. Sketches of Pitt County, a brief history of the county, 1704-1910; illustrations and maps . INDIANS 2G SKETCHES OF PITT COUNTY. Many and wonderful are the tales told of Teachs buriedtreasure in this section, and almost as many are the attemptsthat have been made to find it. In the lands on both sidesof the river many a hole has been dug, but there is no recordof the treasure being found. It has not been so very long agothat the gTave of Susie White was disturbed by treasure seekers. The outbreak of the Indians in South Carolina seemed tohave excited the fears of K
. Sketches of Pitt County, a brief history of the county, 1704-1910; illustrations and maps . INDIANS 2G SKETCHES OF PITT COUNTY. Many and wonderful are the tales told of Teachs buriedtreasure in this section, and almost as many are the attemptsthat have been made to find it. In the lands on both sidesof the river many a hole has been dug, but there is no recordof the treasure being found. It has not been so very long agothat the gTave of Susie White was disturbed by treasure seekers. The outbreak of the Indians in South Carolina seemed tohave excited the fears of King Blunt and his Indians thatthey might suffer, and fearing harm on account of theIndian War in 1717, they asked a settlement on the RoanokeRiver and were given 53,000 acres of land in Bertie County,to which they soon moved. There they lived many years,King Tom Blunt being succeeded by his son James. Laterthey removed to ISTew York, but still held their lands in Ber-tie and long received rents for them. Settlements continued to grow along the river. In thenext few years they had even passed beyond the Pit
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