2018 Meeting Programs

April 5th Program Details
Featured Speaker: Dr Carole Troxler
"Precursors of the Regulator Movement in "Old" Granville County:
Searcy's Petition in 1759 and the Nutbush Address of 1765"

The program for the April 5, 2018 meeting of the Granville County Genealogical Society will be presented by Dr. Carole Troxler, Professor emerita of Elon University. She will speak on the historical Regulator Movement and the impact on Granville County.

Troxler retired from Elon University in 2003 after 33 years of teaching. She has written several books and articles focused on the American Revolution in the southern backcountry and loyalist migration after the war. She is currently working on a biography of Sallie Stockard (1869-1963), an author and historian from Saxapahaw, N.C., and remains connected to the university through the use of Belk Library and participation in an on-campus environmental reading group co-sponsored by Belk Library and the Terra Nova Community Group..

Please join members of the Granville County Genealogical Society in attending this meeting, to be held at 6:30 P.M. on April 5, 2018 in the conference room at the Richard H. Thornton Library in Oxford, N.C. All GCGS meetings are open to the public, and visitors and guests are always cordially invited to attend.

 

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