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West Craven Highlights now digitized and searchable online

If your family is from the Vanceboro area, you will certainly remember the paper that was produced by the Cannon family, West Craven Highlights.  I'm not sure when this was done, but the whole project has now been digitized. You can browse all of the issues or search...

Formation of Pitt County, North Carolina

Pitt County was formed after Beaufort and Craven Counties, but the establishment of its border wasn't a one-time thing. Below, you can read about the formation of Pitt County, North Carolina from David Leroy Corbitt's book, The Formation of North Carolina Counties,...

Formation of Craven County, North Carolina

Read the descriptions below for Craven County's shifting borders and see if it helps some pieces start falling into place with some of your ancestors who seem to appear and vanish from this and neighboring counties inexplicably in the mid-to-late 1700s and into the...

Formation of Beaufort County, North Carolina

The Formation of North Carolina Counties, 1663-1943 by David Leroy Corbitt is available for free at Archive.org, but for convenience's sake, over the next few days I'm going to post the sections on the formation of Beaufort County (including Bath County), Craven, and...