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44217
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Construction of Peace Institute was begun in 1860 but due to the Civil War was not opened until 1872. The main building was originally used as a Confederate Hospital and later to house the Freedman's Bureau. In this article, the author concentrates on a lawsuit brought out in 1842, seeking to resolve William Peace's rightful portion of his brother's estate. The documents generated offer a rich source of genealogical information. William Peace and his brother Joseph were partners in a successful mercantile firm in Raleigh. William donated $10,000 and eight acres of land in 1857 for the creation of Peace Institute.
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 4 Issue 3, August 1978,
p163-167, il, por
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44212
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In this lengthy and well research article, the author bases his principal assertion on William H. Gehrke's UNC master's thesis from 1934, noting that in 1792, the Dutch side of Mecklenburg County was set off as Cabarrus. Theis new county in 1795 had 588 polls and from appearance the dominating majority of residents must have been German.
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 4 Issue 1, February 1978,
p2-18, il, map, f
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44216
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The problem of British merchants collecting several million pounds of debt after the end of the war was a protracted one. Finally on January 8, 1802, an agreement was reached by the two countries on the payment of claims. The author notes this as the first in a planned series of articles on the subject. This first article deals with the Report of Special Agent William Duffy.
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44214
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The author notes valuable materials discovered in the personal bibles of six prominent planters in the counties of Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson in North Carolina. Specifically noted are the bible of Jacob. S. Barnes, the bible of Nathan Parker Daniel, the bible of Lewis Ellis, the bible of William Wilkins, the bible of David Winstead and the bible of William Woodard.
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44218
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For its first ten months of existence, this newspaper was published in the Randolph County town of New Salem. The original owner Benjamin Swaim sold the paper to John Milton Sherwood in 1844.
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44213
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Milton received its name in 1796, but the area has a history going back to 1728. Newspapers abstracted include "Milton Intelligencer", "Milton Gazette and Roanoke Advertiser" and "Milton Spectator".
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44215
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Copied from files in the State Archives, the compiler notes that the marriage bonds for these licenses are not known to have survived.
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44237
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Paine was part of a small powerful group o county officials that managed to hold multiple elected appointments year in and year out.
He comes on the scene when Granville County is created from Edgecombe in 1746. He manages to be appointed justice of the peace of the new county, a vestryman of it local parochial entity and Sherriff of the county in 1748-1749.
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44230
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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.
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44233
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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.
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 5 Issue 3, August 1979,
p173-176, map
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44229
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This newspaper commenced sometime in 1848 in Wadesboro. Due to a great deal of records lost to courthouse fires in Anson County, the compiler notes the information abstracted here of great benefit to researchers. Because the county borders South Carolina, a number of related notices for that state also appear in the information provided.
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44234
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Dr. Alan Watson, native of Rocky Mounty and university professor examines the Bertie County Tax List for 1768. As he notes, " The Bertie County Tax List for 1768 with addendum . . exemplifies one of the most informative extant tax lists for colonial North Carolina."
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 5 Issue 4, November 1979,
p218-245, f
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44266
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In the early national period, there were many clashes and disputes over authority in the expanding southern frontier. One not so well known but no less interesting was that dealing with the first Walton County Georgia. Originally a part of South Carolina, it later became an independent government, then a Georgia county and after a long dispute a part of North Carolina. The Federal government obtained the area from the Cherokees in 1798.
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44276
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This is noted as the fourth in a series of probate records comprising the 20 bound volume series of records known as "Chowan Miscellaneous Papers" within the North Carolina State Archives
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44275
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Originally thought to be tax rolls, the lists are in fact census records taken by order of the Continental and Provincial Congress on Aug. 25, 1775. their purpose is not understood but they have great value for Pitt County, when accounting for the loss of most early record due to the courthouse fire of 1858.
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North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
(F253 .N882A), Vol. 7 Issue 4, November 1981,
p186-196, map
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