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My Name is Brian Nichols and I am the CC for Pitt County. I am working on the pages now so please contact me with links or info you wish to donate to the Site. My William Nichols Ancestor came to this county in 1755 with his father in law John Windham, from Isle of Wight Co., VA.
Pitt was formed in 1760 from Beaufort County. The act was to become effective January 1, 1761. It was named for William Pitt the Elder, who was then Secretary of State for the Southern Department and Leader of the House of Commons. William Pitt was an English statesman and orator, born in London, England. He studied at Oxford University and in 1731, Pitt joined the army. Pitt led the young "Patriot" Whigs and in 1756 became secretary of state, where he was a pro-freedom speaker in British Colonial government.
Pitt County is in the eastern part of North Carolina and is surrounded by Beaufort, Craven, Edgecombe, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, and Wilson counties.
Courts were first held at the home of John Hardy until a courthouse could be built. The courthouse was built on Hardy's land near Hardy's Chapel. In 1771 Martinsboro was established, and in 1774 the courthouse was moved there. In 1787 Martinsboro's name was changed to Greenville, which is still the county seat.
Pitt County Courthouse
Pitt County Clerk of Superior Court has Court Records from 1850 and Probate Records from 1836 and is located at Courthouse, PO Box 6067, Greenville, NC 27834; (252) 830-6400
Pitt County Register of Deeds has Land Records from 1762 and Marriage Records from 1826 and is located at PO Box 35, 3rd & Evans Str ,Courthouse, Greenville NC 27835-0035; 252-830-4133, .
The County Website is located at http://www.pittcountync.gov/.
Pitt County & NC State Historical & Genealogical Societies, Archives and Libraries
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Pitt County & NC State Archives
- North Carolina State Archives, Public Services Branch, Mail Service Center 4614, Raleigh, N.C. 27699-4614, Phone: (919) 807-7310
Pitt County & NC State Libraries
- Sheppard Memorial Library -
- State Library of North Carolina, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601-2807; (919) 733-7222, (919) 733-3270
Pitt County & NC State Historical & Genealogical Societies
- Pitt County Historical Society, Inc., P.O. Box 1554, Greenville, NC 27835-1554
- Pitt County Family Researchers, P. O. Box 20339, Greenville, NC 27858-0339
- Family Research Society of Northeastern North Carolina, Inc., 410 E. Main St., Suite 204, Elizabeth City, NC. 27906-1425
- North Carolina Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 22, Greenville, NC 27835.
Pitt County & NC State Mailist
- NC-PCFR. A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the activities of the Pitt County (North Carolina) Family Researchers organization and genealogical resources available in the Pitt County area. To subscribe send "subscribe" to nc-pcfr-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or nc-pcfr-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
- NCPITT. A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical and historical interest in Pitt County, North Carolina. To subscribe send "subscribe" to ncpitt-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or ncpitt-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
- NCPitt-Rooters. A mailing list for anyone with a historic or genealogical interest in Pitt County, North Carolina. Surname queries are welcome. To subscribe send the following to ncpitt-rooters-request@genexchange.org: subscribe
- genpcncfir. A mailing list, GenealogyPittCoNCFriendsInResearch, for anyone desiring to participate in genealogical discussions and sharing of resources related to Pitt County, North Carolina. Additional information can be found on the GenPittCoNCFriendsInResearch home site. You can subscribe from the above website or by sending the following to genpcncfir-subscribe@yahoogroups.com: subscribe
Pitt County, North Carolina Genealogy Links
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- Pitt County and North Carolina General Links
- The Family History Society of Eastern North Carolina
- State of North Carolina Genealogy, Facts and Records Resources
- Family History Library - The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world.
- North Carolina Genealogy Network - Facebook.com
- Greenville & Pitt Co., NC Community Page
- Pitt County, North Carolina Compendium
- How to compose a good query
- USGenweb - North Carolina Genealogy
- Free GenForum Message Boards - Pitt County, North Carolina
- Free Rootsweb Message Boards - Pitt County, North Carolina
- North Carolina Mailing List
- North Carolina American History and Genealogy Project
- North Carolina - Wikipedia
- Pitt County Letters (USGenWeb Archives)
- Pitt County Executions
- Pitt County Postcards (USGenWeb Archives)
- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) - North Carolina
- North Carolina Genealogy Look Ups - Genea Search
- USGenWeb Archives Project for North Carolina
- Pitt County History
- Assorted History Items (USGenWeb Archives)
- North Carolina History Timeline
- History of the North Carolina Parishes
- Founding Fathers of North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Pitt County
- Formation of North Carolina Counties
- Designated Historic Properties & Districts in the city of Greenville
- Pitt County Historical Highway Markers
- History of North Carolina Genealogy
- from Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
- Pitt County Business Directories & Yearbooks
- Branson's 1890 Business Directory
- Branson's 1872 NC Business Directory
- 1903 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
- 1904 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
- 1905 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
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1906 NC Yearbook & Business Directory - 1910 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
- 1911 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
- 1912 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
- 1913 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
- 1914 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
- 1915 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
- 1916 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
- Pitt County Yearbook Index
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NC College & University Yearbooks
- Pitt County Biographies
- Index to the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography (from the Olivia Raney Library, Raleigh, NC)
- Pitt County Biographies (USGenWeb Archives)
- William Salter Blackledge (from Wikipedia)
- Robert Bullock (from Wikipedia)
- Edward Gaskill Flanagan (from ebooksread.com)
- Bryan Grimes (from Wikipedia)
- Robert Lee Humber (from Highway Historical Marker Program)
- Edmund Noah Joyner (from Google Books)
- Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse (from East Carolina University Manuscript Collection)
- Lawrence Quincy Mumford (from Wikipedia)
- Lawrence Davis Tyson (from Find-A-Grave Memorial)
- Raymond Milner Wheeler (from UNC Library Collections)
- Dr. Benjamin Brown Williams (from Google Books)
- Pitt County Cemeteries and Graveyards
- Pitt County Churches (USGenWeb Archives)
- Listing of Pitt County Churches
- Bethany Free Will Baptist Church 1879-1980
- Red Banks Primitive Baptist Church (Pitt Co. Historical Society)
- Pitt County Cemeteries (USGenWeb Archives)
- Pitt County Cemetery Census
- Pitt Co. Cemeteries on Find-a-Grave
- Pitt County Tombstone Transcription Project
- Pitt County Political Graveyard
- Gum Swamp Church Cemetery (by Annette Gin Roebuck)
- A Farmville Family Cemetery (by Jacki Ipock Hadra)
- Martyne Nelson Cemetery (by Clarice W. Mills & Bill Kittrell)
- Cemetery Records Online (from Interment.net)
- Cemetery Resources
- Rootsweb North Carolina Cemetery Look Ups
- Pitt Co. Tombstone Inscription Project - UsGenweb
- Pitt Co. NC Obituary Project - UsGenweb
- North Carolina Cemeteries at Internment.net
- Pitt Co., NC Political Graveyard
- Terminology & Meanings of Tombstone Symbols
- Pitt County Church & Bible Records
- Pitt Co. Bibles (USGenWeb Archives)
- Pitt County Obituaries (USGenWeb Archives)
- George W. Harris Bible (Google Books)
- Richard Henry Lewis Family Bible (from NC Digital Repository)
- Pitt County Census Records
- 1786 Partial Census
- Pitt Co. Census Records (USGenWeb Archives) - [ 1790] [1800 Extract] [ 1810] [1850 Index]
- 1786 Partial Census
- 1850 Pitt Co. Census(partial transcription)
- 1880 Federal Census
- Rootsweb North Carolina Census Look Ups
- North Carolina Census Archives - usgwarchives.net
- Pitt County NC Census Project - us-census.org
- Pitt County North Carolina Census QuickFacts - US Census Bureau (Free Site)
- Links to Online Pitt County NC Census Records - Census Online (Free Genealogy Site)
- North Carolina Census Extraction Forms
- Pitt County Court Records
- Listing of Pitt County original records & microfilmed records
- County Code Numbers
- Pitt County Court Records (USGenWeb Archives)
Pitt County Supreme Court Records (USGenWeb Archives)
Status of North Carolina Courthouses
- Pitt County Families
- Family Collections (USGenWeb Archives)
- The North Carolina Family Group Sheet Project
- Pitt County Immigration and Naturalization Website Links
- North Carolina Immigration Project - usgwarchives.org
- Pitt County Land Website Links
- Pitt County Deeds (USGenWeb Archives)
Deeds pertaining to the Little Family (various counties) - The Granville District of North Carolina 1748-1763: Abstracts of Land Grants
, Vol. 1
- Colony of North Carolina, 1735–1764, Abstracts of Land Patents and Colony of North Carolina, 1765–1775, Abstracts of Land Patents
(Weldon, N.C.: Roanoke News Co., 1983–84)
- Cavaliers and Pioneers : Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants
- Pitt County Deeds (USGenWeb Archives)
- Pitt County Maps
- North Carolina Maps and Atlases
- North Carolina Digital Map Library - usgwarchives.org
- Historical Maps of North Carolina - alabamamaps.ua.edu
- North Carolina Colony and State Maps
- 1776 Atlas North And South Carolina Map
- 1776 Atlas Map Of North Carolina With Its Indian Frontiers (Nouthern Section)
- 1795 North Carolina
- 1804 North Carolina Atlas Map
- 1814 Atlas Map of North Carolina - Counties in outline color with swamps and hills shown.
- 1822 Geographical, Historical, And Statistical Atlas Map Of North Carolina
- 1827 Map of North and South Carolina, and Georgia, Constructed from the Latest Authorities
- 1836 A New Atlas Map Of Nth. Carolina With Its Canals, Roads & Distances from place to place, along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes. (with) two inset maps: Gold Region and the Neuse River
- 1845 North Carolina Atlas Map
- 1856 North Carolina Atlas Map
- 1880 North and South Carolina. (with) Plan of Charleston
- Historic county maps are now available (pdf only) for the following years.
- 1930 County Maps__ ~ 8.9 Mb
- 1936 County Maps__ ~ 9.5 Mb
- 1944 County Maps__ ~ 21.4 Mb
- 1949 County Maps__ ~ 24.0 Mb
- 1953 County Maps__ ~ 23.1 Mb
- 1957 County Maps__ ~ 22.1 Mb
- 1962 County Maps__ ~ 43.4 Mb
- 1968 County Maps__ ~ 48.6 Mb
- Perry-Castañeda Library North Carolina Map Collection - lib.utexas.edu
- NC State Map with clickable counties (Thanks to Derick Hartshorn!)
- Maps of Chowan Co. and North Carolina
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
- Pitt County Township Map
- Formation of North Carolina in Maps
- North Carolina Maps (from UNC Digital Maps)
- 1770 John Collett Map
- Civil War Maps
- 1895 NC State Map
- USGenWeb Archives Digital Map Collection
- Pitt County Military Website Links
- North Carolina Pension Project
- Pitt County Military Records (USGenWeb Archives)
- Revolutionary War 1775-1783
- War of 1812 1812–15
- Civil War 1861–65
- Timeline of the Revolutionary War
- Muster Roll of Soldiers of the War of 1812 detached from Pitt Co.
- Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards (1907-1933)
- 3rd Battalion North Carolina Light Artillery, Co. B
- WWII - Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel
- Pitt County Photos
- Pitt County Photos (USGenWeb Archives)
- Pitt County Photos(from Joyner Library Digital Collections)
- Dickinson Avenue Historic District - Greenville, NC
- Greenville Commerical Historic District
- National Register of Historic Places in Pitt County (from Pitt Co. Historical Society)
- Postcard Collection (from Joyner Library Digital Collections)
- Skinnerville - Greenville Heights Historic District
- Pitt County Books, Newspapers & Digital Libraries
- Pitt County News Articles (USGenWeb Archives)
- Pitt County People in Newspapers (database generated by Taneya Koonce)
- North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project
- The Daily Reflector Image Collection (over 7500 historic images)
- Joyner Library Digital Collections (East Carolina University)
- UNC'sSouthern Historical Collection (search for "Pitt County")
- East Carolina University Digital Library for Pitt County
- My North Carolina Genealogy Records for Pitt County
- Chronicling America (from the Library of Congress)
- Treasures (a searchable online exhibit of documents at the NC State Archives & Library)
- North Carolina Newspapers Directory Listings
- Guide to Newspapers on Microfilm in the North Carolina State Archives (Titles of newspapers microfilmed by the State Archives)
- Pitt Countya Probate Website Links
- Pitt County Wills & Estates (from NCGenWeb Archives)
- Pitt County Tax Website Links
- 1762 & 1783 Tax Lists (USGenWeb Archives)
- Pitt County Vital Records
- 1896 lists of Illnesses Reported to the NC Board of Health, by County
- North Carolina Birth Certificate, Death, Divorce and Marriage Certificate Application
- Need older records? Here is some information that could help.
- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Vital Records website
- Marriage Register, 1851-1867, Pitt County Court House -
- Births
- Marriages
- Deaths
- Marriages & Death Notices in the Raleigh Register & North Carolina State Gazette (1826-1845)
- How to obtain Vital Records from Pitt County
- Pitt Co. NC Marriages Project - USgenweb.org
Pitt County, North Carolina Surnames
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