You might contact Ken Robinson, at Wake Forest University.  His research
interest concerns plantations along the Cape Fear River, I think as far
downstream as Wilmington.  His e-mail address is: [log in to unmask]

Erica Sanborn


>A query for the list...
>
>Patricia Pittman, a visitor to the Levi Jordan Plantation web site, wrote me
>a while back to share her thoughts on the web site, and since then we've
>struck up a lively correspondence about oral history, archaeology, family
>history, etc.  She'd like to know if there has ever been any archaeological
>work done on the Pittman Plantation in Wilmington, North Carolina.  I told
>her I'd ask the list...so here goes...if you know of anything that might be
>pertinent, please respond off-list if you want. (I did an online library
>search, by the way, but found nothing).
>
>Here's an excerpt from one of her messages to me:
>
>"Throughout my studies, I was able to find out from a great-great aunt that
>our family came from the Pittman plantation in Wilmington, North
>Carolina...[I also learned that] on my mothers side, we are Igbo from  West
>Africa. We are from E'hella  Village...."
>
>She's also shared some other very interesting oral history about her family,
>so if anyone IS working with this site, please let me (us!) know!
>
>thanks,
>Carol McDavid
>
>cc: Patricia Pittman
>
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