Wayne County NcArchives History .....Large Land Owners ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Guy Potts http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004214 February 23, 2015, 2:25 am In the 63 years intervening between the first court held in Waynesboro and the first court held in Goldsboro great changes had taken place. Much of the land had been cleared, many large plantations stocked with numerous negroes were to be found in the different sections of the county. Among the large land owners and slave owners was John W. Sasser, the father of Mrs. Ellen Dortch, deceased, and Mrs. Millie McKee, of Raleigh. It is related that he could ride on horseback from Goldsboro to his home, some six or seven miles distant, without getting off his own land. Other large land and slave owners were William K. Lane, George W. Collier, Theophilus Best, Council Best, Sam Smith, John Coley, W. B. Fort, John Everett, David Everett, Levi D. Howell, Capt. R. P. Howell, William D. Cobb, the numerous Whitfields, John C. Slocumb. David F. McKinne, Thomas Uzzell, Peter Peacock, Thomas Yelverton, Rigdon Dees, Gabriel and William Sherrard, E. B. Borden, W. F. Atkinson and others. From - History of Wayne County - Address by Judge Frank A. Daniels, At Opening of Wayne County's New Court House, November 30, 1914. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/history/other/largelan151ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb