History of Edgecombe County NC
Doris Christian
By
J. KELLY TURNER and JNO. L. BRIDGERS, JR.
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This 490 page (10 page index) history of Edgecombe county deals with
government, politics and prominent people.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I ORIGIN AND SETTLEMENT
Immigrants from Virginia‑Early Indian troubles‑Town Creek settled
1720‑Tar River expedition 1722‑Economic conditions of
settlers‑Precinct established‑Political controversy
1733‑1742‑Period of immigration‑Commercial expansion Halifax
town 1744‑Erection of new counties‑Tarboro incorporated‑Account
of Spanish War and incidents.
CHAPTER II COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
English policy‑Precinct courts‑Oyer and Terminer courts Courts of
justice‑Superior Court in Enfield‑Political rep resentation
contested‑Function of local courts‑Quit rent
controversy‑Taxation‑Riot and rebellion‑Corbin seized‑Martin
visits Tarboro‑Political significance‑War of Regulation ‑Tyron's
appeal to the people‑County representation.
CHAPTER III REVOLUTION
Pre‑Revolutionary controversies‑War preparations‑Leaders and
response to the cause‑Troops in the revolution‑Members in the
Provincial Congress‑Military organizations‑Temporary
government‑War incidents in Tarboro‑Tory uprisings ‑Martin plans
negro insurrection‑Economic conditions Power of imprisonment
suspended‑Deserters in Edgecombe ‑Battles of Swift and Fishing
Creeks‑Wilmington aided Close of hostilities.
CHAPTER IV POLITICS AFTER THE REVOLUTION
General Washington's visit‑Rise of parties‑Edgecombe
and Federal convention‑Delegates to the Continental Congress County
courts organized‑County government‑Inferior courts and Quarter
Sessions‑Convention of 1835‑Organization of
parties‑Henry Clay's visit 1845‑Political effect‑Political
leaders‑Whig agitation‑Democratic controversy‑War with
Mexico‑Edgecombe volunteers‑Military leaders‑Coalition of
parties‑Southern Rights movement‑Campaign of 1860.
CHAPTER V SLAVERY
ndian slaves‑Indentured servants‑Negro slavery‑Economic
importance‑Inducement for importation‑Law concerning
slavery‑Local regulations‑Law affecting servants‑Patrol system
and its purpose‑Hiring days‑Method of punishment State vs.
Will‑Value of slaves‑Social life‑Religious life Cause of
religious indifference‑Slavery and politics.
CHAPTER VI WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
Political convention of 1861‑Awakening of public sentiment Leaders
of secession movement‑Response to the call for troops ‑Edgecombe
Guards at Bethel‑Military muster‑Military leaders‑Edgecombe in
earnest‑Internal conditions‑Federal troops in Tarboro‑Battle
Daniel School house‑Destruction of Tarboro
threatened‑Contributions to the Confederacy‑Conditions in 1865.
CHAPTER VII and VIII RECONSTRUCTION
Economic conditions‑Federal regime‑Activities of republican
party‑Frauds in county government‑Political organizations ‑Negro
activities‑Outrages committed‑Retaliation‑‑County government
resumed‑Suspension of Quarter Session of Court and Pleas‑Political
controversies‑Free negro problem‑Municipal politics‑Democratic
victory‑Resumption of law and order‑Leaders in reconstruction.
CHAPTER IX POLITICS SINCE 1880
Democratic control over court system‑Republican struggle in
politics‑Political campaigns‑Rise of populist party‑Political
leaders‑Fusion of parties‑Party controversies‑Campaigns of 1892
to 1898‑Edgecombe in the war with Spain‑Campaigns of
1900‑Political significance‑Economic conditions.
CHAPTER X AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRIES AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT
Agriculture‑Early methods of farming‑Tobacco culture Introduction
of marling and composting‑Cattle raising Method of Stock
farming‑Manufacturing‑Erection of banks ‑Commercial
activities‑Early road improvement‑Plank roads‑Stages‑Water
navigation‑Railroads‑Modern, methods of industries.
CHAPTER XI . EDUCATION
Early education‑Period of opposition‑Clergymen
schoolmasters‑Effects of the revolution‑Rise of
academies‑Leaders in educational movement‑State aid for free
schools‑Free education for paupers‑County appropriations‑Free
school controversy‑Movement for common schools‑Consolidation of
school districts‑Educational promoters‑Modern education‑System
of conducting schools.
CHAPTER XII BAPTISTS Origin and
controversies to
1782‑Expansion after the revolution‑Dissensions over church
organization‑Rise of the Mission Baptist‑Character and services of
Joshua Lawrence Dissensions over church organization concluded‑Rise
of negro churches.
CHAPTER XIII EPISCOPAL English church and early
governors‑Edgecombe parish erected‑‑Early
controversies‑Religious conditions‑Church government‑Edgecombe
parish divided and political controversy‑Glebe lands and effect on
the activities of the early clergymen‑St. Mary's parish
divided‑Period of decay‑Attempts at religious
revival‑Conventions 1790 to 1794 and 1819 ‑Calvary church
1833‑Period of expansion‑Present conditions.
CHAPTER XIV PRESBYTERIANS AND SONS OF TEMPERANCE
Early conditions‑Itinerant ministers during the colonial
period‑Activities of lay members‑First church organized Home
missionary plans‑Sunday school activities‑Leaders in church
work‑Layman's movement‑Controversy with Baptists‑Period of
expansion‑New church in Tarboro.
CHAPTER XV METHODISTS
An account of the early Methodists and their religious
convictions‑Joseph Pilmoor's services‑Methodist controversies
Activities of James O'Kelly‑Results of Whitefield's
teachings ‑Division of Carolina Circuit‑Account of Asbury's visits
Revivals during the colonial period‑Pastorate of Dr.
Doub‑‑Period of expansion‑Camp‑meetings‑Negro
missions‑Sketch of Associate Reform Methodists‑Account of Ellis
meeting-house, McKendree church. Swift Creek Mission, Temperance
Hall, and other churches‑Conditions to 1900.
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