Laughlin Quin & the Carteret Goulds

The landscape comes first

The Carteret evidence begins with place. Laughlin Quin's documented land interests lie in the Newport–Bogue Sound landscape at Jumping Run. The same family landscape later contains the private Quin–Gould burial ground and remains associated with descendants of Laughlin through his son Abner.

Carteret CountyNewportSpring Hill areaJumping RunBogue SoundQuinn family land

Former Google Maps representation of the Jumping Run Creek and Newport-Bogue Sound landscape — **Jumping Run–Spring Hill landscape, Newport, Carteret County.** Former Google Maps representation preserved in the research files. It establishes the modern landscape around Jumping Run; it is not presented as a surveyed overlay of the 1764 grant boundaries.

Documentary anchors

1749–1750 · Planter allotment. Laughlin, recorded as Loflin Quin, was assigned 100 acres and flax seed for a plot adjacent to the mouth of Jumping Run Creek and Bogue Sound. He released the allotment in 1750 as unsuitable for flax.

1764 · Grant No. 177. Laughlin received 320 acres on the north side of Bogue Sound, described as joining the mouth of Jumping Run, David Shephard, Col. Lovick and the Sound.

Family-land continuity. The Book of Clues records portions of this tract as remaining with the Abner Quin line and identifies the land containing Laughlin's grave with Bo Quinn and his family.

Present-day geographic anchor. Family knowledge identifies Quinn Produce and the Bo Quinn property on Nine Mile Road as lying within the historical Quinn land. This modern anchor helps orient the historical landscape but is not used here to redraw the colonial survey boundaries.

The Quin–Gould burial landscape

Photographs of the private Quin-Gould burial ground — Photographs preserved in the Book of Clues showing the wooded Quin–Gould burial ground. The research file credits David Gould with the photograph of Laughlin's grave.

OBSERVED PHENOMENON

The Gould presence is physically attached to the same family landscape: Gould graves occur with the Quin/Quinn graves, and a later generation establishes a documented Quin–Gould marriage.

Private family burial ground

The Quin–Gould burial ground is on private Quinn family land and is not a public cemetery. The website intentionally does not publish the cemetery's precise location, coordinates, or directions. Access to the grave site is through Bo Quinn and requires permission.

Kinship after Laughlin

Loftin Bell Quinn, a descendant of Laughlin through Abner, married Mary “Polly” Gould. Members of the Gould family are also interred in the family burial landscape. The photographs preserved in the research were supplied by David Gould, a present-day descendant connected to these Carteret Goulds.

The historical question therefore reaches beyond a single marriage: when did the Gould family arrive on this precise Carteret landscape, where had they been immediately beforehand, and what network accompanied them?

What the map does — and does not — establish

The modern map is used to orient the reader to Newport, Spring Hill, Jumping Run, Bogue Sound and the surviving Quinn family landscape. The colonial records provide the historical land description. The two can be studied together, but the modern road map is not itself proof of the exact metes and bounds of Laughlin's 1764 grant.

Likewise, the cemetery's proximity to the modern Quinn property is part of the family landscape evidence. Its exact location remains private.