Abstract:
In 1956, Jesse Lillington Jackson (1874-1969) wrote a series of narratives about his early life in Pitt County. Known as “Lil,” he was an early Pitt County historian and genealogist. He was one of the founders of the Pitt County Historical Society. Jackson talks of his early life in Jacksontown, Pitt County, about wheat threshing, eating robins in bird stews, building houses, Levi Dawson, Ben Nobles, Alex L. Blow and Matthew Deal.