Jones County

by Powell, William S. Andrew Blanchard, printer, revolutionary official, and planter, was born in Elizabeth, N.J., the son of John and Mary Joline Blanchard, and after 1740 settled in New Providence, N.J., probably on [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Brown, Dick. Brock, Ignatius Wadsworth by Dick Brown, 1979; Revised March 2022 12 Nov. 1866–8 Nov. 1950 Ignatius Wadsworth Brock, photographer and painter, was born near Comfort in Jones County, the son [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Robinson, Catherine L. Frederick Hargett (or Harget), Revolutionary War captain, planter-enslaver, and lawmaker, was probably born in the area that became Pitt County. The second son of Frederick Hargett, he had only one [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. Larkins, John Davis, Jr. by William S. Powell, 1991 8 June 1909–16 Feb. 1990 John Davis Larkins, Jr., judge, legislator, and political leader, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Miller, Patricia J. Miller studied law and was admitted to the bar at age twenty-two. He then practiced law in Twiggs County, Ga., until the Georgia legislature elected him solicitor general of the Southern Circuit. [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Littleton, Tucker Reed. Robert Nixon, Baptist minister, local official, and saddler, perhaps a grandson of the Richard Nixon who died in Craven County in 1746, appeared in the Onslow County records as a witness to deeds as [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Stevenson, George, Jr., Smythe, Andrea. Paul Palmer was a general Baptist clergyman and a founding father of Baptists in the upper South. Morgan Edwards’ 1772 account of Baptist History in North Carolina states that Palmer was born in [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Uzzell, Odell. Perry, Samuel L. by Odell Uzzell, 1994; Revised October 2022. Related Entries: African American; Civil Rights; Transportation; Exodusters b. 1849 Samuel L. Perry, teacher and civil rights [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Watson, Richard L., Jr. Furnifold McLendel Simmons, U.S. senator, was born at his father's plantation near Pollocksville in Jones County, the son of Furnifold Green, Jr., and Mary McLendel Jerman Simmons. He attended Wake [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Brown, Norman D. John Stanly, Federalist congressman and legislator, was born in New Bern. His father, John Wright Stanly, was the most famous shipowner in North Carolina during the American Revolution; his mother [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)