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The first part of this book discusses the encroachment of white settlers in eastern North Carolina and the warfare with the Indians that followed. The second part is a short tale about Jean Colmey's life as a soldier in the Continental Army and his love affair with May Montfort.
John Alfred Pollock was born November 1, 1844, to Dr. and Mrs. W.A.J. Pollock of Onslow County. In 1851, the senior Pollock moved his medical practice to Kinston, where the son lived until he joined the Confederate army at age seventeen. After the war he returned to Kinston and joined his father's drug business. On January 8, 1867, Pollock married Miss Agnes Jones of Kinston. The marriage produced five children. In the early 1870s, Pollock studied medicine at New York University and practiced in Kinston for almost fifty years. He was active in local politics, serving on the board of commissioners and the Kinston school board, and represented his district in the state Senate in 1903. Pollock died at his home November 11, 1932.
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