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155 results for "North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal"
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44841
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"The Cumberland Battalion (also Guard) was the State of North Carolina's last active military effort to aid the settlers in its western lands against Indian depravations."
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 18 Issue 4, November 1992,
p194-204, map, f
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44172
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The subject of real estate terminology is expanded on by the author of this sketch. Information is taken from a genealogy workshop held by the North Carolina Division of Archives and History on July 19-20, 1975. An alphabetical listing of terms and their meanings is given.
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44511
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It is noted a bonus item in this diary is a record of the collection of fees for marriage licenses in 1765 and 1766 for Halifax County. A unique item, the diary shows the migration of a prominent attorney from Maryland to Halifax County N.C. in 1765, where he assumed the duties of the Clerk of Court for Halifax County.
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 10 Issue 4, November 1984,
p223-226, il, map
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44807
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In North Carolina until 1808, only the General Assembly had jurisdiction over matter of divorce and separation. However, beginning that year, divorces could be obtained in the county Superior courts for impotency or adultery.
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44199
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In colonial America, divorce could only be granted through legislative act. After the Revolution,, laws regarding marriage and divorce were slow to change. In North Carolina, an act passed in 1796 gave only four specific reasons divorce could be granted. In 1808, the North Carolina Assembly passed an act concerning divorce and alimony.
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44742
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Now defunct, Dobbs originally contained portions of Jones and Wilson Counties and the whole of Wayne, Greene and Lenoir Counties. Information abstracted here is from the original 1769 list preserved in the Secretary of State Records.
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44385
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The earliest written record for the area is connected to a bishop of the Moravian Church, who around 1752-53 was looking for potential sites for settlement. In the 1760s, the first land grants were initiated by a group of men from Rowan but were not finalized due to the Earl Granville in 1763, which voided the power of Granville's land agents.
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 8 Issue 3, August 1982,
p130-134, il, map, f
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44535
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The author surveys the development of early settlement along the Carolina coast, noting the French and Spanish experience, the Virginia colony in 1584 and 1587, the Province of Carolina in 1624, the 1663 Charter, Clarendon County and Craven County.
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 11 Issue 2, May 1985,
p74-90, il, map, f
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44143
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The author notes that the Tuscaroras were not the first people to settle the area comprising the Neuse River basin and its tributaries. The Algonquin Indians had actually been in the are much earlier. The largest early infusion of white settlers came with Swiss Nobleman, Christopher de Graffenried. The author furnishes lists of names comprising what may be the most comprehensive census of Neuse River Country prior to 1720. Shown also is an early sketch by Graffenried.
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44890
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the list abstracted here was obtained from the papers of former N.C. Governor Henry T. Clark. Information given includes, name of each employee, trade, days employed and wage amounts. Enslaved persons and women were among those employed.
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44860
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The author examines nearly one records from 60 volumes of "North Carolina Reports" Washington County lost a considerable portion of its records in 1862, 1869 and 1881. Abstracts of selected cases here shed light on the potentials for genealogical research provided in court records.
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44706
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"The five 'lost' tax lists include a magistrate's list for a single district in 1784 and complete lists filed by the county clerk for 1791, 1795, 1797 and 1799. They supply much of what is lacking in Chowan County Taxables, 1780-1801, North Carolina State Archives."
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 13 Issue 4, November 1987,
p206-217, il
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44710
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Abstracted by the author is Franklin County's 1815 tax list.
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44870
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the author notes most of these individuals became free in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries before chattel slavery developed. It is interesting to note that in 1701 North Carolina General Assembly elections several free African Americans vote. some of the first free African Americans in Virginia married Native Americans.
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 20 Issue 3, August 1994,
p177-193, f
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44265
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The author emphasizes the detail of information located in the 'North Carolina Reports" which is available likely in no other courthouse record or community newspaper. Originally titled the Court of Conference in 1799, the North Carolina Supreme Court took on it current name in 1805. As a point of illustration on the complexity of genealogical information found in "The Reports", the 1819 case of Shepard vs. Shepard expounds on some 23 persons throughout a period of four generations.
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