tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56525558500565134652024-03-08T16:07:00.877-05:00...More Swansboro HistoryAn extension of Swansboro, North Carolina HistoryMary Warshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004031867211507170noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652555850056513465.post-5976385505595190622011-04-04T19:48:00.028-04:002015-02-16T13:29:19.820-05:00Samuel Swann and Family
1798 Map . Jonathan Price . First Survey of NC
In 1783 the Onslow County, North Carolina sea-side village previously known as Week's Wharf, Bogue and New Town, was incorporated and named Swannsborough in honor of Samuel Swann (1704-1774), Speaker of the Colonial Assembly and official representative of Onslow in the Assembly. The name was later officially shortened to “Swansboro.”
Mary Warshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004031867211507170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652555850056513465.post-20858515537097573092011-04-03T18:25:00.011-04:002015-02-16T13:33:04.500-05:00Samuel Swann Connection to Sloop Point Plantation
SLOOP POINT PLANTATION circa 1726 - Hampstead, NC
Oldest Framed Building in North Carolina
Images Courtesy Pender County Public Library Digital Archive
According to North Carolina State Archives and History, Sloop Point Plantation is the oldest framed building in North Carolina. After dendrochronology testing, it was discovered that this home in Hampstead, Pender County, North Mary Warshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004031867211507170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652555850056513465.post-78772325497391774582010-12-23T18:09:00.011-05:002015-02-16T13:44:04.059-05:00Will of William Pugh Ferrand Jr. 1789-1847
ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 2
William P. Ferrand Jr., 22 Aug 1843
I, William P. Ferrand, of the State of North Carolina and County of Onslow, being now in my usual health and sound mind and memory do make this my last will.
1st I wish all my just debts to be paid.
2nd I give to my son Eugene two thousand dollars to be raised out of my estate in any way my Executors may think best, Mary Warshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004031867211507170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652555850056513465.post-10294510786848400882010-12-23T17:57:00.007-05:002015-02-16T09:35:00.494-05:00Will of William Pugh Ferrand Sr. 1750-1813
1800 ONSLOW COUNTY CENSUS
ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK A - William Ferrand, 30 Aug 1813
In the name of God, Amen: I, William Ferrand, of the town of Swansboro and the County of Onslow, being at present of sound and disposing mind but aware of the uncertainty tenure of life, do make and constitute this my last will and testament. It is my desire that my body be decently Mary Warshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004031867211507170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652555850056513465.post-7851398918801208502010-12-04T16:33:00.018-05:002015-02-16T14:10:38.063-05:00James Weeks - Son of Silas Weeks and Zillah Hunter
Move to Sumter County, South Carolina circa 1794
Compiled by Robert Weeks
"Settlers'" Houses - Sumter County Museum
Silas Weeks, a son of Theophilus Weeks and Grace Green, married Zillah Hunter. This marriage produced a son named James Weeks (born before 1755), a son named Theophilus (born October 21, 1760 - died July 20, 1839 - married to Ann O’Steen), and a daughter named Mary Warshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004031867211507170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652555850056513465.post-22318828798762295832010-12-02T18:22:00.004-05:002015-02-16T09:35:56.539-05:00Benjamin and Mary Chase Weeks to North Carolina
by Robert Weeks
Portion of 1730 Mol Map Showing Weetock River
Sometime in 1730 Benjamin Weeks, son of William Weeks, Jr., moved his family from Falmouth to Carteret County, North Carolina, settling along Hadnot's Creek, a tributary of the White Oak River--originally called the Weetock by the Algonquian Indians. Benjamin and Mary had the following children—not listed in the order of their Mary Warshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004031867211507170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652555850056513465.post-27073684163042933622010-12-02T14:59:00.003-05:002015-02-16T13:42:50.172-05:00William Weeks—From England to Martha’s Vineyard before 1642
By Robert Weeks
I have been unable to determine exactly how William Weeks arrived on Martha’s Vineyard. In The History of Martha's Vineyard, Volume I, Dr. Charles Banks reports a legendary settlement before 1642. There are several legends; however, all of these legends have in common that there was ship bound from England to some port on the East Coast of America. This Mary Warshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004031867211507170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652555850056513465.post-55066582287464900892010-12-01T16:19:00.006-05:002015-02-16T14:12:30.747-05:00North Wyke
by Robert Weeks
NORTH WYKE
Researching the Weeks name in England leads one to realize that North Wyke is a central area from which many Weeks families originated. I report the following information about this possible earliest point of origin of our family relatives.
In the reign of Henry II (c 1227), the land at North Wyke belonged to William de Wigornia. He was either the Mary Warshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004031867211507170noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652555850056513465.post-35796109068643681102010-12-01T12:03:00.010-05:002015-02-16T13:39:04.690-05:00Theophilus Weeks - Founder of Swansboro
Monument in Bicentennial Park in Swansboro
A Sketch of the Life of Theophilus Weeks 1708-1772
Founder of the Town of Swansboro
by Tucker Littleton
Theophilus Weeks, son of Benjamin and Mary Chase Weeks, was born at Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1708. Sometime in 1730 Benjamin Weeks moved his family from Falmouth to Carteret County, North Carolina, settling along Hadnot's Creek, a Mary Warshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18004031867211507170noreply@blogger.com5