Gazetteer

N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park between Jonas and Huggins Creeks near lat. 35°32'53" N., long. 83°32'50" W.

SE Onslow County between Howards Bay and Craigs Point. Appears in early county records as Salyer's Bay.

rises in E Mitchell County and flows SW into North Toe River.

now in Tennessee, was created in 1779 and named in honor of Gen. John Sullivan (1740-95). Blountsville became the county seat. Part of the territory was ceded by North Carolina in 1789 to the federal government.

rises in N central Gaston County just NW of Pasour Mountain and flows NE to empty into South Fork River near the community of High Shoals.

See Davis White Sulphur Springs.

S Rutherford County.

rises in NE Rutherford County and flows S into First Broad River. The name is variously spelled as Summy, Somey, and Sommey. Named for the Sumey family, early settlers.

community in central Beaufort County on the N shore of Pamlico River.

community in N Guilford County. Inc. 1996. Alt. 881. Settled about 1769 by Charles Bruce, later a Revolutionary War patriot, and known as Bruce's Crossroads until 1812, when a post office was est. and the community was renamed in honor of evangelist John Summerfield (1798-1825). Site, according to tradition, of Revolutionary War skirmish between Lee and Tarleton; campsite of British army under Gen. Charles O'Hara of the Coldstream Guards, February 12, 1781.