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Nixonton (also Nixons Town or Windmill Point) is an unincorporated community in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, United States. Nixonton was once a municipality, having been incorporated in 1758. A small port, a hub for Quaker trade in the area, existed at the townsite from the 1740s. In 1746, Zachariah Nixon (III, d. 1752), bequeathed 161.5 acres of the land north of the Little River of Albemarle Sound in Pasquotank County to be incorporated as a town. The Nixons were an important settler family, and upon his death in 1752, Nixon gave his sons Francis (d. 1772) and Zachariah IV (d. 1775) large sums of land, including in what was then known as "Nixon town". By the time it was incorporated on December 5, 1758, over 50 acres of the town had been divided into a grid of half-acre lots with 7

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  • Nixonton es un área no incorporada ubicada del condado de Pasquotank en el estado estadounidense de Carolina del Norte. Nixonton fue una vez un municipio, después de haber sido incorporada en 1758.​ (es)
  • Nixonton (also Nixons Town or Windmill Point) is an unincorporated community in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, United States. Nixonton was once a municipality, having been incorporated in 1758. A small port, a hub for Quaker trade in the area, existed at the townsite from the 1740s. In 1746, Zachariah Nixon (III, d. 1752), bequeathed 161.5 acres of the land north of the Little River of Albemarle Sound in Pasquotank County to be incorporated as a town. The Nixons were an important settler family, and upon his death in 1752, Nixon gave his sons Francis (d. 1772) and Zachariah IV (d. 1775) large sums of land, including in what was then known as "Nixon town". By the time it was incorporated on December 5, 1758, over 50 acres of the town had been divided into a grid of half-acre lots with 7 (en)
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