Record #:

22524

Author(s):

Gaston Lichtenstein

Abstract:

A great deal of misinformation, which has been debunked, exists on the county namesake; the real originator of Edgecombe County is still in question but likely leads back to the ancestors of the Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe of England.

Source:

The North Carolina Booklet (NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 18 Issue 2, October 1918, p116-119

Subject(s):

Edgecombe County--Description