Jul 26, 2024 | Northampton, Reconstruction
Written by Mary E. C. Drew; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown In 1831, just over three decades before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in America, an enslaved Virginian named Nat Turner, along with a group of armed enslaved...
Jul 5, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Northampton
Written by Leisa Greathouse; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Although he never attended the United States Military Academy, located in West Point, NY, fifteen-year-old Henry “Harry” King Burgwyn, Jr. was sent to the area by his father to be tutored privately by Captain...
Dec 6, 2023 | Antebellum era, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Reconstruction, This Month's Featured Story, Wake
Researched and Written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown Manassa Thomas Pope was a free person of color born near Rich Square in Northampton County, North Carolina in 1858. Both of his parents, Jonas Elias Pope and Permelia Pheobe Hall Pope, were free persons of...
Dec 5, 2023 | Antebellum era, Bertie, Northampton, Reconstruction
Researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown Jonas Elias Pope was born on February 1, 1827, at Rich Square in Northampton County, NC. His father was Elias Pope, a free person of color with a mixed-race heritage who owned land and supported a sizable...
Mar 25, 2022 | Confederate affiliation, Northampton
Written by Leisa Greathouse; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter An enslaved African American man named Kinchen resided on the Thornbury plantation in Northampton County, North Carolina. That plantation owner’s son, Henry Burgwyn, Jr., graduated from UNC and the...
Aug 28, 2019 | Northampton, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Penny Beasley; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter I have a love of history and have retraced some of my great-great-grandfather’s, James Tom Baggett’s, steps across the battlefield (See story titled “Tom Baggett and the Grey Patch!”). His post war life is...
