B.C. Brooks: A Writer's Hiding Place

Baylus C. Brooks is a professional research and maritime historian, genealogist, and writer living in North Florida. Writes for Poseidon Historical Research & Publishing. Author of Quest for Blackbeard, Sailing East, and Dictionary of Pyrate Biography, all now from online stores! All posts are the opinions of the author unless otherwise noted.

Monday, October 24, 2011

On North Carolina Politics: Then and Now!

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Alfred Moore Waddell Re: “Cracking the Solid South: Populism and the Fusionist Interlude” by Dr. Jeffrey J. Crow For historian Dr. ...

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Rebellious North Carolina

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Historian Noeleen McIlvenna regarded the development of North Carolina as an emerging utopian community, yet “very mutinous,” in the “shadow...

Saturday, July 23, 2011

From Roanoke to Hatteras: A Two-day Hunt for Clues to the Lost Colony

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Baylus C. Brooks & Dawn F. Taylor in Roger & Celia Meekin’s Roanoke Island backyard on the Croatan Sound north of Manteo. The lat...

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Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Land Quarrels Between Indians and Colonists in NC... the Dudley/Blount Affair

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North Carolina State Archives Altercation between Christopher Dudley and a Tuscarora Indian CCR 192 – 13 March 1728 North Carolina. ...

Saturday, July 02, 2011

Azariah Dring of Rhode Island and the Drings of Hatteras Island, NC

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Thomas Dring was born in 1666, presumably in Little Compton, Rhode Island. This part of Rhode Island was most certainly a maritime provinc...

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Baylus C. Brooks: Brooks is a maritime historian, writer, author, and genealogist living in North Florida. Brooks studies maritime & colonial history, also archaeological and paper conservation, drawing upon a love of both science and history. His focus is North Carolina history and, of course, pirates! Brooks published a variety of books, including the historical fiction novel, Heirloom: Fountain of Hope, a time-travel adventure based in St. Augustine, Florida. He also published non-fiction such as Pirates & Slaves, Captain James Wimble, Brunswick Town & Wilmington. He has published twice in the North Carolina Historical Review, one of the articles being republished as a pamphlet by North Carolina Historical Publications as "Blackbeard Reconsidered: Mist's Piracy, Thache's Genealogy." He is currently working on a 600+ paged book re-evaluating the life of Edward Thache, titled "Quest for Blackbeard," to be announced this summer!

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