This an account from 1807 talks about the landscape, types of trees and creatures, weather, and the manners and customs of people around the Dismal Swamp.
Biography of Judge George W. Brooks (1821-1882) a native of Pasquotank County, NC, became a lawyer and then a Federal Judge. He became the greatest hero of Reconstruction Days in North Carolina by writing a writ of Habeus corpus to protect white men being held illegally by the military government imposed on Alamance and Caswell counties. His action has been credited with breaking up the power of the so called Carpet Bag Government of Gov. William Holden.