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HIGH TIDES

2000 - 2004

Volume 21 - No. 1 - Spring, 2000 Page
A Message from the President 1
In Appreciation of Ellen A. Williams 3
1790-1860 Slave Owners - Some Observations 4
Marriage License Between Wallace and Mary, Freedmen 35
Hyde County's Largest Plantation Owner of 1850 and 1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Our Newest Addition 41
Do You Know? 42
Guardian Account Book, 1851-1868, Hyde County, N.C. 46
Hyde County Research 59
Donation of Material 59
Steve Massengill Speaks at Joint Meeting 60
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting, Fall 1999 61
The Editors of High Tides Receive an Award 62
Index 63

Volume 21 - No. 2- Fall, 2000 Page
A Message from the President 1
Turn of the Century 3
The Washington Progress, January 1898-December 1899 5
HCH&GS Book Announcements 32
Branson's North Carolina Business Directory 1896. Volume III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Coastal Times: Coming of Age in the Fifties 39
Colonial Court Records - Estate Papers 1665-1775 42
Announcement: New Publications Distributor 50
Guardian Settlements 1851-1868, Hyde County, NC 51
Jacob Swindell Bible (Washington, NC 1828) 54
Corrections/Additions to High Tides 55
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting 56
Attachment 1: World War II Memorial Individual Contribution 59
Attachment 2: Vendor Proposal & Recommendation 60
Index 61

Volume 22 - No. 1 - Spring, 2001 Page
A Message from the President 1
Announcement: HCH&GS Library 2
The Golden Days of Makelyville and Scranton: 1890-1905 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Foster & Delacy Jarvis of Oyster Creek, Hyde County, NC 42
Announcement: Book in Preparation 47
Guardian Settlements, 1851-1868, Hyde County, NC 50
Corrections/Additions to High Tides 54
Index 55

Volume 22 - No. 2- Fall, 2001 Page
A Message from the President 1
Hyde County Land Records - An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Powers of Attorney 7
Abijah Collins 19
More of Captain Joseph Gibbs' Heirs 32
HCHGS Presents New Book 41
Work in Progress 42
Hyde County Register of Deeds 44
Hyde County Clerk Retires 44
Society Minutes 45
Index 47

Volume 23 - No. 1 - Spring, 2002 Page
Message from the President 1
The Watson Family 5
The Move to Hyde 6
Hyde Records 6
Children of William Watson & wife Sophia 7
William Watson, Jr. 7
More About William Watson, Jr. 9
George Israel Watson and his Dad 9
Hyde County Deeds - Watson Grantor 11
Hyde County Deeds - Watson Grantee 14
From Oklahoma 16
Query 16
Samuel Gibbs Watson Family 17
Other Deeds of Note 18
Children of Samuel Gibbs Watson 19
Charles Augustus Watson 19
Casandra Jane Bell 19
Zada G. Watson 19
William Independence Watson 20
James Henry Watson 20
A Double Tragedy 21
Samuel Mann Watson 22
Anna Mary Watson 22
Death of Samuel Gibbs Watson 23
From Our Readers 23
Watson Houses 24
George Israel Watson House 24
Watson Store 25
Watson Obituaries 26
Graveyard Preservation at Work 28
Henry Selby Spencer Cemetery 28
Benjamin B. Spencer Cemetery 31
Seth Washington Gibbs 32
Dowers and Widow's Allotment in North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
HCH&GS Fall Meeting Minutes 48
HCH&GS Board of Director's Minutes 48
HCH&GS Joint Meeting Minutes 49
Index 50

Volume 23 - No. 2 - Fall, 2002 Page
A Message from the President 1
Hyde County Historical & Genealogical Society Fall Meeting 4
Hyde County Historical & Genealogical Society Board Meeting 5
Primitive Baptists 6
Articles of Faith of 1808 9
Church Covenant of 1808 10
1808 Church Membership List 10
Church Decorum of 1808 12
Some Early Hyde County Primitive Baptist Church History 13
Quaker Meeting House and Graveyard Deed 19
Some Reflections 20
Hyde County Primitive Baptist Church History: Abstracts from the Minutes, 1831-1899 21
Obituary of Benajah Carawan 34
Obituary of Elder E. P. Hudson 35
Remembrances 36
Hyde County Dailey (Daily) Families 40
Additions/Corrections to High Tides 42
Dowers and Widows Allotments in Hyde County, North Carolina 43
Index 51

Volume 24 - No. 1 - Spring, 2003 Page
A Message from the President 1
Joseph Baum 1780-1854 4
Baum-Saunderson Fulford House 5
The Roeder Mill: "Something To Open Your Eyes With" 7
In Memory of Leon Gerald Ballance 35
In Memory of Iberia Roach Tunnell 37
Dowers & Widows Allotments in Hyde County, North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
HCH&G Society Board Meeting, Jan. 6, 2003 50
HCH&G Society Board Meeting, Mar. 15, 2003 51
Index 52

Volume 24 - No. 2 - Fall, 2003 Page
Hyde Devastated by Hurricane Isabel 1
Hydeland: Saga of a Ghost Town and a Saw Mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Index 39

Volume 25 - No. 1 - Spring, 2004 Page
A Look at New Lake 1
Graveyards 9
New Lake Families 10
Map of New Lake Homes 11
Off the "Road Less Traveled": New Lake 12
Remembrances of New Lake 23
Random Recollections of New Lake During my Childhood 38
Queine Dunbar's 2nd Grade Report Card 41
Remembering Grandfather John A. Dunbar and Father Clarence Dunbar . . . . . . . 42
Correspondence of J.A. Dunbar of New Lake 43
1920 & 1930 Hyde Co., N.C. Census Schedules: New Lake Families 44
"New Lake, Hyde Co., NC" 48
1889-1890 Hyde County Boundary Dispute 49
"A Brooding Stillness in a Lonely Land" 50
Photo Gallery of New Lakers 53
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting 54
Index 56

Volume 25 - No. 2 - Fall 2004 Page
Editor's Boat 1
June Too Soon, November All Over: Hyde County's Hurricane History 2
Ocracoke: Where the Wind Blows 40
Hurricane Isabel Ravages Swan Quarter 53
Hurricane Isabel in Fairfield 57
Announcement from the State Library of North Carolina 59
Genealogy By Genetics 60
HCH&GS's Meeting Held at New Lake, May 16,2004 61
HCH&GS's Spring Meeting Minute 63
Corrections and Additions to High Tides 63
Index 64

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