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"The 'House With the Cupola,' Edenton, North Carolina." Date Issued: 1860 - 1920. From The New York Public Library.

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Historic Hicks Field, Edenton, North Carolina, USA

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Page 64 of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [1861]. Edited by L. Maria Child for its author, Jacobs, who uses the pseudonym Linda Brent.

On December 4, 1850, the North State Whig published a death notice for Norcom, calling him "a friend of the Academy." This likely referred to the Edenton Academy, a prominent school in Edenton, North Carolina, where Norcom lived most of his life. Established in 1770 through an Act of Assembly, as noted on a 1916 historical...

...marker, the Academy was the town's leading school during Norcom's lifetime. As a boy, Norcom attended the Academy, where he studied a classical curriculum that emphasized Latin, Greek, English grammar, math, and geography. Several of his sons, including William A.B. Norcom, followed in his footsteps.

As an adult, Norcom served as a Trustee of Edenton Academy for many years. In a letter fragment dated June 3, 1828, published in the Raleigh Register, Norcom is identified as a member of the Committee of the Trustees of Edenton Academy. The fragment, signed “JAS. NORCOM," expresses gratitude to an unnamed person or institution “for the benefits [the Edenton Academy]... received at [their] hands,” indicating Norcom was more than a passive trustee. Here, he emerges as the Academy's spokesperson, acting in a chair-like capacity.

In the Norcom Family Papers at the North Carolina State Archives, there are several undated documents from the Trustees of Edenton Academy. One such document, an "Appeal to the Public," reflects the Trustees' efforts to secure financial support:

"We most earnestly & respectfully solicit assistance from all who may be disposed to cooperate with [us] in extending [our] present operations… promising on [our] part a punctual & un-remitted performance of [our] duty, & a faithful application of everything subscribed, to the promotion of [the Academy's] most valued interests" (NFP, Letter 799).

Another document reports on a Board of Trustees meeting, during which it was decided that the scholastic year would end on July 15th and resume on October 1st. The Trustees also appointed Thomas Manning to lead the male department, praising his "skills & fidelity in teaching" (Letter 788). The identity of Thomas Manning is subject to debate. A Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry identifies Thomas Courtland Manning, a states-rights Democrat and future Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, as a teacher of Greek and Latin at Edenton Academy before 1855. However, Archaeological Investigations of the Edenton Snuff and Tobacco Manufacture references a Thomas Manning whose property, possibly tied to the Academy, was sold in 1849 — six years before Thomas Courtland Manning’s move to Louisiana. This property was originally acquired in 1830 when Thomas Courtland Manning would have been only five years old. This suggests that there may have been multiple individuals named Thomas Manning involved with the institution.

These documents illustrate Norcom's involvement in shaping the finances, administration, and staff of the Academy, occupying a position of significant authority and influence within the institution, and thus, within one of the most prominent schools in his Southern town.

A disciplinary address, preserved among the Trustees' papers, bears similarities to Norcom's personal correspondence. The address defends the necessity of "order and discipline" in education, emphasizing the Academy’s purpose of “educating the children." Acknowledging that enforcing discipline is unpleasant, the author insists it is essential for the students' "instruction and improvement." Teachers are portrayed as “second parents,” tasked with curbing dispositions and habits that might hinder students' intellectual growth. This moralizing tone mirrors Norcom's letters to his children, John and Rush. For example, in an 1818 letter to John, Norcom stresses the importance of "the great studies in which [he] is engaged." He warns against distractions, such as the Dancing School John wishes to attend, arguing that such pursuits would "diminish [his] zeal in study" and rob him of the "most rational & more substantial pleasures of the understanding." He lectures John on "the necessity of giving up the society of friends & relations," in order to be useful.

Outside of Edenton, Norcom is listed as a supporter of a “School for Young Ladies” in Raleigh, North Carolina, to be opened on May 12, 1843, by Reverend Aldert Smedes of New York City. This apparent endorsement of women’s education stands in stark contrast to the controlling relationships he maintained with his wife and children, as well as the sexually violent behavior he displayed with Harriet Jacobs. Norcom's misogyny is further illuminated in an 1810 letter to his second wife, Maria, where he wrote, "Indeed, my dear, it would distress me to think you could so far forget the delicacy of your sex, the obligations of decency, & your promises to me."

Click here to read about Norcom's religious beliefs.

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Lovely morning of shopping in the tiny town of Edenton, NC which is all decked out for Xmas.

Then a couple of salads at a little bistro on the Main Street. I had the best spinach salad. Followed by a couple more shops.

I struck out everywhere! I was looking for Nonpareils for James’ stocking but no one seems to sell them anymore. A couple places had snow caps but I wasn’t about to pay $2 for a box with 12 choc chips in it. Besides, I wanted the old timey kind. Oh well. Maybe we’ll find them when I’m not actively looking for them.

When we went to the antique store, the butthead bought the gift I was going to buy for his stocking! I knew he’d like it and she gave him a good price, so I can’t blame him, but gotdam, he’s gonna have an empty stocking if he doesn’t quit it!

Called it a day after a couple more places and went back to the Yukon to find a flock of berry-eating feathered bastards (yes, that’s an official bird name) had explosive diarrhea all over the hood. And it’s so cold today, it’s basically going to take a hot bath to get the damn truck clean.

Merry frickin’ Christmas!

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August 21st 1798 saw the death of James Wilson, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

Wilson was born on September 14th 1742 at Carskerdo,Farm, near Ceres, the fourth of the seven children of Alison Landall and William Wilson, a Presbyterian farming family.

He attended the Universities of St.Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. He never finished his studies, as he sailed for the New World in 1765. Aided by some letters of introduction, he became a tutor with the College of Philadelphia. He received an honorary M.A. shortly thereafter. In November 1767, he was admitted to the bar, and thus pursuing his recent-born interest in the law. He set up his own practice in Reading in the year 1768. He was quite successful, as he handled nearly half of the cases charged in the country court.

In 1774, he wrote an essay with the title:“ Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Government.” He distributed this article among the members of the First Continental Congress. Within those pages, he set down a number of arguments which severely challenged the parliamentary authority over America. In the final conclusion of this manuscript, he states that Parliament had no power whatsoever over the American colonies. Although he accepted in some ways the power of the Monarch, he would not subject himself to the whims of Parliament, in which the colonies had no representation. His manuscript was read in both America and England, and created quite a stir. He was one of the first to ever voice these opinions in a sensible, well-argumented manner.

As a member of the Pennsylvanian Provincial Congress, he made a passionate speech about the possibility of an unconstitutional act made by Parliament. Judicial Review, the American system of checking governmental acts with the Constitution, was on its way.

In the same year, 1775, he signed the Declaration of Independence as a member of the Second Continental Congress. According to sources, it seems he hesitated at first, but signed anyway. This was due to the fact that he was a representative of the Middle States, where opinions about independence differed. But by signing the Declaration, he broke the deadlock the Pennsylvania delegation was in. His signature made sure Pennsylvania voted for independence.

During the next years he was an occasional member of the Continental Congress, and was present at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which assembled with the purpose of drafting The Constitution of the United States of America. Here he was a very influential figure, whose ideas where heavily incorporated in one of the most important documents in history. Thus the Constitution bears his signature.

In 1789, he became a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, and in the same year was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court.

It’s not all good news on this Scottish born American though, he was a terrible businessman and he took flight to escape imprisonment for debt. Eventually his $197,000 debt sent him to jail twice, but only for short stays. This didn’t seem to have affected his duties as a judge though as he continued on the Federal judicial circuit despite his misdemeanors.

In 1798, James Wilson suffered a bout of malaria and then died of a stroke at the age of 55, he was buried in the Johnston cemetery on Hayes Plantation near Edenton, but was later reinterned in 1906 at Christ Churchyard, Philadelphia.

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The question wasn't as random as he would like to believe. It was just that Kelly knew him so well. He couldn't say in so little time. They had spent days and days, breakfast and dinner together. Vulnerable moments of pain, voluntary and involuntary. Of tears and sleep in each other's arms.

And Kelly knew exactly where he was. Lying in the middle of his bed, still in a suit and shoes, splayed and staring at the ceiling.

"No." A pause. Nothing but breathing. "I want to set up a haven in Edenton. Any places you recommend?"

Of course Kelly knew. The time they’d known each other and spent together may have been short, but they’d gone through enough to have a better understanding of each other than most people.

The wolf listened to the breathing on the other end of the line because that’s what Rune needed in the moment. When he needed something else, he would speak and ask.

And so he did.

“Depends how much privacy you want. There are some cabins for rent in the wooded parts of town. Couple places for sale near the river. Some places by the beach. What’s your poison?”