Record #:

33830

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Ben Soon, owned by William Grimes, was a slave who headed a band of runaway slaves who murdered citizens in Craven and Beaufort Counties. They killed a Mr. Chapman in Craven County and Bowen Edwards, of Beaufort Co., NC.

Source:

Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly (NoCar F253 .P57), Vol. XXII Issue No. 4, November 2015, p2

Subject(s):

Pitt County--People