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EDENTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 929 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town and the See also:county-seat of Chowan county, See also:North Carolina, U.S.A., on Edenton See also:Bay, an See also:estuary of See also:Albemarle See also:sound, near the mouth of Chowan, See also:river, in the N.E. See also:part of the See also:state. Pop. (1890) 2205; (1900) 3046 (2090 negroes); (1910) 2789. It is served by the See also:Norfolk & See also:Southern railway, and by the Albemarle See also:Steam See also:Navigation Co. In 19o7 the former projected a See also:great See also:bridge across Albemarle sound near the See also:city., Edenton is an old and interesting town, has a number of See also:fine old homesteads, and has broad and well-shaded streets. Lumbering and the See also:shad and See also:herring See also:fisheries are the most important See also:industrial interests, and the town is a See also:shipping point for See also:fish, See also:truck and other See also:farm products, See also:cotton and peanuts. There is a Fish Cultural Station here, established by the Federal See also:government` The See also:court-See also:house was built about 1750. Edenton was settled about 1658, and was for some See also:time known as the " Towne on See also:Queen See also:Anne's See also:Creek " or the " See also:Port of See also:Roanoke "; in 1722 the See also:present name was adopted in See also:honour of See also:Governor See also:Charles See also:Eden (1673-1722), whose See also:grave is in St See also:Paul's See also:churchyard here. Throughout the 18th See also:century Edenton was a See also:place of considerable social and See also:political importance; the legislative See also:assembly of North Carolina met here occasionally,' and 'here lived the royal See also:governors and various well-known citizens of the See also:province, among them: See also:Joseph Hewes (1730.-1779), a signer of the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence; See also:James Iredell, Sr. (1750-1799), a Federalist See also:leader and after 1790 a See also:justice of the See also:United States Supreme Court, and his son' James Iredell, Jr. (1788-1853), a prominent lawyer, for many years a member of the state legislature, governor of North Carolina in 1827-1828, and a member of the United States See also:Senate in 1828 1831. Near Edenton lived See also:Samuel See also:Johnston (1733-1816), a prominent leader of the See also:American Whigs preceding and during the See also:War of American Independence, a member of the See also:Continental See also:Congress in 1780—1782, governor of North Carolina in 1787-1789, and a Federalist member of the United States Senate in 1790-1793.

In 1907 the Hewes, Iredell and Johnston homesteads were still See also:

standing. In a house facing the court-house See also:green the famous " Edenton See also:Tea Party of fifty-one ladies met on the 24th of See also:October 1774 and signed resolutions that they would not conform " to that Pernicious See also:Custom of Drinking Tea " and would not "promote the See also:wear of any manufacture from See also:England" until the tax on tea should be repealed. Near Edenton _ the' Confederate See also:ram " Albemarle," on emerging from the Roanoke river, was met by the See also:Union " See also:double-enders," " Sassacus," " Mattabesett," and " See also:Miami," on the 5th of May 1864; the See also:battle, which resulted in favour of the Confederates, was a See also:duel between the Cbnfederate ironclad and the Union wooden See also:side-See also:wheeler, the " Sassacus," which rammed the " Albemarle " and had her bows, fitted with a three-ton See also:bronze See also:beak, See also:twisted off and carried away.

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