Saturday, January 28, 2012

Pleasure Driving into North Carolina Maritime History

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I like to drive.  Ever since before I had a driver's license, I loved to take off down the road and go places I've never been.  Thi...
Saturday, January 07, 2012

John Lawson's Indian Town on Hatteras Island

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What am I doing?  I'm celebrating a great New Year at Mi Casa Cafe on St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida.  I'd also like t...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

Genealogical Records are Abused by Historians!

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1780 George Clark Survey 342.75 acres Hatteras Island Genealogical records take such abuse!  Amateur genealogists misquote and repeat the...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Challenges of Hatteras Research

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When digging in the dirt, you sometimes benefit by knowing whose dirt you are on.  But, what if they lived almost 300 years ago?  While arch...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Wrecked on Hatteras Island: A Long Tradition

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The author, Baylus C. Brooks is a graduate maritime historian studying at East Carolina University’s Maritime Studies Program .  He is als...
Monday, December 12, 2011

History Can Help

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Everything seems to come in cycles.  Well, in this case, it's a cycle with one enormous perturbation.  Today's Tea Party Republican...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Pasquotank Settlers on Hatteras Island

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Pasquotank Settlers  on Hatteras Island Pasquotank County deed records (Book A: 40) tell of an “authentick Bill of Sale” by a member of t...
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Friday, November 18, 2011

North Carolina's Early Difficulties

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Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon - A Lord Proprietor of Carolina Historian Noeleen McIlvenna regarded the development of North Carolina as ...