Levi Truewhitt was born in about 1672 and arrived in Pamlico near present-day Bath, North Carolina by 1703. There he and several other men signed a petition to the governor requesting that the colonial government intercede and prevent the nearby Tuscarora and Machapunga nations from fighting one another. He also served as a clerk of the Bath County Court. He was later tried and acquitted for his involvement in Cary's Rebellion in 1711. He then settled in Craven County, where he died in about 1744.