Kornegay Maps

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Central to an understanding of the lives of the early Kornegays is a geographical knowledge of the area in which they lived. I believe that the best way to represent this is with maps. Accordingly, I offer up the following graphical representations of Duplin County passed on to me by Judi Herring.

The map shown at left shows Duplin County geographically divided by districts. At the time of this writing, I'm unsure of the origin of the district divisions but I believe they had something to do with voting and or census regions or perhaps even the "township" concept. The Kornegay family area was in the general Albertson area in the northeast section of Duplin County and spilled over into several of the adjacent counties.

The map at right shows Duplin County as it was in 1839. Of particular importance are the river systems which were the lifeblood of the county's early economy. Turpentine, a product much in use by the sea-going ships of the day, was produced in great quantities by the early Duplin County families and was shipped downriver to the port cities.

I believe the dotted lines to be early roads connecting the communities and the straight line traversing the eastern portion of the county from north to south was probably a railroad.

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