Abstract of <title>Wayne County. Twelve North Carolina Counties in 1810-1811. North Carolina Historical Review VI Anderson, Heather Images scanned by Digital Collections, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. Text encoded by Gretchen Gueguen Digital Collections, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. Greenville, North Carolina 2010

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Abstract of Wayne County. Twelve North Carolina Counties in 1810-1811. North Carolina Historical Review VI Wayne County. Twelve North Carolina Counties in 1810-1811. North Carolina Historical Review VI Slocumb, Jesse F251.N892 1929

Slocumb gives brief details of Wayne County and ends his report with a story about a slave who was executed for poisoning her master and the indictments of many other slaves for trying to do the same.

Authory Biography

Jesse Slocumb [1780-1821] was the son of Ezekiel Slocumb and Mary (Polly) Hooks of Wayne County. He was a trustee of Waynesborough Academy in 1810, but the academy was never organized. He served in Congress from 1817 until 1821 and died in Washington where he is buried in the Congressional Burying Ground.

Sources:

Laws of North Carolina, 1810. ch. 68; The Heritage of Wayne County, North Carolina, 1982.