Town |
Established |
Settled By |
Tar Landing |
1730 |
From Bertie County. English/Welsh heritage. |
Tarrburg |
1730 |
Settlers from Virginia. English/Welsh heritage. |
New Carthage |
1733 |
English/Welsh in the 1720s. |
Brook
Field |
1737 |
Settlers from Virginia. English/Welsh heritage. |
Elizabeth |
1738 |
English/Welsh in the 1720s. |
Woodstock |
1738 |
Settlers from Virginia. English/Welsh heritage. |
Enfield |
1740 |
From Bertie County. English/Welsh herigate. |
Johnston |
1741 |
Locals who had been in Onslow County for years. |
Northampton
Court House |
1741 |
From Bertie County. English/Welsh herigate. |
Sarecta |
1744 |
Henry McCulloch's pet town in northern New Hanover
(now Duplin). English/Welsh. |
Harrisburgh |
1746 |
Settlers from Edgecombe County. English/Welsh
heritage. |
Nixon's
Town |
1746 |
Locals who had been in Pasquotank County for
years. From Virginia in 1650s. |
Tyrrell
Court House |
1748 |
Locals who had been in Tyrrell County for years. |
Mint Hill |
1750 |
Scots-Irish and Germans from Pennsylvania. |
Hinton's
Quarter |
1752 |
Locals who had been in Johnston County for years.
English/Scots-Irish heritage. |
Bethabara |
1753 |
Moravians from Pennsylvania. |
Cashy |
1753 |
Locals who had been in Bertie County for years. |
Portsmouth |
1753 |
Settlers from Craven County. English/Welsh heritage. |
Cumberland
Court House |
1754 |
Highland Scots and settlers from Bladen. |
Hillsborough |
1754 |
Scots-Irish from Pennsylvania. |
Anson Court
House |
1755 |
Settlers from Bladen County. English/Scots-Irish
heritage. |
Currituck
Court House |
1755 |
Settlers from Virginia. English/Welsh heritage. |
Duplin
Court House |
1755 |
Settlers from New Hanover. English/Welsh heritage. |
Salisbury |
1755 |
Scots-Irish and Germans from Pennsylvania. |
Williamsborough |
~1755 |
Locals who had been in Granville County for years.
From Virginia in 1740s. |
Halifax |
1757 |
From Bertie and Edgecombe Counties. English/Welsh
heritage. |
New Garden |
1757 |
Quakers from Pennsylvania. |
Wantland's
Ferry |
1757 |
English/Welsh from Cape Fear region. |
Dobbs Court
House |
1758 |
Settlers from Johnston County. English/Welsh
and Scots-Irish heritage. |
Edgecombe
Court House |
1758 |
Locals who had been in Edgecombe County for years. |
Hertford |
1758 |
Locals who had been in Perquimans County for
years. Was Perquimans C.H. |
Relfe's
Point |
1758 |
Settlers from Virginia. English/Welsh heritage. |
Bethania |
1759 |
Moravians from Pennsylvania. |
Campbellton |
1762 |
Highland Scots. |
Kingston |
1762 |
Locals who had been in Dobbs County for years.
Scots-Irish heritage. |
Buffalo
Race Path |
1764 |
Settlers from Granville and Edgecombe counties.
Virginia heritage. |
Granville
Court House |
1764 |
Settlers from Edgecombe County. Virginia heritage. |
Cross
Creek |
1765 |
Highland Scots. |
Winfield |
1765 |
Settlers from Virginia. English/Welsh heritage. |
Salem |
1766 |
Moravians from Pennsylvania. |
Winton |
1768 |
Locals who had been in Hertford County for years.
English/Welsh heritage. |
Charlotte
Town |
1768 |
Scots-Irish and Germans from Pennsylvania. |
Exeter |
1768 |
Locals who had been in New Hanover County for
years. English/Welsh & Scots-Irish. |
Windsor |
1768 |
Locals who had been in Bertie County for years.
English/Welsh heritage. |
Littleton |
1770 |
Sprang up around a well-enjoyed tavern along
the stage route between Hillsborough and Halifax. At that time
in Bute County. |
Bloomsbury |
1771 |
Settlers from Johnston County. English/Scots-Irish
heritage. |
Martinborough |
1771 |
Locals who had been in Pitt County for years.
English/Scots-Irish heritage. |
Smithfield |
1771 |
Locals who had been in Johnston County for years.
English/Scots-Irish heritage. |
Friedberg |
1773 |
Local Moravians, originally from Pennsylvania |
Lexington |
1775 |
Locals who had been in Rowan County for years.
German and Scots-Irish heritage. |
Martinsville |
1775 |
Scots-Irish and Germans from Pennsylvania. |
Red Springs |
1775 |
Highland Scots. |
Tryon Court
House |
1775 |
Settlers from Mecklenburg County and South Carolina.
Scots-Irish heritage. |