1850 Mortality Schedule for Carteret County, NC
      (Submitted by Gwen Scott)

      Portsmouth District
      Patience Dixon 65, f, Mulato, slave, dropsey
      Thomas R Tolson age 25, male, white, occupation pilot, cause of death consumption
      Edward Stanley 1, m, w, teething cause of death
      Julia Stanley 1, f, w, teething

      Smyrna & Straits District
      Simon Chadwick 75, m, b, Slave, Palsy
      Rhoda a Piner 28, f, w, Not known
      Charlotte Willis 2 months, f, w, fever

      Beaufort District
      Zilphia a Arendell 33, f, w, diarrhea
      William C Bell 2, m, w, Pneumonia
      Peter Chadwick 1 month, m, b, slave, Lock Jaw
      Burney Congleton 25, m, w, mariner, drowned
      Peter P Copes 56, m, w, Accident
      George Dennis, m, w, unknown
      Mitti J Dudley 3, f, w , Croup
      David Gabriel 66, m, w, Basket Maker, Pleurisy
      Susan P Guthrie 1, f, w, Diarrhea
      Love Howland 65, f, b, slave, palsey
      Ann Howland 1month, f, b, slave, fever
      Densie Howland 4 months, f, b, slave, Smothered
      William Jone 42, m,w, Diarrhea
      Mary L Leecraft 1, f, w, fever
      Zilphia a Leecraft 1 month, f, w, lockjaw
      Phebe Leecraft 4 months f, b, slave, Worms
      Joshua Longest 89, m, w, tailor, unknown
      Borden Mace 45, m, w, consumption
      Hope Manson 58, f, b, slave, affected Brain
      Hope Morse 50, f, w, Not Known
      Sarah Morse 46, f, w, Pleurisy
      Edward H Noe 1, m, w, summer complaint
      Sena Piver, 50,f, b, slave, apoplectic
      Wm Roberson m, w, dropsey
      Allen Sherwood, 45, m, w, farmer, Pleurisy
      Dina Ward 50, f, b, slave, Pneumonia
      Mary F Willis 6, f, w, Worms
      Sally Willis, f, w, Sore leg

      Harlows Creek, Bogue Sound, & White Oak District
      Hannah Bell 2, f, b, slave, diarrhea
      Alfred Bell 1 month,m, w, fever
      George Bell 16, m, w, farmer, dropsey
      Jane Bell 60, f, w, cold
      Jude Bell, 14, f, b, slave, fits
      John Borden 75, m, b, dropsey
      John Carter 1,m,b, slave, Bilous Fever
      Elijah Clark 13, m, w, Bowel Consumption
      Solomon Glancy 10, m,w, Dropsey
      Sarah J Glancy 2, f, w, Bilous Fever
      Susan Jones 36, f, w, Dysepey
      Abigail Mann 22, f, w, child bed
      Reuben Mann 8, m, w, Fever
      Dina Pelletier 1 month, f, b, slave, unknown
      Sena Pelletier 1 month, f, b, slave, unknown
      Mary Pigott 4 months, f, w, Bilous Fever
      Kit Pigott, 21, m,b, slave, accident
      Alice Russel 1, f, w, Cold
      Mary Tolson 39, f, w, influenza
      Thomas Tolson 13, m, w, Dropsey
      Hannah Weeks 15, f, w, cold
      George Willis 60, m, w, farmer, fits

      The following are the descriptions of these areas in the 1850's,
      which in some cases were the cause of some of the illness.

      Portsmouth District
      This is a point of an Island of Sand Banks situated between Pamlico sound and the Ocean; consequently extremely healthy.  The mump prevailed here the past spring, among all ages, but was not fatal in any case.

      Smyrna & Straits District
      these places extend along Core Sound and have the benefit of the sea breeze-are very healthy, free from fever.  But the land is quite low & the water extremely bad, the wells in many places pass through a strata of clay mixed with oxide of iron,  the growth in front is live oak and pine, on the back lands Laurel gum and a mixture of oaks & etc.

      Beaufort District
      This place in front is sandy and high-well situated for health, having the ocean in front of it-it is a pleasant resort in summer and autumn-has a fine harbour and bar and would no doubt be the most commercial place on the Atlantic coast south of Norfolk if it had proper communications with the interior of the state.

      Harlow Creek, Bogue Sound and White Oaks
      These places compose the western portion of Carteret county-they are more subject to fevers than the eastern part.  Along Bogue sound & white Oak the land is higher than in other parts of the county.  there are large quantities of sea weed deposited on the shore of sound which in some seasons renders it quite unhealthy.  The growth is chiefly black oak and pine.