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    Sneads Ferry
    Sneads Ferry
    Sneads Ferry
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    Sneads Ferry

    By Sherry Thurston, Joshua W. Thurston and Sadie Rouse Sanders Duke

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    Over sunrise and sunset, the Sneads Ferry high-rise bridge enhances the panoramic view of the quaint fishing and farming community. Encapsulated by the pine forests and the New River, families from England, Scotland, and other areas in Europe found passage and refuge in this area. Men sailed and rowed boats along the banks and toiled on the sea. Even today, the early morning fishermen are on their boats, mending nets, fixing their rigging, and gearing their engines for the weeks or months they will be gone. Since 1941, the U.S. Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune has expanded and boosted the real estate of the township. The photographs in Images of America: Sneads Ferry recount the memories and the emotions of a simpler time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439640746
    Sneads Ferry
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    Sherry Thurston

    Sherry W. Thurston has her bachelor�s of science in art education and has owned the Thurston Art Gallery in Sneads Ferry for 30 years. She is an accomplished artist, illustrator, and teacher. The coauthor and Sherry�s son, Joshua W. Thurston has his master�s of arts from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and his bachelor�s of arts from Hampden-Sydney College. He is a Spanish translator and teacher. Through their research, Sherry and Josh have interviewed many Sneads Ferry residents, and their goal is to honor the town and its people.

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      Sneads Ferry - Sherry Thurston

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      INTRODUCTION

      Sneads Ferry, North Carolina, is a small coastal town that has been a great find for many. Located at the narrow area once called Lower Ferry of the New River, it was renamed for Robert Snead, a lawyer, son-in-law to Richard Whitehurst. Whitehurst sold his rights to the Lower Ferry to Snead in 1759. The original rights to the ferry were licensed in 1728 to Edmund Ennett, who sold his rights to Arthur Everett, a ? Lewis, John McKinney on the south shore, and then to Richard Whitehurst. In 1757, the King’s Road became part of the Post Highway connecting Suffolk, Virginia, with Charles Town, South Carolina. Over this highway passed the Colonial mail. In 1766, Royal governor William Tryon named Snead’s on New River Ferry as a stop on the mail route. Robert Snead was one of nine persons in the colony of North Carolina entrusted with the forwarding of mail along the road. Thus, the Lower Ferry area eventually became known as Snead’s Ferry. However, it is interesting to note that Robert Snead’s ferry operation and plantation were located on the north shore of the New River, now a part of Camp Lejeune. Today’s town of Sneads Ferry is on the south shore.

      At first, North Carolina was divided into precincts; New Hanover and Carteret overlapped the area that later became Onslow Precinct. The distance to Wilmington made it difficult to make it to court for records or court needs. Later, the areas were called counties. Onslow County was established in 1734 and named in honor of Arthur Onslow. The two communities of peoples on both sides of the river were close through the years. The Sneads had 250 acres purchased from Richard Whitehurst on the north side of the river next to the Dudley Plantation of 10,000 acres, with a ferry crossing, tavern, and an ordinary—a place to lodge people and their animals. Later they acquired the opposite-shore ferry from Edmund Ennett. Through the following decades, the north and south communities became very close by the use of the ferry and by sailing or rowing boats back and forth. By the 1930s, and possibly earlier, they would socialize at dances, buy from stores (Wiley or Louis Marine’s), and get their corn milled at Marines, North Carolina. The Snead, Whitehurst, Dudley, Gillette, Covil, Henderson, Harrison, Smith, and Marine families and others lived on the north shore.

      The courthouse at Jarrett’s Point of Courthouse Bay was abandoned because of a dispute that caused it to be uninhabitable in 1735. It was later moved to Paradise Point in 1737, and the court justices met there. In 1741, the Town of Johnston was incorporated by the legislature, making it the county seat. The Paradise Point court was to sell the building, tear it down, or auction it. Court was to be at Johnston, but the justices did not go. An unfortunate courthouse fire ended their court at Paradise Point. Beginning in July 1744, the court was held in Johnston until the courthouse could be built in July 1752. Unfortunately, fate took this town. A terrible storm with a tidal surge washed away the courthouse, the homes, and the animals. Several people died. In 1757, the courthouse was set at James Wantland’s Ferry, which is now Jacksonville, North Carolina.

      Sadly, either the son or the father named Robert Snead did kill Revolutionary War veteran George Mitchell. Both Sneads were lawyers, and both owned ferries. The similarity of the two Sneads still confuses researchers regarding which Snead did the murder. The son’s name was Robert Whitehurst Snead, and he was the one convicted in 1791 in the Wilmington District Court. The authors have found the pardon from the Wilmington District Court records in the North Carolina State Archives, which states that Robert Whitehurst Snead was found guilty but pardoned on good behavior. The father knew Revolutionary colonel George Mitchell. Mitchell had been one of the few to not vote for ratification of the US Constitution. Years later, Mitchell and Robert Whitehurst Snead ran for the Onslow Senate seat. Snead won. Moments later, outside the courthouse on the north side of New River, bystanders heard an argument and a gunshot. Robert Whitehurst Snead was standing over the body of George Mitchell, who had suffered a blow to the head and a mortal gunshot wound. The Wilmington court met, tried, and convicted Snead. A bail of £500 was posted by Christopher Dudley and Edward Dudley jointly for Snead’s release. Six months later, Robert Whitehurst Snead came to court with a pardon from Gov. Alexander Martin, signed on December 6, 1791, in New Bern, which was presented in the Wilmington court in March

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