. Sketches of Pitt County, a brief history of the county, 1704-1910; illustrations and maps . 1870 gave Pitt a population of 17,276, asfollows: Township. White. Colored. Total. Belvoir 1,178 973 2,151 California 1,582 2,044 3,626 Chicod 939 744 1,683 Contentnea 1,413 • 705 2,118 Greenville 1,828 2,010 3,838 Pactolus 911 1,149 2,060 Swift Creek 1,011 789 1,800 Total 8,862 8,414 17,276 Greenville lost heavily of its population as compared withthat of 1860. It was now only 601, a loss of 227 in ten Note.—Before the next census California was divided into Falklandand Farmville townships. 180 SKETC
. Sketches of Pitt County, a brief history of the county, 1704-1910; illustrations and maps . 1870 gave Pitt a population of 17,276, asfollows: Township. White. Colored. Total. Belvoir 1,178 973 2,151 California 1,582 2,044 3,626 Chicod 939 744 1,683 Contentnea 1,413 • 705 2,118 Greenville 1,828 2,010 3,838 Pactolus 911 1,149 2,060 Swift Creek 1,011 789 1,800 Total 8,862 8,414 17,276 Greenville lost heavily of its population as compared withthat of 1860. It was now only 601, a loss of 227 in ten Note.—Before the next census California was divided into Falklandand Farmville townships. 180 SKETCHES OF PITT COUNTY. years. There was yet no other incorporated town in theCounty. Military domination still existed and the rumblings of athreatened volcanic outburst, though still heard, were grow-ing less ominous. The white people were slowly regainingtheir power, and the hopes, so brightened in the expectationof the election of Horatio Seymour, as President, in 1868,were revived in the nomination of Horace Greeley, in had been one of the bondsmen of Jefferson Davis and. COL. W. M. KING. had thus made strong friends of the Southern people. Hisdefeat was another blow that increased the determination ofthe people to reconstruct themselves and conditions. It wasa peace plan and its first victory was the calling of the Con-stitutional Convention of 1875. Pitt County sent to thatConvention W. M. King and T. J. Jarvis. King had beenprominent in local affairs and held several minor offices,among them that of County Commissioner. Jarvis had cometo Pitt from Tyrrell County. He had been a soldier in the , SKETCHES OF PITT COUNTY. 181 Confederate Army, having been Captain of Company B,Eighth Eegiment; had represented Currituck in the Con-vention of 1865; had been a member of the House from Tyr-rell in 1868, 1870 and 1872, being Speaker at the latterterm. ^ Louis Hilliard, formerly of Nash, living at Greenville,was elected a Superior Court Judge in 1874, but on a con-tes
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