Best Family on Hatteras Island, NC
As a part of our Lost Colony project, I am reconstructing the early families on Hatteras Island from both extracted records and family histories. Hatteras Island has been in Currituck, Hyde and Dare Countyies in NC.
Here is some info about the earliest Best family found on Hatteras Island.
On the mainland, there is a William Best in 1779. The first Best found on Hatteras Island is Ezekiel who was an orphan of Thomas Best and was apprenticed in the court notes of 1815-1821 to Abraham Farrow of Avon. By 1830, Ezekiel is living there in his own household. His wife was Rebecca, last name unknown. He died sometime after 1860 and had sons Daniel and Eldridge and daughters, Clarissa, Chlo, Angeline, Eldridge, Mary and Elizabeth.
If you descend from this family, please contact me.
Roberta Estes
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