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From: "Marianne Ordway" <>
Subject: NC Original Parish Listings & Alton, IL Grave News
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:58:58 -0400


Hi Everyone,

This is amazing news from Alton, IL. For all of us still trying to
locate elusive ancestors burial sites in the fields and trees of NC ~
take note:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14755961&BRD=1719&PAG=461&dept
_id=25271&rfi=6


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The 1754 Vestry Act set forth the 24 parishes for the Colony. It's
chapter IV of the 1754 Session laws. There's also a copy in the
Colonial Records of North Carolina (v 25: 298-304). The parishes are as
follows by name and then county

St. Paul's, Chowan
Berkeley, Perquimans
St. John's, Pasquotank
St. Peter's, Pasquotank
Currituck, Currituck
Society, Bertie
St. Andrew's, Tyrrell
St. Thomas's, Beaufort
St. George's, Hyde
North-West, Northampton
St. John's, Granville
St. Matthew's, Orange
St. Luke's, Rowan
St. David's, Cumberland
St. Gabriel's, Duplin
St. George's, Anson
Edgecombe, Edgecombe
St. Martin's, Bladen
St. James's, east side of Cape Fear River
St. Philip's, west side of Cape Fear River
St. Patrick's, Johnson
Christ Church, Craven
St. John's, Onslow
St. John's, Carteret

Many, many thanks to Paul Drake, J.D., who has authored so many fine
genealogy books
with interesting subjects such as these for sharing this great info with
us!

Hope that you're having a great weekend, and that you will have a minute
to drop a note to your favorite List group soon to share a thought,
question or discuss genealogy information with the rest of us!

Marianne
www.b4us.net







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