Bertie County, NC

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)

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County
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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.
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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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