This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2UB.2ACI/1858 Message Board Post: I am conducting research for a book on African-American world war veterans and would like to conduct interviews with those (vets and their families) willing to share their experiences. Please contact Lisa Daniels at (866)206-9066, ext. 6672 or e-mail me at sweetiepiepress@yahoo.com Thank you for your participation.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dempsey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2UB.2ACI/1857 Message Board Post: I would like to find anyone knowing families connected to John H Dempsey b 1828 in Bertie CO., NC I believe his parents to be George and Polly Brigence Dempsey. JOhn names his first son b 1850 in Floyd Co. Ga. George. His dau. born 1848 Mary Ann. There were 9 ch. born in this family of George and Polly. Please email me if you think you could be of this line. Gail

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomas, Wilford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2UB.2ACI/773.1374.1.1 Message Board Post: Wilford-Williford Family Treks into America (page 132) by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel has info on Thomas, son of Isham and Winfred. Do you have this information?

I have not only been looking at the census indexes, but also looking at the actual listing. Apparently whoever transcribed the census info, has made some mistakes. If you get the chance to look at the actual census info, some of the census takers handwriting is very poor and some think that you have to write with such flair, that you cannot read their's also. Thank God for the ones who take the time to translate the info. Some of the Rascoes, Bonds, and Gillams went to Tennessee. Maybe these are some relatives who came back to North Carolina. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jrrasco@aol.com> To: <NCBERTIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 10:59 AM Subject: [NCBERTIE] Bertie County Rascoe > The census of 1840 list a Joseph J. Rascoe, age about 21, single. In the 1850 > census this Joseph J, Rascoe is again list as age 31, single. He does not > appear again in any later censuses. Does anyone know who his parents were and > what became of him? > > Also in the 1850 census a John T. Rascoe appears. age 30, single. In the 1860 > census this John T. Rascoe is listed as a physician. He does not appear in > later censuses. Does anyone know who his parents were and what became of Him? > > > Thanks for your help. > > > James R. Rasco > jrrasco@aol.com > > > ==== NCBERTIE Mailing List ==== > Bertie County Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbertie/index.htm > Many pages of information on-line. I welcome yours as well! > Be sure to "search" on this page! Send to me: varcsix@hot.rr.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I do not have John Peter Rascoe's parents. In the 1820 Census, there is a John Roscoe, 26-45, a wife 26-45, 2 male children 10-16yrs , 2 daughters 0-10 yrs. (The 1820 Census lists this info under James Roscoe, but when you search the online images, his real name is John. The 1830 Census list John Rascoe 40-50, wife 40-50, 1 son 5-10, and a daughter 15-20. The census also list Peter Rascoe as 50-60, wife 50-60 and a son 5-10. It also list a Penelope Rascoe 60-70 for the first time. Is this the mother of John and Peter? The 1850 census list John B Rascoe as 36, Martha 33 as wife, Peter 11, William 9 and lucy as 4/12. I have John Peter Rascoe b 1/14/1839 d 9/10/1904. I do not show any wife or children, but this may be incorrect. I have Mary Ann Rascoe b 9/26/1813 d 2/9/1855, was brother to John Peter Rascoe b 12/29/1813. Mary Ann married Francis (Frank) Richard Pugh 12/18/1828. Frank was b 1805 d 12/16/1837. She then married Andrew Murdock Craig 5/21/1844. He was b10/09/1806 d10/29/1874. He was a Baptist preacher and farmer. His first wife was Mary Eliza Brown b 1/14/1814 d 8/11/1843. His third wife was Clarissa Rebecca Gillam, daughter of Wiley J Gillam and Elizabeth "Betsy" Rascoe Bond. I do not know about Martha or man Gray. Gray's landing at the Cashie River in Windsor was named for the Gray Family. Windsor had a naming ceremony last year at the river's edge. Please give me your adress and phone #. Thanks Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jrrasco@aol.com> To: <ecraig@simflex.com> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [NCBERTIE] John Peter Rascoe > Hello Lou, > > Thank you for responding to my query on John Peter Rascoe. I may already have > the answer to my question, just need proof. I believe that John Peter Rascoe > was a son of William H. Rascoe and Mary (?) Mhoon. William H. Rascoe being a > son of Peter Rascoe (b. 22 Oct. 1765, d. 23 Nov. 1843) and Ann or Clara > Smithwick. > > I show that John Peter Rascoe's sister, Mary Ann Rascoe married Francis > Richard Pugh December 18, 1828 and that she died Feb. 9, 1855. I was unaware > of a second marriage to a Craig. > > John Peter and Mary Ann also had a sister named William Martha Rascoe who > married someone with the last name of Gray. Do you know any more about this > man or Martha? > > Thanks for your help. > > > James R. Rasco > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2UB.2ACI/773.1374.1 Message Board Post: I am from the Isham Wilford line, specifically from his son John, my GG Gfather. Would like to connect and share information. Charles Callaway calmac13@earthlink.net

The census of 1840 list a Joseph J. Rascoe, age about 21, single. In the 1850 census this Joseph J, Rascoe is again list as age 31, single. He does not appear again in any later censuses. Does anyone know who his parents were and what became of him? Also in the 1850 census a John T. Rascoe appears. age 30, single. In the 1860 census this John T. Rascoe is listed as a physician. He does not appear in later censuses. Does anyone know who his parents were and what became of Him? Thanks for your help. James R. Rasco jrrasco@aol.com

I do not have John Peter Rasco's parents; however I do have info on his sister, Mary Ann Rascoe Pugh Craig. Martha Gillam Price, Windsor, NC also has some info that she has never gotten to me. Perhaps we three can get together and combine the info that we have, and not duplicate our research. I do not put my info on the website because some people take it and then say it was in an "nonexistent book. Lou Craig 4106 Princess Anne Cr Wilson, NC 27896 252-237-5737 ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jrrasco@aol.com> To: <NCBERTIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 7:14 PM Subject: [NCBERTIE] John Peter Rascoe > John Peter Rascoe was born December 29, 1813 in Bertie County. He died May 5, > 1888. He married Martha M. Bond about 1838. She was born April 28, 1817 and > died December 2, 1903. She was a daughter of John Bond and Margaret Taylor. > > John Peter Rasco had the following children: > > Peter Rasco born abt. 1840 > William Rascoe born about 1842. Married Mary Twine May 11, 1863. > Lucy Rascoe born about 1846. Married Capt. Edward Outlaw III Nov. 10, 1868. > Aaron S. Rascoe born abt. 1848. Married Lizzie Gillam abt. 1876. > Margaret T. Rascoe born abt 1844 > Mollie Rascoe born about 1850. > > Can someone tell me who the parents of John Peter Rascoe were or any > additional information on anyone in this family? > > > James R. Rasco > jrrasco@aol.com > > > ==== NCBERTIE Mailing List ==== > Post your materials here: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.northcarolina.counties.bertie > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

John Peter Rascoe was born December 29, 1813 in Bertie County. He died May 5, 1888. He married Martha M. Bond about 1838. She was born April 28, 1817 and died December 2, 1903. She was a daughter of John Bond and Margaret Taylor. John Peter Rasco had the following children: Peter Rasco born abt. 1840 William Rascoe born about 1842. Married Mary Twine May 11, 1863. Lucy Rascoe born about 1846. Married Capt. Edward Outlaw III Nov. 10, 1868. Aaron S. Rascoe born abt. 1848. Married Lizzie Gillam abt. 1876. Margaret T. Rascoe born abt 1844 Mollie Rascoe born about 1850. Can someone tell me who the parents of John Peter Rascoe were or any additional information on anyone in this family? James R. Rasco jrrasco@aol.com

Neil Baker is sharing this clipping from the Windsor Public Ledger-1887 The following is an excerpt from the historical account of the history of the Bertie County Courthouse as published in the… WINDSOR PUBLIC LEDGER OCTOBER 5, 1887 THE CORNERSTONE The morning of Saturday, October 1, say one the largest crowds in Windsor ever before gathered together. The occasion was laying of the corner stone of a new court house. The stone was laid by the Masons with imposing ceremonies, Mr. C. H. Robinson, G.M. of the State delivering the dedication address, and Hon. F. D. Winston the commemorative oration. Mr. Winston’s speech was grand and sublime. The Edenton Silver Cornet Band furnished the music for the occasion. After the ceremonies their was a public dinner and all who wished could partake. The immense crowd seemed to enjoy themselves and all left feeling glad they came. We will publish at length in our next issue the speeches of Mr. C. H. Robinson, G. M., of the State and Hon. F. D. Winston, together with interesting articles appertaining to the day. WINDSOR PUBLIC LEDGER OCTOBER 12, 1887 COURT HOUSE CELEBRATION 1774, This I imply from the fact that at that meeting of the court and as preparatory to holding court in another place, the justices ordered “That the Clerk of the court set up advertisements at all the convenient places in the county giving notices that the County Court House, Goal and lot of land on which the same stands is to be sold at a public vendue the Monday before the next court. And likewise the public warehouse on Cashie river”. So important an event as the removal of the seat of government at this day would create great excitement, but it seems not to have caused a ripple in the breast of the staid colonial justiciars for the court record is silent on that point. From the records the first court held at Windsor was at August Term 1774 and no removal from this place has ever been made. It seems that the jail at Wolfingdon was used after the court was moved to Windsor for at August Term 1774 the Sheriff was ordered “to repair the jail until a new one was built at Windsor” The first court held in this place was in a house belonging to William Williams ancestor of our townsman Dr. E. W. Pugh. From the best information I can gather it was the house now occupied by Mrs. Wm. S. Gray. I have heard my uncle Tayloe say that that house was at one time a place for holding the courts of the county. The next court place was at the house of Mr. Samuel Milburn which was a hotel---a long building, part two story, which occupied the lot where Thomas Gilliam, Esq. now lives. Our esteemed and venerable fellow citizen, Mr. L. S. Webb recollects the house well, when it was torn down and replaced by James Reid’s saddle shop. It was afterward the residence of the late Burrell Russell. I cannot ascertain the date when work was begun on the old court house. I infer it was 1775, one year after the courts were held in Windsor for I find of record of that date a deed from Samuel Milburn to the Commissioners an Trustees for half an acre of land for the purpose of erecting a court house, clerk’s office, jail, stocks and pillory for the county of Bertie. Thomas Rhodes, grandfather of Mr. Jonathan S. Tayloe and great grandfather of L. S. Webb, was the contractor. Mr. Tayloe told me that the walls were completed to the top of the windows at the breaking out of the Revolutionary war when work was suspended. It was completed in 1788, for in that year a tax of “14 pence on the poll and every one hundred pounds of town property was leqied to pay the debt due Thomas Rhodes for building the court house.” The county rapidly grew in wealth and population and the volume of judicial business increased. More court accommodations were needed and in 1822 two wings were added by Elisha Rhodes, and the building was then completed as you have been accustomed to see it. For a year or two past the subject of a new court house has been discussed in a casual way, but nothing definite was done until December of last year when the Commissioners ordered a bill to be drawn authorizing them to proceed with the work. At the January meeting of this year the bill was agreed upon and on the 17th day of January, as your Senator in the General Assembly, I had the honor to introduce the bill and have it passed without alteration or amendment. The work was let out June 1887 and the old building you see has disappeared. In brief fellow citizens I have given you the history of the old building and the new. Many hallowed memories clustered around our old court house. I challenge any county to produce a more honorable record for integrity and efficiency than borne by the officers who have presided in our country---the Johnstons, Cherrys, Whitmels, Hills, Lewis Thompson, Jonathan S. Tayloe, the Grays, Standleys, Jacocks, L. S. Webb, and him, who but so lately passed from us, the efficient clerk, the gentleman, the generous friend, the charitable neighbor, Wm. P. Gurley, dying as he lived with decency and in order. The lawyers who have practiced in our old court house have been known and honored for their strict integrity, sagacious counsel, great wisdom and peerless eloquence. Their honored names make a jeweled crown befitting the brow of any land. But they have all gone to the undiscovered country and nothing remains but their actions which blossom in the dust that years scatter on their tombs. Iredell, Moore, Barker, Stone, Wm. Cherry, James Allen, W. W. Cherry, Gavin Hogg, Reynolds, David Outlaw, Winston, Jos. B. Cherry, Garrett, Jordan, and Bird. Break dead silence in which their spirits rest, and let us feel again the touch of their vanished hands and the sound of their stilled voices. If ever the hosts of the immortal bless the scenes of earth, come mighty dwellers from the spirit land and breathe a benison on the work of this hour. It is not alone in the peaceful walks of life, but also in the tented field our country has reaped undying fame by the daring of her sons. From the time gallant Whitmel fell in the Revolution and received a soldiers grave with intrepid Nash at Germantown. Virginia Crilley

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/bertie/court.htm Scroll down to the bottom of this page - Inquests Lynn McCarthy and her cousin, F.B. have contributed several "Coronor Inquest" reports. These are from the NC Archives, and provide an interesting insight into these unusual court proceedings. Hope you discover something you didn't know before! These are documents most of us would never have the opportunity to see, so we are very grateful to the two of them for sharing these. Virginia Crilley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lawrence, Combs, Savage, Sawyer, Self and Taylor families Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2UB.2ACI/1856 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on Sarah Lawrence who married Thomas Combs. Together they had a daughter named Annie but what other children did they have? Annie was born in Bertie Co., NC in 1883. She met and married John Franklin "Frank" Savage before moving to South Norfolk, Va. All information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2UB.2ACI/1138.1131.1139.1140.1302.1 Message Board Post: I know somehow they are related as I found just one little item in Charleston about Folk and Mhoon. Marie MImbs

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Lcmccarthy@aol.com Lynn McCarthy Petition for Grist Mill North Carolina Division of Archives & History Raleigh, NC CR 010 928.9 [No year given] Mill Petition to May Court To the Worshipful, The Justices of the Court of Bertie now Sitting Whereas the Inhabitants of Cuckolomaker are Destitute of the conveniency of a Near water Grist mill Your Petitioners therefore pray Your Worships will grant an Order to Aaron Meazels to Erect a Mill on the sd Cuckolomaker Swamp for the more Conveniency of sd Inhabitants. And Your Petitioners will ever pray. Aaron Mizzell William Mitchell Thos Mezels Jotho Butlar Herbert Pritchard Timothy Mizell George Laughton William Cake Filgo William Cowand George Harison William Hobbs Jurnagan John Cowand Ezekial White Virginia Crilley

--part1_4e.f648898.2a7db841_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_4e.f648898.2a7db841_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <Jim55fl@aol.com> From: Jim55fl@aol.com Full-name: Jim55fl Message-ID: <12.233aaba3.2a7db7f5@aol.com> Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 18:49:25 EDT Subject: Lance Harrell To: Harrell-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10512 Looking for any info on Lance Harrell b. abt. 1845 in ? m. Margaret Motley/Moxley. Their daughter Sarah Jane Harrell b. 1-20-1867 Betie Co., NC m. Joseph L. Lynch. Jim --part1_4e.f648898.2a7db841_boundary--

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Perry/Evans Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2UB.2ACI/1854 Message Board Post: My grandmother was Blonnie Christine Evans who married David James Perry in 1914 in Bertie County. Her father was Robert Evans and mother was Arrie Menta Hughes. Does anybody have any further info on any of them? Thanks, Nancy

"Marianne just sent me some of the 1900 Coleraine Township Census http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/bertie.htm#census I'm still working on getting a Search Engine while Rootsweb continues to work on getting our "great one" back together.... Virginia Crilley

Suzan Speropolous just shared this very interesting story done by John E. Tyler in 1945 for the Bertie Newspaper on General Douglas MacArthur's heritage from Bertie County. I thought you'd all find this interesting! Abstracted from the Bertie Ledger-Advance, Friday, September 21, 1945 MOTHER OF GEN. MacARTHUR FROM BERTIE COUNTY STOCK (Editors Note: John Edward Tyler, the author of the interesting and informative story below about the ancestors of General Douglas MacArthur who first lived in America in Bertie county, lives at Roxobel. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E.R. Tyler) Mr. Tyler, who is a student of Bertie County history, says not only was General MacArthur descended from Bertie County people but his researches have shown him that many other famous names of those who have made and are making history today have connections in this county. Mr. Tyler, whose work is painstaking and authoritative as well as interestingly presented has promised to contribute other articles on Bertie county history from time to time. By John Edward Tyler When thinking of a person's forebears we sometimes forget the numerous other blood streams which go to make up the man but concentrate only on the family name of the father. As a result, through the ages the family names of the women who have married into the father's family often pass into oblivion. The Spanish take care of this neglect very neatly. They have an old custom of placing the mother's name after the surname and in this way the name of more than one side of a family is preserved for posterity. The name of General Douglas MacArthur like those of other military leaders of this World War II will be written in the annals of American history and remembered as long as this civilization continues to exist. But the fact the same amount of Hardy blood flows in the General's veins as does MacArthur will soon be forgotten by the public. The present General MacArthur's mother was born Pinkney Hardy. She was the daughter of Thomas Hardy whose ancestors were among the earliest settlers of North Carolina and Bertie County. It seems that the first appearance of the Hardy family in the county was about 1695. At that time our present county of Bertie was a part of Albemarle county which was divided into precincts. From the records of Albemarle county it is shown that on October 7, 1695 one John Hardy came into court to prove his rights for the importation of himself and his family. These rights were in reference to "headrights" for which he received for himself a grant of fifty acres of land and the same amount for each additional person brought into the colony. The other members of the family who came with him were Charity, William, Mary, John, Jr., Thomas and Jacob Hardy. From the accessable data John Hardy must have been one of the Prime old gentlemen of Bertie. His name appears often in matters of state and among those lists of men whose interest in public affairs made them leaders of the community. His will is dated 1719 and speaks of his wife, Rebecca, daughters, Mary and Elizabeth and brothers, William, Thomas and Jacob Hardy. One of the testators of the will was Thomas Pollock who once served as governor of the colony. Elizabeth the daughter of John Hardy, married Nathaniel Hill, a kinsman of the Hon. Whitmel Hill, a prominent statesman of his day. Another member of the Hardy clan, Matthew of Bertie county, married in 1741, Penelope Gale Little, daughter of Christopher Gale, the first Chief Justice of North Carolina. She was also the widow of William Little, another Chief Jutice. Among General MacArthur's predecessors we find the will of William Hardy probated in Bertie county in 1784. It mentions his children, Elizabeth, Benjamin and Lamb Hardy, also his brothers, Edward and Jesse Hardy. In this line is next the will of Lamb Hardy, son of William Hardy, recorded in Bertie county in 1797. There is named his wife Winnefred, children Elizabeth, William Parrott and Thomas Hardy. Lamb Hardy was evidently a Methodist minister from Bertie county. From Mr. John B. Watkins of Henderson, NC, it is learned that Lamb Hardy's sons, Thomas and William Parrott Hardy, moved to Norfolk and there made a considerable fortune as cotton commissioners. In the year 1858 Thomas Hardy brought a place in the present Vance county, NC known as "Burnside. It was there that he sent his family as refugees from the fighting area about Norfolk during the Civil War. This Thomas Hardy was the grandfather of General Douglas MacArthur. He died in 1880. His will is recorded in Vance county. Among Thomas Hardy's children were sons Thomas, Jr. and John Hardy and daughter Pinkney Hardy. This daughter Pinkney Hardy (Miss Pinky) was married in 1870 to General Arthur MacArthur at New Orleans. These were the parents of General Douglas MacArthur, the soldier whom the United States has chosen to settle the affairs of a bigoted Japan--the soldier to whom the Allied Nations owe such gratitude for his great contribution in defeating the ambitious regimes of ruling the world. Virginia Crilley

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/northham.htm Gerald Byrd transcribed the Northampton County Court of Pleas minutes from about 1792 to about 1812; these are references to the Futrell surname ONLY, but I thought there might be some people that might have connections to Northampton County as well. These are on the Northampton County Archives page. Virginia Crilley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harrell Early Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2UB.2ACI/1706.3.2.1 Message Board Post: Does anyone have any Harrells that married an "Early/Earley?"