NC Gazetteer

Tranters Creek

A creek in Martin County, Pitt County and Beaufort County
… rises in SW Martin County and flows SE on the Pitt-Martin county line and S on the Pitt-Beaufort county line into Tar River near the point at which it becomes the Pamlico River. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733. The creek was the site of a Civil War battle, June 5, 1862.