Topics Related to Perquimans County

A Quaker Meeting was established by 1680. The site of Yearly Meeting, 1698-1785. Discontinued in 1797. Was 1 mi. S.E.

In 1672 missionaries William Edmundson and George Fox, founder of Society of Friends in America, held religious meetings in this area.

First woman known to have acted as attorney in an N.C. court, 1673. Appeared before Council in Perquimans Precinct.

First U.S. marshal for District of N.C., 1790- 1794. Federalist member of conventions of 1788 & 1789. Lived 12 mi. SE.

Five times speaker of colonial assembly, moderator of provincial congresses, 1774-1775, leader of Revolutionary movement. Lived 11 mi. S.

Pioneer settler in the Albemarle, about 1662. Speaker of Assembly. Site of home 20 miles east, at Durant's Neck.

Though she was first woman postmaster in the United States after the adoption of the Constitution, Sarah Decrow was born and died in near obscurity.

At a court session in May 1673, Ann Durant became the first woman to act in the capacity of an attorney in North Carolina.