North Carolina Sketches, Historical & Biographical

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History of
Edgecombe County, NC
By J. Kelly Turner & Jno. L. Bridges, Jr.,
Published 1920, 553 pages, searchable
- Bonus #1 -
Early Social Life of
Edgecombe
By Gaston Lichtenstein
Published 1904, 20 pages, searchable
- Bonus #2 -
Great Events of
NC History
By NC Daughters of the Revolution
Published 1905, 218 pages, searchable
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The county was formed in 1741 from
Bertie
County
. It was named for Richard Edgcumbe, a Member of Parliament from
1701 to 1742 and a lord of the treasury, who became 1st Baron Edgcumbe in 1742.
In 1746 part of
Edgecombe
County
became
Granville
County
; in 1758 another part became
Halifax
County
; in 1777 yet
another part became
Nash
County
. In 1855 the formation of
Wilson
County
from parts of
Edgecombe
County
,
Johnston
County
,
Nash
County
, and
Wayne
County
reduced Edgecombe to its present dimensions, aside from minor boundary adjustments.
Contents
Chapter I
Origin And Settlement
Chapter
II
Colonial Government
Chapter III Revolution
Chapter IV Politics After the Revolution
Chapter V Slavery
Chapter
VI
War Between The States
Chapter
VII and VIII
Reconstruction
Chapter
IX
Politics Since
1880.
Chapter
X
Agriculture, Industries And Internal Improvement
Chapter
XI Education
Chapter
XII
Baptists
Chapter
XIII
Episcopal
Chapter
XIV
Presbyterians And Sons Of Temperance
Chapter
XV
Methodists
Surname index
Abbott, Abington, Abrams, Adam, Adams, Agar, Alderman, Allen, Alsbon, Alston, Alton, Alvis, Amason, Anderson, Andrews, Anthony, Archer, Arnhiem, Arnold, Arrenton,
Arrington, Asbury, Ashe, Askin, Aston, Atkinson, Austin, Author, Aycock, Badger, Badgett, Baggarly, Bagley, Baker, Bakerman, Ballou, Balmore, Bar, Barbee, Barbour,
Baring, Barker, Barlow, Barnes, Barnhill, Barnwell, Barren, Barron, Barrow, Base, Baskerville, Bass, Battle, Batts, Baxter, Beaman, Beatty, Beaucroft, Beauregard, Beck,
Belamy, Belcher, Bell, Bellamy, Bennett, Benton, Bertley, Best, Betts, Bevely, Bibb, Biggs, Bignal, Bignall, Billings, Bingham, Bishop, Blackledge, Blair, Blake, Blalock,
Bloodworth, Blount, Bobbit, Boddie, Bodeley, Bognor, Bolles, Bond, Borden, Bourne, Bowditch, Bowers, Boyd, Boyee, Bozeman, Bradford, Bradley, Bragg, Brake, Brame,
Branch, Brann, Branwell, Braswell, Bray, Breedlove, Bridgers, Bridges, Brien, Briggs, Brimage, Briton, Britt, Brooks, Brown, Browning, Bryan, Bryant, Buchanan, Buck,
Bullard, Bullock, Bunn, Bunns, Buns, Bunting, Buren, Burgess, Burgis, Burke, Burkett, Burkitt, Burnett, Burney, Burnside, Burrington, Burrow, Butler, Butts, Bynum, Caldwell,
Calhoon, Calhoun, Campbell, Camper, Canby, Canes, Carney, Carr, Carson, Carter, Cary, Casey, Caswell, Casy, Cattle, Cavenah, Chapman, Chase, Chauncy, Cheatam,
Cheatham, Cherry, Cheshire, Childs, Ciralia, Clare, Clark, Clarks, Clarkson, Clay, Clayton, Clement, Clements, Cleveland, Clingman, Cobb, Coffield, Cofield, Cogdell,
Coleman, Collens, Comwell, Connor, Conyers, Cook, Cooper, Copes, Copfield, Copland, Corbin, Cornish, Cornwallis, Cornwell, Cosby, Cotaunch, Cotaunchrist, Cotten,
Cotton, Covington, Cowan, Cowell, Cox, Craig, Craton, Creel, Crenshaw, Crisp, Cromwell, Cross, Crowell, Culpepper, Cumings, Cummings, Cunninggin, Curtis, Cutchen,
Cutchin, Dalton, Dancey, Dancy, Daniel, Daniels, Darden, Dargan, Dargon, Darnell, Daughtridge, Davenport, Daves, Davidson, Davis, Dawson, Dean, Deans, Deavans,
Deceece, Deed, Deems, Dew, Dickens, Digges, Dixon, Dobbs, Dodson, Doll, Donelson, Donnell, Dorman, Dortch, Douglass, Dowd, Downing, Dromgoole, Duck, Dudley,
Duggan, Duggen, Dugger, Dunbar, Dunford, Dunn, Dupre, Dupree, Durham, Durien, Durkins, Eagles, Eason, Edgerton, Edmunson, Edwards, Elleanor, Elleby, Ellenor, Elliott,
Ellis, Ellison, Empie, Englehard, Eppes, Epps, Ervin, Evans, Evart, Ewell, Exum, Fagg, Failey, Falkner, Fallon, Fanning, Farmer, Farnan, Farrar, Farrer, Ferebee, Fetter,
Fillmore, Fiske, Flemming, Fletcher, Flora, Flowers, Floyd, Fly, Forbes, Foreman, Forest, Fort, Foster, Fountain, Fowles, Foxhall, French, Frost, Fugua, Fulford, Fund,
Furches, Gabriel, Gamble, Gano, Gant, Gardener, Garret, Garrett, Gaston, Gathings, Gatlin, Gay, George, Gibbons, Gibson, Gilbert, Gilchrist, Gilespie, Gilliam, Glenn, Gloss,
Godley, Gold, Goodloe, Goodson, Goodwin, Goose, Gorham, Gorhams, Graham, Gray, Green, Greene, Gregory, Griffin, Griswold, Guin, Guion, Gurley, Guthrie, Hadley,
Hadly, Hagins, Haigwood, Hall, Halling, Halmington, Hamilton, Hammond, Hammonds, Hand, Harding, Hardy, Hargett, Hargrave, Hargrove, Harlee, Harrell, Harrington,
Harris, Harrison, Harriss, Hart, Harvey, Hasell, Hassell, Hattan, Havens, Hawkins, Hawks, Hayes, Hayne, Haynes, Haywood, Heaton, Heavill, Hebbard, Helper, Henderson,
Hendricks, Henris, Henry, Herdon, Hibbard, Hicks, Hight, Hill, Hilliard, Hines, Hinton, Hitch, Hobbs, Hodge, Hoffman, Hogans, Hoke, Holden, Holderness, Holmes, Holt,
Home, Hooper, Hopper, Horde, Horn, Hoskins, House, Howard, Howe, Howell, Hoyt, Hudson, Huffman, Hughes, Humphreys, Hundley, Hunt, Hunter, Hurt, Hussey,
Hyatt, Hyde, Hyman, Innes, Irwin, Irwins, Ives, Jackson, James, Jarvis, Jefferson, Jeffreys, Jeffries, Jenkins, Johnson, Johnsons, Johnston, Jones, Jordan, Joseph, Joyner,
Kane, Keech, Kelly, Kenan, Kennedy, Kenner, Kerney, Killebrew, Killelnew, Killibrew, Kimbrough, Kinchen, Kinchin, King, Kitchen, Kitchin, Knight, Knights, Krause,
Lamb, Lancaster, Lane, Langston, Latham, Laughinghouse, Law, Lawrence, Lawson, Lay, Leach, Leachmon, Lee, Leggett, Leggitts, Leigh, Leland, Lemon, Lenoir, Leslie,
Leventhrope, Lewis, Lincoln, Lindsay, Linsey, Litchenstein, Little, Lloyd, Long, Lovelace, Lowe, Loyd, Lyman, Lyon, Lyons, Mabrey, Mabson, Mace, Macmanary,
Macquinny, Madison, Magruder, Maguinny, Major, Mallet, Mallett, Maner, Mangum, Manly, Mann, Manning, Mapson, Marshall, Martin, Martindale, May, Mayo,
McAden, McAlpine, McCabe, McClellan, McCotton, McCullen, McCulloch, McCullogh, McCulloh, McDougal, McDowell, McKendree, McKinley, McKinney,
McNair, McRae, McWilliams, Mead, Meglarre, Mercer, Meredith, Meridith, Merrith, Merritt, Mettles, Miler, Miller, Milliken, Millikin, Mills, Mitchell, Mitrick, Moir, Moore,
Moran, Mordecai, Morgan,Morris, Morton, Moses, Moy, Moye Murphy, Murray, Nash, Nashes, Nelson, Nettle, Newson, Newton, Nicholas, Nicholson, Nobles, Norfleet,
Norman, Norville, Norwood, O'Berry, Obrien, Odom, Oglethorpe, Oneal, O'Quinn, Outlaw, Overstreet, Owen, Owens, Page, Pageot,, Paine, Palamountain, Palmer,
Palmore, Parker, Parris, Patterson, Pattilo, Payne, Pearce, Peck, Pedicord, Peebles, Pell, Pemberton, Pender, Penders, Pendleton, Pennington, Perason, Perry, Person,
Pervis, Peters, Peterson, Pettigrew, Petway, Philips, Phillips, Pickett, Pierce, Pilkinton, Pilmoor, Pippen, Pippin, Pippins, Pitt, Pittman, Poffenberger, Polk, Pool, Poole,
Pope, Porter, Potts, Powell, Poythress, Pratt, Price, Prince, Procter, Proctor, Province, Purnel, Purnell, Ragsdale, Ramseur, Ramson, Randolph, Ransom, Ravenscroft,
Read, Reavis, Redmond, Reed, Reggs, Reid, Rhodes, Rice, Richmond, Ricks, Riggs, Robards, Robbins, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Rodgers, Rodman, Rogers,
Ross, Rountree, Royal, Royster, Ruffin, Russell, Ruth, Rutherford, Ryley, Sabin, Sale, Sanderlin, Sanders, Sane, Sanford, Saunders, Savage, Schultz, Scott, Sears,
Selbank, Sergeant, Sessum, Sessums, Shackleford, Sharp, Sharpe, Shaw, Shell, Shelton, Sheppard, Sherman, Sherry, Sickles, Sidebulton, Simmons, Singletary,
Sizer, Skinner, Slack, Slaughter, Smith, Smithson, Snithen, Sojuorner, Souther, Spaight, Speed, Speight, Speir, Spell, Spence, Spencer, Sperry, Spier, Spragins,
Spruill, Stamper, Stamps, Stanberry, Stancil, Stanley, Starky, Station, Staton, Stearns, Stephens, Stephenson, Stevens, Stewart, Stokes, Stone, Strebeck, Stringer,
Strudwick, Stuart, Stubbs, Sturdivant, Styron, Sugg, Suggs, Suggses, Summer, Summerell, Summerlin, Swain, Swindell, Tander, Tanner, Taping, Tarleton, Tatton,
Taylor, Teachey, Teal, Teel, Telfair, Tew, Thigpen, Thomas, Thomas,, Thompkins, Thompson, Thorn, Thorne, Thorpe, Thrash, Tilden, Tillery, Todd, Tolar, Toney,
Tool, Toole, Tooles, Tools, Tryon,Tucker, Tunnell, Turner, Turson, Tyler, Tyson, Van Buren, Vance, Vanhorn Vanmeter, Vichous, Vickers, Vines, Wagner, Walker,
Wallace, Walpole, Walston, Ward, Warnock, Warren, Washington, Watsman, Watson, Watts, Way, Wayland, Weathersbee, Weaver, Webb, Weber, Webster,
Weddell, Weeks, Weller, Wells, Wesson, Weston, Wharton, Whatcoat, Wheatly, Wheeler, Whenny, Whichard, Whitaker, White, Whitefield, Whitehead, Whitehurst,
Whitfield, Whitley, Whitted, Whittlesey, Wider, Wigfall, Wiggins, Wilcox, Wiley, Wilkerson, Wilkinson, Williams, Williamson, Willis, Wills, Wilson, Wimberly, Wimborne,
Winbourne, Winly, Winston, Withers, Wood, Woodard, Woodmason, Wool, Wooten, Worseley, Worsley, Worth, Wren, Wright, Wyatt, Wynn, Wytt, Yellowley,
Young, Zoella, Zoeller,
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