The question is whether the Wilmington free-person-of-color cadre was being intentional about creating a middle-class of free colored people, or wheth...

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Sampson County NC is named after an immigrant from Ireland who attained local prominence, but whose white family died out. James D. Sampson (1803-1...

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In June 2021, we took a trip to Arlington National Cemetery and found Peter Manuel of the Michigan Calvary (by way of Sampson County NC) In war and...

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Aha! We have always wondered why Jonathan Wheeler (of Pender) and Mary Manuel (of Sampson) oldest child was never seen living with his parents after 1...

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George W. Bordeaux's life had a tremendous arc. From inherited in a will in 1859 as chattel property, to community organizer of freed slaves, t...

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November 14, 2016 This has been a month of reflection on identity. • How do we define ourselves? • Why do we define ourselves thusly? ...

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We are The oddest, most incongruous conflagration of things known & unknown We are Seldom who we think we are We are The most impla...

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PenderROCK is a name coined to represent the modern descendants of eighteenth and nineteenth century persons who lived in what is now Pender County NC...

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