Church and Family History Research Assistance for Pitt County, North Carolina
CHURCHES:
RED BANKS (1758)
GREAT SWAMP (1795)
About four miles north of Greenville is situated the house where this church worships. She was formerly a branch of the church at Flat Swamp, and was called the Tar River Church. Upon petition she was dismissed in 1795, and shortly afterwards constituted, and took the name of Great Swamp, from a certain water course of that name not far off. Elder Noah Tyson, of Red Banks Church, was called as their first pastor. After his death, Elders James Ewell, Luke Ward, Elder Atkinson, John H. Daniel, Lanier Griffin, William A. Ross, and David House. In 1850 the church became a member of the Skewarkey Union.
BRIERY SWAMP (PACTOLUS)(1827)
The church at Grindell Creek (later called Briery Swamp) was constituted about October 24, 1827, of members dismissed from the church at Tranter's Creek. The meeting house was situated very near Pactolus, in said county. Names of persons at its constitution are as follows, viz: Lic. William Cooper, Lic. William Clark, Robert F. Lanier, Benjamin F. Eborn, Beazer Barrow, Lucilla Eborn, Penelope Lloyd, Louisa P. Clark, and Eleanor Barrow (whites), and Tom Boston, Clarissa Easton, and Hannah (colored). Elders William J. Mewborn and Thomas D. Mason assisted in the organization. Trouble in the church arose on account of the new-made institutions of that day, under a religious garb, and the church eventually split and became scattered for ten years. In 1847 the meetings were revived, by the recommendation of Elder James Griffin and others, when the following names appeared on the church book, viz: Elijah Langley, Willis Crandel, Benjamin F. Eborn, Joseph H. Langley, Nancy Spier, Elizabeth Langley, Elizabeth Little, Madliss Bishop, Susan Dudley, and Jinney Moore (whites), and Prince Eborn, Bessey Carson, and Jinney Staton (colored). In 1852 Elder James Griffin, who had been serving the church, was excused because of distance, and Elder William A. Ross, of Great Swamp Church, took the pastoral care. He was followed by Elder John L. Ross. The old meeting house went to decay, and the land reverted to the original owners, so that the church held her meetings for several years in a schoolhouse near the same place. A few years later, the place of meeting was transferred to a place six miles from Pactolus, a new meeting house built, and the name was changed from Grindell Creek to Briery Swamp.
CROSS ROADS (SEE EDGECOMBE COUNTY)
HANCOCK'S
TYSON'S
GALLOWAY'S
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