Bibliography/Sources

Below are sources used in researching the lives of Eliza Burgwin Clitherall and her descendants.

Primary Sources

Birth and Death Records Indexes

Burgwyn, Henry K., V. Henry K. Burgwyn and Life on the Roanoke River, 1840-1860. Book, 2018.

Clitherall, Caroline Elizabeth Burgwin. “Caroline Elizabeth Burgwin Clitherall Diaries, 1751-1860,” n.d. https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00158/.

City Directory databases

Marriage Licenses Index

Newspapers.com

United State Federal Census

United States Social Security Applications and Claims

Secondary Sources

Find A Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/)

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Book. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Jones, Walter Burgwyn. John Burgwin, Carolinian, John Jones, Virginian: Their Ancestors and Descendants. Book. Reprint. 1913. Reprint, Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company, 2018.