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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.…
African American Ancestry
William S. Morris of New Bern’s will provides instructions to emancipate “my negro woman and three mulatto children”
Before offering the transcription of this will, first it seems appropriate to provide some context. In 1808 the Act Prohibiting…Indians and mixed-race people named in court records of Carteret County
If you are researching your ancestry, and know that one of your forebears was one of North Carolina's earliest citizens,…
North Carolina Slave Narratives
Between 1936 and 1937, the Works Progress Administration conducted a series of interviews with men and women who were born…
Free People of Color – by County – 1790 Federal Census
I originally compiled and published this list at CoastalCarolinaIndians.com for the purpose of helping people with their Indian ancestry research.…
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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,…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…Craven County School Census – 12th District – Heads of Household & Children (1840?)
I've been working on organizing my seemingly endless genealogy files lately, and came across images I had taken of microfilm (or…Many early North Carolina families are named on the Moseley Map (1733). Is one of them yours?
How early were your ancestors in North Carolina? If they were here prior to the War of Independence, then it…1870 Federal Census – North Carolina Counties (Completely free to access and download!)
The following are links to North Carolina counties for the 1870 Federal Census. Thanks to the Internet Archive, these are…1790 – Dobbs County Census
The following can be found in the State Records of North Carolina, Volume 26, Pages 481-500.
Author Butler is my 4th or 5th great grandfather. I'm from the wiggins side of the family. I love that…