Camden County

William Joy lived up in the Fork of the Pasquotank, beside land Cornelius Forehand bought in 1714. Deeds, a will and the surviving name Joyce Creek trace his neighborhood and Margery’s place in its history.

An Irishman in the Pasquotank records, a wife entrusted with his estate, seven named children—and earlier Forehands whose connections remain to be found.

The physician of Indiantown Creek, his family, and the stories that survived the war.

A new pier between Shiloh and Old Trap wharfs placed an early twentieth-century brickworks in a much older landscape of river trade.

Two mares, a debt, and a place called Johnnycake Town.

The cries on Thoroughfare Island—and the woman remembered long after the search was over.

A contemporary newspaper report with a possible connection to the Wild Mag tradition.

Jesse Forbes Pugh’s 1953 driving tour through local roads, homes and remembered places.

Regional history and maps with approximate locations of historic residences.

An old place name preserved on a schematic depicting Camden County in 1830.