The author discusses early settlers since 1622 like George Durant, Mr. Catchmaid, Edward Smithwick, Richard Skinner, Francis Toms; and locations like Phelps Point and Castleton’s Creek.
This the story of ‘Colonel’ Arthur Jones (1821-1908) of Elizabeth City, NC, who in 1862 took a wagon and horses from his own stables and rushed into the burning Court House and rescued the priceless Pasquotank County records from the 1700s.