Sep 26, 2023 | Antebellum era, Bertie, Chowan, Perquimans
Submitted by Dr. Harry Watson; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Penny Howcott, a forty-year-old enslaved woman, had escaped from her enslaver, Charles W. Mixon, who then offered as much information as he could about her to expedite her return to him. NC law provided that a...
Sep 13, 2018 | Chowan, Confederate affiliation, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans
AUTHOR: Chip Stokes (from his blog) http://blueandgrayancestors.blogspot.com/2013/08/three-cousins-murdered-by-yankees-in.html
Nov 16, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Perquimans
Grandmother’s locket There are no records of when my grandmother was born, but her father was away fighting for the Confederacy. When he received news of her birth, he used that month’s payment to buy a locket inscribed with the date 1864. That was the...
