Annotated transcription of the records. Other surnames include: Brokenburg, Smith, Davis, Gorman, Jordan, Constable, Charles, Lindsey, Dashiell, Edwards, Pool, McCabe, Whitehurst, Kramer.
Interesting article about the use of a 1694 medical book among Quakers called ‘Culpeppers Physician.” It used bats, urine, frogs, horse-dung and the like in its remedies.
‘Hadacol’ was once a tonic sold in every drug store in the 1930s. It had a unique promotion and advertising campaign where funny word-of-mouth jokes were told about using Hadacol.
March 16th is a day believed cursed by Ocracokers since Old Quawk, a surly West Indian half-breed, a castaway on the island, took his boat out in a storm, loudly defying heaven to do its worst, and was never seen again.