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Robert Bodnam (fl. 1650s) is the first builder identified by name at the beginning of permanent white settlement in North Carolina, and he assembled the first house for which we have a contemporary description. Virtually all that is known about Bodnam and his work is contained in a briefly worded suit dated November 15...
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Thomas Bragg, Sr. (1778-1851), was a prominent house carpenter whose work in the plantation counties along the Virginia border included houses, churches, and other buildings in Federal and Greek Revival styles. He was born in Craven County, son of Hannah Tolson Bragg (b. 1742) and John Bragg (1741-1816), a pilot and native of Carteret...
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The Bunch family of farmers and house carpenters (fl. 1780s-1860) lived and worked in the plantation communities of Bertie County for at least three generations. The family is notable for its continuity in the trade as well as for the combination of farming and a building trade--a common practice in a rural society. Although...
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Dempsey Cooper (1796-1833) was a Bertie County carpenter active in the early 19th century, when a number of handsomely finished houses and other buildings were constructed in the plantation county. Although only one structure, a jail, has been documented as his work, his large collection of tools suggests that he executed refined and substantial...
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Gilbert Leigh (d. 1792 or 1793), house carpenter and joiner, was one of the leading local artisans in a period of high quality building in Edenton and environs. He is one of the few North Carolina house carpenters of his generation for whom specific buildings have been documented or attributed. A native of Perquimans County...
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