Pelham Precinct

… appears on the Wimble map, 1738, between the Cape Fear and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers at approx. what is now Pender County. Wimble's map was dedicated to Thomas Hollis Pelham, Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768), secretary of state for the Southern Department. Pelham County appears at the same location on the Mouzon map, 1775. Since there appears to be no reference to such a precinct or county in the records of North Carolina, it is possible that Wimble was simply flattering his patron and that Mouzon followed Wimble's map in making his own.