Samuel Sackett was a resident of colonial America who owned a sloop called Hester in 1761.

Lionel Sackville (1688-1765), 1st Duke of Dorset, was a British politician and nobleman who served as Lord President of the Council (1745-1751) and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1730-1737 & 1750-1755).

Thomas Saint was likely from Burlington County, New Jersey and arrived in Perquimans County, North Carolina by 1760. A Quaker, he relocated  first to Northampton County in 1764 and later to Dobbs County in 1772. He wrote a petition in 1778… Read More

John Sale was a resident of Chowan Precinct, North Carolina. In May 1722 he signed a note acknowledging that he owed eleven pounds to John Hoyter, chief of the Chowanoke Indians. Sale died sometime between October 1722 and March 1723, at which… Read More

John Sallis (c. 1717- c. 1759) was a Captain in the Granville County militia. His reputation as a serious drill master annoyed the rank and file. He was also a member of the Commission of Peace.

Edward Salter was a resident of Pitt County, North Carolina. A member of the Pitt Committee of Safety, Salter also served in several sittings of the North Carolina Provincial Congress. In 1775 he sent word of an attempted uprising amongst the… Read More

James Armstrong Salter was born in Wisconsin on April 23, 1874. A prominent architect in Raleigh, Salter served as State Architect of North Carolina from May 1919 to March 1921. Salter died on December 18, 1939.

John Salter was a resident of colonial Johnston County. In an undated petition, he joined others in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs to appoint another justice to serve their section of the county.

Oliver Salter was a resident of Pasquotank Precinct, North Carolina by 1735. A local justice of the peace, in 1741 he served on the local freeholders court which heard cases involving enslaved individuals. He died in Pasquotank by December 1750… Read More

Robert Salter (d. 1779) was a soldier and politician from Pitt County. A member of the Pitt County Committee of Safety in 1774, he represented Pitt in the Third Provincial Congress and was a state senator in 1777-8. He served as a Lt. Colonel in… Read More

John Sampson (died 1784) was an Ireland-born planter, colonial administrator, militia officer, and nephew of George Vaughan. He held numerous offices during the course of his career: justice of the peace in New Hanover County (1740), town… Read More

John Robert Sams was born in Union County, Tennessee, on July 15, 1848. Sams was a prominent farmer in Mars Hill (Madison County) who served as a member of the Madison County Board of Education, as farm agent for Polk and Madison counties, and as… Read More

John Sanders was a resident of Johnston County, North Carolina. A local justice of the peace, he presided over the local freeholders court, which heard cases involving enslaved people. Sanders died in Johnston in about December 1783.

Joseph Sanders was a resident of Perquimans County, North Carolina. A Quaker, in 1782 he signed a petition asking that Peter, a local man of mixed African American and American Indian ancestry, be allowed to remain unenslaved. He left the Quakers… Read More

Joshua Sanders was a resident of Perquimans County, North Carolina. A Quaker, in 1782 he signed a petition asking that Peter, a local man of mixed African American and American Indian ancestry, be allowed to remain unenslaved. Sanders died in… Read More

Josiah Sanders was a resident of Perquimans County, North Carolina. A Quaker, in 1782 he signed a petition asking that Peter, a local man of mixed African American and American Indian ancestry, be allowed to remain unenslaved. Sanders died in… Read More

William Sanders was a resident of Perquimans County, North Carolina. A Quaker, in 1782 he signed a petition asking that Peter, a local man of mixed African American and American Indian ancestry, be allowed to remain unenslaved. He died sometime… Read More

William Marsh Sanders was born on February 13, 1858, near Smithfield, North Carolina. Sanders was a banker, businessman, and farmer who served on the executive board of the state fair, a term as president of the North Carolina Cotton Growers… Read More

Worth Sanders (born ca. 1899) was a Black man accused of participating in the murder of white Wendell (Johnston County) resident… Read More

Richard Sanderson was raised in Currituck Precinct, North Carolina, the son of a member of the North Carolina Council. After a career in the maritime industry, Sanderson became a justice of the North Carolina General Court in 1712 and later held… Read More

James Sands was born around 1854 in North Carolina. Sands was a wagoner who resided in Rockingham County, North Carolina. Sands was charged with larceny on April 29, 1878, and sentenced to three years in the North Carolina State… Read More

Samuel Sandys was a British politician who held several influential offices, including Chancellor of the Exchequer (1742-1743), Speaker of the House of Lords (1756-1757), and First Lord of Trade (1761-1763).

The Saponi are a tribe of American Indians that traditionally lived on lands along the border of the Virginia and North Carolina colonies in the Piedmont region. In response to European encroachment, some Saponi people went north into New York… Read More

Benjamin Sasser was born around 1859 in North Carolina. Sasser was a farmer who resided in Craven County, North Carolina. Sasser was charged with larceny on April 13, 1878, and sentenced to two years in the North Carolina State… Read More

Mitchell Sasser was born around 1861 in North Carolina. Sasser was a farmer who resided in Craven County, North Carolina. Sasser was charged with larceny on April 13, 1878, and sentenced to five years in the North Carolina State… Read More

Henry Clement Satterfield was born on March 8, 1882, in Person County, North Carolina. A longtime resident of Durham, North Carolina, Satterfield was engaged in the lumber industry, eventually working his way up to president of the Cary Lumber… Read More

Butler Saunders was born around 1854 in North Carolina. Saunders worked as a laborer and a wood chopper. He resided in Richmond County, North Carolina, and later Asheville (Buncombe County), North Carolina, with his wife Retter… Read More

Charles Saunders (circa 1713-1775) was a British naval officer who, with the rank of rear admiral, commanded the British fleet in the capture of Quebec (1759) during the Seven Years' War.

Florida Call Saunders (née Cotten) was born September 29, 1841. Saunders was the wife of Confederate veteran and suspected Ku Klux Klan leader William L. Saunders. She died in Chapel Hill (Orange County) on July 9, 1865.

Jesse Saunders was born in Virginia on July 22, 1743. A resident of Granville County, North Carolina, from 1775 to 1776 he served as a captain in the Hillsborough District Minutemen and then in 1776 he became a captain in the 6th North Carolina… Read More

William G. Saunders was born in North Carolina circa 1870. Saunders was superintendent of the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association office in Washington, North Carolina.… Read More

William Johnson Saunders was born in North Carolina on January 3, 1835. Saunders was a University of North Carolina graduate, attorney, and Confederate officer. He died in Raleigh (Wake County) on November 16, 1906.

William Laurence Saunders was born in Raleigh in 1835. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he involved himself in editing for the university magazine. During his time at the university he often visited the Cotten… Read More

Britton Savage was a resident of Martin County. In September 1777 he and his brother were listed as… Read More

Frank Adrian Savage was born on September 22, 1895, near Greenville, North Carolina. Savage was the manager of his father's livery stable in Greenville, North Carolina, upon the outbreak of World War I. The Eastern District Exemption… Read More

Sterling Savage was a resident of Martin County. In September 1777 he and his brother were listed… Read More

William Savage was a resident of Guilford County, North Carolina. Following the Battle of Alamance, Savage made a deposition in support of John Pugh, a prominent Regulator. In his deposition, Savage… Read More

Henry Sawyer was born in Perquimans Precinct, North Carolina in about 1673. In 1706 he served on a jury which head a case involving Mary Rookes, a woman accused of witchcraft. Sawyer later lived in Pasquotank Precinct, where he died in about 1729… Read More

John Sawyer was a resident of Pasquotank County, North Carolina. In 1733 Sawyer witnessed a bond in which a free African American man named Anthony acknowledged his debt to John Connyer. Sawyer died in Pasquotank in January 1743.

Robert Sawyer was a resident of Pasquotank County, North Carolina. A cooper and plantation owner, in 1733 Sawyer witnessed a bond in which a free African American man named Anthony acknowledged his debt to John Connyer. Sawyer died in Pasquotank… Read More

Alfred Moore Scales was born on August 20, 1870, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Scales was a real estate investor and attorney in Greensboro. He died there on January 13, 1940.

Junius Irving Scales was born on June 1, 1832 in Rockingham County, North Carolina. Scales was a Confederate veteran, lawyer, and member of the Board of Directors of the Western North Carolina Railroad Company. Junius was the brother of… Read More

Mary "Minnie" Steele Scales (née Lord) was born in Salisbury (Rowan County), North Carolina on January 30, 1840. As a teenager, Scales attended Saint Mary's School in Raleigh and features prominently in the diary of friend and classmate Margaret… Read More

Eli Thomas Scarborough was born on January 29, 1857 in Wake County, North Carolina. Scarborough served in the General Assembly (1909 and 1911 sessions) and on the Wake County Board of Commissioners (1911-1923). He died in Eagle Rock (Wake County… Read More

Macrora Scarborough was born in Pasquotank Precinct, North Carolina in 1693. In 1719 Scarbrough received a court summons because he had been accused of harboring Rose, an enslaved woman. If Scarborough was punished, he did not lose influence… Read More

Robert Schaw (died circa 1786) was a merchant, planter, militia officer, and town commissioner in colonial Wilmington. In an undated petition, he joined others in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs for aid in controlling an outbreak of disease… Read More

Frederick Schulzer was a physician in Halifax County and later Chowan County, North Carolina. A justice of the peace for Halifax, in 1765 Schulzer heard the trial of Jack, an enslaved man charged with larceny. Schulzer died in New York in about… Read More

Samuel Scollay was born possibly in Scotland or Massachusetts and was a resident of Bertie County, North Carolina. Scollay was an owner of enslaved people and in 1742 he submitted a petition stating that one of his enslaved people, an African… Read More

Charles Alexander Scott was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on September 24, 1883. Scott was employed in his father's (Joseph James Scott) house moving business. He died of influenza on November 1, 1918 at… Read More

Charles Alonzo Scott was born on February 8, 1867, in Alamance County, North Carolina. In 1898, Scott founded the National Bank of Alamance, for which institution he served as cashier, vice president, and, later, president. In 1920, he… Read More

Donnell Everett Scott was born on March 3, 1887, in Graham, North Carolina. Scott was drafted into federal service from the national guard in August 1917 as a major for service during the First World War. He was subsequently promoted to… Read More