Hertford County, North Carolina

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Hertford County, North Carolina
Map
Location in the state of North Carolina
Location of North Carolina in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	December 12, 1754
County Seat	Winton
Courthouse
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County Courthouse

History

Parent County

1754--Hertford County was created 12 December 1754 from Chowan, Bertie, and Northampton Counties.
County seat: Winton ^[1]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

1830, 1862--Courthouse fires destroyed the majority of the county's records.

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Bertie
• Chowan
• Gates
• Northampton
• Southampton County, Virginia

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

The first court was held at Cotton's Ferry.

Land

Local Histories

• The colonial and state political history of Hertford County, N.C (1906) - by Benjamin Brodie Winborne; freely available at OpenLibrary
  

Maps

Migration

Early migration routes to and from Hertford County for European settlers included:^[2]

• Atlantic Ocean
• King's Highway about 1704
• Secondary Coast Road late 1730s

Military

Civil War

Civil War Confederate units - Brief history, counties where recruited, etc.

-1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Yearbooks

• Chowan College: 1911-2006
• Hertford County students at NC colleges - via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index

Societies and Libraries 

Web Sites

• NCGenWeb: Hertford County - part of the USGenWeb Project
• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
2. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 847-61. (FHL Book 973 D27e 2002) WorldCat entry., and William E. Myer, Indian Trails of the Southeast. (Nashville, Tenn.: Blue and Gray Press, 1971), 12-14, and the book's pocket map "The Trail System of the Southeastern United States in the early Colonial Period" (1923). (FHL Book 970.1 M992i) WorldCat entry.