Lilliput

… the plantation of Eleazer Allen (1692-1750), councillor, judge, receiver general, and treasurer of North Carolina, was located on the N side of Lilliput Creek in E Brunswick County. Land was granted to Allen in 1725, and he named the plantation for the imaginary country in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels (1726). Part of the 300-volume library at Lilliput was inherited by a daughter of James Hasell and might have been inc. into the remarkable Hasell library. Lilliput was purchased by Gov. William Tryon as a summer residence, and he still owned the property as late as 1784. Location of Lilliput is shown on the Moseley map, 1733, under the name of "E. Allen"; on the Collet map, 1770, as "Lilliput to the G."; and on the Price map, 1808, as "Lilliput."