Robert Southerland Taylor was born in Mount Olive, North Carolina, on January 8, 1876. Taylor was a farmer, newspaper publisher, and printer who served as president of the North Carolina Association of the Deaf and as a member of the board of… Read More

Thomas Taylor was a resident of Chowan Precinct, North Carolina. In 1733 he made an agreement with the Chowanoke Nation in which they allowed him to rent a portion of their land for thirteen years in exchange for 250 pounds of tobacco a year. He… Read More

Thomas Taylor was born in Amelia County, Virginia on September 10, 1743. A resident of Richland County, South Carolina, he served as a colonel in the Camden District Brigade of the South Carolina State Troops from 1780 to 1783. He was captured… Read More

Thomas Taylor was a resident of Pasquotank Precinct, North Carolina. In 1704 the North Carolina Council ordered him, along with several other men, to assist in a land survey for the Yeopim tribe. A local justice of the peace, he died sometime… Read More

Thomas Taylor was a lieutenant colonel in a regiment of Pasquotank County militia in December 1754.

Walker Taylor was born in Marion, South Carolina on October 26, 1864. A longtime resident of Wilmington (New Hanover County), Taylor was a banker, businessman, and onetime U.S. Collector of Customs. Taylor was a leading conspirator in the 1898… Read More

William Taylor was a resident of colonial North Carolina. In about 1740 he purchased William Derry, a person of color, from Godfrey Hunt of Nansemond County, Virginia. Derry later petitioned the North Carolina Court, arguing that he ought to be… Read More

William Taylor was born around 1846 in North Carolina. He worked as a farm laborer and resided in Charlotte (Mecklenburg County), North Carolina, with his family until the Taylors moved to Arkansas. He was convicted of forgery in Wilmington (New… Read More

William Taylor was born in Culpeper County, Virginia on December 19, 1737. A resident of Orange and Granville Counties in North Carolina, he served as a lt. col. of the 6th Regiment of the North Carolina State Troops during the American… Read More

William Taylor born Norfolk, Virginia and later became a resident of Clayroot in Pitt County, North Carolina. Taylor was an owner of enslaved people and in 1775 at least one of Taylor's enslaved people participated in spreading a rumor about a… Read More

William A. Taylor was born around 1854 in North Carolina. Taylor worked as a laborer who resided in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Taylor was charged with larceny on October 19, 1874, and sentenced to two years in the North… Read More

Clarence Wade Teague was born March 27, 1872, in Burlington, North Carolina. Around 1889, Teague moved to Durham, North Carolina, where he was a postmaster, realtor, and clerk for a cotton mill. He died in Durham (Durham County) on June 19, 1934… Read More

Robert Teel was born around 1847 in North Carolina. Teel worked as a laborer and resided in Martin County, North Carolina. Teel was charged with larceny on October 30, 1873, and sentenced to three years in the North Carolina State Penitentiary.… Read More

Alexander Telfair (1738-1786) was a Scottish merchant who established a successful business in Halifax. A loyalist, when the state of North Carolina required all citizens to take an oath of allegiance to the new state in 1777, Telfair refused and… Read More

John Temple (1732-1798) was a Boston-born colonial administrator who served as surveyor general of customs in the Northern District of America (1761-1767), commissioner of revenue (1767-1774), lieutenant governor of New Hampshire (1761-1774), and… Read More

Albert Johnson Terrell was born in Old Fort (McDowell County) on December 15, 1875. After studying medicine at the University of North Carolina, Terrell established a medical practice in Black Mountain (Buncombe County), where he also owned the… Read More

William H. Terrell was a resident of Wake County, North Carolina who involved himself in Rachel Locus' widow's pension application. By 1849 he moved to nearby Nash County, North Carolina. Any further information about this individual has not been… Read More

Ann Bonar Terrence was born in Pennsylvania in about 1737. She and her husband operated a tavern, often spelled Tarrant's or Torrence's in Rowan County, North Carolina along the road to nearby Salisbury. During the American Revolution her husband… Read More

James Thackston was a resident of Orange County, North Carolina by 1768. In 1769 he opened a store in Hillsborough with fellow merchant William Johnston. Thackston and Johnston's business was a firm… Read More

Samuel Thackston was a resident of Orange County, North Carolina by 1771. He was likely related the son of James Thackston who owned a store in Hillsborough with fellow merchant … Read More

John Thatch was a resident of Chowan County, North Carolina by 1747. Later he became a resident of nearby Perquimans County, North Carolina. In 1759 one of Thatch's enslaved people, a man named Ben, was found guilty of robbery. Thatch died in… Read More

Theunis Thew was a resident of colonial America who mastered a sloop called Industry in 1761.

Annie Long Thomas was the infant daughter of William George Thomas and Mary Long Thomas (née Sumner). She was born in North Carolina on October 26, 1850, and died before her first birthday on August 19, 1851.

Edmund Thomas (1712-1767) was a British politician who served as a member of the Board of Trade from 1761 to 1763.

Ezekiel Thomas (d. 1803) 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

Frederick William Thomas was born in Wales on August 8, 1871. Thomas immigrated to the United States in 1887 and set up residence in Asheville (Buncombe County) where he worked as an attorney. He died in Asheville on March 20, 1947.

George Gillett Thomas was born on July 14, 1848, in Tarboro, North Carolina. Thomas was a physician in Wilmington, North Carolina. During World War I, he served on the state's eastern district exemption board. Thomas died in Wilmington on… Read More

George Thomas (circa 1700 - 1775) was a British colonial administrator who served as deputy governor of Pennsylvania (1738-1747) as governor of the British Leeward Islands (1753-1766).

Jacob Thomas (d. 1801) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he refused to take an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina, but he continued to live in the state after the war.

James Thomas (d. 1780) 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.

John Thomas was a resident of Chowan Precinct, North Carolina by 1714. In 1733 he witnessed James Hinton's purchase of land from the Chowanoke Indians. Any further information about this individual has not been located.

John Thomas was a resident of Edgecombe County and an owner of enslaved people. In 1765 he served on a local freeholders court when it heard a case involving Jamey, an enslaved man charged with theft. Thomas died either in about 1777 or 1789, as… Read More

John Thomas Monroe was born in Burke County on November 26, 1869. By 1910, he had moved to Black Mountain, where he worked as a carpenter and blacksmith. He died sometime after 1940.

Josiah Thomas (d. 1812) 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

Lewis Thomas 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.

Mary Sumner Clark Thomas was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina on January 27, 1819. She married William George Thomas, a physician, in 1843 and the couple resided in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina and later in Wilmington, New… Read More

Micajah Thomas was born in Virginia in February 1726. A resident of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, Thomas was a prominent planter and enslaver in the area. In 1765 he served on the local freeholders court when it heard a case involving Jamey,… Read More

Samuel Thomas 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. Later in… Read More

Samuel Thomas was a resident of Bertie and later Northampton County, North Carolina. In about March 1768 three of Thomas's enslaved people murdered him. The motive for the crime was not recorded.

Stephen Thomas (d. 1787) was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he was recorded as still needing to be summoned to either take or refuse an oath pledging allegiance to the State of North Carolina. Whatever his decision, he… Read More

William George Thomas was born in Franklin County, North Carolina on March 23, 1818. A physician, he married Mary Sumner Clark in 1843 and the couple resided in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina and later in Wilmington, New Hanover County… Read More

William Nelson Thomas was born in Roxboro (Person County), North Carolina on February 6, 1888. Thomas was a physician in Oxford who served as medical director of the Granville County Health Department. He died in Oxford on August 3, 1959.

Garland Atherton Thomasson was born in Old Fort (McDowell County), North Carolina on May 3, 1876. Thomasson was an attorney who served as private secretary to Governor Locke Craig. He died in Asheville on May 7, 1941.

Thomas Thomlinson (1732-1805) was a British schoolmaster who immigrated to Craven County in 1763. The following year, he began teaching classes and advocated for a proper schoolhouse. As a result of those efforts, Thomlinson became the first… Read More

Andrew Thompson was born in Virginia in about 1808. A resident of Wythe County, Virginia, he was a farmer and also served as a deputy clerk for the local county court. He died sometime after 1880.

Beulah Verl Thompson (née Clapp) was born on November 8, 1901, in Guilford County, North Carolina. She married John Osbon Thompson in 1937. In 1920, she provided testimony in an investigation into an attempted lynching in Alamance County.… Read More

Byrd Anna Thompson (née Meacham) was born on March 7, 1891, in North Carolina. She married Charlie Armstrong Thompson on July 9, 1908, and was employed at cotton mills in Rockingham and later Durham. Byrd Anna died in Durham on August 17, 1973.… Read More

Carl Alexander Thompson was born on June 15, 1892, in Fairmont, North Carolina. Thompson was a carpenter and farmer in Robeson County, North Carolina. He died in Fairmont on February 5, 1968.

Charles Thompson was a resident of Northampton County, North Carolina. A local justice of the peace, in 1768 he heard a case involving three enslaved people charged with murdering their enslaver. He died in Northampton County in about 1790.

Charles Thompson or "Scrub" was an African American man residing in Orange County, North Carolina who was born enslaved in about 1759. In 1771 when Thompson was about twelve years old, he was sold by Robert Reid of Harrisburg to Richard Bennehan… Read More

Charles C. Thompson was born on April 7, 1871, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Thompson was a school teacher, barber, and civil servant. In 1920, he provided testimony in an investigation into an attempted lynching in Alamance County. He… Read More