Isaac Benton (d. 1791) 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

Jethro Benton Jr. 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

Moses Benton (d. 1793) 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

Christopher Thomas Benzien was a Moravian minister and leader who immigrated to America in 1754 where he served as chaplain of a settlement called Gnadenthal.

George B. Bergen was born in New Jersey in 1843. A Lieutenant for the U.S. Army Civil War, he became a Lt. Colonel and served as second in command to Col. George W. Kirk during his operations In North Carolina in 1870. Bergen was removed from… Read More

William Beriman (d. 1827) 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… Read More

Francis Bernard (1712-1779) was a colonial administrator who served as governor of New Jersey (1758-1760) and Massachusetts (1760-1771). His reactions to the colonists' response to Parliamentary taxation deepened divisions between Parliament and… Read More

Joseph John Bernard was born on November 9, 1859, in Pitt County, North Carolina. Bernard served on the Wake County Board of Commissioners, as bookkeeper for the central prison in Raleigh, as chief deputy of the Wake County Deeds office, and as… Read More

William Berother was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he refused to sign an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina.

Edward Berriman (d. 1800) 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… Read More

Albert Seaton Berry was born in Fairfield (Campbell County), Kentucky on May 13, 1836. Berry was a lawyer, Confederate veteran, and member of the Kentucky state senate. He died in Newport (Campbell County), Kentucky on January 6, 1908. 

Charles Berry (died 1765) served as chief justice of the colonial-era North Carolina Supreme Court from 1759 until his death in 1765.

John Berry 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 Thomas Berry was born on September 12, 1832, in Hyde County North Carolina. Berry was a former Lieutenant in the North Carolina militia during the Civil War. After the Civil War he became involved in politics and was elected Mayor of New… Read More

The Bertie County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions was a local county court responsible for the day-to-day administration of the community. Justices of the peace elected by the colonial governor and later by the… Read More

Lord Robert Bertie (1721-1782) was a British army officer and politician who commanded troops during the Seven Years War.

Thomas Best (d. 1791) was a resident of Martin County. A near neighbor of John Lewellen, Best… Read More

Nathaniel Bethel was a resident of colonial America who was master of a sloop called Hester in 1761.

Lauchlin Alexander Bethune was born on November 15, 1867, in Aberdeen, North Carolina. Bethune was an educator, newspaperman, businessman, banker, and state senator. He was a longtime resident of Clinton, North Carolina. He died in Clinton on… Read More

Sylvester Bettis was born in New York on May 11, 1780. A resident of Burke County, North Carolina, he served as a justice of the peace and later as a judge for the court of pleas and quarter sessions. Later in life he worked as a tanner and… Read More

Rembert J. Beverly was born October 10, 1864, on the plantation of William B. Little in the Gulledge Township of Anson County, North Carolina. Beverly was a prominent Black farmer and land owner. He completed one term at Biddle (now Johnson C.… Read More

Thomas Bevers was born in North Carolina in 1765. A resident of Wake County, North Carolina and a neighbor of Rachel Locus, he gave supporting testimony in her pension application stating that he knew Valentine Locus prior to his death. He died… Read More

John Henry Bias was born on June 11, 1879, in Palmyra, Missouri. Bias was a professor of biology and chemistry at Shaw University for ten years, leaving the institution in 1917 to manage the Berry O'Kelly school in Method, North Carolina. In the… Read More

Fannie Neal Bickett (née Yarborough) was born on October 11, 1870, in Rose Hill, North Carolina. An attorney by training, Bickett was a social worker, reformer, and civil servant who served as First Lady of the State of North Carolina from 1917… Read More

Thomas Walter Bickett was born on February 28, 1869, in Monroe, North Carolina. Bickett served as a state legislator (1907-1908), attorney general (1909-1916), and governor of the state of North Carolina (1917-1921). He died in Raleigh (Wake… Read More

William Yarborough Bickett was born on August 30, 1899, in Franklin County, North Carolina. The son of Gov. Thomas W. Bickett, Bickett served as his father's executive secretary in 1920, the last year of his father's administration. A lawyer by… Read More

George Edwin Biddix was born on May 19, 1882, in McDowell County, North Carolina. From 1912 to 1922, Biddix was an employee, and later foreman, at the Tallassee Power Company plant at Badin, North Carolina. During an investigation launched… Read More

Alexander Bruce Bielaski was born on April 2, 1883, in Montgomery County, Maryland. Bielaski was a career civil servant with the Department of Justice. He served as chief of the Bureau of Investigation—the predecessor agency of the modern day FBI… Read More

Arthur Weldon Biggerstaff was born on November 12, 1894, in Cleveland County, North Carolina. Biggerstaff was a machinist and later a barber in Hickory, North Carolina. He died in Richmond, Virginia, on December 14, 1970.

John William Biggs was born on March 24, 1887, in North Carolina. Biggs was a druggist for a local pharmacy in Williamston, North Carolina, when he was drafted into the service in September 1918. He served stateside during World War I and was… Read More

Montgomery Herman Biggs was born on May 17, 1870, in Hinsdale, Illinois. Biggs was physician who served on the Committee of American Physicians and guided the North Carolina's mobilization of medical resources during World War I. He died in… Read More

Robert Knox Bingham was born in Boone (Watauga County), North Carolina, on March 7, 1878. Bingham was a physician and surgeon. He died in Statesville (Iredell County) on July 30, 1949.

David Bird 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. Later in 1783… Read More

Edward Bird (1734-1802) 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.… Read More

Jerusha Dupree Bird was born in about 1754. She married Hardy Bird in Johnston County, North Carolina in 1776 and in 1842 she successfully applied for a widow's pension claiming her husband's service during the American Revolution. She died in… Read More

Richard Bird (c1752-1818) 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… Read More

William Bird was born in Chowan County, North Carolina sometime before 1716. Later a resident of Bertie County, Bird served on a coroner's jury which investigated Elizabeth Knott's cause of death. Any further information about this individual has… Read More

George Birkenhead was a resident of Bath County, North Carolina by 1703. That year he and several other colonists in the area supported a petition requesting that the colonial government of North Carolina prevent further violence between them and… Read More

Charles Birmingham was born in Maryland in about 1722. A resident of Anson County, North Carolina by 1772, that year he served on a coroner's jury which investigated the death of John Henry. Birmingham died sometime after 1789.

William Birnen 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.

Claude Virginia Bishop (née Barham) was born in Goldsboro (Wayne County), North Carolina, on April 27, 1861. Bishop was a woman who seems to have served as a rural mail carrier in Durham, North Carolina. She died there on January 31, 1940.

W. R. Bishop (alias “Evans”) was born around 1850 in Maryland. Bishop was a farmer who resided in Duplin County, North Carolina. Bishop was charged with horse stealing on November 18, 1874, and sentenced to 10 years in the North… Read More

Thomas Bissel 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.

Alexander Black (d. 1791) was a civil servant and resident of Chowan County. In 1777 he was summoned before… Read More

Joseph Black was born in Wilson County, North Carolina, on January 1, 1862. He was the son of Joe Black and Beckie Mitchel, both born in Wilson County as well.

Black was a farmer in Greene County. In early April 1916, Black's son… Read More

Samuel Black (d. 1782) was a cabinet maker in Tyrrell and later Chowan County. In 1777 he became a member of the Gourd Patch Conspiracy, with one other member of the plot,… Read More

Samuel Black was a resident of colonial Salisbury. Around 1763, William Strother and Oliver Wallace were accused of horse stealing, found guilty, and sentenced to death. In an undated petition, Black joined others from the Salisbury District… Read More

Sidney Arthur Black was born on July 10, 1889, in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Black was a mechanic and cabinet maker at the Hickory Cabinet Manufacturing Company in Hickory, North Carolina. He died in Catawba County, North Carolina, on… Read More

Will Black was born around 1897 in Greene County, North Carolina. He was the son of Joseph and Sarah (or Sallie) Black.

Black was accused of sexually assaulting a six year old girl in Snow Hill (Greene County) on May 31, 1916. State… Read More