woods and marshes still.
And still, as in the days of yore,
Ere yet the white man's sail I knew,
Upon my amber waves might skim
The Indian maiden's light canoe.

Thus, half asleep, I dream along,
Till low at first, and far away,
Then louder, more insistent, calls
A voice my heart would fain obey.
And by a force resistless drawn,
The narrow banks that fetter me
I thrust apart, and onward sweep
In quiet strength toward the sea.

I leave my marshes and my fens;
I dream no more upon my way;
But forward press, a river grown,
In the great world my part to play.
Upon my wide and ample breast,
The white-winged boats go hurrying by;
And on my banks the whirring wheels
Of busy mills hum ceaselessly.

And sharing man's incessant toil,
I journey ever onward down,
With many a lovely sister stream,
With all the waters of the Sound,
To join the sea, whose billows break,
In silver spray, in wild uproar,
Upon the golden bars that guard
The lonely Carolina shore.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Wikacome in Weapomeiok, the Home of George Durant 1

II. The First Albemarle Assembly--Hall's Creek, near Nixonton 13

III. Enfield Farm--Where the Culpeper Rebellion Began 19

IV. The Hecklefield Farm 31

V. Colonial Days in Church and School on Little River,
Pasquotank County 46

VI. The Haunts of Blackbeard 54

VII. The Old Brick House--a True History of the Historic Dwelling
Reputed to be the Home of the Famous Pirate 62

VIII. "Elmwood," the Old Swann Homestead In Pasquotank County 66

IX. Pasquotank in Colonial Wars 72

X. Pasquotank in Colonial Wars--"The War of Jenkins' Ear" 78

XI. A Soldier of the Revolution--The Story of a Pasquotank Boy
Who Followed Washington 84

XII. General Isaac Gregory, a Revolutionary Officer of
Pasquotank-Camden 93

XIII. Perquimans County--"Land of Beautiful Women," and the
Colonial Town of Hertford 114

XIV. Currituck, the Haunt of the Wild Fowl