The Colonial and State Political History of Hertford County, N. The deeds and old wills and copies of records of other families which have been kindly furnished me, have enabled me, with the old Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, to bring together this imperfect history of a noble people.BENJ. His deeds carry me back to 1812, and one as far back as 1762, and gives the name of the first Clerk of the County Court. Much of my information I securedįrom old deeds among my father's papers. I beg that my imperfect history may be read with sympathy for its author. I have been practicing law in the county since 1875 and I have so often felt the dire need for these lost records. Hence appears the reason why I have undertaken the Herculean task of trying to reproduce some of the past history of the county. The will books since 1830, and a few of the old record books of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, which happened to be in Murfreesboro, where the Clerk resided were saved. I find reliable authorities fixing it February 20, March 20, and May 20. The date of this fire is hard to determine. Again on February 20, 1882, the records of this splendid county, together with the court-house were ruthlessly burned by the Union soldiers during the cruel war between the American States. The records of seventy years of the county's history were within a few hours blotted from human eyes. One Wright Allen was indicted in our Superior Court for forging the name of Timothy Ridley of Maney's Neck, and thinking that the note was in the court-house and that by burning the same be could destroy the evidence of his guilt, he touched the torch to the building, and quickly the court-house and all the records of the county, from its foundation, were consumed by the flames. On the night of August 22, 1830, the entire records of the county were destroyed by fire. Hertford County is rich in the character of her families and in the acts and deeds of her sons, in war and in peace, but poor in her records.
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