community in E Perquimans County. Named for an Indian village, Chepanoc, the site of which probably is on Wade Point, Pasquotank County. The name apparently was an Indian word for "land of the dead." Alt. 15.

rises in SW Hertford County and flows NW into Cutawhiskie Swamp. See also St. Johns (community).

rises in S Pasquotank County and flows SE into Big Flatty Creek.

town in SE Orange County, seat of the University of North Carolina, which opened January 16, 1795. A committee to lay out the town was authorized by the trustees of the university on December 8, 1792, and lots were first sold on October 12, 1793. Appears on the Samuel Lewis map published in Carey's atlas in 1795. Inc. 1819. Named for the Church of England New Hope Chapel, which once stood at the crossroads on the wooded hill. Alt. 501.

SE Orange County.

NW Tyrrell County on the W side of Scuppernong River. Named for St. Paul's Church, which stood in the vicinity in the eighteenth century.

See Bixby.

community in N Alexander County.

rises in central Surry County and flows SE into Fisher River.

appears on the Moseley map, 1733, rising in E Beaufort Precinct and flowing E into Machapungo River. The water course probably is either modern Jordan or Satterthwaite Creek.