This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BVB.2ACI/969 Message Board Post: The 1800 Carteret County Census, "Cedar Island in Core Sound" was written in the margin to define a district of sorts. I am getting at a question concerning the Straits. Prior to 1800 (in the eighteenth century), could the Straits, in Carteret County, have been a name designating a broader area along Core Sound than the location that is known by that name today? Could those strips of land, Hog Island and Cedar Island also be included as the Straits? Does anyone have information on this? What is known about the early origins of the name, the Straits? Any information about this would be appreciated. Thanks.