Census Records

1779 Craven County Tax List p. 353
1779 Craven County Tax List

1779 Craven County Tax List

Below is a transcription of names found on the 1779 Tax List. These original scans can be found here at the NC Digital Collections Site. I am not transcribing all of the property values, only the names. If you see a name that is of interest to you, just find the...

1789 Beaufort County Tax List

1789 Beaufort County Tax List

Below I have transcribed the entire Beaufort County tax listing for 1789, including various rural districts, the town of Washington, and the town of Bath. If you would like to see all of the original images of this and many other early North Carolina tax lists,...

The strange tale of the Craven County woman who gave birth AND signed a deed in Pitt County in the years after her 1816 death

The strange tale of the Craven County woman who gave birth AND signed a deed in Pitt County in the years after her 1816 death

According to publicly-accessible family trees at Ancestry.com, a Craven County woman named Jemima MILLS, said to be a daughter of Nasby MILLS and Keziah HUNTER or Keziah WALLACE or Keziah Hunter WALLACE, was born about 1760, then married a Craven County man named...

1786 Swift Creek Tax List

1786 Swift Creek Tax List

The following was printed in the February 2005 edition of Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly journal. It was abstracted and contributed to that publication by Roger Kammerer. This, and other issues of the journal, may be found at the Internet Archive. 1786 Swift...