Pasquotank County, North Carolina Genealogy

United States   North Carolina    Pasquotank County

History
Pasquotank was formed as early as 1668 as a precinct in Albemarle County. Name derived from Indian word pasketanki, "where the current [of the stream] divides or forks." It is in the northeastern section of the State and is bounded by Albemarle Sound and Perquimans, Gates, and Camden counties. 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.

This section quoted from Formation of the North Carolina Counties 1663-1943, by David Leroy Corbitt, pages 171-172 with later corrections; published 1996 by the NC Division of Archives and History, NC Department of Cultural Resources

... That all that part of Pasquotank County lying on the North East side of the said River [Pasquotank], and of a Line to be run from the Head of the said River a North West Course to the Virginia Line, shall be, and is hereby established a County, by the Name of Cambden.

The lines between Pasquotank and Perquimans and between Camden and Gates were ordered to be run in 1804. Because of the difficulty of establishing and marking the lines in the Dismal Swamp, they had not been previously marked.

... beginning near the fork of Little river, and running northwardly to the south-west corner of a ridge, known by the Middle Ridge, then along the west side of said ridge, crossing Colonel John Hamilton's turnpike road, to the north-west corner thereof, thence a northwardly course to a ridge in the desart known by Colonel Jesse Eason's Ridge, then a north course to the line that divides this State from the State of Virginia.

In 1818 an act was passed which authorized the boundary line between Pasquotank and Perquimans to be run and marked. No description is given in the law.

In 1909 an act was passed to define the boundary line between Pasquotank and Camden counties.

That the channel of Pasquotank River, from its mouth to its junction with the Dismal Swamp Canal, shall be the dividing line between Pasquotank and Camden counties; and the boundary line of Camden County, from the junction of the Dismal Swamp Canal and Pasquotank River to the Virginia line, shall be and remain as it now is.

Parent County
1668--Pasquotank County was created as a precinct in Albemarle County. County seat: Elizabeth City

Boundary Changes
Camden was formed from Pasquotank in 1777.


 * North Carolina County Changes from 1664-1965

Record Loss

 * Guide to Research at the NC Archives (listing of original &amp; microfilmed records)

Neighboring Counties

 * Camden
 * Gates
 * Perquimans

Bibles

 * Pasquotank Co., NC Bibles

Cemeteries

 * Pasquotank Co., NC Cemeteries

Census &amp; Tax Records

 * Pasquotank Co. Census

Church

 * LDS Ward and Branch Records - Elizabeth City
 * Book: Brief history of Christ Episcopal Church parish, Elizabeth City, N.C. (1948) - freely available online via the Eastern NC Digital Library

Family Histories

 * [Broshier] See Lumbroso.
 * [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.

History

 * History of Pasquotank Co., NC
 * Ante-bellum Elizabeth City: the history of a canal town (1970) - book freely available online via the Eastern NC Digital Library
 * Brief sketch of Pasquotank County(1963) - book freely available online via the Eastern NC Digital Library

Maps

 * Pasquotank Co., NC in Maps

Military

 * Pasquotank Co., NC in the Military

Miscelllaneous

 * Miscellaneous items pertaining to Pasquotank Co., NC

Newspapers

 * 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 - a listing of newspapers published in the county &amp; libraries that hold them; via the Library of Congress.
 * North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project - contains full-text papers from 1752-1890s. Search for your Pasquotank County ancestors.

Organizations &amp; Links

 * Organizations &amp; useful addresses pertaining to Pasquotank Co., NC

Probate Records

 * Pasquotank Co., NC Wills

Quakers

 * Quakers in Pasquotank Co., NC

Surnames

 * Pasquotank Co., NC Surnames

Births

 * North Carolina Births and Christenings, 1866-1964 - search this name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state; via FamilySearch

Marriages

 * North Carolina Marriages, 1762-1979 - search this database of marriages from across the state - images included; via FamilySearch.
 * 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. Available on the North Carolina Digital Collections website.

Deaths

 * Pasquotank county deaths - list of county area deaths reported in various newspapers; dates range from late 1700s to 1900s.
 * North Carolina Death Certificates, 1906-1930 - search a statewide collection of freely available death certificates - images are included; via FamilySearch
 * North Carolina Deaths &amp; Burials, 1898-1994 - search death records from across the state; via FamilySearch

Yearbooks

 * Elizabeth City State University: 1925-2008
 * Pasquotank County students at NC colleges - list via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index

Societies and Libraries

 * Pasquotank-Camden Library

Web Sites

 * NCGenWeb: Pasquotank County - free genealogy resources; part of the USGenWeb Project