Michael King (d. c1808) 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. Later… Read More
Nathan King was born in Nansemond County, Virginia in about 1652. In about 1695 King purchased land near the Weyanoake or Nottoway River along the North Carolina-Virginia border. By 1704 he had returned to Nansemond, where he died sometime… Read More
Thomas King was born in about 1795. A resident of Franklin County, Georgia, he served as the clerk of the county court. He died in Franklin County in January 1849.
William King (d. c1803) 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.
Robert Kingman was born in about 1678 and was a resident of colonial North Carolina. A ship captain, he made a deposition regarding a possible disagreement between colonists near Bath and the Pamlico, an American Indian Nation. He may have later… Read More
Joseph Kinsey was born in Craven County on July 27, 1858. He moved to Black Mountain in 1911, where he operated a grocery store. Having previously served as Craven County sheriff, Kinsey served two terms as mayor of Black Mountain. He died at his… Read More
Joseph James Kinyoun was born on November 25, 1860, in East Bend, North Carolina. Kinyoun was a physician and is best remembered for founding the Marine-Hospital Service's Hygienic Laboratory, the predecessor of the modern National Institutes of… Read More
William Kirby 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.
George W. Kirk was born in Greene County, Tennessee on June 25, 1837. A colonel in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, Kirk gained a reputation as a skilled guerilla fighter and cavalry man. In June 1870 Governor William Woods Holden commissioned… Read More
Lewis Kirk 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.
William Kirkland was born in Virginia in about 1730. He served as a captain in the Camden District Regiment of the South Carolina Militia in 1778. He died in Fairfield County, South Carolina in December 1806.
James Hallaway Kirkman was born in Smithfield (Johnston County), North Carolina, on November 19, 1874. Kirkman was president of the Smithfield Hardware Company, engaged in the real estate and insurance businesses, and served as coroner and… Read More
Thomas Leroy Kirkpatrick was born on May 3, 1877, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Kirkpatrick was an attorney in Charlotte who served as chairman of the Charlotte Exemption Board during World War I. He died in Charlotte on February 4, 1946… Read More
Andrew Milton Kistler was born in Sciota, Pennsylvania, on September 21, 1871. Kistler was a prominent businessman who served as president of the Bee Tree Lumber Company, among others in the state of North Carolina. He lived in Morganton (Burke… Read More
Alvin Paul Kitchin was born on April 24, 1873, in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Kitchin was the brother of former governor William Walton Kitchin and U. S. Representative Claude Kitchin. A lawyer by training and profession, Kitchin served three… Read More
Claude Kitchin was born on March 24, 1869, in Halifax County, North Carolina. During the White Supremacy Campaign of 1898, Kitchin helped mobilize the Red Shirts and took active steps through intimidation, threats of violence, and other means to… Read More
John Arrington Kitchin born on May 3, 1871, in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Kitchin, a farmer in Scotland Neck, was the brother of former governor William Walton Kitchin and U. S. Representative Claude Kitchin. He died in Scotland Neck (Halifax… Read More
William Walton Kitchin was born on October 9, 1866, near Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Kitchin was governor of North Carolina from 1909 to 1913. He died in Scotland Neck on November 9, 1924.
Benjamin Kittrell was born in about 1795. He served as the clerk of the court for Granville County, North Carolina. He died in Granville County in about 1836.
Dempsey Kittrell (d. 1797) 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.
George Kittrell (d. 1781) 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.
Leon Lewis Kittrell was born on August 14, 1895, near Winterville, North Carolina. Kittrell was a traveling salesman for J. B. Kittrell in Greenville when he registered for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He died in Ayden (Pitt County) on… Read More
Willis Kittrell (d. 1795) 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.
James Knight (d. 1808) 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
Tobias Knight was a lawyer who resided of Bath and served as the governor's colonial secretary. In 1711 Knight became a member of the North Carolina Colonial Council. In 1717 he became North Carolina's chief justice. The following year, after… Read More
William Knight was a resident of Chowan County. In 1777 he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the State of North Carolina, electing to leave the state instead. In July 1777, his name along with the names of six other loyalists appeared in… Read More
Elizabeth Knott was a colonist, likely from either North Carolina or Virginia. On May 24, 1757 while travelling through Bertie County, Knott was murdered by an American Indian man named John Strawberry when he hit her on the head. The motive for… Read More
Luther David Knott was born on October 21, 1888, in Granville County, North Carolina. Knott was an insurance and real estate agent who served as a special agent for the Bureau of Investigation (precursor to the Federal Bureau of Investigation)… Read More
Charles Knowles (circa 1704 - 1777) was a British naval officer and politician who served as governor of Louisburg (1746-1748), commander-in-chief of Jamaica (1747-1748), and governor of Jamaica (1752-1756).
Robert Knowls was a resident of colonial Duplin County where he served in the militia company of Frederick Gregg. In 1755, he joined other merchants, traders, and planters in petitioning the Board of Trade for relief on trade restrictions.
Augustus Washington Knox was born on May 6, 1849, in St. Louis, Missouri. Knox was a physician in Raleigh, North Carolina. He taught at the Leonard Medical School (part of Shaw University) and the medical school at the University of North… Read More
Robert Knox was a planter in Bertie County. In 1777 he became a member of the Gourd Patch Conspiracy when he swore an oath to that organization's constitution before… Read More
Harry Clifford Kramer was born on December 24, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kramer was an attorney from Camden, New Jersey, who served as an executive officer in the office of Provost Marshal General Enoch H. Crowder during World War I.… Read More
Jean Krasnoguire was a Russian nationalist who worked as a lumberer for the Dare Lumber Company in 1913. At the logging town of Buffalo City, in Dare county, Krasnoguire and two other Russian citizens were assaulted by North Carolinians,… Read More
Antoine Kreivitski was a Russian nationalist who worked as a lumberer for the Dare Lumber Company in 1913. At the logging town of Buffalo City, in Dare county, Kreivitski and two other Russian citizens were assaulted by North Carolinians,… Read More
The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist hate group which first emerged at the start of reconstruction as a fraternity in Pulaski, Tennessee. Many former confederate soldiers joined the organization and began to target individuals in the South who… Read More
James Stuart Kuykendall was born on September 8, 1871, in West Virginia. Kuykendall was a realtor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who served as the secretary of the Winston-Salem Exemption Board. He died in Winston-Salem on January 28, 1961.… Read More
Edmund Lacey was born in Pennsylvania in 1742. A resident of Chester, South Carolina, he served as a captain, and later colonel of the Turkey Creek or Chester District Militia. Lacey served throughout the later half of the war, most notably… Read More
George Laciter was a resident of Chowan Precinct, North Carolina. In 1702 he and several other residents of Chowan Precinct submitted a petition to the North Carolina Council regarding a land boundary dispute between the colonists and the… Read More
Robert Laciter was a resident of Chowan Precinct, North Carolina. In 1702 he and several other residents of Chowan Precinct submitted a petition to the North Carolina Council regarding a land boundary dispute between the colonists and the… Read More
James Walter Lackey was born on April 10, 1873, in Stokes County, North Carolina. Lackey was a farmer who served as deputy sheriff for Stoke County around 1918. He died in Asheboro (Randolph County) on September 2, 1948.
Benjamin Rice Lacy, Sr. was born on June 19, 1854, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lacy served as state treasurer from 1901 until his death in 1929. He died in Raleigh on February 21, 1929.
James Horace Lacy was born in New Bern (Craven County), North Carolina, on August 25, 1835. Lacy was the son of Drury Lacy, who served as the reverend of the Presbyterian Church in Raleigh. He died in Chapel Hill, while a student at the… Read More
Samuel Laird was licensed by Thomas Sherlock, Bishop of London, on October 12, 1755, to serve as a clergyman in colonial North Carolina. Prior to his licensure, Laird was for four years a tutor in Virginia. He was educated at Glasgow College.
Juliana Hudson was born in Massachusetts in about 1660. Later a resident of Perquimans Precinct, North Carolina, she married John Taylor in about 1684. After Taylor died in 1695, she married Benjamin Laker, a member of the North Carolina Council… Read More
Joshua Lamb was born in Massachusetts in November 1642. A resident of Roxbury, Massachusetts, he served in King Philip's War. This conflict pitted colonists and their American Indian allies, including the Mohegans and Pequots, against another… Read More
Matthew Lamb (circa 1705 - 1768) was a British bureaucrat and legal adviser to British aristocrats. He served as counsel for the Board of Trade from 1746 until his death in 1768. As counsel, he interpreted policy and colonial law and weighed the… Read More
Thomas J. Lamb was born in Ireland in 1865. Lamb and his wife, Elizabeth Brown, an immigrant from England, were furriers and tailors in Baltimore, Maryland, before moving to Asheville, North Carolina, in 1916.… Read More