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).
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.
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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 North… 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
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 victory at… Read More
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
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 1900… 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. He… 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 worked… 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 might… 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
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 of W.… 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.
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
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 P. 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 constitution.… 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. In 1920,… 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