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1767 Petition to Move Pitt County Courthouse to plantation of Edmond Tyson
This petition was published previously on this site from a transcription by Roger Kammerer, but it was identified as a…Pitt County to Tennessee: Hidden Gem of a Rare Revolutionary War Land Bond in Loose Court Papers
I have thoroughly enjoyed poring over the pages in the the only surviving folder from the colonial and early statehood…1786 List of Taxables for Pitt County (perhaps Swift Creek area?)
I found this list crawling through a folder of Pitt County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions records on FamilySearch.…
Zeroing in on the right David Averitt (d. 1828)
Over the years, I've published several posts about items as I found them in the search for more information about…Craven County Genealogical Society Presentation: An Example of a Civil War Pension Record, and Where to Find Them
I've already written on this blog about the Civil War Pension Application for my 3rd-great-grandfather, Levi Morris, but this presentation…The Origins of Laban Morris – A compendium of data points and information spanning nearly a century
Using a combination of Y-DNA, mtDNA, autosomal DNA and X-DNA, we're zeroing in on a few facts with relative confidence:…Jonas Anderson and Sarah Acklin are NOT your ancestors
If you've been researching the Anderson family of Swift Creek in Craven County, North Carolina, there's a good chance you've…
1786 Swift Creek Tax List
In April 2014, I ran a copy of the 1786 Swift Creek Tax List as it appeared in the Pitt…
Samuel Wiggins of Craven County (father of Alexander, Joseph, Dennis, and Frederick)
I recently received an email from a descendant of Dennis Wiggins who had seen that on FamilySearch, some trees claim…
Levi Morris – Civil War Pension Application
First of all, I'd like to thank Gopher Records for this incredible service that they offer. It's not free to…
1844 Lenoir County, NC Tax List
I was so happy to find this on the NCDCR site. First time I've ever seen my ancestor Eli Cox's…Family Tree Fact Check: Elial Edwards, son of Emanuel Edwards
There is a persistent error on Ancestry and elsewhere that is conflating two Elial EDWARDS from Beaufort County, North Carolina.…
