N.C. Historical and Genealogical Books

by John A. McGeachy


These pages have their origin in a research project to transcribe the contents of an 1850s manuscript, and to identify the author of "Cape Fear Sketches."

I often used the New Hanover County Pleas & Quarter Sessions Court Minutes while researching the authorship of "Cape Fear Sketches." A second project naturally followed to transcribe and index the New Hanover County Pleas and Quarter Sessions Minutes for the years 1809-1868.

Links to other class papers on miscellaneous topics that I wrote while enrolled in North Carolina State University's Public History program are also available.

Most recently, to aid research of my wife's Wilkes County ancestors, I am transcribing and indexing the Wilkes County Pleas & Quarter Sessions count minutes, beginning with 1798.

For more information on these topics, either click the links above, or click the down arrow beside Home in the upper right corner of this page.