EDENTON  , a See also:

• TOWN

town and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Chowan county, See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North Carolina, U.S.A., on Edenton See also:

• BAY

Bay, an See also:

• ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

estuary of See also:

• ALBEMARLE, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Albemarle See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound, near the mouth of Chowan, See also:

• RIVER

river, in the N.E. See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state . Pop . (1890) 2205; (1900) 3046 (2090 negroes); (1910) 2789 . It is served by the See also:

• NORFOLK
• NORFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Norfolk & See also:

• SOUTHERN

Southern railway, and by the Albemarle See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

Steam See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

Navigation Co . In 19o7 the former projected a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge across Albemarle sound near the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city., Edenton is an old and interesting town, has a number of See also:

• FINE

fine old homesteads, and has broad and well-shaded streets . Lumbering and the See also:

• SHAD

shad and See also:

• HERRING (Clupea harengus, Haring in German, le hareng in French, sill in Swedish)

herring See also:

• FISHERIES

fisheries are the most important See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial interests, and the town is a See also:

• SHIPPING

shipping point for See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish, See also:

• TRUCK

truck and other See also:

• FARM

farm products, See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton and peanuts . There is a Fish Cultural Station here, established by the Federal See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government` The See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house was built about 1750 . Edenton was settled about 1658, and was for some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time known as the " Towne on See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne's See also:

• CREEK
• CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages)

Creek " or the " See also:

• PORT

Port of See also:

• ROANOKE

Roanoke "; in 1722 the See also:

• PRESENT

present name was adopted in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

Governor See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• EDEN
• EDEN, SIR ASHLEY (1831-1887)

Eden (1673-1722), whose See also:

• GRAVE

grave is in St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul's See also:

• CHURCHYARD
• CHURCHYARD, THOMAS (c. 152o-16o4)

churchyard here . Throughout the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century Edenton was a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of considerable social and See also:

• POLITICAL

political importance; the legislative See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly of North Carolina met here occasionally,' and 'here lived the royal See also:

• GOVERNORS

governors and various well-known citizens of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, among them: See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph Hewes (1730.-1779), a signer of the See also:

• DECLARATION (from Lat. declarare, to make fully clear, clams)

Declaration of See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

Independence; See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James Iredell, Sr . (1750-1799), a Federalist See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader and after 1790 a See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of the See also:

• UNITED

United States Supreme Court, and his son' James Iredell, Jr . (1788-1853), a prominent lawyer, for many years a member of the state legislature, governor of North Carolina in 1827-1828, and a member of the United States See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate in 1828 1831 . Near Edenton lived See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

• JOHNSTON, ALBERT SIDNEY (1803–1862)
• JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER (1849-1888)
• JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH (1804-1871)
• JOHNSTON, ARTHUR (1587-1641)
• JOHNSTON, J
• JOHNSTON, JOSEPH EGGLESTON (1807-1891)
• JOHNSTON, SIR HENRY HAMILTON (1858- )

Johnston (1733-1816), a prominent leader of the See also:

• AMERICAN

American Whigs preceding and during the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War of American Independence, a member of the See also:

• CONTINENTAL

Continental See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress in 1780—1782, governor of North Carolina in 1787-1789, and a Federalist member of the United States Senate in 1790-1793 .

In 1907 the Hewes, Iredell and Johnston homesteads were still See also:

• STANDING

standing . In a house facing the court-house See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green the famous " Edenton See also:

• TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

Tea Party of fifty-one ladies met on the 24th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1774 and signed resolutions that they would not conform " to that Pernicious See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

Custom of Drinking Tea " and would not "promote the See also:

• WEAR

wear of any manufacture from See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England" until the tax on tea should be repealed . Near Edenton _ the' Confederate See also:

• RAM
• RAM, PIERRE FRANCOIS XAVIER DE (18o4-1865)

ram " Albemarle," on emerging from the Roanoke river, was met by the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union " See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double-enders," " Sassacus," " Mattabesett," and " See also:

• MIAMI

Miami," on the 5th of May 1864; the See also:

• BATTLE

battle, which resulted in favour of the Confederates, was a See also:

• DUEL (Ital. duello, Lat. duellum—old form of bellum-from duo, two)

duel between the Cbnfederate ironclad and the Union wooden See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side-See also:

• WHEELER, JOSEPH (1836-1906)
• WHEELER, WILLIAM ALMON (1819-1887)

wheeler, the " Sassacus," which rammed the " Albemarle " and had her bows, fitted with a three-ton See also:

• BRONZE

bronze See also:

• BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)

beak, See also:

• TWISTED

twisted off and carried away .