander was one of forty-plus Anglican missionaries from England that came to the state when it was just a colony. The article offers a short bibliographic sketch about Alexander's life in Scotland and Anglican activities in the state and along the southeastern Atlantic Coast. Alexander's life and career offers a look at the efforts and struggles of Anglican missionaries not only to represent and establish the Church of England in the colony, but to survive the hardships of colonial life.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 43 Issue 3, July 1966, p305-315, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Record #:

20936

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

This article looks at the life of the 460-ton steamer SOUTHERN STAR built and launched by Jesse Jackson at Murfreesboro in 1857. Details of the ship's service as a government steamer under the new name of CRUSADER, her time helmed by Lt. John Newland Maffitt, service to the Union under the command of Lt. T. Augustus Craven during the Civil War, and the end of her life in commercial service on the west coast is included.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 42 Issue 3, July 1965, p335-344, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations

Record #:

21017

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

This article finds a new source for material relating to the history of North Carolina in New England and New York mariner records who were involved in trade with North Carolina. Looking primarily at two sets of documents relating to the Foote family of Guilford, Connecticut, details of trade, nautical routes, and coastal towns are included as well as information on the Foote family and their business.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 46 Issue 4, Oct 1969, p365-376, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Maritime Trade; Foote Family

Record #:

21035

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

This article examines documented accounts and cases of a disease referred to as \"yaws\" in an attempt to determine whether it was contracted as extensively as some accounts make it seem, or if it was just one among many health problems faced by the early settlers. An important distinction between two diseases known as \"yaws\" is made, with one being a topical disease restricted to rural areas and populations whose living conditions, knowledge of sanitation, and personal hygiene are rudimentary. The other was known at the time of press as endemic (or non-venereal) syphilis. Details of period symptoms, diagnoses, and identification of the types of \"yaws\" as well as modern distinctions made by the author based on his research are included.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 48 Issue 1, Jan 1971, p44-52, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Yaws (disease); North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Disease

Record #:

21169

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

From its home port of Edenton, North Carolina the brig 'Fair American' was to make war on British shipping during the American Revolution as a privateer. During its maiden voyage, it was taken by a British frigate and its crew imprisoned at Forten Gaol near Gosport, England. While in Forten Gaol, the crew of 'Fair American' participated in one of the largest prisoner escapes of the American Revolution. About 60 sailors escaped the prison in a tunnel dug into a nearby house, while most were recaptured within days, the captain and lieutenant of 'Fair American' made it back to Boston and back into military service for the war.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 45 Issue 4, Oct 1968, p349-356, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

Record #:

21251

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

Stephen Barton, Jr. moved to Hertford County, North Carolina in 1856 to establish a mill village based on the lumber trade with Norfolk and Northern ports. The brother of lauded humanitarian Clara Barton, Stephen's mill thrived until commercial insecurity in 1860 caused by looming conflict and Barton's neutrality during the American Civil War.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 51 Issue 1, Jan 1974, p22-40 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Record #:

21289

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

This article examines the history of the 'North Carolina Historical Review' from 1924 to 1974. Founded with state funds, the NCHR initially had little in the way of readers and contributors. Financially strained by the Great Depression and plagued by reduced contributions during World War II, the NCHR received a post-war boom.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 51 Issue 4, Oct 1974, p361-378 , por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW--History

Record #:

21324

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

A look at the events surrounding the 1711 Tuscarora Iroquois Indians attack of white settlements in North Carolina that sent Christopher Gale to South Carolina to solicit aid, and the subsequent South Carolina funded relief expedition led by Colonel John (later \"Tuscarora Jack\") Barnwell that resulted in a conflict at the Tuscarora village of Torhunta, the liberation of the white settlement of Bath Town, and an attempted to capture Tuscarora chief Hancock at Catechna Creek.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 64 Issue 2, April 1987, p115-138, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Tuscarora Indians, Eastern--Wars, 1711-1713

Record #:

21404

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

The second of three articles published under the heading \"A Forum: The Virginia-North Carolina Slave Conspiracy of 1802.\" This article disputes Douglas Egerton's thesis from his article, \"'Fly Across the River': The Easter Slave Conspiracy of 1802\", the first article of the series, stating that  the conspiracy did not originate in Halifax County, Virginia, and spread to other Virginia and North Carolina counties, rather, that the 1802 slave conspiracy consisted of a series of unrelated disturbances.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 2, April 1991, p111-121, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Easter Slave Conspiracy of 1802

Record #:

21421

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

The Tuscarora Indians have often been viewed by scholars as only being significant to North Carolina during the Tuscarora War between 1711 and 1713. This is not the case as the Tuscarora dominated the region for over a century, first amongst the Indian groups of the region and then when dealing with European colonists. From the late 1500s to their defeat in 1713, the Tuscarora attempted to maintain control over their territory and trading rights in much of eastern North Carolina. Their presence demarcated the extent of English settlement in North Carolina from 1654 to 1712 and may have influenced several internal conflicts among the colonists.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 4, Oct 1982, p307-326 , il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Tuscarora Indians, Eastern--Wars, 1711-1713

Record #:

21630

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

This article examines the fate of African-born Muslim slaves in North Carolina, with more scrutiny on the life of Umar ibn Said, an educated and upper class Muslim from Senegal. It delivers details from his life, especially after he became a slave in 1810 on a Cape Fear River plantation owned by James Owen. It also chronicles his conversion to Christianity, which was used by missionaries as an example on how to convert Muslims.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 2, Apr 2000, p127-150 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Slavery

Record #:

21638

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

This article describes some of the theories regarding the disappearance of Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists who had disappeared from Roanoke Island as posited by other historians, including the work of David Beers Quinn. Parramore debates Quinn on some issues, and also supplements Quinn's findings with his own research and thesis.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 78 Issue 1, Jan 2001, p67-83, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Roanoke Colony