On 9 December 1835, James Tartt leased David Shallington for nine years two acres on which Shallington was to build “a log house with a good Shingle roof and plank floor also tw[o] negros houses, crib and smoke house …”

In the 1840 census of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, David Shallington claimed ten enslaved people. [Shallington lived in what is now Joyners township, Wilson County, close to the modern Edgecombe County line.]

In the 1850 slave schedule of Edgecombe County, Shallington again reported ten enslaved people — eight men and boys aged 30, 18, 16, 12, 11, 6, 5, and 2; a woman aged 25; and a girl aged 3.

By 1860, Shallington had relocated to the coast to North Creek township, Beaufort County, North Carolina. The slave schedule reported him with six men and boys aged 50, 30, 28, 25, 23, and 20; a woman aged 26; and a girl aged 14.

We have met two of the men enslaved by David Pender Shallington — John Shallington and Union veteran Daniel Shallington.

Deed Book 22, page 370, Edgecombe County Register of Deeds Office, Tarboro, North Carolina.