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32078
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Various death notices taken from selected newspapers on microfilm in the NC Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University----
Theophilus Bland 1896; Arch McGowan 1891; J. L. W. Nobles 1894; Alonzo Adams 1882; Wade Moore 1913; Louis Crawford 1904; George McGowan 1900; Ed Smith 1900; Mrs. Pattie Johnson 1910; Mrs. J. A Sutton 1900; George W. Andrews 1894; John S. Harris 1908; Mrs. Elizabeth Braxton; Jesse Briley 1891; Julian Marshall 1885; Henry Short 1869; Davis J. Rich 1869; John R. Lawrence 1903; D. D. Gardner 1910; Sanford Gregory 1899; J. A. Williams 1921; Mrs. Margaret M. Carraway 1857; Mrs. Catherine Randolph 1857; Fred Tyson 1902; Eli Williams 1902; Mrs. J. O. Pollard 1897; Walter Corbett infant 1874; Mrs. Mary F. Forbes 1874; John C. Johnson 1880; John Handy 1893; Orlando Hearne 1885; Mrs. Margaret Manning 1885; Mrs. Mattie R. Hearne 1877; Mrs. F. M. Cobb 1876; James Brooks 1898; William M. Cox 1875; Mrs. E. E. Hart 1904; Mrs. Allen Hardee 1899; McG. Daniel 1890; Mrs. Lewis Ives 1893; Redmond Caesar 1893; Mrs. Mollie Rollins 1898; J. D. Cobb 1890; Mrs. Salan Cox 1900; Washington Wooten 1869.
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32079
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This 1903 Court Notice concerns the descendants of Jacob Brooks, decd.
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32080
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This letter from Andrew Joyner in 1887 names the farms between Washington and Greenville in the order in which they existed; starting in Washington coming to Greenville.
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32081
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This petition to the NC General Assembly from 1805 was to annex part of northern Pitt County to Martin County; which was rejected. There is a long list of residents from that area.
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32082
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On Mar. 17, 1895, two 14 year old boys from Contentnea twsp., Pitt County, named Richard Smith and Walter Williams, ran away from home.
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32083
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Inquest on William Hattaway, 1772;
Inquest on Ann Hardee, 1773;
Inquest on Cherry Whichard, 1774;
Inquest on John Conaway, 1774;
Inquest on James Jones, 1774;
Inquest on Samuel Colhoon, 1775.
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32084
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The following biographies were taken from Goodspeed’s Histories of Tennessee Counties.
Martin Moore, b. Apr. 11, 1819 in Pitt Co., son of William Moore; md. Frances Forrest.
William B. Moore, b. Sept. 15, 1835 in Haywood Co., TN, son of Alfred Moore and Elizabeth Phillips, of NC; md. Eliza J. Hudson.
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32085
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Richard Evans was a legislator and laid out the lots on his plantation that became the present day Greenville, NC. He married ____Cotanche, only child of Michael Cotanche. Richard Evans’ estate records deal with town lots, his grist and saw mill on Hardee’s Run, debts, and hiring of slaves.
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32086
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Thomas Jenkins (b. 1754) moved from Pitt County, NC in 1790 to Edgecombe Co., NC. Mentions John Bryan, of Pitt County, (alive in 1833) served in Revolution with him.
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32087
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Biography of Zeno Lester Edwards, b. Sept. 27, 1890 in Pitt Co., son of Thomas Jefferson Edwards and Jack Ann Gaskins. It gives his ancestry;
Biography of John Robert Jenkins, Jr., b. Apr. 27, 1912 in Pitt Co., son of John Robert Jenkins and Lucy Manning. It gives his ancestry;
Biography of James Walter Keel, b. Nov. 1, 1875 in Pitt Co., son of Theophilus Keel and Artemisia Page. It gives his ancestry;
Biography of Lafayette Worthington, b. Mar. 6, 1869 in Pitt Co., son of Isaac Worthington and Pennie Byrd. It gives his ancestry;
Biography of Rippon W. Ward, b. 1870 in Pitt Co., son of Fernando Ward and Julia P. Moore.
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32088
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In Nov. 1887, William Nelson, of Bethel, NC, and a girl of only thirteen, ran-away and got married.
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32089
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This petition to the NC General Assembly from 1795 was to annex part of northern Pitt County to Martin County. There is a long list of residents from that area.
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32090
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Thomas Blount died intestate in Beaufort County, NC and his sons petitioned for division of estate in 1794 being named Mitchael Blount, Thomas Blount and a minor son not named in the petition.
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32091
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The case deals with the estate of Shadrach A. Cannon, of Pitt County, who died on July 2, 1815, leaving his wife, Sarah Cannon and his only child, Mary Cannon. William Pugh was named administrator of his valuable estate and refuses to give an accounting or divide the estate. The widow, Sally Cannon, married James Hanrahan. This interesting case gives numerous genealogical connections between the Cannon, Allen, Pugh, Patrick, Burney, Murphy, Kennedy family. There are depositions from 1831 from Joseph W. Worthington, Sharick P. Allen, Rachel Pugh, Polly Kennedy, Simon Burney, Zilpha Blount, John H. Burney, Bryan Kilpatrick, Lewis Burney, Isaac Joyner, John F. Smith, Hardie Smith, Jacob Blount, Frederick Johnson, Pamela Johnson, John C. Patrick, William Murphy, Allen Patrick, Guilford Murphy, William Wooten, Council Wooten, Allen Chance, Frederick Johnson.
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32092
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On Dec. 20, 1938, Charlie Nelson, age 27, son of C. A. Nelson of Pitt County, and a passenger in his car, Lennie Whittington, 40, of Fuquay Springs, were killed in an automobile-truck crash near Live Oak, FL. Other passengers in the car, Elmo Lee Nelson and Brown Nelson, brothers of Charlie, were badly hurt as well as Thomas Grey, of Pactolus, another passenger in the car. The Nelson boys were making arrangements for the family to move to a farm they purchased in Valdosta, GA.
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