. Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 . -boro—an extraordinary and moving spectacle. When corn was wanted at the summer place, onehundred negro fellows would he started, each with abushel bag on his head. There is, said the late PI. Hill, quite a deep ditch leading from some largebay swamps lving to the west of the George Moore used to be called the Devils Ditch, and there was somemystery and idle tradition as to why and how the ditchwas cut there. It was doubtless made to drain the waterfrom those bays, to flood some lands cultivated in rice,which were too l
. Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 . -boro—an extraordinary and moving spectacle. When corn was wanted at the summer place, onehundred negro fellows would he started, each with abushel bag on his head. There is, said the late PI. Hill, quite a deep ditch leading from some largebay swamps lving to the west of the George Moore used to be called the Devils Ditch, and there was somemystery and idle tradition as to why and how the ditchwas cut there. It was doubtless made to drain the waterfrom those bays, to flood some lands cultivated in rice,which were too low to be drained for corn. Kendal and LilJiput have been owned and cultivatedfor years past by Mr. Fred. Kidder, a type of theOld School gentleman, one of the most prominent andindustrious planters on the river, a worthy and honoredsuccessor of the distinguished settlers on the Cape Fear,described ;is gentlemen of birth and education, bred inthe refinement of polished society, and bringing withthem ample fortunes, gentle manners and cultivatedminds. 61. (Orton Plantation.) Orton. ^Vmong the venerable relics of Colonial days in NorthCarolina there is probably none richer in Legendary Lore,nor more worthy of historic distinction, than the oldColonial plantation of Orton on the (Jape Fear. The nameis doubtless taken from the old town or village of Orton,near Kendal, in the beautiful lake district of England, from whence the ancestors of the Moore family on theYeamans side may have come to Barbadoes ; the line ofthe Moore family being of Scotch Irish origin, as thereis a Kendal Point and it is said an Orton plantation onthat Island, which was the home of Sir John Yeamans,who afterwards settled upon the Cape Fear and wasGovernor of Clarendon. Orton plantation was owned originally by MauriceMoore, the grandson of Governor Sir John Yeamans,and the son of Governor James Moore, of SouthCarolina, who came with his brother, Colonel JamesMoore, to suppress the Tnscarora Indian outbreaks
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