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THE FIRST NORTH CAROLINA COMPANY
meets at The North Carolina State University Club
Raleigh, North Carolina

Saturdays: 11:30 A.M. Reception
12:00 Noon- 2:00 P.M. Luncheon and Program
                      
Past Programs at Semi-Annual Meetings

June 1987 - Document Preservation at the North Carolina State Archives

December 1987 - Early Settlement in North Carolina

June 1988 - Finding a Missing Ancestor: Methods and Techniques

December 1988 - Jamestown: The Start of the Nation (film)

June 1989 - The Great Lost Colony Hoax

December 1989 - Life in Early Virginia (film)

June 1990 - Our Colonial Ancestors: Thomas Jordan and His Descendants

December 1990 - Colonial Forms of Public Address

June 1991- The Wreck of the "Sea Venture"

December 1991- Old Bruton Parish, Williamsburg

June 1992 - Early Southside Virginia Families Who Came into North Carolina

December 1992 - Princess Pocahontas

June 1993 - The Clergy's Role in Settlement of the Jamestowne Colony

December 1993 - The Early Days in Lower Norfolk

June 1994 - Where Is Jamestowne? Or, Who Put the Computer Aboard the "Susan Constant?"

December 1994 - A Sentimental Journey to Jamestowne

June 1995 - Captain John Smith

December 1995 - Uses of Herbs in Colonial America

June 1996 - Seventeenth Century Costume: Historical and Make-Believe

December 1996 - Music of Our Ancestors (concert)

June 1997 - Preserving Our Documentary Past: Methods and Materials

December 1997 - The British Monarchy in Crisis: The Historical Perspective

June 1998 - The London Livery Companies

December 1998 - Music of Advent and Christmas

June 1999 - Strangers in a Strange Land: European Patterns of Colonization in the New World

December 1999 - The Pirate Blackbeard and the 'Queen Anne's Revenge'

June 2000 - Sir Walter Ralegh: Fortune's Tennis Ball

December 2000 - A Brush with the Past: John White's Drawings of America, 1584-1590

June 2001 - North Carolina Prehistory: 10,000 BC - Indian-White Contact

December 2001 - Who Was John Lawson?

June 2002 - Marriage Under the Age of Consent: Changing Norms About Marriage in the Colonial South

December 2002 - Going Home: The Experience of Finding a Jamestowne Ancestor's Land

June 2003 - An Illustrated History of Pain Control

December 2003 - Bartholomew Gosnold: A Hero That Might Have Been

June 2004 - National Governor's Report on Condition on the Jamestowne Society

December 2004 - Jamestowne Society Fellowship at Longwood University

June 2005: Genetic Genealogy--The Braswell DNA Project

December 2005: The First Thanksgiving--Berkeley Not Plymouth

June 2006: Foundations of Freedom--Interpreting the Rise of Representative Government in Virginia During the 17th Century

December 2006: 20th Anniversary Celebration with The New Bern Dancing Assembly

June 2007: Dr. Garrett Briggs - "The Founding of Jamestowne: Labor Pains in the Birthing of a New Nation."

December 2007: Dr. Blair A. Rudes, Associate Professor, UNC-Charlotte"The Indigent Languages of the Eastern United States –The States of North Carolina and Virginia"

June 2008: Dr. Jerry L. Cross, Author, Historian, Lecturer "Bacon’s Rebellion: Confusing, Intriguing, Prophetic"

December 2008: Randolph W. Cabell, Author, Musician, Composer "The Trumpet Shall Sound – from Joshua to Jamestowne"

June 2009: Dr. Doris Elizabeth King, PhD, Professor Emerita, US History, NC State University. "In the Ordinary in the Tavern in the Town: The Birthplace of American Democracy."

December 2009: Karen Blum, Assistant Attorney General of the State of North Carolina. "Odyssey of North Carolina's Original Copy of the Bill of Rights"