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'^3 > !'• ¥ Tne JJare (Jounty Times, Manteo, N. C. Friday, April 2, 1937 Eii''>-e]iir??(i i- B* i niiun*-* n Ijvp Wirf* Town 1 tANDLf FilTHIE V^*Region'yast and Different That Had Its • 5 Earliest Beginningc Before the Revolii- I tion; In Colonial Days a Region of Rich- \ es. In Modern Days the Smokehouse and i Gr'andry of the Southern Albemarle ONE OF THE i?lG HOYS IX !IYI)E COl’NTY r"''* V f m . j By LETA BEKRY BROWN i I Swan Quarter, N. C. ' (The-many facts which could J -Imve been put into history about I >Hyde County Imve been lost by the passing of Time. No record ,hiis been made. The facts are gathered only from the old uco- (p4e which was handed down to them tlirougii several generations. It is regretted that our fore-par ents failed to write tire many in cidents of the old days winch would be very interesting (n tlie ' pte.sent and future generations I Hyde County was one of the or iginal precincts of North Carolina apd e.\lstetl previous to 1729. when the Lords Proprietors surrendered ' t^eii’ rights to the crown. It was called in honor of Edward Hyde, tvho was governor of the colony It| is situated in the extreme ca.st- ern part of the State, and it.s pi t s- ent boundaries are tire Long Shoal River, the Alligator River and T\ i - rell County on the Nortii, tiu- ,'.t- l^tic Ocean and Pamlico Souiki on the South, Pamlico Sound on ; tlje East and the Pungo River on ; OLOy:-> GIBBS is one of Hyde the West. 1 Coinr; s outstanding citizens. He •,Tlie original division of the rol- J " icvelheuded. conservative busi- ony of Carolina was into the two counties of Albemai-le and Claren don; the former contained tlie set tlements around Albemarle Soiiii I tlJe latter that of tlie Cap'’ t-'i There were then no .seitiemrni between the two localities. A. people began to move Soutli from Albemarle and settle the Pamlieo cduntry, Batli County was creat ed. The present territory of Hyde County was included m E,.' i County In 1705, the population still in creasing, it became necessary te divide Bath County int.-i ;;.i ■! prcclncts—Pampiocougli, lying i..” tire north side of Pamptecoue;! River and beginning at ll.'i ui Ck-ek. and thence v^psterl; lo ’'i liead of the river: Wickham, bc- gihning at Molines Creel:, so iu- chiding all the lands and p- ’i-s frbm that creek to Malchenungo Buiff; Archdele, taking In all the south side of tne . Pamptecough E^cr, and including all the m- habitants along the Neuse liivcr Molines Creek was tlie old name fo}- Bath Creek. It appears that Wickham pre cinct, afterwards Hyde jn-ecin'-t 9 « vt 4 i ni.an wliose wi.se judgment, .'ured in the development of I' ion for many ycar.s. He is ' a 1 .1 no ('•'Votes much time' • ' • ' 'h .1 .' I'le •siinc ; in’. . ' I', ii- farm.im and nr, r- . entile businc.ss Some of his | ir'l' libors .say lie is the richest , .Ti. n in Hyde County, but wiieth- t r or no. be is a .sub.stantini citizen, I v-iio ht.s ,a definite place m tlie.t 'I'.umy Ke IS prominent in tlie iiiJii.-, if tlie .•.ueces.sful Enge’-i I ii .'P E inkiri, and Trust Conijiany HI (1 op.aaf’s the largest store in F:>' i-ilnrU. a SiL'' t XI irl THE ! PP l-'i 1 I'. '. I’lOse a ' i ■me';, disliiC. aitiitiiC' briek euiKlmj o.' i ■■■ 1..: .! >i I’-i • ard Tru-.i Comiiany in tlie foregi o'liid, tiie Maitainu’ket I T'ii,.ir'‘ and CIois Gibbs store The middle pietuie shows the pliiui'cl higli .scliuol building With auditorium at Lngeihard. one of the fine.st in Eastern Nortli Caro lina The bottom I’lctiiie siiow.s the Mctliodi.st eluirch. Brick is being u.scd extensiveij in tins ron’munitj for liomes as well as pub lic buildings. was Hioitzht that one loealitv '■.o 'Id .ilfi e for H' li ••’111 Til ui- ioi't Tills d.i a* Baili Split f rom Heaulort in 1728 In 1728 the Lords P!'opilelors separated ll.vdo and Beaufort in tlieir court .sy.slcm, :.,s will be .seen from tlie following’ ’ la-t Aii.s>jmbly that ever con.ened in Ciuohna undir the go'.eri men', of the Lords Proprietor.'; me' .a Ed- enton on tlie 27 of .Nov. inbei 1728 Thus body separ.aed Hr pr'-cii ets of Hyde and Beai.lort in il.r i court .sy.'.lem air’J directed a enur hou.se lo be built in the fi.rner (otinit wliere Woudstoek iio.v stand.s Hyde coanlv s lir.st st-t of governin''lit wm siiuaiecl a: Wood.'.tock nov. iti Beaufort Ct.un- ty I. i.s no knrwii hov. ion,, ii remained t'lcn Prem tl.'-’n’ ' was taken to Germantown .After- I I When in Enpelhard Vi.sit Our Fountain All Kind.s of Cold DRINKS, CANDY and FRUITS General IMerchandi;-; Groceries R. S. COX Engelhard • teok in that extent of country ' !i.lci by the soutliern line of, 'r. mu'-'. ‘ County en the norfn, j P mi'. ' 0 Sound on the east anti -• ■ ■ .and Molines, or Bat!: Creek ci. '. e west It included tli ’ r.ort.ioastern portion of the pres ent Beaufort County and all of , the prr.scnt Hyde County, with the i exception of Ocracoke Island. I L’l 1711 the name of Wic.kh.'jm precinct was changed to Hyde pre- einc; in iionor of the Colonial C. rnor who was a cousin of Q’l iin Anne Dr Kemp P Battle of " U'uve’r •[’. .if North Caro- •a th.it it IS not known wii.’i Wi knam was. for whom the I' ennt t was named. Bath town, situated on Molines old as any county in Hie state. Crcoi: tlic oldest town in tlie .state ' ■’ I live y.-ars in tlic Colonial '•I s Hv eat of Govcininenl v;as r. ’line .ii tin old Hyde pre- ' I’' I .ices Il.r (ieaiiy aptieai I ' r t or. ..l.ii.; .ne hetween • ; ,e :i t- -..f Hvd.' and Be.iu- • • ’. V'K .' Hibiisiied I'l.,.. to 172.7 a.I the precinct.s, • P> C lun V .’•tt-r, '.’d rou-l a. In tli.'il v(ar t'lr Iz-gi.sla- .A 1-1.1.1'lV in .■ ' 11 ,n Hie ’I’ ti'l" O’ 1 I ’.t'l.i I r.i ' .1 . n l' . '. Vi r 1 pre- • 'I o d. '1 t'W 1 ji tID]. ' ‘ I*.ill. . b.O.dilie.', I I and one mile wide. Tlie.se banks f'l ' '.ime'.l a par* of CurrUuck .... lo.. .iii'i wij afterward.s giv- n lo Hyde. ..iid taken fiom Hyde lo give lo Dare It 1.. evident iliat tlie early set tlers of Carolina, about the Albe- maile and Pamlico country, were' Englisli and Frencli Hugenols. The i Huginots liad tome hither to avoid religi(,us iicr.secutions at licme We are unable to ascertain ti.i pievi'c dal wlicn the first .'■■ I'iei.s inacit tlieir liome in wliat i‘ now Hyde county. It is prob able tliat Hyde county, then a part 1 f Eaiii pri ein. i '.vas settled about til.' lime er .i-y non after Albe- aii-rlv count;.. vvlir li seems to liave been first bu' uow much .sooner IS not known .Ai early a;; 1G56, very consider able selllcmenis had been formed wards it was for a lime located at from Virginia on tho northern it was removed in 183C to Swan I side of Aibemnrie Sound Many Quarter, its pre.sent location j of llic settlements who obtained In 1758 Aibemnrie and Bath liome.s cn the borders of Matta- counties were abolished and eacli ■ nniskeet Lake no doubt came' prceinct cf Hie rount> made a • from Accomack and Northampton counly \V.' f.nd ilirn Hut in nas'founlie, of Virginia, as many of Hyde iirecim; v.a. made a conn-, Hie citr/ens of those counties are of the .s.ame names as those of Hyde county. It i.s tliought that prior to and during Hie Revointionary War the Briti.’ li ,11 many ways molested the pcop.e on lilt Eastern sliore of Virgil.in. Pori i iil.ii ij iiK counties of Aceoini’.fk and Nortliampton, and ',() murli .so tiiat many of i.aKi, l.r.,1 f-ii’IH' in lifr arc! came tlirough what liven oli.'ieid to Hien tlie dense forest and .set- attencl Curr.Huk County court m Hyde count . .so as to be winch was about (,ne liundred “'*1 of nach of the depredations The journey was H'e Britisli I do not claim ble.ik and dangerous 11*’^^ iiave Cavalier blood or do- :, ii.t.'V'. a'H'nc d seenlanis of a Royalist baronet, ;.r ' i’■ nl ofien- d'’'’ount;,. but we linve some o; ne. r ef a. njocl '.(oel.; le. e. (.j- came from (••'■I Lake .1 Prolilem Hu El lis'- Isles and settled on I Ml-' n Hi. ...kI ,r Vi'-' inia Educalional '•.(-t and ''it-u.ms iu'; bei n neglected in belonging i ■'’O'T'f ia';'.ancc-s. but notwllhstand- ty. and in point of age. e.scepting . Albcmarie Bath and Clarendon, j wlncli were I hr n nbniislied. i.s as I Untii 174.0 Maltamirikeet Lake. and ihe eoun.r./ .i.-oiiml . -,ep- arate frem Hy.ii Coiiniv anil piob- ably was a pan oi CiirnlU' 1: eeun- t\ Tl ; ’ll Iji'a'il r Malla- ir.usk”et and n.i many years p.'si ai..es a’.v.f. thrnugii a 11 nci wl.a vv ■' I: I •' i tin P' lie-.,' Aiatt.imu- •fi, f. V.’l' u.. 'V’lo TI..1’ i.ake H I’reun'o 0, I?:: ■ f' 'ANNOUNCING,,, I ' Tho Oyrniis" nj \ WICWAM MAISTEO’S REIFEST TEA ROOM Delicious ironic-Cookrd iHeals, San(lwicli(:.s al y\U Honrs Mrs. R. H. OnNcal Mrs. H. Mrs. Harry Wliilc Creef THE WIGWAM Located in the Pearinf* linilding _ Mnnicn, N. C. i.ai! from her'-ioitii be -..-eount- Hits, there are many with cul- '■d taken i-'ekoi' -i .and det med ' Hvaletl tavtcs of force and energy. i..vrl (A Hviie co i' ”• 'jiid H-.at Hv T.hrce Tribes of Indians 1-'.. b.t.in . Ii.il'b - ..I'.i t 10 iiie To ii’st .'■cuiers found the '.'.111 1'.. eiel Hr-'■ a- oiw oile r •'''"''“'j’'-‘d"'Hyde county, Inhab- V-! tl’i inlutbi.aii.-, of ‘hr .s.'.id ■" d by tlirce tribe's of Indians; (-iinlv T';e Cores. Ceehneys and Matta- It wa - ii'.acKd hv lee General muskeeis These were fierce and .Av'imbl in I7H-I ''i,i> loinm;'- warlike They took a part in the ;cin> b- I'.ii. 1 I i for ’Iv roun- "le aifjia war and were the last : ' ii , . , T .1 aiiu .rue •• ' brought under subjec- they 1 .i" n’M ' on t .• fn-.t day n aej with whom terms of •-1 D" ri..'•.'•> r.'.) .ml proce'-d P' '•'■'^re arranged. They lived ’ 1 run t 1 '.M', (1 n .oie 'i-t .vi n i'riti. ;i„'ly in tl’.it part of Hyde Il 'de and T rn .1 eo'intie'-. ;.bi,.i; .Ma tainu;,keet Lake. In IHi'.i General Assemblv Oui- ancestors 'orougnt with '■a ,'1 ' . ' p>'t of iivd” ro.in-' ’I e.Pi 'lorn tho mother country '•/ w-' of .') I I'uiv'f) River lo pnnnrally tiio worslilp of Inc es- 3. anil. 1 i-jur.iv .s follows l.ib .sli-d eiiurch of England, the An Act lo -iita h part of Hyde , Bpi.'copal reh .-n Tliis religion, .'ounly toBeaufi” county Pa.ss-, lio’.vcvtr. was not obligatory. In- ed .n the year 1819 ’ deed, vve regret to note, that of Be It enacted tnat ,'ill lhat part religion there was but little of any of the eoi.fty of Hyde, wliich lies k'li'i in Hie colonies prior to 1708, upon tlie vest' ide.of Pungo River, except among tJie Quakers, over and It I.s lierebv .added to and in H’e Chowan and Perquimans made a port of Hie county of c’jntry Beaufort • j Among tlie laws tiie one in re- Again in 1823 another slice of ' emd to religion wa.' that the Curntuek was added to Ilydo by Cliurch of England ■was declared the following Act of A.ssembly ^ n, 13.. only cstabltshed church I "An Act to add a part of Cur- , in Ce.ioltna, and the province was I rltu'-k county ' ' Hyde counly , to be divided into nine parishes, j passed in Hi’ year 1823 'Cl:o'.van precinct was to contain Be It enacted Hi it all that part '"'b. -eparated from each other by cf Currituck coudi’- which lies Albemarle Sound and Chowan I south of New Inlet, be. and the ; Elver, and to be known as the same is henceforth added to the 1 eastern parish, and the south- county of Hyde " i east parish and southv/est parish . The last tunc any part of tlic 1 Pasquotank, separated by the ' territory of Hyde county was tak-! Eesquotank River, Perquimans, I en away wa.s in 1870. when all . ‘-brrituck and Hyde precincts I that part of the banks or ban’lor ' formed a parish, having for 1 recf.s, lying between the sound and ' *'*’elr limits the boundaries of I ' tho ocean, beginning at Hatteras 1 precincts. Inlet and extending to New Inlet. The early inhabitant'* of North was by act of Assembly made a Carolina wore divided Into dif- I part of Dare This act left noth-I feront classes; the educated set, I ing of the Banks to Hyde, except' who were generally allied to fam- Ocracoke Island, which lic.s be-|llic.7 of rank in England; the set tween Hatteras and Ocracoke In-jwlio had managed by shrewdness, lets. This island Is 18 miles long Continued on Page 3) V^eicome The Fastest the Splendid Schools, Churches, Ice, Light and Power, Good Road, Good Harbor, Good Trading for Farmers and Fishermen to Engelhard Gr owing Town Coastland ILL SOX’S Sinclair Service Station WASHlNf.’. fJUEASING — AUTO ACCESSORIES Dealer in Firestone Tires Engelhard, N. C. iVIaola Ice Cream Ice-Cold, Coca-Colas With the Re.st Wi.shcs of SLOSS OIBBS (JENERAL MERCHANDISE HORSES. MULES, FERTILIZERS and FARM MERCHANDISE Country Produce Bought and Sold You are Cordially Invited to Look Over Our Stoc.k of Merchandise When In fh- ENGEIiHARD, N. C. JARVIS ENtJELIIARD, N. C. General. Merchandise an NEAL’S STORE Farm Products ENGELHARD, N. C. FINEST SUP PLIE S Farmers Cooperative Exchange Feeds —Seeds — Fertilizer r'- Come to BARBER’S SHANTY Hyde County’s Amusement Center Young People*s Paradise ^ DANCING Jc SANDWICHES, BEER, GROCERIES SOFT DRINKS, CANDIES / New and Second Hand FURNITURE Quality at Lotv Pricc.s A Complete Stock of // GENERAL MERCHANDISE SPENCER ENGELHARD, N. C. ENOELHARD CAFE # FINE OYSTERS and FISH f CHOICE MEATS Low Prices, Prompt Service ICE CREARf, SANDWICHES, SOFT -DRINKS B. G. MIDGETT, Prop. GROCERIES hardware R. L GIBBS CCMPANV ENGELHARD, N. C. l»uycr.s and Shippers of Goiton, Corn, Soy Deans, Oats, Potatoes, Onions, Feeds and Seed BRICK, LIME, CEMENT WE STRIVE TO PLEASE CABINS CABINS MATTAMOSKEET CABINS Hunting and Fishing Permits 17 .Miles From Swan^Quarter On MATTAMUSKEET LAKE STOP WITH US D. W. Payne, Mgr. — CAFE — Lake I..anding, N. C. Hot Dog.7, Sandwiches, Gold Drinks And the Only POOL PARLOR In-Engelhard GAS — OIL / // C. W. • tnf ' At Stumpy Point-'Engelhard Junction brio
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