Northeast North Carolina Family History March 2023
- how deep are your roots…? We recently moved some cedar trees on our property hoping to create a privacy hedge. The first tree we chose was about four feet tall and we weren’t sure ....
Category: Irene Hampton
Northeast North Carolina Family History – Mills in Eastern North Carolina?
By: Irene Hampton Last month I wrote about the 1890 Currituck Business Directory when in fact I meant to write about mills in eastern North Carolina. It seemed relevant to write about the reason we ....
Northeast North Carolina Family History – return of a pandemic…
By: Irene Hampton Three years ago this month I wrote about the “blue flu” or the Spanish Flu epidemic (named as news coverage of it began in Spain) which was truly a pandemic. Given the ....
Northeast North Carolina Family History – The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register and a Currituck witch…
By Irene Hampton. “The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register” was the work of James Robert Bent (JRB) Hathaway, a native of and four times mayor of Edenton. Realizing the value of early North Carolina ....
Northeast North Carolina Family History – a local Black History Month Slave story…
By Irene Hampton You may be familiar with the story of Moses Grandy, a Camden slave who published “Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy; Late a Slave in the United States of America in ....
Northeastern North Carolina Family History – a new year, a new census
By: Irene Hampton Someone asked me recently if I could locate a place name in a Currituck will from the 1820’s. I didn’t hold out any high hopes but looked for Patridge Inlet on a ....