Coroner’s Inquisition---On Sept. 2/3, 1792, Abram Hardee, Esq., of Pitt County, beat a slave girl owned by Clary Salter with a stick so badly she died.
On Oct. 8, 1793 in Lenoir Co., Anne Kennedy made a deposition that she was acquainted with John Hill in Dobbs County several years past and she is living in South Carolina, John Hill came there and after a time died there.
In August 1856, Henry Jenkins carried his wife to her father’s (Jesse Stancill)house for a visit and she died suddenly the next day. She was about twenty years of age.
Depositions of Batson Whitehurst, Robason Jenkins (son of Henry Jenkins) and Osborn Jenkins about John Waters and John Cherry, both of Beaufort Co., NC, trying to sell Alse Keys and child, free slaves.
On Jan. 18, 1837, Daniel Hopkins of Edgecombe Co. sold l103 acres to William Hopkins, Jr., of Pitt Co.; land that fell to Samuel Barnhill in right of his wife Lizina.
A newspaperman visited Marlboro and described it by mentioning that James Joyner owned most everything there; the stores of James Joyner, A. M. Allen and E. Waters; and that William Parker ran the saw and gristmill.
On May 15, 1838, John G. Williams, of Beaufort Co., sold land on Chicod Creek to Samuel J. Roach, of Pitt Co., being land on which Paxton’s Mill, now Sparkman Britt’s Mill is located.
On Mar. 7, 1813 in Pitt County, , Stephen Fatherly and Mr. Morning got into a dispute. Mr. Moorning attempted to whip Fatherly with a cow skin and Fatherly took up his gun, and shot him dead on the spot.