Pasquotank County, North Carolina Genealogy

Guide to Pasquotank County, North Carolina ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Description
Pasquotank County is located in the eastern portion of North Carolina and was named after the Pasquotank Indians; the Indian word pásk-e'tan-ki means "where the current divides or forks". The county is bounded by Albemarle Sound and Perquimans, Gates, and Camden Counties.

County Courthouse
Pasquotank County Courthouse 206 East Main PO Box 154 Elizabeth City, NC 27907-0039 Phone: 252-335-4367 Pasquotank County Website Clerk Superior Court has divorce, probate and court records. Registrar of Deeds has birth and death records from 1913, marriage records from 1867 and land records from from 1700s.

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

History Timeline
Pasquotank was formed as early as 1668 as a precinct in Albemarle County. The present area is 229 square miles. It is not known when the first courthouse was built, but from 1737 to 1757 the courthouse was at Brook Field. In 1758 it was moved to Relfe's Point. It remained there until 1762 or probably a little later. From 1765 until 1785 the courthouse was at Winfield. In 1784 the Assembly directed that it be moved to Nixonton, and from 1785 to 1800 Nixonton was the county seat. In 1799 Elizabeth (City) Town was named the county seat and on June 6, 1800, the first court was held there. Elizabeth City was first called Redding, which town was established in 1793. Redding was changed to Elizabeth Town in 1794, and Elizabeth Town was changed to Elizabeth City in 1801. It is the county seat. There is no description of the precinct when it was established.
 * History of Pasquotank County, NC (NCGenWeb)
 * Ante-bellum Elizabeth City: the history of a canal town (1970). (Eastern NC Digital Library)
 * Brief sketch of Pasquotank County (1963). (Eastern NC Digital Library)

Bible Records

 * Pasquotank County, NC Bibles (NCGenWeb)

Biographies

 * Pasquotank County, NC Surnames (NCGenWeb)

Cemeteries

 * at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and image
 * Pasquotank County, NC Cemeteries (NCGenWeb)

Census Records

 * Pasquotank County Census (USGenWeb)

Church Records

 * 1700-1970 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Baptist
 * Flatty Creek aka Salem. Established by 1790.
 * Knobscrook, near Elizabeth City, N.C. Established by 1786.
 * Shiloh, Camden, N.C. Established 1729. Formerly located in Pasquotank County.

Church of England
 * Northeast Parish.
 * Pasquotank Parish. Established 1701.
 * St. John's Parish. Established by 1741.
 * St. Peter's Parish. Established by 1741.
 * Southwest Parish.

St. John's Parish and St. Peter's Parish united in 1756.


 * Brief history of Christ Episcopal Church parish, Elizabeth City, N.C. (1948)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Church Ward and Branch Records - Elizabeth City

Methodist
 * Mount Lebanon. Organized about 1850. Served African Americans.

Quakers List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * Quakers in Pasquotank County, NC
 * FamilySearch Places

Ethnic, Political, and Religious Groups

 * 1862-1870   at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1863-1872   at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images only

Genealogies

 * Broshier See Lumbroso.
 * Cartwright - Murphy, Lou Arden Andrews. Descendants of Peter Cartwright and his wife, Jane Morgan of Perquimans, Pasquotank &amp; Camden Counties, N.C. with allied families: Falkner, Redus &amp; Parsons. Estes Park, Colo.: L.A. Murphy, 1996..
 * de Hinojosa - Hoff, Henry B. "Alexander de Hinojosa and His Descendants in Maryland," The American Genealogist, Vol. 79, No. 4 (Oct. 2004):260-273.
 * Gadd - Russell, George Ely. "John Lumbroso Jr. (1666-1744) of Pasquotank County, North Carolina," The American Genealogist, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jan. 1983):32.
 * Lumbroso - Russell, George Ely. "John Lumbroso Jr. (1666-1744) of Pasquotank County, North Carolina," The American Genealogist, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jan. 1983):32.
 * Lumbrozo - Russell, George Ely. "Portuguese and Spanish Colonists in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," The American Genealogist, Vol. 76, No. 1 (January 2001):50-60; Vol. 77, No. 1 (Apr. 2001):138-147.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places:Cities and Towns- How to Use FS Places
 * Pasquotank County, NC in Maps (NCGenWeb)

Military Records

 * Pasquotank County, NC in the Military (NCGenWeb)

Revolutionary War 
 * 1779-1782  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Civil War 
 * 1861-1865  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1861-1865  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1861-1865 U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
 * 1861-1865 U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
 * 1885-1953  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images


 * - 8th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
 * - 17th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry (1st Organization), Company A
 * - 8th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Company A

World War I 
 * 1917-1919  at FamilySearch *1917-1919 -  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

World War II 
 * 1940-1948  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Newspapers

 * 1799-1893 Pasquotank County marriages. May be included throughout Carrie Broughton's 6-volume index of the Raleigh Register &amp; State Gazette newspaper (1799-1893). Marriages are listed by year and PDF files are searchable. (North Carolina Digital Collections)
 * Pasquotank county deaths. List of county area deaths reported in various newspapers; dates range from late 1700s to 1900s.
 * Pasquotank County residents in the newspaper. Name listing of people from the county as located in misc. newspaper articles; time span varies. Articles indexed in the NC People in the Papers database.
 * Pasquotank county newspapers. Listing of newspapers published in the county &amp; libraries that hold them. (Library of Congress)
 * North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project. Full-text, searchable papers from 1752-1890s.
 * North Carolina Newspapers at DigitalNC

Other Records
County Records
 * 1833-1970 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images. (incomplete)

Voter Registration
 * 1868-1898 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images


 * Miscellaneous items pertaining to Pasquotank County, NC (NCGenWeb)

Probate Records
Online Probate Records


 * 1660-1790 North Carolina Will Abstracts 1660-1790 at Ancestry $
 * 1663-1979  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1665-1998 North Carolina Wills and Probate Records 1665-1998 at Ancestry $
 * 1688-1777 Abstracts of Wills.  North Carolina Pioneers $
 * 1720-1960  at FamilySearch.org - How to Use this Collection; images only (by County)
 * 1735-1970  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images only (by County)
 * 1760-1800 North Carolina Will Abstracts 1760-1800 at Ancestry $
 * Pre-1790 Pre-1790 Pasquotank County, North Carolina Genealogy Wills (North Carolina State Archives)
 * Posquotank County Will and Estate Records (NCGenWeb)

School Records
Yearbooks 
 * College of the Albemarle: 1962-1997
 * Elizabeth City State University: 1925-2008
 * Pasquotank County students at NC colleges. Yearbook index. (NCGenWeb)

Social Security Records

 * 1935-2014 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection; index. Also at Ancestry, findmypast, Fold3, GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, and Steve Morse. Click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 at Ancestry ($) — index, click here for more information.

Tax Records

 * 1694 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1694 (index) in NC Taxpayers vol. 2 at Ancestry $
 * 1735-1799 Lists of Taxables 1735-1799 (images) at FamilySearch
 * 1754 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1754 (index) in NC Taxpayers vol. 2 at Ancestry $
 * 1754 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1754 (images) at North Carolina Digital Collections
 * 1754 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1754 (images) at FamilySearch
 * 1769 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1769 (index) in NC Taxpayers vol. 2 at Ancestry $
 * 1769 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1769 (images) at North Carolina Digital Collections
 * 1769 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1769 (images) at FamilySearch
 * 1779 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1779 (index) in NC Taxpayers vol. 2 at Ancestry $
 * 1779 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1779 (images) at North Carolina Digital Collections
 * 1782 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1782 (images) at North Carolina Digital Collections
 * 1782 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1782 (images) at North Carolina Digital Collections
 * 1788 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1788 (images) at North Carolina Digital Collections
 * 1789 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1789 (index) in NC Taxpayers vol. 2 at Ancestry $
 * 1789 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1789 (images) at North Carolina Digital Collections
 * 1795 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1795 (images) at FamilySearch
 * 1815 Tax Lists, Pasquotank County, 1815 (images) at North Carolina Digital Collections

Vital Records

 * 1800-2000 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Birth

 * 1800-2000  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1866-1964  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1913-1922  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Marriage

 * 1741-2004 North Carolina, United States Marriages at FindMyPast
 * 1741-2004 North Carolina Marriage Index 1741-2004 at Ancestry $
 * 1759-1979  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; Index
 * 1760-1866 Pasquotank County Marriage Bonds 1760-1866 (NCGenWeb)
 * 1762-1979  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1763-1868  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1780-1925 Marriages - Bonds. North Carolina Pioneers $
 * 1790-1875 Pasquotank County Marriages 1790-1875 North Carolina Pioneers $
 * 1865-1932 Pasquotank County Marriage Index (including Books 1-5) 1865-1932 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch
 * North Carolina Marriages to 1799, a database, available to members North Carolina Pioneers $

Death

 * 1898-1994  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1906-1930  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1908-2004 North Carolina Death Indexes 1908-2004 at Ancestry $
 * 1909-1975 North Carolina Death Certificates 1909-1975 at Ancestry $
 * 1931-1994  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Divorce

 * 1926-1975  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1958-2004 North Carolina Divorce Index 1958-2004 at Ancestry $

Archives

 * Guide to Research at the NC Archives. Listing of original &amp; microfilmed county records.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to Family History Centers
 * Elizabeth City North Carolina Family History Center

Libraries

 * Pasquotank-Camden Library Website

Societies

 * Family Research Society of Northeastern NC PO Box 1425 Elizabeth City, NC 27906-1425 Website

Websites

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