NC Gazetteer

Trent River

Also known as: Quoracks River
A river in Craven County
… rises in S Lenoir County and flows SE across Jones County and into Craven County, where it enters Neuse River at New Bern. Appears as Quoracks River on the Comberford map, 1657; apparently first called Trent River by John Lawson, 1709, probably for the river of that name in England. Appears as Trent River on the Moseley map, 1733.