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MY CHILDHOOD RECOLLECTIONS By Mrs. John Quincy Adams Wood

_______________________________ Source: YEAR BOOK –VOLUME 2–Pasquotank Historical Society – Elizabeth City, N.C. Edited by JOHN ELLIOTT WOOD. published 1958. _______________________________  

HISTORY OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY By J. R. B. Hathaway (1841-1902)

_______________________________ Source: YEAR BOOK –VOLUME 2–Pasquotank Historical Society – Elizabeth City, N.C. Edited by JOHN ELLIOTT WOOD. published 1958. _______________________________

FRAGMENTS OF QUAKER HISTORY By Mrs. Olive Rogerson Stallings

_______________________________ Source: YEAR BOOK –VOLUME 2–Pasquotank Historical Society – Elizabeth City, N.C. Edited by JOHN ELLIOTT WOOD. published 1958. _______________________________

MINUTE MEN AND MILITIA

______________________________ Source: YEAR BOOK – VOLUME 3 – Pasquotank Historical Society – Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Compiled and Edited by LOU N. OVERMAN and EDNA M. SHANNONHOUSE. Published in 1975. ______________________________  

HOME REMEDIES FROM COLONIAL DAYS By Wilma Cartwright Spence

  ______________________________ Source: YEAR BOOK – VOLUME 3 – Pasquotank Historical Society – Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Compiled and Edited by LOU N. OVERMAN and EDNA M. SHANNONHOUSE. Published in 1975. ______________________________

BATTS, NATHANIELL – Nathaniell Batts – The First Landholder in North Carolina

______________________________ Source: YEAR BOOK – VOLUME 3 – Pasquotank Historical Society – Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Compiled and Edited by LOU N. OVERMAN and EDNA M. SHANNONHOUSE. Published in 1975. ______________________________

BROTHERS, ARMOUR – Inquisition into the death of -1854

 Inquiry into the cause of death of Armour Brothers who was found dead 30 Dec 1853. Cause of death determined to be by drowning. The above record was provided by Frances C. Griffin of Chesapeake, Va. ________________________________________________________________

PERRY, BENJAMIN – Inquisition into the death of – 1854

State of North Carolina Perquimans County Inquisition indented, taken on the land of Mr. Wm. Smith, on the field usually known as the old Israel Smith place, on the West side of Goodwins Mill Pond, about one mile South of the Main Road known as the Chicapen Road in the County aforesaid, the 1st day [...]