
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Duplin County, North Carolina.
Official Website
The county was formed in 1750 from New Hanover County. It was named for Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin (later 9th Earl of Kinnoull), as he was known when he served on the Board of Trade and Plantations in England in the 1740s.
In 1784 the western part of Duplin County became Sampson County.
Adjacent Counties
Towns
- Beaulaville
- Calypso
- Faison (part)
- Greenevers
- Harrells (part)
- Kenansville (County Seat)
- Magnolia
- Mount Olive (part)
- Rose Hill
- Teachey
- Wallace (part)
- Warsaw
Other Townships & Communities: Albertson, Chinquapin, Cypress Creek, Fountaintown, Glisson, Hallsville, Island Creek, Kornegay, Limestone, Murphey, Pasley, Potters Hill, Rockfish, Smith and Wolfscrape
Cemeteries
Links
Ancestral Trackers (includes census & slave schedules]
National Register of Historic Places
Lost Souls Genealogy - Duplin County
NC Genealogy Duplin County Estate Files