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SKETCHES OF NORTH CAROLINA.


NUMBER SKI ss
To the Editor of the Standard
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To the Editor OF the OEGno0T1


BLADEN COUNTY


Was formed by resolution of The Governor and
Council, in October 1874. out of the precinct OF
New Hanover, as the preamble of the act runs
"now become very populous, and the extent being
found too incommodious to many of the inhabit-
ants thereof particularly those OF New River and
the upper part of the North-west River" and was
so called in compliment to Martin Bladen, one of
the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Planta-
tions-( martin, vol. ii, p. I5.) It IS bounded on
the north by the county of Cumberland and the
South River, which separates it from Sampson;
on the east by the same river, which separates it
from Sampson and New Hanover; on the south
by Brunswick and Columbus; and on the west
BY the county of Robson. Its population in 1910
was 8,O22: Of which there were engaged IN agri-
culture 1885, commerce 245, learned professions
7. White persons over twenty years of age who.
cannot read or write, 70S. The Oldest man in
North Carolina, and perhaps ia the United States,
lives or did live ia this County-Willinp Prig"n,
who was one hundred and twelve years old in
l34O Its products are chiefly corn, rice, and
eolton-of corn leO7O5 bushels, rice IA ,767 bush
els cotton 58,I93 pounds; and had invested in
merchandise $4,000 dollars: 63 grist mitfs, and
81 saw mills The taxes paid by this County
into the Public Treasury last year, amounted to
seven hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty
four cents: composed Of the following items: