Pasquotank-Camden Library
205 East Main St.
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
CAMDEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
RESEARCH GUIDE
Pasquotank-Camden Library
205 East Main St.
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
Virginia Dare Building
103 N. Ashe Street
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
This is the library of the Family Research Society of Northeastern North Carolina. It
contains many useful census, wills, cemetery records, family records, published family
histories, and more. Anyone wishing to research in these counties, needs to begin here. The
library hours are; Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 10:00 to 3:00. A Librarian will be on hand
to show you around and answer any questions. The phone number there is
(252)333-1640. It
is open to the public.
Camden County Courthouse
117 North 343
Camden, NC 27921
252 338-1919 ext. 244, 245, or 255
The Register of Deeds Office is located in the Old
Courthouse Building downstairs at the backdoor.
Peggy C. Kight is the Registrar.
The office consists of 3 rooms. The 1st room is
where we greet people and take recordings. The 2nd is for the Registrar's
desk and Deed and Real Estate Records, which start in 1777 and go to the current
date. In the 3rd room vault, we have Marriage Records from 1848 to the present,
Birth Records from 1913 to approximately mid 1970's; Delayed Birth Records
starting around mid 1880s. Death Records from 1913 to present. We also
have a small Genealogy
Section with Camden Co. Census Records from 1790 to 1920 ( except 1800 &
1810) and (2) copies of NC Bible Records and some scattered genealogy
papers compiled in books. As time permits we do answer mail queries and
send copies. If a person wants a certified copy of their vital record, they
would need to call the office at 252 338-1919 ext. 244, 245, or 255 to get
information.
We are open (except for Major Holidays) M-F, 8-5, with
someone
in the office all day. The charge for regular copies is $0.10 per page for
copies made in the office and $1.00 per page for copies mailed .
The above information was provided by: Ann R. Sawyer, Deputy Register of Deeds
Records Available
| bonds of apprentices 1871-86 bonds of bastardy 1871-79 court dockets 1807-1912, 1920-60 court minutes 1807-1925 court records 1802-1929 deeds 1777-1927 estate accounts 1866-1918 estate administrators 1853-1916 estate records 1790-1929 estate settlements 1862-1960 estate widows' dowers 1894-1918 |
guardian 1800-1925 land miscellaneous 1807-1925 land processions 1874-1904 marriages 1848-1960 miscellaneous 1786-1928 naturalizations 1786-1928 roads 1879-1903, 1917-31 schools 1861-77 tax 1782, 1790-95, 1815, 1848-1918 wills 1777-1970 |
1800 - regular
1810 - regular
1820 - regular, industrial
1830 - regular
1840 - regular, Revolutionary War pension
1850 - regular, agriculture, industrial, mortality, slaveholder
1860 - regular, agriculture, industrial, mortality, slaveholder
1870 - regular, agriculture, industrial, mortality
1880 - regular, agriculture, industrial, mortality
1890 - Union Civil War veterans
1900 - regular
1910 - regular
1920 - regular
Three Hundred Years Along the Pasquotank: A Biographical History of Camden County
by J. F. Pugh, The Author, Old Trap, NC 1957
Family Research Society of Northeastern North Carolina
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