King, Henry T. Sketches of Pitt County : a brief history of the county, 1704-1910 Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Print. Co., 1911, 274 pgs. Chapter one. Early mention of the Tar and Pamlico River country... Chapter two. Duvall settles at Mount Calvert... Chapter three. Edgecombe County... Chapter four. Something about early settlers... Chapter five. High life... Chapter six. John Simpson... Chapter seven. Courts... Chapter eight. Official corruption... Chapter nine. Help for Boston... Chapter ten. Committee of Safety Proceedings... Chapter eleven. Negro insurrection... Chapter twelve. Committee meets... Chapter thirteen. Pitt members of District Committee... Chapter fourteen. Provincial Council... Chapter fifteen. No senator... Chapter sixteen. Guilford Court-House... Chapter seventeen. Peace and Independence... Chapter eighteen. Constitution rejected... Chapter nineteen. Tory pardons... Chapter twenty. Third Census... Chapter twenty-one. Steamboats... Chapter twenty-two. Plank Road... Chapter twenty-three. Military spirit... Chapter twenty-four. Major Grimes... Chapter twenty-five. Enlistments... Chapter twenty-six. Vance elected Governor... Chapter twenty-seven. Emancipation Proclamation... Chapter twenty-eighth. Gettysburg... Chapter twenty-nine. The Eighth... Chapter thirty. County matters... Chapter thirty-one. Grimes Brigadier-General... Chapter thirty-two. Deeds of daring by Harris and Bland... Chapter thirty-three. Lee's lines broken at Petersburg... Chapter thirty-four. "Wheelers"... Chapter thirty-five. War-time school books... Chapter thirty-six. Carpetbaggers... Chapter thirty-seven. Riddick Carney... Chapter thirty-eight. Ninth Census... Chapter thirty-nine. Tenth Census... Chapter forty. Eleventh Census... Chapter forty-one. Spanish-American War Chapter forty-two. First four-weeks teachers' institute in state Chapter forty-three. Laughinghouse superintendent of penitentiary