Sarecta, North Carolina

Sarecta was the first incorporated town in Duplin County, North Carolina, established in 1787.

References

* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/Duplinhistory.htm Duplin history] at Rootsweb.com

Captain James Outlaw of Duplin County, was born 1744 and died April 22, 1826. His original Will is in the public records for Duplin County, NC, dated 1826. He was a soldier in the Revolution staring in 1776, serving in the Company of his brother, Captain Alexander Outlaw, in an "expedition against the insurgents", fighting in the Battle of Moore's Creek, and later as a Lieutenant (NC Revolutionary Army Accounts Vol. V, p.19, folio 1); Commissioner of the town of Sarecta (never developed), Duplin County's first established town; Captain in Duplin Militia Service 1787 and 1788, as shown by tax records from Captain Outlaw's District, and was for nearly thirty years a Justice of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, serving a part of that time as Chairman of said Court. He built the crossing over North East River, which has since been known as Outlaw's Bridge, in Duplin County, North Carolina.