John Bowdon was a resident in colonial North Carolina. Around 1763, he joined others in signing a letter of petition to royal governor Arthur Dobbs on behalf of William Strother, who had been accused of horse stealing.
John Bowdon was a resident in colonial North Carolina. Around 1763, he joined others in signing a letter of petition to royal governor Arthur Dobbs on behalf of William Strother, who had been accused of horse stealing.
William Bowdon was a resident in colonial North Carolina. Around 1763, he joined others in signing a letter of petition to royal governor Arthur Dobbs on behalf of William Strother, who had been accused of horse stealing.
William Bowdon, Jr., was a resident in colonial North Carolina. Around 1763, he joined others in signing a letter of petition to royal governor Arthur Dobbs on behalf of William Strother, who had been accused of horse stealing.
William B. Bowe was the county commissioner for Caswell County in 1870. However, he was in Hillsborough reading law when Colonel's George W. Kirk and George B. Bergen arrested six suspected members of the Ku Klux Klan in July 1870.
John Sydney Bowen was born on September 6, 1866, in Edwards, Mississippi. The son of Confederate general John Stevens Bowen, John Sydney Bowen relocated from Savannah, Georgia, to Alta Pass in Mitchell County, North Carolina, sometime after… Read More
Benjamin Bowers Jr. was a resident of Edenton District and later Pitt County. In 1778 he signed a bond promising that he would appear before the Edenton District Superior Court in May 1778 to give evidence against… Read More
John Preston Bowers was born on August 3, 1884, in Anson County, North Carolina. Bowers was an electrical engineer who worked for a variety of plants during the course of his life, including the Tallassee Power Company at Badin, North Carolina.… Read More
Thomas Contee Bowie was born on July 27, 1876, in Lake St. Joseph, Louisiana. A lawyer by trade, Bowie was an on-again, off-again Democratic member of the state’s General Assembly from about 1908 to 1935.… Read More
John William Bowles was born in Wilkes County in January 1875. He spent much of his adulthood in West Jefferson (Ashe County), where he owned a wholesale feed and produce store. He settled in North Wilkesboro permanently in 1927, where he… Read More
Albert Jesse Bowley was born on November 24, 1875, in California. Bowley was a career military officer who held command of Camp Bragg (later Fort Bragg) from 1921 to 1928. He died in Northumberland County, Virginia, on May 23, 1945.
Job Boyce (d. 1779) 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.
Joseph Boyce (d. 1817) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 after initially being unable to due to illness, he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that… Read More
Daniel Boyd served as a clerk in the U.S Pension Office in 1833. No further records about this individual have been located.
James Edmond Boyd was born on in Alamance, North Carolina on February 14, 1845. A lawyer and former Confederate soldier, Col. George B. Bergen arrested him in July 1870 on charges of being a member in the Ku Klux Klan. He was transferred to… Read More
Lucy Bailey Boyd was born in Virginia in about 1775. Later a resident of Bath County, Kentucky, in 1839 she made a sworn affidavit in support of her sister Mary Yarborough's widow's pension application. She died sometime after 1850.
Nancy Bailey Boyd was born in Virginia in about 1770. Later a resident of Kentucky, she married William Boyd and resided in Bath County. She gave several affidavits in support of her sister Mary's widow's pension application. She died, likely in… Read More
Robert Boyd was born in Scotland in about 1688. A resident of Beaufort County, North Carolina by 1741, he served as a local justice of the peace. In 1748 he presided over a case involving Stephen, and enslaved man charged with theft. Boyd died in… Read More
Thomas Boyd was an attorney in Pasquotank Precinct, North Carolina by 1697. He held several colonial offices in North Carolina throughout his career, including provost marshal in 1706, general court judge in 1708, and member of the North Carolina… Read More
Thomas Boyd Jr. was a resident of Perquimans County, North Carolina. The son of a prominent colonial office holder, Boyd worked as an attorney and became North Carolina's attorney general in 1725.
William Boyd (d. 1780) was a 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 North Carolina's… Read More
William Boyd was born in about 1754. A resident of Virginia, he served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He later moved to Fleming and Bath County, Kentucky where he worked as a shoemaker and made a sworn affidavit in… Read More
William Churchill Gibson Boyd was born in Petersburg, Virginia, on April 28, 1866. After moving to Craven County, Boyd continued his work as an insurance agent. In 1914, he signed a petition expressing his support for the appointment… Read More
William Rufus Boyd, Jr. was born on January 7, 1885, in Fairfield, Texas. Boyd, a banker and attorney, served as the national campaign manager for the League to Enforce Peace during World War I. He died in Teague, Texas on November 6, 1959.
Archibald Henderson Boyden was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, on January 29, 1847. A Confederate veteran, Boyden took up a new cause in the immediate post-war years: the advancement of the initiatives and… Read More
Jacob Boyes (d. 1779) 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.
Francis Boykin was born in about 1751. A resident of northwestern South Carolina, he served as a captain in the 3rd South Carolina Regiment of the Continental Line from 1775 to 1780. He died in 1821.
George Brack was a resident of Onslow County, North Carolina. An owner of enslaved people, in 1769 Brack served on a local freeholders' court which heard a case involving Cuff, an enslaved man charged with a crime. Brack died in Onslow by April… Read More
General Edward Braddock (1695-1755) was the commander-in-chief of the thirteen American colonies for the British Army during the French and Indian War. Braddock is best remembered his failure to oust the French from the Ohio River Valley. He was… Read More
John Bradford was born in Brunswick County, Virginia in about 1730. A resident of Halifax County, North Carolina when it was established in 1758, Bradford represented Halifax at the North Carolina Colonial Assembly from 1766 to 1768 and also at… Read More
Thomas Bradford was born in about 1757. He served as a lieutenant in the Granville County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia from about 1778 to 1781. He died in Clarke County, Alabama on March 15, 1830.
William Hazel Bradford was born on July 26, 1896, in Fort Mills, South Carolina. Bradford was an electrical engineer for the Tallassee Power Company in Badin, North Carolina. In 1919, he provided testimony during an investigation into the alleged… Read More
Caleb Davis Bradham was born on May 27, 1867, in Chinquapin, North Carolina. Bradham was a businessman who is best remembered for creating Pepsi Cola. During World War I, he served on the state's eastern district exemption board. Bradham died in… Read More
John I. Bradham was born in South Carolina around 1883. In 1910, he was working as a liveryman in Black Mountain (Buncombe County). He likely only lived in Black Mountain for a brief period, as the 1910 census lists him as a boarder and he does… Read More
Abel Bradley was a resident of Currituck County. In February 1777 Josiah Phillips and his… Read More
Elizabeth Sharpless Bradley was born in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania on June 25, 1734 to a Quaker family. In 1755 she married Richard Bradley, an English Quaker at the Chester County Meeting House in Pennsylvania. In 1758 she and her husband and… Read More
Fred Moore Bradley was born in McDowell County, North Carolina, on June 18, 1884. Bradley was a bank cashier who advocated for the construction of good roads as the secretary of the Old Fort Township Highway Commission. He died in Asheville on… Read More
Joseph Philo Bradley was born in Berne, New York on March 14, 1813. Bradley was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a member of the Republican Party and favored a conservative interpretation of the U.S.… Read More
Richard Bradley was born in about 1734 in England. In 1752 he emigrated to Chester County, Pennsylvania and was a Quaker. He married Elizabeth Sharpless in 1755 at a Quaker Meeting House and they moved to North Carolina with their daughter Lucy… Read More
Clem William Bradshaw was born on July 23, 1894, in Swepsonville, North Carolina. Bradshaw served two stints in the army during World War I but health troubles each time necessitated his discharge by surgeon's certificate of disability.… Read More
Stephen Cambreleng Bragaw was born on February 22, 1868, in Washington, North Carolina. In Washington, Bragaw served as mayor (1897-1898), as City Attorney (1900 to 1906), as County Superintendent of Schools in 1902-1903, and as a state senator… Read More
Thomas Bragg was born in Warrenton on November 9, 1810. A democratic politician, he served as North Carolina's governor as later as a U.S. Senator before resigning at the outbreak of the Civil War. He then served as the Attorney General of the… Read More
Frederick Bowman "Frank" Braid was born in Charleston, South Carolina on March 23, 1876. Braid, an electrician, lived in multiple cities and states over his career. He moved to Black Mountain (Buncombe County) from Canton (Haywood County) in 1913… Read More
Robert Marvin Brame was born in Franklin County, North Carolina, on May 14, 1876. Brame was a prominent pharmacist in North Wilkesboro (Wilkes County), North Carolina, who owned and operated the Brame Drug Company from 1904 until his death on… Read More
Christopher Brandon was a resident of colonial Anson County. In an undated petition, he joined other Anson County residents in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs to organize a patrol to defend against attacks by members of the Catawba,… Read More
George Brandon was a resident of colonial Anson County. In an undated petition, he joined other Anson County residents in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs to organize a patrol to defend against attacks by members of the Catawba, Cherokee,… Read More
James Brandon was born in Pennsylvania in about 1734. A resident of Salisbury, North Carolina by 1754, he was a member of the local Committee of Safety. An officer in the Rowan County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia during the American… Read More
James Brandon was a resident of colonial Anson County. In an undated petition, he joined other Anson County residents in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs to organize a patrol to defend against attacks by members of the Catawba, Cherokee,… Read More
John Brandon was born in about 1713. A justice of the peace for Rowan County, North Carolina, he also represented Rowan in the North Carolina Colonial Assembly from 1753-1754. Brandon died in Rowan on 27 April 1775.
Richard Brandon was born in Pennsylvania in about 1722. A resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1765 he served on the local freeholders' court, which heard cases involving enslaved people. He died in Rowan on 27 October 1790.
Joe Brannan was born May 31, 1880. He was a farmer in Wendell, North Carolina. Following World War I, tobacco prices plummeted, leaving Brannan feeling despondent. He committed suicide in the days preceding September 20, 1920, leaving a wife… Read More