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HIGH TIDES
2020 - 2025
| Volume 41 - No. 1 - Spring 2020 | Page |
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| HCH&GS 2020 Officers & Directors | 2 |
| Editors Boat | 3 |
| Women Breaking Barriers in Hyde County Abijah Collins Ellis Credle Kathleen Bragg Ethel Ayers Gibbs Letha Spencer Selby |
4 5 8 12 15 19 |
| The Pepsi Man and his Hyde County Wife Caleb Davis Bradham and Sarah Charity Credle Credle families: James Credle, Matthias Credle, George Credle, Bryan Griffin Credle |
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| Curfield Peterson, Hyde County Native, Inventor, and
White House Employee Biographical Sketch of Archie Green |
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| Daughters of Hyde Native Die in Fire, from Dare
County Times, Jan. 28, 1944 Genealogy of William Albert Neal |
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| Dead. Jacob Blount, from Washington Progress, Thursday, July 27, 1916 | 42 |
| More Hidden Ancestors | 44 |
| Abstracts of Hyde County Deed Book 1, continued | 47 |
| Publications for Sale | 62 |
| Index | 64 |
| Volume 41 - No. 2 - Fall 2020 | Page |
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| HCH&GS 2020 Officers & Directors | 2 |
| Editors Boat | 3 |
| Hyde Native Murdered | 4 |
| Ben, Ben, and more Ben, of course | 16 |
| Early Burrus Bible | 24 |
| Recollections of Rose Bay A Conversation with Dewey Sawyer Map of Rose Bay, ca. 1950 |
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| A Connecticut Yankee and the Slave Owner's Daughter | 32 |
| The Lost Gibbs Twins Noah and Robert Gibbs |
42 |
| Bear Killing - Female Exploit | 44 |
| From Rose Bay (Dallas W. Harris) | 44 |
| Strange Basketball Game - Engelhard vs. Manteo, 1951 | 45 |
| Hyde Deed Book "T" is Burned | 47 |
| U. S. Internal Revenue Service (alphabetized tables in this article are not indexed) |
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| Letha Spencer Selby | 60 |
| Johanna Stubbs | 63 |
| Abstracts, Deed Book "I", continued | 64 |
| Publications for Sale | 86 |
| Index | 88 |
| Volume 42 - No. 1 - Spring 2021 | Page |
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| Editors Boat | 3 |
| The Carter Family | 4 |
| The Vanishing Old School | 23 |
| The Death of Col. W.S. Carter | 25 |
| The Burrus Boys | 26 |
| In All His Glory | 34 |
| The Story of David and Mamie | 35 |
| Tournaments | 42 |
| Fred Mason Bible | 47 |
| The Trip | 49 |
| Mattamuskeet School, 1971 | 51 |
| 1920 Schools in Hyde County | 59 |
| Schools Long Gone But Not Forgotten Lake Landing High School |
60 62 |
| Hyde County Training School Memories of the Hyde County Training School Banner, 1940 |
63 64 |
| Middletown Letterheads | 70 |
| North Carolina Report of the Bureau of Labor - 1907 | 71 |
| Abstracts, Deed Book I, continued | 72 |
| Publications for Sale | 83 |
| Index | 85 |
| Volume 42 - No. 2 - Fall 2021 | Page |
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| Editors Boat | 3 |
| Edward Royden Clarke, Jr. | 4 |
| Richard Inge Wynne | 9 |
| Nathaniel V. Beckwith, 1819-1886 | 12 |
| Amity Church Cemetery Lot Sold | 24 |
| A Tavern on Ocracoke | 25 |
| Ocracoke Camp Meeting | 25 |
| Independent Adventurer | 26 |
| Engelhard High School Football Team, about 1937 | 40 |
| Love Cannot Wait | 46 |
| Mayhem, Mischief or Murder - You Decide | 47 |
| The Days of the Life of Bessie Blount Murray | 57 |
| Doris Elizabeth Collins Weston | 61 |
| Herman Credle of Lake Landing Reflects on a Long, Varied Career | 63 |
| Tell My People Good Bye, for I Am Gone | 67 |
| Abstracts, Deed Book I, continued | 69 |
| Publications for Sale | 76 |
| Index | 78 |
| Volume 43 - No. 1 - Spring 2022 | Page |
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| HCH&GS 2022 Officers & Directors | 2 |
| Editors Boat | 3 |
| Morgan Holt Harris (1939-2021) The Genealogy of Morgan Holt Harris |
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| Masonic Lodges of Hyde County | 7 |
| Lost Grandsons of William Howard of Ocracoke | 16 |
| The Gaskill Family from Massachusetts to Hyde County and Beyond | 25 |
| Abstracts, Deed Book I, continued | 47 |
| Obtaining & Conducting Oral Histories | 54 |
| 35th Colored Infantry - Hyde County Men in the Union Army | 59 |
| Publications for Sale | 80 |
| Index | 82 |
| Volume 43 - No. 2- Fall 2022 | Page |
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| HCH&GS 2022 Officers & Directors | 2 |
| Editors Boat | 3 |
| Rose Bay Plantation The Store Across the Road |
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| History of Soule Cemetery | 16 |
| Transgressions on the Turnpike | 26 |
| George Washington Carawan | 34 |
| News From Hyde: Head of the Lake | 40 |
| Henry Selby Spencer & Emeline Ann Higson Spencer Graveyard Cleanup | 41 |
| 36th & 37th U.S. Colored Infantry - Hyde County Men in the Union Army | 42 |
| Gene Farrow Jones, My Life | 61 |
| Abstracts, Deed Book I, continued | 64 |
| Corrections | 74 |
| Lewis Holmes Swindell, Sr. Family, Swan Quarter | 75 |
| School Memorabilia | 76 |
| Publications for Sale | 77 |
| Index | 79 |
| Volume 44 - No. 1 - Spring 2023 | Page |
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| Editors Boat | 3 |
| Unusual Death Killed by Lightning - Thomas Wilson Harris, Jr. |
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| Mary Cleaves Seabrook, Mother of Josephus Daniels | 15 |
| Seabrook: An Olde Hyde County Family | 24 |
| The Brick House Plantation on Smith Creek | 40 |
| Jarvis-Elixson House | 46 |
| Jarvis-Sears House | 49 |
| Warner-Green-Jennette House | 51 |
| Spring-Green House | 53 |
| Aunt Mary's Remedy | 54 |
| 38th U.S. Colored
Infantry Hyde County Men in the Union Army |
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| Hyde Co. Black Men in the Union Navy - Civil War | 57 |
| Abstracts, Deed Book K | 58 |
| Publications for Sale | 64 |
| Index | 66 |
| Volume 44 - No. 2- Fall 2023 | Page |
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| Editors Boat | 3 |
| Minutes, 127th Annual
Session, Kehukee Primitive Baptist Assoc. The Black Rock Address Picnic at the Fairfield Primitive Baptist Church, 1881 |
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| Brother William Harris - Early Hyde Co. Primitive Baptist Minister | 11 |
| Elder John Bowen | 12 |
| Elder Green Carrowan | 14 |
| Obituary for Elder Albert Cartwright | 17 |
| Articles of Faith, Church Covenant, Church Decorum, (1808) | 19 |
| List of embers 1808, 1855, 1889 | 22 |
| Members, Primitive Baptist Church, South Mattamuskeet (undated) | 25 |
| Death & Marriages, South
Mattamuskeet Primitive Baptist Church Minutes, 1808-1853 |
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| Excerpts from Minutes, S. Mattauskeet Primitive Baptist Church | 31 |
| Minutes of Beulah Primitive Baptist Church, Vol. II | 50 |
| Henry Carrwan Dies | 52 |
| Bonner Farm & Family: 150 Year History, by F. Thomas Carmine, Jr. | 53 |
| Abstracts of Hyde County Deed Book K | 60 |
| Publications of Sale | 71 |
| Index | 73 |
| Volume 45 - No. 1 - Spring 2024 | Page |
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| Editors Boat | 3 |
| Hyde County Cemeteries,
Graveyards and Burying Grounds The Preparation of the Hyde Cemetery Book Update on Some of the Cemeteries in the Cemetery Book |
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| Farrow-Saunderson Cemetery | 10 |
| Ancestral Mathematics | 13 |
| Mr. J.M. Watson & Genealogy | 13 |
| Billy Sawyer | 14 |
| S. Decatur Gibbs | 15 |
| Harris History From Afar, John G. Harris family history & Genealogy | 17 |
| A Letter From A Hyde County Boy, Spanish-American War, 1898 | 26 |
| Dr. Francis Mann Clarke Letter to Rebecca Swindell, Sept. 4, 1975 | 29 |
| Cecil Harold Midgette, Native of Mt. Pleasant | 30 |
| Diary Of A Gourd Ridge Girl, Neva Dell Cuthrell | 37 |
| Emma's Love | 47 |
| Progressive Hyde,
Duck Hunting & Other Newspaper Articles Hurricanes The Fanily Closet & Various Kind of Skeletons that Abide Therein |
51 53 58 |
| Old Deed Books: History, Mystery, & Gemstones of Hyde County | 59 |
| Abstracts of Hyde
County Deed Book K, continued The prohibitory Liquor Law of the Last Legislature |
63 67 |
| Publications for Sale | 68 |
| Index | 70 |
| Volume 45 - No. 2- Fall 2024 | Page |
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| Editors Boat | 3 |
| The Octagon House, ca.1857, A Timeline in Pictures | 4 |
| While Looking Through - The Estate Files of Hugh Jones | 6 |
| Southern Society from a Northerner's Notations | 13 |
| Captain David B. Wallace, Jr. | 22 |
| My Life As a Trapper - Marco Gibbs | 25 |
| Dr. Francis Clarke Letter to Royden Clarke, Sr., Oct 27, 1967 | 40 |
| Town of Swanquarter as recalled by Odessa Jarvis | 41 |
| Ireland-Spencer Cemetery | 43 |
| Songer - A Place of Mystery | 46 |
| Joys of having a Chicken House - by Linda Gray Mayo | 48 |
| Robin "The Chicken Lady" - by Robin Claussen | 50 |
| Asa Dixon Murder
and Other Newspaper Articles Particulars of Redden Lupton Murder, Murder in Middleton Long and Berry "Cutting Up", Repentant Moonshiner |
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| Publications for Sale | 58 |
| Index | 60 |
Volume 46 - No. 1- Spring 2025 Page Table of Contents
Editors Boat 3 Tribute to Alfred John Schmitt, Jr. - Marco Gibbs 4 Ships. Shipwrecks, Shipyards of Early Hyde County 8 Letter from Hyde County Shipbuilders to John Gray Blount
Perils of the Paragon
Perils of a Treasure Ship on Ocracoke23
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29Rolling Store - Julian McKinney 32 A. B. Swindell & Son General Store - Tom Carmine 33 I Remember Some Indian Ways - Keys Benston 36 The Legacy of Leon Ballance 51 The Mail Goes Through
Photo Articles: Engelhard Post Office, East Carolina Bank54
55Toney Spencer Started Keeping Store at 14
Swan Quarter Man Praises Bank56
56World War II Blackouts 57 Publications for Sale 58 Index 60 Appendix A
The Collins Family Cemetery, Engelhard, NC6
Volume 46 - No. 2- Fall 2025 Page Table of Contents
EDITORS' BOAT 3 HYDE COUNTY SCHOOLS: Preserving History, Building the Future
Dr. Melanie R. Shaver, Superintendent Hyde County Schools4 SCHOOL STATISTICS
Census of children 1872; School Funds per student 1874-59 JOSEPH M. WATSON, First Superintendent of Hyde County Schools 11 SCHOOLS BY TOWNSHIPS 12 OLD SCHOOLS: NEW DISCOVERIES
My Hyde County School Ties -Maldine W. WalLace65 HYDE COUNTY ACADEMIES FOR ARISTOCRATIC/INTENSIVE SEATS OF LEARNING 70 SCHOOL BUS SHANGHAIED 72 ALEXANDER STEWART LETTER, 1763
School and Native American history74 DAVIE POPLAR JUNIOR IN HYDE COUNTY, 1993
Recollections by Hyde County representative Erica Green, Class of 200075 "WHERE THERE'S A WILL"
Charting the first families of Bath and Jordan's Creek, Gail Garrett77 MARTELLE'S FEED HOUSE RESTAURANT -- A New Phase 79 PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE 80 INDEX 82