Jesse Lillington Jackson Collection
undated
Manuscript Collection #493- Creator(s)
- Jackson, Jesse Lillington
- Physical description
- 0.215 Cubic Feet, 264 items , copies, consisting of cemetery records and lists of Pitt County soldiers.
- Preferred Citation
- Jesse Lillington Jackson Collection (#493), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
- Repository
- ECU Manuscript Collection
- Access
- No restrictions
Collection [1764,1769, 1775, 1812, 1840, 1901, 1912, 1762-1951] including cemetery records and lists of Pitt County soldiers.
Scope and arrangement
This collection consists primarily of tombstone inscriptions from Pitt County cemeteries and numerous lists of Pitt County soldiers from various wars. Included are soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. Also included are lists of taxable people in Pitt County in 1764, 1769, and 1775, as well as a list of early names found in Pitt County deeds. There are also pension lists for Pitt County Revolutionary War veterans (1840), Civil War veterans (1913), and Confederate widows (1901, 1912). Also contained is a list of the members of the General Assembly of North Carolina from Pitt County (1762-1951).
Administrative information
Custodial History
Source of acquisition
Loaned by Mrs. Elvira Allred
Processing information
Processed by M. Quintanilla, May 1988
Encoded by Apex Data Services
Copyright notice
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Metadata Rights Declaration
Key terms
Topical
Cemeteries--North Carolina--Pitt CountySoldiers--North Carolina--Pitt County