One of the first descriptions of North Carolina by the English that would later colonize the area was given by Ralph Lane, the governor of the first attempted colony. In 1585, Gov. Lane referred to the land as "the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven" in his letters back to England.
This podcast will tell the stories of its history, help people see the connections, not only between its "officials" but also between people that history either forgot or chose not to listen to.
We will tell their stories; the plantation owners, the enslaved people, the displaced native Americans...all of them
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One of the first descriptions of North Carolina by the English that would later colonize the area was given by Ralph Lane, the governor of the first attempted colony. In 1585, Gov. Lane referred to the land as "the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven" in his letters back to England.
This podcast will tell the stories of its history, help people see the connections, not only between its "officials" but also between people that history either forgot or chose not to listen to.
We will tell their stories; the plantation owners, the enslaved people, the displaced native Americans...all of them
Find me someone that does not like the TV show Young Sheldon… Actually, don’t. I don’t want to meet that person.
It seems like a stretch, but there’s so much of a connection to eastern North Carolina, including Johnston county. Makes me love the show even more.
I absolutely love it when we uncover almost uniquely geological marvels that exist under our feet, and in our backyard. Johnston County, and East, North Carolina, are home to thousands of lakes. You’ve never seen them, you say? You would know if we had thousands of lakes? Well, let’s take a trip.
This is episode number 100…
Wow…
This episode gives us no new historical information. It is a look back at the most listened to episodes and some of the stuff that went into making them. It is commemorative episode of me just saying thank you.
This is the case where a tree likely change the course not just American, but also world history. In 1844, Henry Clay of Kentucky, sat under an oak tree in Raleigh and wrote a letter.
To become a surveyor in colonial America made that you had made the big time. Your chance had come. It was up to people like John Hinton to take advantage of it.
For poor and poverty stricken young English man, making the trip over to America in the 17th and 18th centuries Was full of risk and danger. Sometimes, those are the only things that will work
Death at an early age was fairly common and colonial and early North Carolina’s history. So were multiple marriages as a result of the death of a spouse. It’s because it didn’t have doctors back then, right? Wrong.
Turning a person into a hero is not doing anybody any favors. It gives you unrealistic expectations of that person and paints an untrue biography. Such as the case with Ralph Lane.
For all of our talk about colonial leaders and shapers of North Carolina history, they were millions of people who are not spoken about have not been spoken about and without hermit their contributions could not have happened.
John Hinton and his family, along with thousands of other North Carolinians in the colonial period, faced an identity crisis and some very hard choices.
John Hinton was loyal to the crown. It seems even to a fault. For new students of the regulator conflict in North Carolina, it would be easy to spot seeds of the revolution in it. So imagine being neighbors of the regulators while also being a law maker for the British government. This is where we find John Hinton.
The first recorded land deeds and land owners in the modern day county of Wake Meant that John Hinton was playing an outsized role in the development of the colony and later state Of North Carolina.
Before there was Johnston County, Wake County, or even a Carolina, North or South, there was Nansemond County and the forgotten people that it was named for.
Before the English came, this is partly their story.
One of the first descriptions of North Carolina by the English that would later colonize the area was given by Ralph Lane, the governor of the first attempted colony. In 1585, Gov. Lane referred to the land as "the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven" in his letters back to England.
This podcast will tell the stories of its history, help people see the connections, not only between its "officials" but also between people that history either forgot or chose not to listen to.
We will tell their stories; the plantation owners, the enslaved people, the displaced native Americans...all of them
