Research Databases

Will of Mary Holmes (Craven County) – 1824 and Apprentice Bond for Richard Holmes (UPDATED)
UPDATE 09/01/2026 – This article was originally published May 9, 2018, but I have found a great deal more information…
1942 case deals with 18th century Beaufort County land deeds
I was searching for some familiar names on FamilySearch Full Text Search, just in case I stumbled on anything I…
Was Selah Averitt the mother of Betsy Holmes (wife of Dennis Wiggins) and William Holmes (husband of Alpha Morris)? What do you think?
I'll put my cards on the table right now. No. I don't think Betsy Holmes or William Holmes are the…
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: 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…
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…
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…
Abraham Kornegay (Jones County) to James Cremer (Beaufort County), 1787
This is another item I found using the Full Text Search at FamilySearch. I normally wouldn't be searching deeds for…
Elisha Morris to Levi Nelson, 1798 (Beaufort County, NC) then transferred to John Williams
I found this deed using FamilySearch's new AI Full-Text Search tool. I was searching for "Elisha Morris" and I set…