Many thanks to Patty Lynn for submitting this one page excerpt from the 1781 tax assessment documents for Onslow County. She obtained this during a recent research trip to the NC State Archives. This page is only ONE page of the larger file.
While I’m not the best at reading it, some of the surnames here included are: Brown, Duval, Gideon, Hidleburg, Jenkins, Johnston, Jones, Landing, Miller, Pollock, Prescott, Rhodes, Roach, Sanford, Simpson, Stout, Thompson, and Whitehurst. Patty’s ancestor listed here is Content Stout in case there are others researching the same line.