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NC Tax Lists at NC Digital Collections

by Sara Whitford | Dec 18, 2021 | Articles, Beaufort County, Beaufort County Genealogy, Bertie County Genealogy, Carteret County Genealogy, Census Records, Chowan County Genealogy, Craven County, Craven County Genealogy, Dobbs County Genealogy, Duplin County Genealogy, Edgecombe County Genealogy, Hyde County Genealogy, Jones County, Lenoir County, Lenoir County Genealogy, Martin County Genealogy, Onslow County Genealogy, Pitt County, Pitt County Genealogy | 0 |

It’s always a good idea to look at original records yourself. More than once, I’ve...

1779 Craven County Tax List

by Sara Whitford | Dec 17, 2021 | Articles, Census Records, Craven County, Craven County Genealogy | 2 |

Below is a transcription of names found on the 1779 Tax List. These original scans can be found...

The strange tale of the Craven County woman who gave birth AND signed a deed in Pitt County in the years after her 1816 death

by Sara Whitford | Jan 16, 2017 | Articles, Craven County, Genealogy Basics and Items of General Interest, Marriage Records, Miscellaneous Records, Mysteries | 3 |

According to publicly-accessible family trees at Ancestry.com, a Craven County woman named Jemima...

Craven County School Census – 12th District – Heads of Household & Children (1840?)

by Sara Whitford | May 8, 2014 | Craven County | 0 |

I’ve been working on organizing my seemingly endless genealogy files lately, and came across images I had taken of microfilm (or microfiche?) at the Craven Regional Library back in 2011. Unfortunately, I didn’t note...

1786 Swift Creek Tax List

by Sara Whitford | Apr 13, 2014 | Census Records, Craven County | 3 |

The following was printed in the February 2005 edition of Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly journal. It was abstracted and contributed to that publication by Roger Kammerer. This, and other issues of the journal, may be found...