Posted By:	Marian Osward
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	Subject:	helpful info for early NC researchers
	Post Date:	August 03, 2008 at 17:14:44
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Thought this would be helpful to anyone researching in this area during the early years of settlement in Southeastern NC. It might help explain an earlier posting by Gene Peterson in ref. to properties sold in Hyde & Beaufort Precincts in the 1720s. I would think that Pender County and possibly Onslow, probably fell within these lines as well. From: Chronicles of the Cape Fear River By James Sprunt (abt 1916) “In the early years Brunswick was in Carteret Precinct, for when Carteret Precinct, as the counties were formerly called, was established in 1722, it ran down the coast to the unknown confines of North Carolina, and back into the wilderness without limitation. So the settlement at Brunswick, in 1725, was in Carteret, until New Hanover Precinct was established; and then it was New Hanover, which at first embraced the territory now in Duplin, Sampson, Bladen and Brunswick Counties. It was not until shortly before the Revolution that Brunswick was cut from New Hanover. As the Cape Fear region was originally in Carteret Precinct, some of the early grants and deeds for lands in New Hanover and Brunswick were registered at Beaufort, the county seat of Carteret.”