Re: Saphronia Louisa Pritchard,SouthMills NC
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Re: Saphronia Louisa Pritchard,SouthMills NC
4/21/01
I'm sure there is a great deal of information on the Pritchard family.I suggest contacting the Family Research Society of North Eastern North Carolina.They put out a great booklet with wonderful information.
I was just looking at one of my books "Ante-Bellum Elizabeth City by William A. Griffin, 1970.He states:
"No record which pinpoints the beginning of Pritchard's Mill has been found, but James Pritchard willed to his son David in 1796, the mill pond, water mill, and new stones."
"The name David Pritchard presents a problem, for there was a David Pritchard residing on both sides of the river.The distinguished historian of Camden County, Jesse Pugh, believes that it was the Camden David Pritchard's mills for which South Mills was named.Pasquotank's David Pritchard was James Pritchard's son who inherited Pritchard's Mill.This latter David Pritchard was appointed Public Surveyor of Pasquotank County in 1785m and it seems more logical that he would be the Elizabeth City director."