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Entries for 'SuperUser Account'
SuperUser Account posted on December 06, 2021 05:28
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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SuperUser Account posted on December 05, 2021 05:45
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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SuperUser Account posted on June 08, 2021 06:46
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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SuperUser Account posted on March 01, 2021 06:01
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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SuperUser Account posted on February 01, 2019 12:42
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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SuperUser Account posted on November 14, 2016 10:23

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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SuperUser Account posted on December 20, 2011 11:05
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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SuperUser Account posted on April 08, 2004 07:25

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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