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Joseph Boggs was a captain in the Orange County militia.

William Bogue was a Quaker who arrived in Perquimans Precinct, North Carolina by 1689. In 1705 he served on a jury that freed Sanders, an American Indian man who had been indentured to Juliana Laker. He died in Perquimans in about December 1720… Read More

Demsey Bond (d. 1788) was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's… Read More

Henry Bond (d. 1794) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

James Bond (d. 1793) was a resident of Bertie County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

James Bond was a resident of Chowan County, North Carolina. In March 1770, an enslaved man named Caesar was found guilty of murdering Bond, and the motive was not stated. Bond may have been the same individual that represented Chowan County in… Read More

John Bond (d. 1793) was a resident of Bertie County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

Richard Bond Sr. (d. 1795) was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's… Read More

Thomas Bond (d. 1795) was a resident of Bertie County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

William Bond was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

William Bond was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

William Marion Bond was born on July 14, 1858, in Chowan County, North Carolina. Bond was a superior court judge from 1913 to 1928. He died in Durham, North Carolina, on March 31, 1928.

Charles Bondfield (d. 1781) was a a prominent lawyer of Edenton. In 1775 he served as a member of the Edenton Committee of Safety, a pro-patriot organization. By 1777, he was serving as a judge of the Edenton District Court of Oyer and Terminer,… Read More

Rebecca Bondfield was a signer of a nonimportation agreement in 1774 that later became known as the Edenton Tea Party Resolves. Some historians have identified Rebecca Bondfield as a possible wife of… Read More

Edwin Boner was born in Davidson County on September 27, 1849. Boner spent most of his life in Forsyth County, where he worked as a farmer and day laborer. He died at his home in Lewisville on January 2, 1917, after a three year battle with… Read More

Lusettie Elizabeth Boner was born in Forsyth County on April 29, 1849. Boner lived most of her life in Lewisville, where she supported herself by weaving baskets and other goods. She moved in with her nephew… Read More

Male storekeeper in Pulaski, Ill

William Henry Boner was born in Clemmons (Forsyth County), North Carolina on October 1, 1875. Boner was variously an accountant, carpenter, and farmer in Forsyth and later Davidson County. He died in Lexington (Davidson County) on April 20, 1953… Read More

Henry Bonner was born in North Carolina in about 1679. A wealthy planter in Chowan County, in 1728 he signed a bond on… Read More

James Alexander Bonner was born on March 7, 1864 in Petersburg, Virginia. In his youth, Bonner moved to Goldsboro where he attended public schools. He next entered Lincoln University, where he remained eight years, completing both a bachelor's (… Read More

Lydia Bonner was born in Chowan County in about 1753. The daughter of a local judge, in 1774 she, along with her mother, and fourty-nine other local women signed a nonimportation agreement that later became known as the Edenton Tea Party Resolves… Read More

Mary Roberts was born in about 1732 and was a resident of Chowan County, North Carolina by the time she married judge Thomas Bonner in about 1752. The Bonners had at least one child together. In 1774 Mary Bonner, her daughter Lydia, and forty-… Read More

Moses Boner was born in Bertie County in about 1732. Bonner served on a coroner's jury which investigated Elizabeth Knott's cause of death. He died sometime after September 1759, possibly relocating to nearby Granville County.

Thomas Bonner (1744-1785) was a resident of Chowan County who served as a Colonel in the Chowan County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia from 1775 to 1779. A justice of the peace in Chowan, he served as a jury foreman in the indictment of… Read More

Thomas Bonner (1719-1787) was a soldier and politician from Beaufort County. He served on the Read More

Jay Allen Bonsteel was born on April 13, 1873, in West Virginia. Bonsteel was a longtime New York resident who served as a soil scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He died in New York on May 1, 1943.

Edward Bonwicke was born in England in about 1671. He later established himself as a lawyer in colonial North Carolina. He served as the attorney general of the colony from June 1712 to 1714. He died in Virginia in 1715.

Joseph Boon was born in Johnston County, North Carolina in about 1752. He served as colonel of the Johnston County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia from 1777 to 1778 and in March 1778 he officiated the marriage ceremony between one of his… Read More

Floyd McKinley Boone was born on March 29, 1899 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Boone was an automobile machinist in Asheville, North Carolina, when he enlisted in the 1st North Carolina National Guard in May 1917 for service during World War… Read More

Thomas Boone (circa 1730-1812) was a colonial administrator who served as royal governor of New Jersey (1759-1760) and South Carolina (1760-1764).

Richard Booth was born in about 1643 and arrived in Virginia by 1661. There he lived in the vicinity of the Blackwater River near the contested Virginia-North Carolina border and had occasional interactions with the… Read More

Samuel David Booth was born in Virginia on March 11, 1852. Booth was a physician in Oxford (Granville County). He died in Oxford on June 28, 1916.

Thomas Boothe (d. c1787) was a resident of Bertie County. In 1778 he signed two oaths swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence… Read More

Ralph Boozman was a resident of Perquiman's Precinct, North Carolina. In 1705 he served on a jury that freed Sanders, an American Indian man who had been indentured to Juliana Laker. The following year he became a constable for Perquimans. He… Read More

Franklin Kornegay Borden was born in Wayne County, North Carolina on July 12, 1857. Borden was a banker and industrialist who served as the general district manager for the Southern Cotton Oil Company. He died in Goldsboro on October 10, 1941.

St. Johns, Perry Co., Ill

William Borritz (d. 1803) was a a sea captain and justice of the peace in Chowan County. In 1777 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten… Read More

James Borroughs was a resident of Bertie County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

Edward Boscawen (August 19, 1711 - January 10, 1761) was a British naval officer who rose to the rank of vice admiral in the 1750s. In 1755, Boscawen and his fleet were charged with intercepting French vessels attempting to resupply their forces… Read More

Edward Robert Bostic was born in South Carolina on September 27, 1883. Bostic was for many years a clerk for the United States Postal Service in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He died on September 20, 1972.… Read More

Green Williamson lived along the Yadkin River in Marsh Township (Surry County), North Carolina in 1916. That July, a devastating flood pushed the Yadkin beyond its banks, washing away all of Bostic's possessions. No further information could be… Read More

Edward "Smith" Boswell was a resident of Edenton District. He signed a bond promising that Daniel… Read More

George Bould was a resident of Craven County, North Carolina. A local constable, he also represented New Bern in the North Carolina Colonial Assembly from 1739-1741. Bould died in Craven in about August 1745.

Jonathan Boulton was a resident of Chowan County, North Carolina. An owner of enslaved people, Boulton served on the freeholders' court which considered the case of Jim, an enslaved man charged with unlawful possession of gunpowder. Boulton died… Read More

Henry Bouquet (1719 - 1765) was a Swiss-born British army officer who joined the Royal American Regiment in 1754. During the Seven Years War, Bouquet participated in the attack on Fort Duquesne (1758), but he is best remembered for his… Read More

Norfolk County, Virginia

Francis Churchill Bourne was born in Asheville (Buncombe County), North Carolina on March 31, 1894. Bourne was a wholesaler and merchant in Asheville. During World War I, he served as a commissioned officer with the 316th Field Artillery and saw… Read More

Joseph Dozier Boushall was born in Camden County, North Carolina on February 19, 1864. Boushall was an insurance agent in Raleigh (Wake County) who served as a member of the executive committee and later on the board of trustees for the Caswell… Read More