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| County Seat | Elizabeth City | ||||||||
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United States 
North Carolina Pasquotank County
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County Courthouse
Pasquotank County Courthouse
206 East Main P O Box 154
Elizabeth City, NC 27907-0039
Phone: 252-335-4367
Courthouse burned 1862
Clerk Superior Court has divorce, probat and court records
Registrar of Deeds has birth and death records from 1913
Marriage records records from 1867 and land records from from 1700's[1]
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 [2]
Boundary Changes
Camden was formed from Pasquotank in 1777.
Record Loss
- Guide to Research at the NC Archives (listing of original & microfilmed records)
Places/Localities
Populated Places
Neighboring Counties
Resources
Bibles
Cemeteries
Census & Tax Records
For tips on accessing Pasquotank County, North Carolina census records online, see: North Carolina 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
Court
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. FHL 973 D25aga v. 79
- [Gadd] Russell, George Ely. "John Lumbroso Jr. (1666-1744) of Pasquotank County, North Carolina," The American Genealogist, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jan. 1983):32. FHL 973 D25aga v. 59
- [Lumbroso] Russell, George Ely. "John Lumbroso Jr. (1666-1744) of Pasquotank County, North Carolina," The American Genealogist, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jan. 1983):32. FHL 973 D25aga v. 59
- [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. FHL 973 D25aga v. 76
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
Military
Civil War
Civil War Confederate units - Brief history, counties where recruited, etc.
Miscelllaneous
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 & 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 & Links
Probate Records
- Pre-1790 - Pre-1790 Pasquotank County, North Carolina Wills stored at the North Carolina State Archives are online - free. Website tips.
- Pasquotank Co., NC Wills
Quakers
Surnames
Vital Records
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 & State Gazette newspaper (1799-1893). Marriages are listed by year and PDF files are searchable. Available on the North Carolina Digital Collections website.
- Pasquotank County Marriages 1790-1875 North Carolina Pioneers
- North Carolina Marriages to 1799, a database, available to members North Carolina Pioneers
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 & Burials, 1898-1994 - search death records from across the state; via FamilySearch
Yearbooks
- College of the Albemarle: 1962-1997
- Elizabeth City State University: 1925-2008
- Pasquotank County students at NC colleges - list via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index
Societies and Libraries
Family History Centers
Web Sites
- NCGenWeb: Pasquotank County - free genealogy resources; part of the USGenWeb Project
- Family History Library Catalog
- North Carolina Pioneers North Carolina Pioneers
References
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Pasquotank County, North Carolina. Page 511 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
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