Bertie County, NC

Headnote

BERTIE COUNTY, situated in the northeast part of North Carolina, on the northerly side of Roanoke river. Watered also by Cashie and Chowan rivers. Length, 28 miles; mean width, 25; with an area of 700 square miles.... Seat of justice, Windsor. Pop. in 1820, 10,805; in 1830, 12,262; in 1840, 12,175; in 1850, 12,851. (Fanning's, 1853)

Place Unit Type
County
Containing Unit
North Carolina

Bertie County, North Carolina (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
BERTIE COUNTY, situated in the northeast part of North Carolina, on the northerly side of Roanoke river. Watered also by Cashie and Chowan rivers. Length, 28 miles; mean width, 25; with an area of 700 square miles. The face of the country is generally level, in some parts low and marshy; the soil moderately fertile. Seat of justice, Windsor. Pop. in 1820, 10,805; in 1830, 12,262; in 1840, 12,175; in 1850, 12,851.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 41.
Date Type
In North Carolina, a white, male mob viciously beats a young African-American woman named Phillis Ruffin. Crime/Disasters
In Plymouth, North Carolina, ten men from a white mob who viciously beat Phillis Ruffin go on military trial. Crime/Disasters
Second District commander David Sickles confirms the convictions in the Phillis Ruffin beating case. Crime/Disasters
Date Title
Daniel Sickles, Confirmation of sentences in the case of the whipping of Phillis Ruffin, Charleston, South Carolina, August 17, 1867,
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