Book/Printed Material When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county seat, and Germantown, Pennsylvania
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Image 1 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 264 L7 3 oy 1 When Tarboro Was Incorporated ALSO REVEREND JAMES MOIR, EDGECOMBE CHANGES HER COUNTY SEAT, AND GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA. BY GASTON LICHTENSTEIN REPRINTED FROM THB TARBOROUGH SOUTHERNER TARBORO, N. C.…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 2 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county …
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 3 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … When Tarboro Was Incorporated ALSO REVEREND JAMES MOIR, EDGECOMBE CHANGES HER COUNTY SEAT, AND GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA. BY GASTON LICHTENSTEIN REPRINTED FROM THE TARBOROUGH SOUTHERNER TARBORO, N. C. RICHMOND, VA. CAPITOL PRINTING COMPANY…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 4 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … b«r V
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 5 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … When Tarboro Was Incorporated THE FIRST COMMISSIONERS AND SOME OF THEIR DESCENDANTS Many silent lessons may be acquired from one page of an old book. When I first learned that there was…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 6 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 4 There were one hundred and twenty-one lots, of half an acre each, the names of the owners being given on the opposite page to that containing the Plan. Each lot is…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 7 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … Pitt probably occupied a bigger place in the minds of the inhabi- tants of the Province than any man in the civilized world. Mere mention of the Court of St. James causes…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 8 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … the Continental regular army. He died early in life but success- fully served his term of enlistment, after which he returned to Tar- boro and entered the mercantile business. He left three…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 9 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … he bought. However, it is well to add that he constantly purchased attractive offerings in other parts of the county. About the year 1764, Elisha Battle joined the Baptist Church at the…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 10 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 8 the State Conventions, being a delegate to the State Congress of April 1776, which authorized the North Carolina members of the Continental Congress to vote for independence, also a member of…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 11 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 9 He was born October 4th 1823, and attended the Stoney Hill and Louisburg Academies. He entered the university in 1840 and graduated in 1844, being well liked and noted for his…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 12 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 10 Today he stands for the Old School and is one of the few left to remind us of Southern civilization as it existed in the ante-bellum period. Reverend James Moir AND…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 13 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 11 Eeaders of history doubtless remember that England and France were at war on both sides of the Atlantic when the above speech was delivered. Imagine the Governor of North Carolina today…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 14 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 12 with our whole hearts, and not with only a lip service and exter- nal worship. Let us therefore with sincere hearts fall down before Him, and supplicate Him through the merits…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 15 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 13 the twenth ninth day of April in the thirty first year of his Ma- jesty s reign and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun- dred and fifty…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 16 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 14 a convenient House be built at the common charge for each Min- ister and a competent proportion of land assigned him for a Glebe and exercise of his industry. 101. And…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 17 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 15 holders, regardless of sect, and not required to conform to the liturgy of the Church of England. In my Early Social Life in Edgecombe, having reproduced two letters from Mr. Moir,…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 18 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 10 of the neighboring vestries which have applied to me for several years past. Also, Edgecombe Aug. 7, 1761, Rev. Sir, Since my last of April I have baptized 108 white children…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 19 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 17 have a natural antipathy to every one that acts uprightly in a pub- lic office, (our friend could not be much more plain spoken. G. L.) Mr. Francis Corbin, the Earl…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 20 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 18 and overset his election, tis true he came up to me with his myr- midons and hegan to chatter, but I soon Btopt his mouth by telling him I was ready…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 21 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 19 venie nce of one and the same persons collecting the Parish taxes, and taking the Poll at the election of vestries. My salaries in Edgecombe for the last three years I…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 22 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 20 neighborhood, has no parish performs very little casual service; he has been endeavoring to secure a certificate of his good character, but I am informed with very bad success from any…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 23 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 21 would not permit me to discharge the Functions of my office in Northampton County I desired the Vestry to employ another in April last I was importuned to serve in St.…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 24 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 22 Edgecombe Changes Her County Seat t On the 8th of December, Saturday, 1759, a petition of the Prin- cipal parts of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Edgecombe County was presented to…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 25 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 23 This Bill was rejected by the Governor and the long routine of three readings in each branch of the Legislature had to be gone over again, augmented by petitions viz Mr.…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 26 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 24 Germantown, Pennsylvania When George Washington led the Continentals against the red- coats on October 4th, 1777, a goodly number of his troops hailed from North Carolina. General Francis Nash, who was…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 27 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 25 in order to see whether the place offered any thing of direct inter- est to Edgecombe County. It will be remembered that Henry Irwin, a merchant of Tarboro, was killed during…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 28 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 2G stone wall by the Site and Relic Society. I found that the nai Edgecombe s martyr to the cause of liberty led all the rest. Close beside the graveyard stands the…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 29 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … 27 This very inscription contains a legend of a gift. As a matter of fact, my informant told me that the cemetery was not presented to the community by a certain Mr.…
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 30 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county … NOV 5 1910
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 31 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county …
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910
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Image 32 of When Tarboro was incorporated : also Reverend James Moir, Edgecombe changes her county …
- Contributor: Lichtenstein, Gaston
- Date: 1910