Apr 10, 2020 | Hertford, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Editor’s Note: This is a sketch by Charles E. H. Bonwill for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, an illustrated literary and news publication that was founded in 1855 by Frank Leslie. The sketch...
Feb 26, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Hertford
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones Thomas Parramore, “The Burning of Winton,” North Carolina Historical Review (Winter 1962): 18-31. Dr. Thomas Custis Parramore grew up in Winton and was a Raleigh historian, author, lecturer and Meredith College history professor...
Feb 26, 2020 | Hertford, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) An Illustration of General Foster’s troops disembarking at Winton, N.C. Click to enlarge. This was the prelude to the burning of the town of Winton, which occurred in February 1862.
Feb 26, 2020 | Antebellum era, Hertford, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The following is an excerpt from The Secession Movement in North Carolina, which was written by Dr. Joseph Carlyle Sitterson and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1939: “The...
Jan 24, 2020 | Hertford, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Carroll White (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) My 2x great grandfather, Robert H. Jordan, was born in Hertford County, North Carolina. His parents, Robert and Lavenia Jordan, died young, and he moved to Tennessee afterward. When he arrived in...
Jan 3, 2020 | Hertford, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Written by Marvin Tupper Jones; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter The Winton Triangle is a community of land-owning people of color in the Winton-Cofield-Ahoskie area of Hertford County, North Carolina. Originally inhabited by the Chowanoke people, the first...
