Brunswick County

by Franck, Julie. Galloway, Abraham 8 Feb.1837 - 1 Sept.1870 by Julie Franck, North Carolina State University, 2013; Revised September 2022 Abraham Galloway was a formerly enslaved person, Union spy and [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Cecelski, David S. I visited 95-year-old Clarence Alston at his home in Navassa, a town a few miles from Wilmington. Today Navassa is a quiet, mainly African-American community fringed by rivers and marshes. Alston [...] (from Listening to History, News and Observer.)

by Cumming, William P. John Abraham Collet (Collett), a Swiss military engineer, map maker, captain in the British army, and governor of Fort Johnston, N.C., was probably from Geneva, where his widowed mother, a Moravian, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Troxler, Carole W. John Cruden, Jr., a Loyalist merchant, was in partnership with his uncle, John Cruden, and his brother James. They established stores in Wilmington and Cross Creek in 1774, using money the uncle had [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. John Dalrymple, army officer, the second surviving son of Sir John Dalrymple of Cousland, second baronet, and his wife, Elizabeth Fletcher, probably was born in Edinburgh.* His great-uncle, John [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Davis, Richard Beale. Arthur Dobbs, colonial governor of North Carolina, surveyor-general of Ireland, promoter of exploration for a Northwest Passage, and scholar and scientist, was a son of the Enlightenment and one of [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Price, William S., Jr. Edward Brice Dobbs, colonial official, was born to Arthur and Annie Osburne Norbury Dobbs at Castle Dobbs in Carrickfergus, Ireland. Little is known about his early life, but in October 1754 he [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Malone, E. T., Jr. Edward Dromgoole, pioneer Methodist circuit rider, was born in Sligo, Ireland. After hearing the preaching of Methodist missionaries, he renounced Catholicism and was ostracized by his family. He [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Watson, Alan D. William Dry, III, Brunswick merchant, planter, and royal placeman, was born in Goose Creek, S.C. The progenitor of the Dry family in Carolina was Robert Dry who immigrated to South Carolina about [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Knapp, Richard F. Ebenezer Emmons, geologist, educator, and physician, was born in Middlefield, a village in western Massachusetts, of English ancestry. The single son of five siblings, his parents were farmer [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Price, William S., Jr. William Forbes, colonial official, immigrated to North Carolina from Scotland early in the 1730s. Settled in the Lower Cape Fear region, he soon gained the notice of Governor George Burrington, who [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Copeland, J. Isaac. Forster, Anthony by J. Isaac Copeland, 1986; Revised by Jared Dease, Government and Heritage Library, December 2022 11 Jan. 1785–18 Jan. 1820 Anthony Forster, Unitarian clergyman, was born [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Grant, Dorothy F. Fremont (née Fish), Sewall Lawrence by Dorothy Fremont Grant, 1986 30 Aug. 1816–1 May 1886 Sewall Lawrence Fremont (née Fish), army officer, chief engineer, and superintendent of the [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Moore, James Elliott. Lucien Coatsworth Gause, Arkansas congressman, was born in Brunswick County, not far from Wilmington. While he was still a youth, his family moved to Lauderdale County, Tenn. Prepared for college by [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Cecelski, David S. Born in 1916, Capt. Eugene W. Gore worked his way up from kitchen boy to become one of the first African-American captains in the great menhaden fishing fleet of North Carolina. I talked with him at [...] (from Listening to History, News and Observer.)

by Perry, Percival. James Redding Grist, planter and businessman, the eldest of thirteen children of Allen and Mary Ann Williams Grist, was born in Beaufort County near Washington. His forebears were in Beaufort County [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by London, Lawrence F. Frederick Jones Hill, physician, planter, and legislator, was born at his father's plantation, Fairfields, in New Hanover County. He was the son of Elizabeth Jones and John Hill, an officer in the [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by London, Lawrence F. William Hill, colonial official and merchant, was born in Boston, Mass., the son of John and Elizabeth Maxwell Hill and the grandson of Henry Hill who arrived in Boston in the latter part of the [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by London, Lawrence F. William Henry Hill, lawyer, legislator, congressman, and planter, the son of William and Margaret Moore Hill, was born at Brunswick town in Brunswick County. He attended schools in Boston, his [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Furr, Chris. Hilton, William by Chris Furr, [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Rankin, Hugh F. Robert Howe, planter, soldier, and politician, was born in New Hanover (later Brunswick) County, the son of Job Howe (Howes), who moved to North Carolina from Charleston, S.C., and settled on the [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Engstrom, Mary Claire. Thomas Lloyd (or Loyd, Loyde), Loyalist planter and colonial official of Orange County, member of the colonial Assembly, an officer in the Orange County militia, and sometimes accounted the most [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. Jacob Lobb, English naval officer active in the Lower Cape Fear region during the Stamp Act crisis, may have been from Devon or Cornwall in south-western England, the home of several families of this [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by London, Lawrence F. John MacDowell, Anglican missionary, was licensed on 8 Aug. 1753 by the bishop of London to serve in the colony of North Carolina and to receive the king's bounty of twenty pounds for travel [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Poole, Jean. James Fergus McRee, physician, was born at Lilliput plantation, Brunswick County, the son of Major Griffith John and Ann Fergus McRee and the brother of Colonel William McRee. He received a medical [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)