North Carolina Genealogy

The Observer-Reporter has an article on a great project recording the memories of World War II veterans. The project was spurred by an initiative in North Carolina. This is a very interesting read at a project dedicated to preserving oral histories while it’s still possible.

Now, technically this battle took place in South Carolina, but a large number of men and boys from the Appalachians took part and it deserves mention and remembering.

The Battle of Kings Mountain was a fight in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War, fought on October 7, 1780. American Patriot militia forces overwhelmed the loyalist militia, led by Major Patrick Ferguson. In his history The Winning of the West, Theodore Roosevelt wrote of Kings Mountain: “This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution.”
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The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought on March 15, 1781 inside the present-day city of Greensboro, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War in which 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis fought an American force under Rhode Island native General Nathanael Greene numbering 4,400. Read the rest of this entry »

Pilgrims

* Allerton, Isaac (London)
o Mary (Norris) Allerton, wife (Newbury, Berkshire)
o Bartholomew Allerton, son
o Remember Allerton, daughter
o Mary Allerton, daughter
* Bradford, William (Austerfield, Yorkshire)
o Dorothy (May) Bradford, wife (Wisbech, Cambridge)

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The Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 until 1691. The colony was founded by a separatist Puritan sect, who obtained a land patent from the London Virginia Company in 1620 before that company was dissolved. They founded the colony in a location the company did not have rights to and later reached an agreement with the Plymouth Council for New England which had been granted a charter for the land in 1620. Read the rest of this entry »

I ran across this article out of the Tuscaloosa News. About a confederate veteran William Riley Moore that has finally got a grave marker. The grave was previously marked with just a fieldstone, but through the efforts of a great-great-daughter there is now an official marker.
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I’ve gone through and made an update in this second pass on the counties starting with the letter “L”. So, Lee, Lenoir and Lincoln Counties all have seen an update.

The Roanoke Colony was the second English colony in the New World, after St. John’s in Newfoundland. It was founded at Roanoke Island in what was then Virginia (now North Carolina, United States).
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I ran across this article out of a paper in Rome Georgia. It essentially talks about private groups working to raise funds and volunteers to help maintain community cemeteries.
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The Vikings, or Norse, explored and settled areas of the North Atlantic, including the northeast fringes of North America, beginning in the 10th century of the common era. While this settlement process did not have the lasting effects that later settlements and conquests would have, it can be seen as a prelude to wide-scale European settlement in the Americas.
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