Isle of Wight is in VA across the James River from Newport News. When searching through some of the records in that area my wife ran across the name "Oyl of White". She finally figured out it was supposed to be Isle of Wight. Randy -------Original Message------- From: Anne Harris Date: 10/8/2012 11:34:21 PM To: EVELYN WALLACE; harris-hunters@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Searching for Harrises in North Carolina Where was Isle of Wright? Have a good day, Anne >________________________________ > From: EVELYN WALLACE <hdanw@verizon.net> >To: Harris Hunters <Harris-Hunters@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, October 8, 2012 11:24 PM >Subject: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Searching for Harrises in North Carolina > >NO DOUBT many of you searching for ancestors in North Carolina know about this FREE resource. > >I am suggesting you use google to find digitizition of > >North Carolina Colonial and State papers > >The indexes are a little clunky, but there is an index. I don't recall at this time whether each of the 20 volumes (or more) has its own index. I seem to remember that much of the material are transcribed letters, official documents (and therefore dull). > >However, when I used hard copies of the actual volumes which I tripped on while browsing the shelves at my local LDS Family History, I found lists of land owners, etc. > > >Mrs.Helen Leary (editor, lecturer of NC) made a statement in a long-ago NGS conference in Richmond, VA which will be helpful to researchers of that colony or state: > > >Most North Carolians came from Virginia as the barrier islands on the Atlantic coast > >prevent much use of ports (if any)until one gets to Wilmington. (Which was full of Scotsmen who had recently been defeated at the Battle of Culloden in Scotland and swore at their defeat never to fight England again. (use wikipedia to learn more about the Battle of Culloden.) > > >For using info given by Mrs. Leary-- one of my colonial ancestors lived in these Virginia counties: > >Surry and Isle of Wight (?) Cos > >Another who came to Granville Co. ca 1750 was from Goochland Co., previously part of Henrico Co. VA > >And then when I was researching Caswell Co. NC (formed 1777 from Orange Co. NC) I discovered there were relatives in Pittsyvania Co. VA) > >I hope you can use the NC colonial & state papers satisfactorly. > >Evelyn W. Wallace > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >v > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message