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Updated October 10, 2011. 1770 map.

February 5, 2011. CURRITUCK'S BIRTH by Henry Beasley Ansell

August 30, 2011. WILLIAM BYRD'S HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE

August 1, 2010. A link to the Virginia-North Carolina Boundary settlement.

August 2, 2010. A link to North Carolina Maps

June 3, 2011. CURRITUCK GUNNING & FISHING CLUB SURVEY

Land Grants

May 12, 2010. Comment - Melinda Lukei: Land Grants didn't mean that they were not on the land before the grants were issued. The person getting the grant sponsored a person or paid for passage of an individual and when he did he got 50 acres of land for that payment of that persons passage. The person coming in became a indenture servant for 7 years and then that person got 50 acres of land, a suit of clothes and a bible. All the grants for Knotts Island were given in Virginia and that's where you find the record. Every man, women and child counted.

August 22, 2010. Comment - Jane Brumley: I am looking for a grant or patent on a Frances Morse and have not yet found it. I am trying to clear up the fact that Morse Point was so named for him and he was also a vestryman in Princess Anne County. He was also mentioned in the 1710 - 1711 Philip Ludwell Journal. Philip Ludwell was a member of a commission that was "suppose" to complete a dividing line between Carolina and Virginia. However, the final dividing line was later completed by Col. Byrd in 1728.

Maps

October 8, 2010 Comment - Jane Brumley: From William Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina. North Carolina Archives & History

This map was made in 1867. It shows the Dismal Swamp Canal connecting to Elizabeth City,NC. It also shows the Albermarle and Chesapeake Canal connecting to the North Landing River and into Currituck Sound.

Fm Rod Mann. 1770 Colletts Map. Notice Notts or Mackys Island
1861 This is a link to the online version. North Carolina Maps.