Weekly Perspective
Looking back
by VIRGINIA WHITE
TRANSEAU
NOVEMBER 1M2
SMALLEST VOTE IN YEARS
HIGHLIGHT OF ELECTION HELD
HERE TUESDAY: In what is believed to
be the lightest vote ever cast in
Perquimans County, voters went to the
polls on Tuesday to elect the entire
Democratic ticket. Many persons, those
who ordinarily stop in at the Courthouse
on election night to get the returns, were
disappointed Tuesday because the
reports were returned so quickly that the
results were known before 8:30, with the
exception of New Hope Township, which
has not reported up to late Wednesday
afternoon.
However, it is known that ap
proximately twenty voters cast their
ballots in that precinct. The total number
of votes cast in Perquimans at the
Tuesday election was only three hun
dred. Little interest was shown in the
election and in the only contest which
saw Senator Josiah Bailey running
against his Republican opponent, Sam
Morris. Bailey received 263 votes to
Morris' 14. " ' ' "
On the Democratic ticket for county
office. Sheriff J. Emmett Winslow poUed
2S5 votes; W.H. Pitt, for clerk af court,
received 2S5; WW. White, represen
tative, received 246; Charles E. Johnson
received 241 for Judge of Recorder's
Court; Jacob White, candidate for
Treasurer, received 230, and Dr. C.A.
Davenport, coroner, 247 votes. For
county commissionerm R. 11m Brinn
received 244 votes; E.U. Morgan 246
votes; E.M. Perry, 246 votes; L.L.
Winslow, 250 votes; and Charies E. White
246 votes. The election throughout the
nation held little interest for the people in
general and the voting was reported light
in all sections.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT: Mr. and
Mrs. Wallie Knight, of Norfolk, announce
the birth of a daughter, born Saturday,
Oct. 24. Mrs. Knight is the former Miss
Sallie B. Wood, of Snow Hill.
ANNOUNCES MARRIAGE: Mrs. A. A.
Nobles announces the marriage of her
daughter, Miss Louise Frexell, to Ralph
Lane, son of Mrs. Lucille Lane, Elizabeth
City. The marriage took place on
Tuesday. Oct. 20, 1?42 in South Mills.
When the Perquimans County Com
missioners created townships in 1868,
they combined the old Little River
District and Durants Neck District into
New Hope Township. Its bounds include
Suttons Creek, Perquimans River,
Albemarle Sound, and Little River.
Ray
Winslmr
Durants Neck was the first part of the
county to be seen by European explorers
and the first to attract permanent set
tlers. In about 1660, George Durant left
Virginia to settle in the neck of land
between Little River and Albemarle
Sound.
Durant purchased land from the King
of the Yeopim Indians in August of 1661
and March of 1662. The purchase has
passed into legend in Perquimans, with
many distortions of the facts becoming
widely circulated. Durant's deed is not
the oldest in North Carolina, as formerly
thought; that distinction belongs to
Nathaniel Batts' deed of September,
1660. The Yeopim King was not named
Kilcocanen; phonetic study suggests
"Kiskitano" is a spelling more
representative of the original name.
Higher courts and the General
Assembly frequently met in New Hope
Township prior to 1716. Three sites were
often used. One was the home of Diana
Harris Foster White near Awosoake or
Muddy Creek, which was also one of the
earliest taverns in the county.
The second popular meeting place was
the home of Elizabeth Godfrey
Hecklefield on Little River. This dwelling
house was briefly called the "General
Court House" at the beginning of the
eighteenth century.
Third of the public meeting places was
the home of Richard Sanderson, also on
Little River, where the legislature of 1715
revised North Carolina's laws.
The oldest building still standing in the
township is the house built by Joseph
Sutton in the second quarter of the
eighteenth century east of the Creek
along which his family had settled in the
1660s.
The Sutton, Godfrey, and Barclift
families have lived in the township for
three centuries, illustrating a continuity
of residence which is a peculiar feature
of Perquimans County.
As the part of the county where large
plantations were common, New Hope
Township has many fine ante bellum
homes. Those built by James Leigh,
Richard Leigh, James Whedbee, John H.
Blount, Thomas Newby, Elizabeth
Clayton, and Josiah T. Granbery all
exemplify the wealth and taste of earlier
ages.
The township takes its name from the
oldest Methodist Church in Perquimans.
New Hope Church was orgainzed in 1809
by persons who had been inspired by
Bishop Francis Asbury's preaching in
the vicinity in 1799 and 1804.
The mercantile center which
developed near the church boasted
numerous stores, and nearby Pleasant
Grove Academy was an election poll
prior to the Civil War. The post office
there, called Durants Neck, has handled
mail for over a century and a half.
A post office called Jacocks was
located near Pleasant Valley farm from
1894 to 1911.
At the northeastern corner of the
township, the village of Woodville grew
arround the Little River Friends Meeting
House. Probably named for William
Wood, the community had an academy, a
Methodist church, and a temperance hall
before 1850. Its post office was in
operation from about 1830 until 1910.
From Indian village sites to pioneer
settlements to Greek revival mansions,
New Hope Township is rich in history.
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I bought her for a nickel, pop.
What does 'pregnant' mean?"
The big answer was due last week'
There had been months of speculation
in the media and from Joe on the street
as well.
All of us had our favorite candidate,
though most of us were willing to confess
that each of them had there drawbacks.
We wondered whether so and so was
just too wishy-washy to get the job done.
Another candidate was played up to be so
mean that some of us didn't know
whether he was up to the task or not We
thought perhaps the job required more
subtlety than this particular character
possessed.
And this other guy. Sure, he had some
good ideas, but we weren't certain that
he could translate his lofty pronoun
cements into action.
No matter which candidate we thought
was best suited for the task, though, last
week we were to get our answer. Like it
or not, we would have to live with
whomever the television camera zoomed
in on as the person who had actually
translated candidacy into action.
Mike
Mclaughlin
Likely as not, it would have to be
someone who had been almost
predestined to perform the monumental
task ahead of him.
The anticipation that had built
throughout the spring and summer
months was finally going to come to a
climax. The question that had been on
the minds and hps of Americans lbr what
seemed like an eternity was finally to be
answered.
Yes folks, it was time to reveal the
identity of the man who had come to our
rescue, the man who had ted us out of the
darkness.
If they do fiaally teU us, though, which
I donht because if they did America
?nM stop watching the show. I predict
that! the attempted murderer will
He might era get the Democratic
MMUMtma far president in ISM ? if he
doesn't get a life sentence. Q
b any event. I'm convinced that
history win treat JJL's attemted mur
derer better than wfll our court system .
Bat if he does happen to get the
peinidrntiil ?ommatmn after he gets out
?f jai.he Just might get my vote, even if
he turns out to be a giri
Why Ml? He's got all the
qnaHBtalinwi. He's a professional actor.
When revealed, the persaa who put a Cr
temporary rmfrainng order oa the
dastardly deeds of J A Ewing will be
richly rewarded ?so math so. that going
into foverauaeuft work wfll he a step down
far him, just Mke Koaald Reagan said it
oegMtebe.
Facing South
a syndicated column:
voices of tradition
in a changing region
LAFAYETTE, GA. - At the
Strawberry Mountain Medical Center,
the doctor is always in, though not
necessarily in the office Sometimes be is
in the garden.
Why would a doctor want to leave a
lucrative family practice in
cosmopolitan Atlanta to end up in a rural
office almost a mile down a dirt road in
the northwest Georgia mountains,
thirteen miles from the nearest town?
The answer is obvious to Eldon Hoose,
M.D., general practitioner, country
doctor and proprietor of the Strawberry
Mountain Medical Center. In an urfcan
place like Atlanta, too many people want
to see the doctor, which means the doctor
cant spend enough time with each
patient, which often means the patient is
unhappy and goes to still another doctor,
and the vicious cycle accelerates.
Over ihe past 10 years of his career,
Hoose says he has dmtond a gradual
dissatisfaction wtth the "system" of U.S.
medicine. He has no quarrel with Ms
fellow doctors; he botieres most are
prictice. And she is the doctor's wife.
TW* * Mkil, hnjk ? I ,1 . A U -
adc mei wruie ooui woraw in u*
emergency room of a bwyHri. She says
she dictation him attlr*. hat he was the
best doctor she had em worked with.
Pretty soon, somiiwhw betweea the
D the Booaet ihM a stover pace,
they haw beea n warded so tar. la the
first low days aitot the offiu^oaodlast
year, they had a total of Ova pathti
there are stm days ahsa the doctor sad
aarae da more waft^thaa the pattoato.
Of cow so the office is ast to a Mgh
traffic location. Ta fat (hare yea drive
east from LaFayatte, aver the memstato
rid?e toto West Anaachw Valley, tma at
(the doctor made ft Masse*) sad drive
RANDALL WILLIAMS
LaFayctte, G*.
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