"Apparently there was no colonial census of North Carolina, but tax records, used judiciously, may be substituted (see North Carolina Tax Records). A census was conducted in 1775 by direction of the Continental Congress, and the enumeration of Pitt County has survived."
https://wiki.rootsweb.com/wiki/index.php/Census_Records_for_North_Carolina
Print:
Anderson, Jean. 1981. “The Census of 1775 as Seen in Pitt County, NC.” The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal 7, no. 4 (November): 186–96.
Online:
1775 Pitt County Tax List (Index with original images) by Sara Whitford
https://www.eastcarolinaroots.com/1775-pitt-county-tax-list-index-with-original-images/
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