My 9th-great-grandfather Godfrey Spruill was the first doctor in North Carolina. He was born about 1650, and received a land patent in James...

I am in Raleigh, North Carolina for the 2017 National Genealogical Society Family History Conference, which began today. During the opening ...

My 6th-great-grandfather Lazarus Gatlin owned land on the north side of Swift Creek in Craven County, North Carolina. File no. 3654, Laz...

Newbern Gazette , 1 December 1798, page 2  R AN away from the subscriber on the 25th September last, a negro fellow named JIM, about tw...

North Carolina Gazette or Impartial Intelligencer , 29 July 1784, page 6 Thirty Dollars Reward.  Ran-away from the subscriber, the 1...

Newbern Gazette , 1 December 1798, page 2 RAN away, on the 28th ult. a negro fellow named TOM, about twenty eight years of age, five fe...

Cumberland Compact, original signers, page 1. Available from http://www.cumberlandpioneers.com/cc1.html .   The Cumberland Compact estab...

North Carolina Magazine or Universal Intelligencer , 6 July - 13 July 1764, page 48              FIVE POUNDS Reward, RAN away from t...

North Carolina Gazette or Impartial Intelligencer , 29 July 1784, page 2 TWENNTY POUNDS REWARD. RAN-AWAY, from the subscriber, in N...

Newbern Gazette , 25 August 1798, page 3 RUN away from the subscriber, on the first day of this instant, two negro men ; they both spea...

Since today is Tax Day , it seemed an appropriate time to share some tax lists that are freely available. New River Notes provides inform...

North Carolina Magazine or Universal Intelligencer , 6 July-13 July 1764, page 48 RAN away from my Saw Mill on Slocomb's Creek, a N...

On 25 August 1798, the New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina newspaper Newbern Gazette published a notice which stated that seven slaves ...

American History Leaflets: Colonial and Constitutional . Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward Channing. No. 22 (July 1895). New York:...

Will Loftin Hargrave, the son of my 5th-great-grandmother 's brother Skelton Hardgrave, was an author and composer. The Library of Congr...

Halifax Resolves plaque, North Carolina State Capitol, Raleigh, North Carolina. Photo by Daderot [Public domain], 5 October 2011 . Availa...

Excerpt from will of John Greer , 2 April 1782, Wilkes County, North Carolina, Wills. North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970 , FamilySe...

My 6th-great-grandfather Francis Hardgrave was born on 5 March 1745 in Augusta County, Virginia. He was the son of James Hardgrave and Eliza...

Sarah, wife of Francis Hardgrave, was born on 7 February 1751, according to family Bible records. Edythe Rucker Whitley identified her as Sa...

The first United States census day was August 2, 1790. Heads of households were enumerated by name. The number of people in each household w...