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37394
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Memorial and Obituary of Charlie Baynard Gaskins .
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37456
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Tribute and obituary of Edna Morrisette Shannonhouse.
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37462
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Hugh Cale, a mulatto, was born in Perquimans Co., NC, represented Pasquotank County, NC in the General Assembly at various times. He was a member of the Pasquotank County Board of Commissioners, a justice of the peace and a member of the Pasquotank County Board of Education. In Legislature, Cale introduced the bill in the NC House of Representatives to establish a normal school for blacks in Elizabeth City. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the NC Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race at Greensboro, NC 1891-1899.
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37531
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Obituary of Capt. Samuel Rhodes (1831-1903) Elizabeth City, NC
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37690
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Biography of Judge George W. Brooks (1821-1882) a native of Pasquotank County, NC, became a lawyer and then a Federal Judge. He became the greatest hero of Reconstruction Days in North Carolina by writing a writ of Habeus corpus to protect white men being held illegally by the military government imposed on Alamance and Caswell counties. His action has been credited with breaking up the power of the so called Carpet Bag Government of Gov. William Holden.
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38337
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In this part of the narrative of the life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, he talks about being in politics as a Republican; the conspiracy against him; the trouble with a school voucher.
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38343
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In this part of the narrative of the life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, he talks about differences with his brother in politics; went to trial on face charges and jailed out of political spite; description of life in prison and as a prisoner working for the railroad in the NC mountains; being licensed to preach in 1877 and made an application to join the annual Conference of the A.M.E.Z. Zion Church at Goldsboro, NC; the ordeal of going through examination by the Church and being finally received into Conference.
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38421
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This is a copy of reminiscences written by Abigail Brothers Stanley about 1930 about her early life and family in Pasquotank County, NC. She reminiscences about food, hunting, houses, church, going to school, witchcraft and conjuring.
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38423
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This is a copy of reminiscences written by Abigail Brothers Stanley about 1930 about her early life and family in Pasquotank County, NC. She talks about unusual people in the neighborhood and episodes in the life of her relatives and family friends. She also talks about schools, bushwackers and ‘Buffalo’s in in the Civil War.
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38543
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The author talks about searching for her African-American Norfleet Family of Pasquotank County, NC
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38562
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Surnames include: Sawyer, Jennings, Clark, Perry, Small, Russell, Pritchard, Harris, Morgan, Haskett, Scott, Whitehurst, Clary, Overman, Miller, Deal, Sharbor, Powers, Crapper, Modlin, Williams, Charles, Bright, Laboyltoux, Francis, Pool, Simpson, Ives, Martin, Wood, Weeks, Smithson, Whitehurst, Temple, Evens, Speight, Scott, Griffin, Albertson, and Carter.
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38592
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Transcription from the 1826 Norfolk County Minute Book stating that Allen Sikes stole a negro boy named Seston, the property of William Hunter and sold him to William Glover of Pasquotank Co., NC.
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38623
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The author gives the pardons of three men, James Mansfield, George W. Rhodes and Washington Sharpe, of Pasquotank and Perquimans Counties.