- Ebenezer Pettigrew
Ebenezer Pettigew, (1783 - 1848) was a Congressional Representative from
North Carolina . He was born nearPlymouth, North Carolina , March 10, 1783. He studied under tutors at home and later attended theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He engaged in planting, and later became a member of the State senate in 1809 and 1810. He was elected as a Whig to theTwenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837), afterwards resuming his agricultural pursuits. He died atMagnolia Plantation on Lake Scuppernong, July 8, 1848 and was interred in the family cemetery.See also
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Twenty-fourth United States Congress
* Wall, Bennett H. “Ebenezer Pettigrew’s Efforts to Control the Marketing of his Crops.” Agricultural History 27 (October 1953): 123-32.
* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000270 U.S. Congress Biographical Directory]* [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Pettigrew_Family.html Pettigrew Family Papers (#592)] , in the [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shc/index.html Southern Historical Collection] , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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