Hunting Quarters a slave and rights to one-half of his Hunting Quarters property for her lifetime. They had no children but Mary had three from an earlier marriage. John died in 1760 and Mary in 1799. Hunting Quarters Hunting Quarters is the original name for the area of eastern North Carolina in Carteret County currently known as the towns of Sea Level and Atlantic. The region, originally settled by an English family in the early 18th century, was named Hunting Quarters by the local Coree Indians, living on the plentiful game, fish and oysters. Some of King Charles II "Lords Proprietors", Sir
Quarters of nobility Quarters of nobility Quarters of nobility is an expression used in the bestowal of hereditary titles and refers to the number of generations in which noble status has been held by a family regardless of whether a title was actually in use by each person in the ancestral line in question. For example, a person having sixteen quarterings (formally in heraldry Seize Quartiers) might have exclusively noble ancestry for the four previous generations ("i.e.", to the great-great-grandparent level): Given two parents per generation, four generations of uninterrupted nobility = 2 = 16. Alternatively, such a person might have exclusively noble