by Cheri D. Molter | Mar 25, 2022 | Confederate affiliation, Northampton, This Month's Featured Story
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...
by CCW | Aug 28, 2019 | Northampton, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Penny Beasley 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 fascinating as well… My grandparents...
by CCW | Aug 19, 2019 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Northampton
SUBMITTED BY: Penny Beasley Whilst being reared down on the Custawhiskey Creek on the Northampton/Hertford County line near Woodland, North Carolina, James Thomas “Tom” Baggett learned to fish, trap, and hunt. Tom helped his parents around their farm; the old log...
by CCW | Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Iredell, Northampton
AUTHOR: Unknown With little to his name and no family, Burwell Jackson Moore, born near Danville, Virginia in 1846, decided to join in the war effort. He enlisted in Northampton County, North Carolina on January 6, 1863 as a Private in Company A, 5th NC Cavalry (63rd...
