William Hill (1737-1783) was a merchant in Brunswick who served as a Collector of Duties at that port from 1764 until 1775.

William Hill was born in Surry County, North Carolina on September 23, 1777. The son of a chaplain for the Patriot cause during the American Revolution, he was a longtime public servant for the State of North Carolina. The State Librarian from… Read More

William Hill was born in Anson County, North Carolina on September 7, 1804. A farmer in Anson County, he helped his mother Huldah pursue a widow's pension for his father's involvement in the Revolutionary War. He moved to Alabama sometime after… Read More

Wills Hill (1718-1793), Earl of Hillsborough, was a British politician who served as president of the Board of Trade from 1763 to 1765.

John Hillbun was a resident of colonial Johnston County. In an undated petition, he joined others in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs to appoint another justice to serve their section of the county.

The Hillsboro Recorder was a newspaper started by Dennis Heartt in February 1820. During the Civil War, the paper remained somewhat neutral. While editors acknowledged that their allegiances were with the United States, they sympathized… Read More

Charles Rozzelle Hilton was born on March 28, 1883, in North Carolina. Hilton was a laborer at the Nokomis Cotton Mill in Lexington, North Carolina. He died on March 30, 1948.

Needham Christopher Hines was born on November 4, 1884, in Martin County, North Carolina. Hines was an insurance agent and co-manager of the Raleigh branch of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company. He died in Falls Church, Virginia, on… Read More

Ellen Devereux Hinsdale was born on September 5, 1881, in Wake County, North Carolina. During World War I, Hinsdale served as stenographer to Major John D. Langston, who was special aide to the governor (Thomas W. Bickett) in the administration… Read More

John Wetmore Hinsdale, Jr. was born in Wake County, North Carolina on August 21, 1879. Hinsdale was a prominent attorney in Raleigh for several decades. He died in Raleigh on August 21, 1971.

Joseph Hinsley (d. 1810) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

David Hinton was born in Wake County, North Carolina on October 6, 1826. A graduate of UNC in 1847, he later became a plantation owner and served as a major for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He died in Wake County on February 26, 1876.… Read More

Jacob Hinton was a planter in Chowan Precinct, North Carolina. In 1733 and 1734 he purchased and witnessed other colonists purchase several large tracts to land from the Chowanoke Nation in the vicinity of Bennett's Creek and Catherine's Creek in… Read More

James Hinton was born in Johnston County, North Carolina in about 1750. The son of a militia colonel, he was a captain in the Johnston County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia in as early as 1773. When the American Revolution broke out he… Read More

James Hinton was a resident of Chowan Precinct, North Carolina. In 1723, 1724, and 1733 he made several land purchases from members of the Chowanoke Nation. He died in Chowan County in about January 1761.

Jonas Hinton was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.… Read More

Noah Hinton (d. 1805) was a resident of Chowan and Bertie County who served as a trial juror for the Court of Oyer and Terminer in Edenton District during the fall of 1777 when that court was investigating members of the Gourd Patch Conspiracy. … Read More

William Hinton (d. 1796) was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's… Read More

Charles Columbus Hipp was born in Georgia on November 27, 1874. Hipp worked as a shoe salesman in Knoxville, Tennessee until around 1915, when he moved to Black Mountain (Buncombe County) and opened his own clothing store, C. C. Hipp and Company… Read More

Clarence Edward Hix was born on May 7, 1874 in South Carolina. Hix was the superintendent of transportation for the Seaboard Airline Railroad in Norfolk, Virginia. He died in Lexington, South Carolina, on July 14, 1954.

James Richard Hix was born in Moravian Falls (Wilkes County), North Carolina, on October 7, 1878. Hix was a longtime business and civic leader in North Wilkesboro where he owned and operated Vaughn-Hemphill and served as president of the Bank of… Read More

Aaron Hobbs (d. 1808) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence. Later in… Read More

Abraham Hobbs was a resident of Chowan Precinct, North Carolina who served as a local marshal in March 1702. The following month, Hobbs was found guilty before the North Carolina General Court of killing someone else's hog and was banished from… Read More

Amos Hobbs (d. 1787) was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's… Read More

Guy Hobbs (d. 1786)  was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's… Read More

Henry Hobbs was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.… Read More

Jacob Hobbs (d. 1796) was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's… Read More

Reuben Hobbs was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he refused to take an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina, but he continued to live in the state after the war.

Thomas Hobbs was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

William Hobbs was a resident in colonial North Carolina. Around 1763, he joined others in signing a letter of petition to royal governor Arthur Dobbs on behalf of William Strother, who had been accused of horse stealing.

Robert Hobdy was a resident of Bertie County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

Herbert Derosette Hocutt was born on August 4, 1881. Hocutt served as a surveyor and later as a district maintenance supervisor for the North Carolina state highway commission. He died in Statesville (Iredell County) on May 22, 1922.

William Hodder (d. after 1790) was a resident of Bertie County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence… Read More

George Hodge served as a captain in the Orange County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia from 1778 to 1781. From late 1780 to 1781, he led a group of men from Orange County in a unit of the North Carolina Light Horse Regiment. He died in… Read More

John Hodge was a resident of Pitt County. In 1777 he took several oaths of secrecy and became a member of the Gourd Patch Conspiracy. Despite… Read More

Charles Grey Hodges was born in Watauga County, North Carolina, on March 4, 1876. Hodges was a farmer and public school teacher in Boone, North Carolina. He died in Boone on January 11, 1960.

John Hodgson (d. 1774) was a resident of Edenton. Together with other residents, he wrote a petition to Arthur Dobbs requesting that the colony reduce its duties on exporting wine and other alcohol from North Carolina.

Shadhrick Hodgson was a resident of Bertie County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence. 

Clyde Roark Hoey was born on December 11, 1877, in Shelby, North Carolina. Hoey was an attorney, a state legislator, Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina (1913-1919), and governor of North Carolina (1937-… Read More

Ernest Linwood Hoffler was born in Hertford (Perquimans County), North Carolina on February 1, 1883. Hoffler was a physician in Elizabeth City (Pasquotank County). He died there on April 15, 1963.

Thomas Hoffler (d. 1817) was a resident of Chowan and later Gates County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's… Read More

John Hogan was born in Virginia in about 1740. He moved to Orange County, North Carolina by 1772, where he worked as either a clerk or justice of the peace for the local court. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, Hogan became a a colonel… Read More

Benjamin Harrison Hogans was born on June 15, 1865, in Orange County, North Carolina. Hogans was a kind of renaissance man. He began professionally as a teacher in Goldsboro but later segued into the mercantile… Read More

James Hogans was born in December 1862 in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Relocating to Goldsboro, Hogans engaged as a grocery merchant and mail carrier. He died on July 15, 1932.

Sarah Lee Haywood Hogg was born in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina on February 15, 1799. She married John Gray Blount (1785-1828) and later Gavin Hogg (1788-1835), and remained a widow for the remainder of her life. She involved herself in… Read More

Thomas Holbaron was a resident of colonial Johnston County. In an undated petition, he joined others in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs to appoint another justice to serve their section of the county.

John Holbrook was a planter in Chowan Precinct, North Carolina. In 1721 he was part of the grand jury that indicted John Cope, an American Indian man, with burglary and trespassing. He later served as a justice of the peace for Bertie County,… Read More

Charles Collier Holden was born in Wake County on August 25,1859. Charles was the son of Governor William Woods Holden, and Louise Virginia Holden. A teen during his father's political career, he later worked in academia. He died in Wake County… Read More

Joseph William Holden was born in Raleigh on September 30, 1844. The son of Governor William Woods Holden, and William Woods Holden's first wife Ann Augusta Young, he served in the Confederate military during the Civil War. After the war, Joseph… Read More

Louisa Virginia Holden was born in 1830, and was the second wife to Governor William Woods Holden. Together they had three children. She died in Wake County, North Carolina in 1900.