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Louis Nachman was born on November 17, 1887, in Lake City, South Carolina. Nachman was manager of Wolf's department store in Badin, North Carolina, in 1919 when he provided testimony via an affidavit in an investigation into the alleged abuse of… Read More

Abner Nash (1740-1786) was a politician from New Bern who served speaker of the first session of the… Read More

Francis Nash was born in Amelia County, Virginia in about 1742. A resident of Orange County, North Carolina, he served several terms in the colonial assembly. He served as a lt. col. of the 1st North Carolina Regiment of the Continental Line from… Read More

Francis "Frank" Nash was born on January 29, 1855 at Floral College (Robeson County), North Carolina. An attorney by training, Nash served as mayor of Hillsborough (1907-1911), attorney for Orange County (1910-1914), state senator for the eighth… Read More

Henry Kollock Nash was born in Hillsboro (Orange County), North Carolina on January 25, 1817. Nash was an attorney. He died in Tarboro (Edgecombe County), North Carolina, on November 3, 1897.

Josiah Nash was a captain in a regiment of Pasquotank County militia in December 1754.

William Nassery was a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina by 1755. He served as the county sheriff from 1763-1765. Nassery may have later moved to Wilkes County, Georgia.

Samuel Jasper Neal was born in North Carolina on June 7, 1819. Neal was a soldier and state legislator who lived most of his life in Marion (McDowell County). He died there on September 18, 1889.

Thomas Neal 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.

Walter Hart Neal, Sr. was born in Franklin County, North Carolina on February 19, 1859. Neal was an attorney in Laurinburg (Scotland County) who served as judge of the state's Eighth Judicial District (1901-1908), as district counsel for the… Read More

Christopher Neale was a resident of Craven County, North Carolina by 1758. He represented Craven in the North Carolina Assembly in 1771, during which time he helped disabled veterans widows of the War of Regulation receive pensions. Later Neale… Read More

Henry Neale was born in about 1680 and immigrated to Somerset, New Jersey by 1708. Neale later became a resident of Bladen and New Hanover Counties in North Carolina, where he amassed large swaths of land. He died in New Hanover County in 1735.… Read More

Warren S. Needham was born in Surry County, North Carolina, on September 15, 1863. Needham was an attorney and public school teacher in Greensboro (Guilford County). He died in Greensboro on May 18, 1920.

Christopher Neil (d. 1784) was the clerk of the Craven County Court. In that position, he helped process the charges filed against… Read More

Jeremiah Nelms was born in Northumberland, Virginia in about 1742. A resident of Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1768 Slade testified before the local court in a case involving Jack, an enslaved man charged with grand larceny. Nelms died… Read More

William Nelms was a resident of Onslow County, North Carolina. An owner of enslaved people, in 1779 Nelms served on a local freeholders' court which heard the case of Isaac, an enslaved man charged with theft. Nelms died in Onslow sometime after… Read More

Arden A. Nelson Jr. was born around 1855 in Washington County, North Carolina. In his youth, he was enslaved by William Grimes. He was convicted of murder in 1877 in Washington County and wrote to Governor Zebulon B. Vance asking for a pardon. He… Read More

James Nelson enlisted in the North Carolina Militia and was wounded in the knee and disabled during the Battle of Alamance on 16 May 1771. He later petitioned the North Carolina Colonial Assembly and was successful in winning a pension in… Read More

John Nelson was born in about 1650. Nelson moved to Bath County, North Carolina by 1702 and established himself somewhere along the Neuse River. In Bath, he and several other colonists submitted a petition requesting the colony's support against… Read More

Robert Nelson was a merchant who resided at various times near Cross Creek in Cumberland County and at Halifax. With the outbreak of the American Revolution, Nelson resolved to outfit his brigantine the Polly on the Cashie… Read More

Sampson Nelson was born around 1850 in North Carolina. Nelson was a farmer who resided in Tyrell County, North Carolina. Nelson was charged with larceny on April 8, 1878, and sentenced to one year in the North Carolina State… Read More

Evan Nepean (19 July 1752-2 October 1822) was a British civil servant who served under Lord North… Read More

William Nesbit was born in Pennsylvania in about 1733. A resident of Salisbury, Nesbit became a town commissioner and participated in the local Committee of Safety during the American Revolution. He died in Rowan County on 22 November 1799.

William Carson Nesbitt was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, on December 4, 1867. Nesbitt moved to Broad River Township by 1880, where he worked as a farmer for most of his adult life. He died in Edneyville (Henderson County) on February… Read More

James Nevill was a planter who arrived in colonial North Carolina by 1701. He served as the deputy marshal for Pamlico Precinct. In 1711 while at his home, Nevill and his family were brutally murdered. When his body was discovered, local… Read More

The New York Herald was first published on May 6th, 1835, by James Gordon Bennett Sr., who was a Scottish immigrant. During the Civil War, the New York Herald remained a pro-Union newspaper, and it was a popular newspaper through the early 20th-… Read More

Nathan Carter Newbold was born on December 27, 1871, in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. Newbold was a public servant and influential advocate of African American education. Most notably, he served as the director of the Division of Negro… Read More

William Newbould was a resident of Perquimans County, North Carolina. In 1783 Newbould signed a petition in support of James, a local African American man who was trying to maintain his freedom. Newbould died sometime after 1790.

Gideon Newby was born in Perquimans County, North Carolina on 15 September 1751. 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. Newby… Read More

Joseph Newby was born in Perquimans County, North Carolina in about 1741. 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. Newby died in… Read More

Thomas Newby was born in about 1725 and was a prominent Quaker in Perquimans County, North Carolina. By 1775 Newby owned fourteen enslaved people and in 1776 he freed ten of his enslaved people, hiring them out to other white people in the nearby… Read More

Eliza T. Newcomb (née Leach) was born on May 31, 1897, in North Carolina. Prior to her marriage to Robert Timberlake Newcomb in 1921, Eliza worked as a file clerk in the North Carolina Adjutant General's Office and later as a stenographer in the… Read More

Jake F. Newell was born on February 15, 1869, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Newell was a prominent attorney in Charlotte, North Carolina. He died in Waynesville, North Carolina on August 9, 1945.

William Allen Newell was born in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, on April 24, 1874. Newell was a Methodist minister for thirty-seven years, serving parsonages in Elk Park, Tryon, Asheville, Mount Airy, Salisbury, and Morganton. He was president… Read More

Benjamin Allen Newland was born in Marion (McDowell County), North Carolina on February 14, 1849. Newland worked for the Western North Carolina Railroad and corresponded with Governor Zebulon B. Vance about his appointment. He was killed in a… Read More

William Calhoun Newland was born in McDowell County, North Carolina, on October 8, 1857. Newland was an attorney and politician who served as mayor of Lenoir (Caldwell County), solicitor of the Eighth District, legislator (elected 1899 and 1903… Read More

John Newman was a resident of Beaufort County, North Carolina. An owner of enslaved people, Newman served on the freeholders court which heard cases involving enslaved people. He died in Beaufort in about 1781.

James D. Newsom was born in North Carolina in 1801. A farmer and merchant in Wake County, North Carolina, he also served as a local justice of the peace. He died in Wake County in 1857.

Marion Eugene Newsom was born on March 4, 1884, in Littleton, North Carolina. Newsom served as the mayor of Durham from November 1917 to May 1921. He died in Durham on September 14, 1948.

Captain Nicholas was in the Chatham County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia and led troops during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781. Any further information about this individual's identity has not been located.

George Nicholas was a soldier at Fort Johnston, a British colonial-era fort in Brunswick County, who testified to the alleged misconduct of Captain John Dalrymple in 1763.

George Nicholas was a resident of New Hanover County, North Carolina. He served as attorney general of colonial North Carolina from 1752 until his death in 1756.

John Nicholls (d. c1800) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promising to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence… Read More

Humphrey Nichols (d. 1791) was a collector of taxes for Bertie County. In 1777 he served as a juror in the fall session of the Edenton District Court of Oyer and Terminer during a period when the State was investigating various members of… Read More

John Wesley Nichols was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, on August 3, 1882. From around 1910 to 1917, he worked as an inspector at the C. D. Coffey lumber yard in North Wilkesboro. By 1940, he had retired to his farm in Millers Creek in… Read More

Jonathan Nichols (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… Read More

Josiah Nichols was a resident of Bertie County. In November 1777 he was ordered to leave the state within sixty days, presumably because he refused to sign the oath of allegiance to the State of North Carolina.

Julius Nichols was the sheriff of Bute County, North Carolina. In 1768 when two enslaved men named Ned and Daniel were found guilty of murder, Nicholas was directed to execute them. Nichols died sometime after 1773.

Benjamin Nicholson 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.

Henry Nicholson 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.

Hunter Nicholson was born in Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee on June 9, 1834. He attended the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1855. He then became an associate editor of his father's newspaper and studied law. He served as a cavalry… Read More