County Of Hertford Research Articles

New Neogene fossil phocid postcranial material from the Atlantic (USA)

ABSTRACT To date, the phocid fossil record from the Western Atlantic includes representatives of the subfamilies Monachinae and Phocinae. New partial postcranial bones (humerus, innominate) of true seals from the Meherrin River, Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina, U.S.A. are morphologically examined in detail. The newly discovered postcranial bones are compared to representatives of other pinnipeds (Phocidae, Otariidae, and Odobenidae) and to representatives from other phocid subfamilies (Cystophorinae, Devinophocinae, Monachinae, and Phocinae). Detailed morphological analyses demonstrate characteristics that are known to be phocid-specific, such as: the humeral deltoid crest extending to half its length, becoming thinner towards the distal portion; short and flattened femur, with a diaphysis that is broader at its distal end; and absence of femoral lesser trochanter. Taxonomic assessment identified the humerus as Phocanella pumila (Subfamily Phocinae), and the three innominate bones (Subfamily Monachinae): Homiphoca capensis, Sarcodectes magnus, and a newly discovered genus and species Seronectes meherrinensis. In the same collection, a fossil femur from the Chesapeake Group, St. Marys Formation, Maryland-Virginia is identified as Homiphoca capensis (Subfamily Phocinae). This study further confirms the likely presence of adaptively diverse phocids from either the subfamily Monachinae or Phocinae in the same locality during the Miocene time.

"What's Love Got to Do with It?"

Traditional rural lifestyles are often identified as contributors to poor health and disparities. A diverse group of unique partners in Hertford County, North Carolina, are focusing on key components of strengths through the Farm to School to Healthcare initiative as a way to long-lasting positive, overall health and happiness.

The Strategies of Forbidden Love: Family across Racial Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina

This article contends that although local beliefs and legal edicts attempted to discourage sexual and familial relationships between women of color and white men in North Carolina, free women of mixed ancestry and white men developed relationships that mimicked legally-sanctioned marriages. These unions often produced children who maintained frequent interaction with both parents. In nineteenth-century Hertford County, North Carolina, free women of mixed ancestry and their white partners developed creative strategies to deal with the legal limitations inherent in their situation. Women and men in these relationships found ways to secure property rights for women and children and developed methods to prevent legal scrutiny of their living arrangements.

What Making a Movie about Rosenwald Schools Taught Me

In this essay, filmmaker and educator Caroline Stephenson tells how Hurricane Irene started her on a journey to make a documentary about Rosenwald Schools in her native Hertford County, North Carolina. After many years working as an assistant director in Los Angeles on films and television shows, Stephenson moved back to the family farm to raise her children and teach elementary school. She enlisted students from a digital media class at the local high school to assist during the production of the film Children Go Where I Send You. Together, they interviewed alumni from Hertford County’s 10 Rosenwald Schools. The stories told by the alumni, the men and women who attended rain or shine, were living testimony to the vision and foresight of Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald. These were children of sharecroppers, and their families had little or no access to cash money or equal opportunities. Rosenwald Schools were prized as the center of the communities in which they were situated. They were the center of black culture in these areas, where people of color could gather without fear, carry on the legacy of those that had come before them, and proudly prepare future generations for self-determination and leadership. It was from the interviews that the significance of these schools and their relevance today became even more apparent. Both the filmmaker and digital media class students came away from this project with a greater understanding of the important connections between past, present, and future.

Having His Say: Memories from Lemuel Delany Jr.

Having His Say:Memories from Lemuel Delany Jr. Kimberly D. Hill (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution "I grew up in the segregated South," said Lemuel Delany (here). "Born July the 17th, 1920. That's two days from now. I had a very interesting child life having been born the middle child of Lemuel Delany and Julia Brown Delany in the city of Raleigh, which was divided between white Raleigh and black Raleigh. I lived in black Raleigh. I had very little contact with white Raleigh because white Raleigh didn't want me to have contact with them." Photograph courtesy of Lemuel Delany. [End Page 60] Lemuel Delany is a retired funeral home director living with his wife and daughter in Raleigh, North Carolina. He comes from a distinguished family that includes his grandfather, the first black Episcopal bishop in North Carolina, and two aunts who inspired a book, play, and movie called Having Our Say. In this interview, Delany explains how his aunts' influential 1993 book overlooks the most important part of his family's history. He also provides a snapshot of life in the black neighborhoods of Raleigh and Harlem during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s and reveals a proud family legacy and his willingness to challenge others, including major leaders, to live up to their ideals. Kimberly Hill interviewed Lemuel Delany Jr. on July 15, 2005, in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he continues to reside. The full transcript and tape recording are housed in the Southern Oral History Program Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. In Lemuel Delany's words Growing up. I grew up in the segregated South. Born July the 17th, 1920. That's two days from now. I had a very interesting child life having been born the middle child of Lemuel Delany and Julia Brown Delany in the city of Raleigh, which was divided between white Raleigh and black Raleigh. I lived in black Raleigh. I had very little contact with white Raleigh because white Raleigh didn't want me to have contact with them. The border was—let me think—east and west. East and west primarily. When I crossed over into the west side of Raleigh, none of my natural wants and desires took place. In other words, I didn't get hungry; I didn't get thirsty; I didn't have to go to the bathroom. Only when I crossed back over into the east side of Raleigh and then all these things came to pass. But as long as I was on the west side, they did not happen. [Y]ou couldn't do anything. I guess nature took over and said just don't get thirsty, just don't get hungry, don't have to go to the bathroom. Don't do any of those things. My father was a medical doctor. My mother was a speech teacher at Saint Augustine College, and he was a surgeon at Saint Agnes Hospital. Both segregated from the top to the bottom. In fact I had a white doctor to tell me one time, "If there was any such thing as a black man being a gentleman, your father would be it." My grandfather on my father's side was the first elected bishop of the diocese of North Carolina for the Episcopal Church in North Carolina. I only knew him as Grandpa. He died when I was nine years old. My grandmother moved to New York with her children, and I only saw her when I went to and from New York. Of course she lived until I was a grown man. So I did get to know her very well. [End Page 61] On my mother's side her father was just as big in the Baptist church as my daddy's was in the Episcopal church, and he lived in Hertford County, North Carolina. Segregation I don't think we called it segregation. I don't know what we called it because I lived in a black world. I had no dealings with the white world. Even though every day I passed the white high school going to the...

Asylum nursing in the UK at the end of the Victorian era: Hill End Asylum

This paper explores aspects of asylum care at the beginning of the 20th century. Archival materials from Hill End, the Hertford County Asylum, provide a single historical case study. The study focuses on the methods and standards by which asylum nursing was monitored and also examines aspects of the origins and work life of the nursing staff. Standards of care were monitored by a number of official bodies visiting the asylum, whilst the medical superintendent's role focused on the supervision and disciplinary control of nursing staff. Evaluation reports at the time were largely favourable in relation to the care given in Hill End Asylum. However, the reports were based on the relatively limited expectations of the time: primarily relating to the cleanliness, quietness and lack of overt complaints regarding care from patients. Further measures reported related to: death rates, wet beds, numbers of staff dismissed, together with the use of mechanical restraints and seclusion. Nursing staff in the asylum were not normally recruited locally and frequently stayed for only short periods of time. Training provided was very limited at Hill End although a national nurse training scheme was well established by this time. The nursing issues important within the asylum were common to all asylums at the time, and some are still significant today. This paper provides an insight into the historical development of the mental health nursing profession in the UK and its relationship with the medical profession. It also provides evidence that current attempts to monitor the quality of care through clinical governance processes are far from new.

The Substance of a Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury of the County of Hertford, on Monday the 7th Day of March, 1796

resolved unanimously, THAT the Foreman be desired to convey to the Hon. SIR NASH GROSE, Knight, one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of king's Bench, the respectful and cordial acknowledgements of the Grand Jury of this County, for the able, judicious, and well-timed CHARGE delivered by him from the Bench on the opening of the Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and General Gaol Delivery, at Hertford, on Monday the 7th of March instant, containing matter of the most important nature, and expressed in terms, which, whether [4] We consider the authority from which they are derived, or the excellence of the sentiments themselves, are most happily calculated to inspire and to confirm, in all ranks of men, a sincere veneration for our Holy Religion, a dutiful submission to the Laws, and a steady attachment to the true principles of our invaluable Constitution; and earnestly to request, in the name of the Grand Jury of this County, that he will consent to the printing and publication of the same.

Hertfordshire Flowers

Flora of Hertfordshire The Wild Plants of the County of Hertford and the Adjoining Areas included in Watsonian Vice-County 20. By John G. Dony. with a foreword by Edward Salisbury. Pp. 112 + 56 maps. (Hitchin: Hitchin Urban District Council, 1967.) 42s. net.

Studies on Helminths of North Carolina Vertebrates. IV. Parastrigea tulipoides sp. n., a Trematode (Strigeida:Strigeidae) from the Red-Shouldered Hawk

Parastrigea tulipoides sp. n. is described from a collection of strigeoid trematodes taken from the red-shouldered hawk, Buteo lineatus, in Hertford County, North Carolina. This is the third record for a member of this genus in North America. Attempts to infect snails were unsuccessful.

Elizabethan Maps of the Lower Lea Valley

A river system, down to its smallest tributary, functions as an organic whole, and is as much unit as tree, down to it smalles twig. The conviction that the resources of river valley should be envisioned their entirety and developed in that unity with which Nature herself regards her handiwork is the inspiration of modern progress the valleys of the Tennessee and Damodar.1 In Elizabethan England, the lack of public control over the enterprise of the various users of the valley of the River Middlesex, Essex and Hertfordshire led to many disputes which engaged the interest of the Lord Treasurer, William Cecil Lord Burghley. Two manuscript maps and number of documents, wholly or partly Burghley's hand, survive to show his concern with the problem of resolving the conflicts which arose from the improvement of navigation on the Lea. The maps are of great value, not only as early examples of the cartography of riverine lands but also as illustrations of the varied functions of navigable river Elizabethan times. In 1560, the unimproved flowed with a zig-zag and inconvenient current through braided floodplain 21 miles long and 1 mile wide from Ware Hertford? shire to its confluence with the Thames at Bow.2 In this year, Lord Burghley drew rough sketch-plan of the lowest part of the river, the six mile reach from Lock Bridge Hackney to Bow Creek, on scale of about two inches to mile. This plan is pre? served among the State Papers the Public Record Office. 3 It shows that the river had divided course just above the mouth, with one arm crossed by large, high bridge at Bow and the other crossed by ford near Stratford. These two arms united, but soon diverged again near Stepney Bridge and Lock Bridge, which is named as the tidal limit. The map also shows diagrammatically the boundaries of the parishes of Stratford, Stepney, Hackney and Leyton, and large riverside mansion. In 1571, the River was made navigable by ships drawing 8 feet as far as Ware by the construction of the New Cut from Bow to Hoddesdon. The level of water this straighter channel was maintained by manipulation of lock controlling the tidal inflow at Bow Bridge, and sluices controlling the run-off from the Hornsey and Epping Forest clay ridges.4 The improvements touched off series of conflicts between those who required unimpeded passage of the river for barges carrying wheat, malt, coal and iron or for wherries carrying passengers, and those residents of the valley who were employed farmland, mills, fisheries and game preserves. The character of the river? ine lands between Tottenham and Cheshunt after the construction of the New Cut is revealed by very large coloured strip-map the Library of the Marquess of Salisbury at Hatfield House.5 This manuscript, painted wash and measuring 6J feet by 5! inches, shows pictorially the New Cut and number of tributary water-courses with sluices and weirs, the names and boundaries of the riparian fields, the shipping on the river and the mills, fish-traps and heronries on its banks. The scale is about 9 inches to mile. This plot of the Lea may be attributed to Humphrey Gyfforde who sought payment 1594 for making a book for the view of the circuit of the water of on the instructions of jury of the County of Hertford. Later, an addition was made at the right-hand or northern end. It consists of wider strip of paper on which

Some Acadian letters in Hertford county record office

Some Acadian letters in Hertford county record office

Developments in Atlantic Coastal States Between New Jersey and North Carolina in 1948

Oil activity in the Atlantic Coastal Plain declined during 1948. The only oil test in the region under consideration was a wildcat drilled in Hertford County, North Carolina. No oil or gas was found. The Piedmont area of New Jersey saw the completion of a wildcat near Millstone in Somerset County. Production continued in the Rose Hill Field in southwestern Virginia and there was also considerable activity elsewhere in the western part of that state.

A Short History of Totteridge in the County of Hertford

A Short History of Totteridge in the County of Hertford

County of Hertford v. county of Hertfordshire

County of Hertford v. county of Hertfordshire

County of Hertford V. County of Hertfordshire

County of Hertford V. County of Hertfordshire

County of Hertford V. County of Hertfordshire

County of Hertford V. County of Hertfordshire

County of Hertford V. County of Hertfordshire

Journal Article County of Hertford V. County of Hertfordshire Get access John Pickford, M.A. John Pickford, M.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s8-IV, Issue 88, 2 September 1893, Page 189, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s8-IV.88.189e Published: 02 September 1893

XIII.—An Archaeological Survey of Hertfordshire

The county of Hertford from its proximity to London, from its containing the important Ancient British Capital Verulamium, from its being traversed by several British and Roman roads, and from the presence within it of more than one Roman station, might naturally be expected to prove rich in ancient remains, indications of the existence of which would profusely stud an archaeological map. As a fact, however, it seems doubtful whether such a map will exhibit so many interesting features as that of several other counties more remote from the metropolis; and certainly, for variety and number of archaeological discoveries, it cannot compete with that of Kent.

XXXII. Account of a Monumental Effigy discovered in Stevenage Church in Hertfordshire: By Mr. Robert T. Stothard, addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. President

The accompanying Drawing (Pl. XXII.), which I beg leave to exhibit to your Lordship and the Society, was made in the autumn of 1824, from an Effigy then lately discovered in the church of Stevenage in the county of Hertford.

CVII. An account of the extraordinary agitation of the waters in several ponds in Hertfordshire: in a letter from the Rev. Thomas Rutherforth, D. D. F. R. S. to the Rev. Samuel Squire, D. D. F. R. S

Dear Sir, I have lately had an opportunity of of making some enquiries about an unusual motion of the water in a pond at Patmerhall, which is a farm in the parish of Albury, and county of Hertford.