Is there anyone doing research on the family of Mary OATES STROUD. She is mentioned in Perquimans County North Carolina Deed Book A. page 112. Well actually I think she is this James OATES sister she is merely mentioned in the deed book as Mary STROUD . The deed mentioned she bound her eldest daughter Easter STROUD to James OATES of Albemarle for 15 years. This was October 1696. Jacob L. Bateman III or Le _______________________________________________ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html

Is anyone researching ROBERTS in Perquimans Co. NC. Hugh Roberts is found on the 1810, 1820 and 1830 census for perquimans co. [email protected]

Whoopie; Finally; Can you help me with the Thomas Harris/ Diana (Manners) line. Their descendent married one of my many times greatgrandfather Nathaniel Nicholson of Perquimans Co North Carolina. I have been up against a brick wall. Thank you Jan at [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: ben forrester <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 5:49 PM Subject: [NCPERQUI] Foster > Researching these surnames in Perquimans Co. early 1700s. FOSTER, GOSBY, NICHOLSON, HARRIS, WHITE Any info would be greatly appreciated. > William and Margaret Neale Foster moved from Accomack Co., VA abt. 1674 to NC with their children Francis and Elizabeth. Francis Foster m. Hannah Nicholson Gosby in 1694 in Perquimans Co. Would like to know what happened to Elizabeth his sister. Margaret Neale Foster died shortly after moving to NC leaving William with the two small children. William married (2) Diana Harris, who was the widow of Thomas Harris, in Perquimans. Does anyone have info on Margaret Neale Foster's death? Does anyone have any info on Francis and Hannah Gosby Foster's children? Please email us at [email protected] Have info to share! > Thanks. > LB Forrester >

Researching these surnames in Perquimans Co. early 1700s. FOSTER, GOSBY, NICHOLSON, HARRIS, WHITE Any info would be greatly appreciated. William and Margaret Neale Foster moved from Accomack Co., VA abt. 1674 to NC with their children Francis and Elizabeth. Francis Foster m. Hannah Nicholson Gosby in 1694 in Perquimans Co. Would like to know what happened to Elizabeth his sister. Margaret Neale Foster died shortly after moving to NC leaving William with the two small children. William married (2) Diana Harris, who was the widow of Thomas Harris, in Perquimans. Does anyone have info on Margaret Neale Foster's death? Does anyone have any info on Francis and Hannah Gosby Foster's children? Please email us at [email protected] Have info to share! Thanks. LB Forrester

Piney Woods Friends Meeting in Belvidere, NC is having a homecoming celebration on Sunday, October 1st 2000 beginning at 10am. Sunday school will be followed by morning worship and then the fellowship of dinner on the grounds. Our special speaker for morning worship will be Leslie Winslow. Piney Woods had its first meeting for worship back in 1723, making this year its 277 birthday! For further information please contact the pastor, Rodney Powell through snail mail, e-mail, or phone at: Rodney Powell Rt. 1 Box 51 Belvidere, NC 27919 (252) 297-2402 [email protected] Or Homecoming Committee clerk, Becky Winslow at: Becky Winslow Box 949 Belvidere Rd. Belvidere, NC 27919 (252) 426-7256 Come on down and join your cousins, do some research at the Family Research Center in Elizabeth City or the courthouse in Elizabeth City or Hertford.

John L. Roberts married Sarah Proby in 1841 in Elizabeth City, N.C. I am looking for varification of this marriage but can find no records. Father was Hugh Roberts who lived in Pasquotank Co. [email protected] [email protected]

Searching for Davenport/Devenport Gooding. D. 1757/58 N. C. Need wife or any decendents. Was known to have two ophaned sons in 1758.

Hi Al, I don't know who you posted that GA cemetery info for, but you sure made MY day! Levi Wingate m. Lydia Goodwin (when?) George W. Wingate m. Mary Frances Broughton 16 Feb 1871 children of George and Mary were: 1. George Leroy "Roy" Wingate m. Susan A. Skinner 1 Jun 1895 They had 4 sons: Surrey, Vertal, Skinner, Wallace. They moved to Savannah, GA. Roy worked for the railroad. 2. Lillian/Lillias Ruth Wingate b. 18 May 1876 m. James Edward Lane 19 Feb 1893 2 daughters: Mary Grace, Frances Wingate/Wortley 5 sons: Lillian, Roscoe, William, Clarence, Clyde Ed and Lillie were my g/grandparents. 3. Roscoe Wingate b. 11 Aug 1882 m. Etha Lupton 3 Oct 1906 3 daughters: Clara, Velna Evans, Julia Frances Roscoe also worked for the railroad. Thanks for helping to fill in the blanks. Now, if I could only FIND some of their descendants! Thanks again, grace

I have it as 17 OCT 1831, Perquimans County, North Carolina, http://www.my-ged.com/db/page/baker/04045 Michael Baker >From: "Grace A. Gleason" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [NCPERQUI] Wingate, Skinner Cemetery Look-up in Millen, GA >Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:35:41 -0400 > >Hi Al, > >I don't know who you posted that GA cemetery info for, but you sure made MY >day! > >Levi Wingate m. Lydia Goodwin (when?) > George W. Wingate m. Mary Frances Broughton 16 Feb 1871 > children of George and Mary were: > 1. George Leroy "Roy" Wingate m. Susan A. Skinner 1 Jun 1895 > They had 4 sons: Surrey, Vertal, Skinner, Wallace. > They moved to Savannah, GA. Roy worked for the >railroad. > > 2. Lillian/Lillias Ruth Wingate b. 18 May 1876 m. James >Edward Lane 19 Feb 1893 > 2 daughters: Mary Grace, Frances Wingate/Wortley > 5 sons: Lillian, Roscoe, William, Clarence, Clyde > Ed and Lillie were my g/grandparents. > > 3. Roscoe Wingate b. 11 Aug 1882 m. Etha Lupton 3 Oct 1906 > 3 daughters: Clara, Velna Evans, Julia Frances > Roscoe also worked for the railroad. > >Thanks for helping to fill in the blanks. Now, if I could only FIND some >of their descendants! > >Thanks again, >grace > > > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Hi Jim Only know a little about the Bertie Co, NC, Winston Family. Will be on the lookout. Al

Hi Al, Have you come across a Jordan H. Winston. We found him in the 1850 Perquimans census. He had a son by the name of Jordan and we have the lineage pretty much down from him but can't anything further on Jordan H. Thanks for any info. Jim Winston [email protected]

Subj: Re: Cemetery Look-up Date: 6/21/00 10:06:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: LynnCheek3 To: Alphieward Jenkins County, Georgia Cemeteries By:Bonnie Gay Written:1988 Volume III, Page 45 Millen Cemetery Aubrey Wingate 5 Dec 1913 - 4 Mar 1917 Surry Earl Wingate, Sr. 11 Feb 1901 - 2 Apr 1948 George Leroy Wingate 25 July 1873 - 17 Dec 1934 Susan Augusta Wingate 13 Mar 1880 - 16 Apr 1925 Surry Earl Wingate, Jr. 7 Aug 1921 - 31 Aug 1921 Volume III, Page 49 Millen Cemetery Allene Skinner 2 Oct 1907 - 17 Oct 1908 Clifton Skinner 10 Jan 1897 - 26 Apr 1910 Elizabeth Landing Skinner 24 Oct 1868 - 17 July 1918 (Wife of A. W. Skinner) Alfred W. Skinner 19 Dec 1859 - 22 Aug 1913 Everette Cameron Skinner 4 Nov 1890 - ??? If I can be of anymore help please let me know. George Leroy Wingate and wife Susan Augusta Skinner were born in Perquimans Co, NC. Al

The 1779 property tax list for Perquimans is now posted (scanned images) at: http://perqtax.homestead.com/ The 1779 list has some 300 names, showing amounts and valuations of land, slaves, cattle, horses, and money in each household. Several entries include additional details about orphans, deceased fathers, and marital status ("maried" or single). Head of household names are transcribed, but not in alphabetical order. And the taxman's handwriting is large and easy to read for once. Later this summer I'll post scans from 1771, the 1760s, and the late 1790s. Enjoy, and happy hunting. Harold Colson San Diego, CA

My ancestors were slave holders from Perquimans Co. and I would like to know where the manuscripts for this are located and where can the published version be found. Thanks for your help. Janie S. Hill On Wed, 24 May 2000 11:18:37 -0400 "Dr. Gordon Trueblood" <[email protected]> writes: > I have received a few requests for information/data contained in a > narrative > taken from Simuel Riddick in the 1930s. I thought it might be > worthwhile to > share this information with the Discussion Group. > > The information I have was taken from manuscripts produced in the > 1930s and > published in 1984 under the title "My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk > About > Slavery" edited by Belinda Hurmence and published by John F. Blair, > Publisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. > > First, a little background information: during the depression years > the > Federal Government initiated the Federal Writers Project...primarily > to > create work for writers without jobs. An important focus of this > initiate > was to interview as many former slaves as possible - an important > but > long-neglected soure of information about the institution of slavery > in the > United States. As you can appreciate, by the mid 1930s, there were > considerably fewer ex-slaves from whom oral histories could be > taken. > Hence, the importance of the interviews. > > Among those interviewed was a former slave living in Raleigh, but > from > Perquimans County. He was 95 when he was interviewed. The essence > of his > interview is as follow: > > His name was Simuel Riddick. He was born on Feb. 4th, 1841 in > Perquimans > County. His mother was Nancy Riddick and his father was Elisha > Riddick. > > Simuel Riddick's master and mistress were Elisha and Sarah Riddick. > They > had three daughters: Sarah, Christine, and Mary; and one son named > Asbury > Riddick. > > Simuel Riddick reports he had good food and clothes and was well > treated by > his master, who owned about 25 slaves. Simuel Riddic was foreman of > the > plantation and "looked after things in general. I had charge of > everything > at the lots and in the fields. They trusted me." > > Although Elishas Riddick treated his slaves well, his son, Ashbury > was > described as a "rangtang" who loved liquor and "colored women". > Asbury > Riddick married Mary Marmaduke from Gates County. > > "I have seen lots of pattyrollers. They were my friends. I had > friends > among them because I had a young missus they run with. That's why > they let > me alone. I went with her to cotton-picking night. They came but > they > didn't touch me. My young missus married Dr. Perry from the same > neighborhood in Pequimans County. Bill Simpson married her sister. > He was > from the same place. Watson White married the other one. He was > from > Perquimans County". Simuel does not identify in his narrative which > daughter was married to which man. > > When the Civil War broke out, Simuel Riddick reports, "I remember > Marster's > brother's son Tommy going off to war. Marster's brother was named > Willis > Riddick. He never came back." > > When the wark broke out, Simuel left his marster (runaway?) and went > to > Portsmouth, Virginia. He says General Miles captured him and put > him in > uniform and Simuel waited on him as a body servant and private in > the U.S. > Army. He stayed with General Miles until Gen. Lee surrendered. > After the > war, he stayed on with Gen. Miles as a servant. He broke service > with > General Miles when the General was ordered to the plains in the > west. > > At the end of his narrative, Simuel reports that after he moved to > Raleigh, > he received a letter from his missus (Sarah Riddick). He does not > say what > was in the letter, only that she was a fine woman and always good to > him. > > The above information has been taken directly from Simuel's > interview. I > can not vouche for the accuracy of it, but assume it is correct. > > The narrative is a good source of genealogical information and gives > a rare, > first hand description of a Perquimans County family during the > ante-bellum > period by a former slave. > > Gordon Trueblood > > > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

I have received a few requests for information/data contained in a narrative taken from Simuel Riddick in the 1930s. I thought it might be worthwhile to share this information with the Discussion Group. The information I have was taken from manuscripts produced in the 1930s and published in 1984 under the title "My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery" edited by Belinda Hurmence and published by John F. Blair, Publisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. First, a little background information: during the depression years the Federal Government initiated the Federal Writers Project...primarily to create work for writers without jobs. An important focus of this initiate was to interview as many former slaves as possible - an important but long-neglected soure of information about the institution of slavery in the United States. As you can appreciate, by the mid 1930s, there were considerably fewer ex-slaves from whom oral histories could be taken. Hence, the importance of the interviews. Among those interviewed was a former slave living in Raleigh, but from Perquimans County. He was 95 when he was interviewed. The essence of his interview is as follow: His name was Simuel Riddick. He was born on Feb. 4th, 1841 in Perquimans County. His mother was Nancy Riddick and his father was Elisha Riddick. Simuel Riddick's master and mistress were Elisha and Sarah Riddick. They had three daughters: Sarah, Christine, and Mary; and one son named Asbury Riddick. Simuel Riddick reports he had good food and clothes and was well treated by his master, who owned about 25 slaves. Simuel Riddic was foreman of the plantation and "looked after things in general. I had charge of everything at the lots and in the fields. They trusted me." Although Elishas Riddick treated his slaves well, his son, Ashbury was described as a "rangtang" who loved liquor and "colored women". Asbury Riddick married Mary Marmaduke from Gates County. "I have seen lots of pattyrollers. They were my friends. I had friends among them because I had a young missus they run with. That's why they let me alone. I went with her to cotton-picking night. They came but they didn't touch me. My young missus married Dr. Perry from the same neighborhood in Pequimans County. Bill Simpson married her sister. He was from the same place. Watson White married the other one. He was from Perquimans County". Simuel does not identify in his narrative which daughter was married to which man. When the Civil War broke out, Simuel Riddick reports, "I remember Marster's brother's son Tommy going off to war. Marster's brother was named Willis Riddick. He never came back." When the wark broke out, Simuel left his marster (runaway?) and went to Portsmouth, Virginia. He says General Miles captured him and put him in uniform and Simuel waited on him as a body servant and private in the U.S. Army. He stayed with General Miles until Gen. Lee surrendered. After the war, he stayed on with Gen. Miles as a servant. He broke service with General Miles when the General was ordered to the plains in the west. At the end of his narrative, Simuel reports that after he moved to Raleigh, he received a letter from his missus (Sarah Riddick). He does not say what was in the letter, only that she was a fine woman and always good to him. The above information has been taken directly from Simuel's interview. I can not vouche for the accuracy of it, but assume it is correct. The narrative is a good source of genealogical information and gives a rare, first hand description of a Perquimans County family during the ante-bellum period by a former slave. Gordon Trueblood

Keith, I believe there are quite a few folks working on these lines, although they might be primarily in other counties. I don't have my notes in front of me, but I'll do what I can from memory... Judah ASBELL m. Thomas FOREHAND Their son Joel and daugther Elizabeth are my lines. Sorry I can't recall the dates offhand. If you'd like me to look up something specific, let me know... Although I'm not sure how much I have prior to Judah. V. Jordan

Hi Sarah, I haven't yet done any appreciable research on where people in this area came from. I should perhaps explain that I arrived here 4 years ago from England. Edenton is my wife's home town, and her maternal grandmother was a Chappell from the Quaker family that had been in Perquimans and Chowan since the 1720s while her maternal grandfather was a Brown from the Quaker/Methodist family that had been in Northampton and Gates since about 1700 - so it is investigating these families, and the previous ownership of the land on which our house sits, that has led me into local history. Her father was a career Marine from California, stationed at the air base here during World War II. On her father's side there is a direct male line back to Percival Lowell who, at age 68, moved his entire family and business from Bristol to New England in 1639 because of his opposition to Charles I's imposition of Ship Tax. The earliest reference to anyone owning the land on which our house sits is that it was granted to Anthony Slocum in 1684. He had moved down from Massachusetts. It was later owned by Joseph Hewes, a Quaker signatory of the Declaration of Independence, who moved down from New Jersey. The one Quaker family that William Edmundson found in 1672, Henry and Hannah (Bassett) Phelps, had moved from Salem, Essex, MA 7 years earlier. What I have read led me to suppose that the growth in the Quaker population over the next few years was attributable to conversion of families already here, so I am interested by your suggestion that several of the Quaker families in Perquimans came from Nantucket and would like to know the source for this. I recognise White, Winslow and Newby as names in Perquimans, but not Macy - this may just be because no Chappells ever married Macys. When did these families leave Nantucket? I am not sure where exactly you are referring to by "the tidewater counties of N.C.". To me Tidewater is the area in Virginia on the south side of Hampton Roads, which would have been the counties of Princess Anne (split out of Lower Norfolk 1691, rolled up into the city of Virginia Beach 1963), Norfolk (formed as New Norfolk 1636, split into Upper and Lower Norfolk 1637, remaining part renamed Norfolk after Princess Anne split out 1691 and rolled up into the cities of Norfolk 1846 and Chesapeake 1963), and Nansemond (renaming of Upper Norfolk 1645/6, rolled up into the city of Suffolk 1974). In early times, direct land travel between Norfolk and the Albemarle would have been rendered difficult by the presence of the Great Dismal Swamp. There was a road past the east side of the Swamp by 1733, and the North Carolina troops who participated in the battle of Great Bridge in 1775 would have used this road. Dismals were simply swamps on the coastal plain. The Great Dismal is now only about a quarter of its original size, and it still looks large on any map of the area. However, the line of the present Highway 32 down from Suffolk to Edenton might always have been usable. Most early travel was probably by ship, going out from Chesapeake Bay, down the coast, and either into Currituck Sound through one of the now closed northern inlets or into Albemarle Sound through Roanoke Inlet (closed by a hurricane in 1795). During the War of Independence, ships carrying munitions not only came into port at Edenton - hence the 3 cannon at the foot of the Courthouse Green but, if small enough, went up the Chowan and Blackwater Rivers to South Quay, Virginia. There only a short overland portage was necessary to reach the Nansemond River, which flowed into the James River and eventually the vast Chesapeake Bay. Following his arrival in Maryland from Barbados in 1672, George Fox initially travelled north to New England and New York before heading south into Virginia and Carolina early the next year, so I doubt he could have been encouraging New England Quakers to move south. I haven't yet laid hands on a copy of Fox's Journal to see what indication he gives of any increase in the Quaker population from the single family found by Edmundson a year earlier. In 1662/63 a group of New Englanders bought land from the Indians and attempted a settlement on the banks of the Charles River, as the Cape Fear was then called. Buying the land suggests they may have been Quakers. Following the failure of the short-lived settlement, they left their cattle with the Indians and returned. My only reference to this gives no names, and does not say where in New England they came from. Maybe some of those involved in this attempt later moved to the Albemarle? You inspired me to do a little search for Nantucket history, which found this: The earliest inhabitants of Nantucket were Native Americans. In 1659, a group of nine Massachusetts Englishmen purchased the island for 30 pounds and two beaver hats. Their purpose was to raise sheep as well as to find refuge from the religiously intolerant Puritans. Among the early settlers were Thomas Macy and Tristram Coffin whose names reappear throughout the history of the island. In 1672, looking for an additional source of revenue, the islanders recruited whaling men to settle on the island and teach islanders how to capture whales and obtain the oil. Whales were abundant at the time and could be captured close to shore. Unfortunately, this fails to indicate the religious persuasion of those who bought Nantucket. John At 05:25 PM 05/12/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Thank you very much for this history. It is helpful to me. Do you know >anything about the migration of people from Nantucket into the tidewater >counties of N.C. about that time? I am searching for a Quaker by the name >of John Timothy White, presumed to be descended from Mayflower Whites, >according to family tradition. This would indicate that he or his father >and mother came down from Nantucket with the Winslows, Macys, Newbys, >etc.etc. Could you refer me to a specific historical account of this >particular migration. Thank you. Sarah.

Thank you very much for this history. It is helpful to me. Do you know anything about the migration of people from Nantucket into the tidewater counties of N.C. about that time? I am searching for a Quaker by the name of John Timothy White, presumed to be descended from Mayflower Whites, according to family tradition. This would indicate that he or his father and mother came down from Nantucket with the Winslows, Macys, Newbys, etc.etc. Could you refer me to a specific historical account of this particular migration. Thank you. Sarah. -----Original Message----- From: Frank and Lois Richardson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, May 08, 2000 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [NCPERQUI] Early names, boundaries, and religion >Thank you for sharing this. >----- Original Message ----- >From: John Collins <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 2:36 AM >Subject: [NCPERQUI] Early names, boundaries, and religion > > >> Roanoke Island - the site of an initial English visit in 1584, the >> short-lived military settlement of 1585-6 (removed by Sir Francis Drake >> following his sacking of St Augustine, Florida, because of fears of a >> retaliatory Spanish attack), and the first permanent English settlement in >> North America, the so-called Lost Colony of 1587 - was at that time >> referred to as being in Virginia (named for Elizabeth I, the Virgin >Queen). >> >> During the reign of her successor, James I, what is now known as Virginia >> was settled (initially at Jamestown) from 1607-24 under the auspices of >the >> joint stock Virginia Company of London. On May 24, 1624 the Company's >> charter was declared vacated, and the colony of Virginia came under >control >> of the crown as the first royal colony in English history. It included >most >> of the area from just north of modern New York city southward to Cape >Fear. >> >> On October 30, 1629, in the fifth year of his reign, James' son Charles I >> granted to his Attorney General, Sir Robert Heath, the territory between >31 >> and 36 degrees north latitude. This is the region now lying from about 30 >> miles north of the Florida state line to the southern side of Albemarle >> Sound. In 1632, with royal approval, Heath assigned his New World >interests >> to Henry Frederick Howard, Lord Maltravers. >> >> In 1637, Charles I directed Governor Sir John Harvey of Virginia to assist >> in the work of settling "Lord Maltravers province of Carolana". Harvey's >> compliance took the form of a patent to Maltravers establishing the County >> of Norfolk "in the Southern part of the Colony" of Virginia. The reason >for >> the name is that one of the Howard family titles, still used today by the >> head of the family (who is Earl Marshall of England and an important >> participant in Coronation ceremonies), is Duke of Norfolk. The Howards are >> the only Roman Catholic family to have successfully maintained an >important >> position in the English aristocracy. Included in Maltravers' County of >> Norfolk was the area from just south of modern Suffolk, Virginia (the >> actual city, not what was Nansemond County) to about present-day New Bern. >> >> Records of actual settlement are scanty, but Sir John Colleton (one of the >> later proprietors of Carolina) once mentioned a plantation "started by one >> Mr Mariot, steward to the Duke of Norfolk," Maltravers' son. >> >> On May 15, 1630 an agreement was drafted for a Carolana settlement, one of >> the parties to which was George Lord Berkeley. >> >> Governor Sir William Berkeley of Virginia sent an expedition against the >> Indians along the Chowan River in 1646, presumably in preparation for >> southernward settlement. >> >> About 1648 Henry Plumpton of Nansemond County, Virginia, just north of the >> Chowan region, in co-operation with Thomas Tuke and several others, bought >> from the Indians "all the Land from the mouth of the Morratuck [Roanoke] >> River to the mouth of Weyanook Creek". >> >> In 1650 a Virginia merchant, Thomas Bland, was one of a party of eight who >> explored the Chowan, Meherrin, and Roanoke river valleys. His petition to >> the Virginia assembly for permission to settle "to the Southward" was >> approved October 20, 1650. The Assembly instructed him and his associates >> to "secure themselves in effecting the said Designe with a hundred able >men >> sufficiently furnished with Armes and Munition". In 1651 he published a >> promotional tract, "The Discovery of New Brittaine, 1650". >> >> In 1653 the Virginia Assembly made a grant of 10,000 acres, in response to >> a petition from the Rev. Roger Green, "unto one hundred such persons who >> shall first seate on Moratuck or Roanoke river and the land lying upon the >> south side of Choan river and the branches thereof" and "to the said Roger >> Green, the rights of one thousand acres of land, and choice to take the >> same where it shall seem most convenient to him, next to those persons who >> have had a former grant". >> >> In a pamphlet entitled "Virginia's Cure", printed in London in 1662, the >> Rev. Green cited the colony of Virginia as being bound "on the North by >the >> great River Patomak, on the South by the River Chawan". >> >> A manuscript map, drawn in 1657 by Nicholas Comberford, is in the National >> Maritime Museum at Greenwich in London. On the neck of land between the >> mouth of the Roanoke River and Salmon Creek (now in Bertie County) this >> shows a neatly drawn house with the label "Batts House" identifying it. In >> his journal for 1672, George Fox, the Quaker missionary who visited the >> area, mentioned "Nathaniel Batts who had been Governor of Roan-oak". >> >> Following the execution of Charles I, England was a Republic for 11 years, >> 1649-60, until the coronation of Charles II. On March 24, 1663, Charles II >> revoked his father's grant of 1629 to Sir Robert Heath and granted the >> Carolinas to eight English noblemen who had supported the Royalist cause >> during and after the English Civil War (1642-49). These were the initial >> Lords Proprietors: Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (Lord High Chancellor); >> George Monck, Duke of Albemarle (Master of the King's Horse and >> Captain-General of all his forces); William Lord Craven (an old friend of >> Charles' father); John Lord Berkeley; Anthony Ashley Cooper (Chancellor of >> the Exchequer, later made Earl of Shaftesbury); Sir George Carteret >> (Vice-Chamberlain of the King's Household, who had entertained Charles in >> his Jersey home during a part of the time he was in exile); Sir William >> Berkeley (who, as Governor of Virginia, had induced the colony to adhere >to >> Charles II as sovereign even while he was in exile); and Sir John Colleton >> (a Barbadian planter, who had maintained the royal cause in Barbados). The >> first official use of the name Carolina occurs in this Charter. >> >> In September 1663 the other proprietors sent a series of instructions to >> Sir William Berkeley. Carolina affairs were left almost entirely in the >> hands of Berkeley as the nearest resident Proprietor, and it was more than >> two years before those remaining in England showed signs of being aware >> that the Albemarle region, as the former Carolana area was now called, was >> not within their domain. On June 13, 1665, they received a new charter >> making their northern boundary approximately the same as the present North >> Carolina-Virginia state line. >> >> The Lords Proprietors concentrated most of their initial efforts on a >> fruitless attempt (1663-67) to establish Clarendon County in the Cape Fear >> region. >> >> William Drummond was the first Governor appointed for Albemarle County >> (1664-67). >> >> Roanoke Island was owned by Samuel Stephens who, on October 9, 1662, had >> been appointed "commander of the southern plantation" by the council in >> Virginia, and was later (1667-69) Governor of Albemarle County. >> >> Colleton (now Collington) Island had been granted to Sir John Colleton, >and >> was where Governor (1670-72) Peter Carteret lived after moving to Carolina >> from his family home on Jersey in the Channel Islands. >> >> By October 1668 Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, and Perquimans precincts >had >> been formed in Albemarle County. From 1679 for about 6 years, Perquimans >> was renamed Berkeley Precinct. >> >> In 1689 Albemarle County as a unit of government ceased to exist, although >> the name continued intermittently in use for at least a further 10 years. >> Government of Carolina "North and East of Cape feare" was established, >with >> Philip Ludwell as Governor (1689-94). In 1691 the Lords Proprietors >> appointed him governor of all Carolina, headquartered at Charles Town, >with >> a deputy governor for the northern part of the colony - the beginning of >> the division of the province into North and South Carolina, though not so >> called at this time. Thomas Jarvis was the first deputy governor. >> >> Early Albemarle County had no formal religious life, other than Quaker >> meetings in private houses in Perquimans precinct. The Quaker missionary >> William Edmundson found one Quaker household in 1672, that of Henry Phelps >> (Phillips), who had moved down from New England in 1665 with his wife. >> There were more on his return in 1677 and, by 1680, monthly meetings were >> being held. Since the Quakers were the only church available, they >> attracted numerous converts, especially in Perquimans and Pasquotank >> precincts. Under the encouragement of the Quaker Lord Proprietor and >> proprietary governor (1694-96) John Archdale, they became the dominant >> political force in the county - which stimulated the Anglican community to >> seek passage of the Vestry Act. The Upper Meeting House (later Wells) was >> built by 1704, Little River Meeting House was erected in 1705, and Lower >> Meeting House (later Old Neck) appeared by 1706. At the end of the >> proprietary era, in 1729, Friends maintained Meetings at Wells, Old Neck, >> Suttons Creek, Yeopim, and Piney Woods. (Piney Woods is still >functioning.) >> Friends residing west of Little River in Perquimans were attached to the >> Pasquotank Monthly Meeting. Friends have to receive their Meeting's >> permission before marrying, so the records from Quaker Meetings provide >> most of the available early information on marriages in this area. >> >> The Anglican missionary John Blair, writing in 1704, reported that he had >> baptised a great many children but had not been able to marry anyone >> because only the magistrates were authorized to marry. He found three >> church buildings and glebes. >> >> The Church of England, or Anglican Church, envisioned by the authors of >the >> proprietary charters and the Fundamental Constitutions as the dominant >> religious institution in a tolerant province, was finally made the >> established church of the province in 1701 and again in 1703 or 1704. The >> statutes erected parishes, named vestries, and authorized the imposition >of >> taxes to support the clergy. At the same time, the Society for the >> Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), organized by Thomas Bray and Associates >in >> 1701, began to send missionaries to the province. >> >> In Perquimans an Anglican chapel was under construction, but remained >> unfinished because of the death of Major Samuel Swann, Sr in 1707; the >> Anglican Nags Head Chapel, in use by 1736 and probably the result of the >> efforts of vestryman Albert Albertson, occupied the site of the later New >> Hope Methodist Church; and the Anglican Yeopim Chapel, constructed on land >> donated by John And Elizabeth Mathias in 1732, eventually became the site >> of Bethel Baptist Church. >> >> Bath County was formed in 1696 and, four years later, the Rev. Thomas Bray >> shipped books from England to St Thomas Parish with the Reverend Daniel >> Brett for the first public library in the colony. The parish also >> established a free school for Indians and blacks. In 1705 Beaufort, >Craven, >> and Hyde precincts were established in Bath County. In 1705 Bath became >the >> first town created in the colony. Construction of St. Thomas Church, >oldest >> existing church in the state, began in 1734. >> >> The parish of St Paul's was organized in 1701 as the first Anglican parish >> in the colony under the provisions of the Vestry Act of 1701. A >> post-in-ground church building was erected the next year on an >undetermined >> plot of land just east of Queen Anne's Creek on what is now known as Hayes >> farm; the town of Edenton would not be founded for another eleven years. >In >> 1736 construction was begun of the present St Paul's on the town lots set >> aside for church and churchyard (cemetery) before 1722. >> >> > > >

In a message dated 5/12/00 6:25:48 PM EST, [email protected] writes: << I am searching for a Quaker by the name of John Timothy White, presumed to be descended from Mayflower Whites, according to family tradition. This would indicate that he or his father and mother came down from Nantucket with the Winslows, Macys, Newbys, etc.etc. Could you refer me to a specific historical account of this particular migration. Thank you. Sarah. >> Sarah, I recommend that you consider subscribing to the Quaker-Roots list and ask the question. It is the same procedure as here: To: [email protected] Subject: mailing list message: subscribe FYI, I am Mayflower..my ONLY, ONLY Northern (except other PA Quakers) connection...Stephen Hopkins>Constance & Nicholas Snow>Constance & Daniel Doane>Daniel & Mehitable Twining...The last two migrated to Chester Co PA, and then to NC (New Garden MM I think...don't have files now). Good luck...LOTS OF NEWBYS on the list Janet Hunter

There is a will for Charity Griffin of Perquiman in the NC Archives dated 1843. Does anyone know who her husband and children were or what the will contains? Thanks for any help you can give. Estel