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PUBLICATIONS - newspaper articles and book excerpts

Every man is a 

quotation from

all his ancestors.

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

In 1751, the North Carolina Gazette became the first newspaper publishes in the state.  The North Carolina State Archives holds the largest collection of early newspapers on microfilm.  GenealogyBank.com has a compilation of newspaper archives from 1787 to 1993.  A variety of probate, military, and property records can be found in books at public and academic libraries.

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I am the great-great-great granddaughter of Nathaniel Sims.  This website contains information about his life and details of his descendants.   Nathaniel Sims was born about 1794 in Wake County, North Carolina.  He was a farmer and also Justice of the Peace.  Nathaniel had five children with his first wife, Prudence Killough: James Anderson Sims, Rebecca Sue Sims, Samuel Killough Sims, Prudence N. Sims and Harriate Sims. He had three children by his second wife, Mary A. Morrison: Ann Mozelle Sims, Nathaniel McCamie Sims, and William M. Sims.  Nathaniel Sims passed away on 1 September 1968 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.  Some of his descendants continue living in North Carolina today.
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