Author: Francis Amasa WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
A Compendium of the Ninth Census (June 1,1870)
Author: Francis Amasa WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
History of Perquimans County
Author: Ellen Goode Rawlings WinslowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806379960
Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Here is a county history that is extraordinarily rich in primary source materials, including abstracts of deeds from 1681 through the Revolutionary War period and, moreover, petitions, divisions of estates, wills, and marriages found in the records of Perquimans and adjacent North Carolina counties. Numbering in the tens of thousands, the records provide the names of all principal parties and related family members, places of residence and migration, descriptions of real and personal property, dates, boundary surveys, names of executors, witnesses, and appraisers, and dates of recording. Altogether, the index contains references to about 35,000 persons! Researchers should note that Perquimans was one of the original North Carolina precincts--with very close ties to the southeastern Virginia counties of Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nansemond, and Isle of Wight--and for many years had fluid boundaries with the North Carolina counties of Chowan, Gates, and Pasquotank.
North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885
Author: Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes,” “mulattoes,” “mustees,” “Indians,” “mixed-bloods,” or simply “free people of color.” From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these non-enslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring them from the ballot box. While such laws suggest that most white North Carolinians desired to limit the freedoms and civil liberties enjoyed by free people of color, Milteer reveals that the two groups often interacted—praying together, working the same land, and occasionally sharing households and starting families. Some free people of color also rose to prominence in their communities, becoming successful businesspeople and winning the respect of their white neighbors. Milteer’s innovative study moves beyond depictions of the American South as a region controlled by a strict racial hierarchy. He contends that although North Carolinians frequently sorted themselves into races imbued with legal and social entitlements—with whites placing themselves above persons of color—those efforts regularly clashed with their concurrent recognition of class, gender, kinship, and occupational distinctions. Whites often determined the position of free nonwhites by designating them as either valuable or expendable members of society. In early North Carolina, free people of color of certain statuses enjoyed access to institutions unavailable even to some whites. Prior to 1835, for instance, some free men of color possessed the right to vote while the law disenfranchised all women, white and nonwhite included. North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885 demonstrates that conceptions of race were complex and fluid, defying easy characterization. Despite the reductive labels often assigned to them by whites, free people of color in the state emerged from an array of backgrounds, lived widely varied lives, and created distinct cultures—all of which, Milteer suggests, allowed them to adjust to and counter ever-evolving forms of racial discrimination.
A compendium of the ninth census, 1870
Author: United States census officePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
The Granberry Family and Allied Families
Author: Donald Lines JacobusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Moses Granberry was born in about 1700. He married Elizabeth. They had eight children. He died in 1753 in Norfolk County, Virginia. Ancestors descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Virginia, Massachusetts and Georgia.
The North Carolina Historical Review
Author: A Compendium of the Ninth Census
Author: United States. Census OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
The River Counties
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Ninth Census of the United States, 1870
Author: United States. Census OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918
Author: William N. Still Jr.Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0865264953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast. The work of shipbuilding craftsmen and entrepreneurs contributed to the colony's and the state's economy from the era of exploration through the age of naval stores to World War I. The study includes an inventory of 3,300 ships and 270 shipwrights.