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38934
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The author of this article discusses the ethnic origins and races of our ancestors. Like the Bass family of Norfolk County and Camden County who are listed both white and black in the records. The census records did not have a listing for non-white, so Indians and foreigners would be listed as black.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p92-93
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38935
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The author gives a small history of the Jackson Marble Company of Elizabeth City, NC. The business was owned by James Jackson and later sold to Clifton Sawyer. There is an abstract given of the sales between 1920-1924.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p94-95
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38936
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The author gives an excerpt of the plantation diary of Joseph Benson Ferebee from 1854-1864.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p95-96
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38937
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The author continues the genealogy of the David Pritchard family of Pasquotank County, NC.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p97-100
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38938
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In Winter term Camden Court, Major Dozier and Charles Gregory were found guilty of illegal voting.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p103
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38939
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This is a transcription of the J. B. Bray and Nancy Squires Bible Record (1845-1887)
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p103-104
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38940
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The author gives an early history of the Bass family, beginning with the marriage of a Nansemond Indian woman named Elizabeth to John Bass in 1638. There was an undocumented William Bass (b. 1755) that settled in Camden County, NC, with connections to Norfolk County, VA. It is believed these are Indian families.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p104-107
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38941
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The author of this article is trying to find the ancestry of Cornelius Rhodes of Camden County, NC. Cornelius had a son, Miles Rhodes, who lived near Okisko, NC and moved to Indiana about 1830 taking the family bible with him. There is a connection to the King/Culpepper families. There is a confusing record from 1838 that has a Cornelius Rhodes of Bremen, Maine given land near Elizabeth City, NC.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p107-108
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38942
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Tobias Knight, was a Councilman, Council secretary, Justice and Collector of Customs for Currituck County, NC. Edward Teach, the Pirate, had been granted may favors by Governor Charles Eden and Tobias Knight as Secretary/Collector and Knight had private correspondence with Teach about concealing robberies committed in NC waters. Knight had received a large portion of the cargo of a French ship that Teach had robbed and had it hidden at Knight’s home at Knight’s Point on Knotts Island, NC. After the death of Teach, Knight was charged as an accessory to piracy, but got off with the help of Eden. Knight and Eden were then charged with collusion with pirates, but Knight died before the investigation finished.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p108-109
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38943
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John Wright Harrison, was a farmer in the Old Trap community of Camden Co., NC. He had a store and was half owner in a windmill with Dempsey Wright on Pasquotank River. His old house was torn down in 1969 where four generations had lived. An old store ledger from 1875-77 was discovered in the attic of the house and one page is included with this biography.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p109-111
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38944
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John Jenkins, a native of England, settled first in Northampton County, VA and moved to Albemarle Co., NC in 1662. He became a senior member of the NC Council and through the political upheavals of the time, Jenkins served as Governor of the Albemarle region of North Carolina three times.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p111-112
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38945
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Thomas Blount, moved from Isle of Wight County, VA to the Albemarle region of North Carolina between 1660-1669. He served on the North Carolina Council by 1696, was a justice. Meetings of the Assembly, Council, general Court of Chancery were held in Blount’s home in Perquimans Precinct. In 1701, the General Court banned Blount from ever holding civil or military office again because his son, James Blount, married the sister of his first wife after her decease and Thomas Blount promoted the marriage. Thomas Blount then moved to Chowan Precinct settling on Kendrick’s Creek in preset day Washington County.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p112-113
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38946
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Monkey Island got its name from the Pamunkey Indians, the original inhabitants on this remote island in the Currituck Sound. There were other hunting clubs on the island back to 1869. In 1919, the State of Virginia issued a charter to Monkey Island Gunning Club, on the 1,000 acre island. The name changed one month later to Monkey Island Club. The Penn family owned the Monkey Island Club until 1974 when it was sold to the Monkey Island Investment Venture Corporation for three million dollars. The Penn family bought it back in 1978 and sold it to the Nature Conservatory. The Nature Conservatory donated the property to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Monkey Island is now a part of Currituck National Wildlife Refuge.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p113-114
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38947
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Moses Grandy, born into slavery in Camden County, was an author and abolitionist. After being a slave for the first forty years of his life, he became free and worked to purchase the freedom of his wife and children. In 1842, he recounted his life that was published in a book entitled ‘Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late Slave in the United States of America.’ The narrative helped to bring awareness of slavery and fuel the abolitionist movement in both the United States and England.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p114-115
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38948
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George Catchmaid, a native of England, lived in Maryland in 1652 and served as a burgess in the Virginia Assembly 1659-1660. He moved to the Albemarle region of NC about 1662 and by 1666, was speaker of the North Carolina Assembly. There was a long running controversy over Catchmaids’s land under Virginia Governor William Berkley’s rules of land ownership.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p115-116
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