• Abstract of North Carolina Wills [1663-1760] - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This invaluable work of reference contains abstracts of every will found in the office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina. While it covers the period 1663 to 1760, it does contain a few later wills. The work is arranged alphabetically according to the name of the testator. The abstracts give the name of the testator, place of residence, names of wife, children, legatees, witnesses, and probate officers, names of plantations mentioned, and remarkable items or noteworthy passages in wills. The extensive 200-page index contains all the names mentioned in the will abstracts--nearly 20,000! An appendix containing indexes to each of the will books is yet another outstanding feature of this monumental work. -

• Burke County, N.C. Land Records, 1779-1790 : Important Miscellaneous Records, 1777-1800 - (Book - Amazon.com) -

• Burke County, North Carolina Land Records, 1778 - (Book - Amazon.com) -

• Burke County, North Carolina, Land Records and More Important Miscellaneous Records, 1751-1809 - (Book - Amazon.com) -

• By a Line of Marked Trees : Abstracts of Currituck County, North Carolina, Deed Books (1), 1-3 (1696-1773) - (Book - Genealogical.com) : For this book, Mr. Brayton has abstracted the earliest extant deeds for Currituck, complete with metes and bounds. The data found in these abstracts are of great genealogical importance because the deeds are replete with information concerning former owners, relationships between grantee and grantor, and other family connections. -

• By a Line of Marked Trees : Abstracts of Currituck County, North Carolina. Volume Two, Deed Books 3-4 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Volume Two, chronologically, is something of a miscellany. The remaining portion of Deed Book 3 covers the period 1801 to 1804. Deed Book 4, uncharacteristically, takes up the earlier period from December 1781 to November 1784. Deed Book 4 also contains numerous records from the 1730s and 1740s, and many land patents from the late 1600s and early 1700s. Much of Deed Book 4, moreover, is the record of land patents issued by Governor Alexander Martin to inhabitants of Currituck County. -

• Colonial Bertie County North Carolina Deed Books A-H 1720-1757 - (Book - Amazon.com) : Click on link to read customer reviews. -

• Currituck County, North Carolina Eighteenth Century Tax & Militia Records - (Book - Amazon.com) : Currituck County, North Carolina was one of the original precincts established in Albemarle County in 1670. The original Currituck County includes present-day Currituck and Dare counties and parts of Hyde and Tyrell counties. Nearly all of the early records of Currituck County itself have been lost; however, many references to people living in Currituck during its first hundred years can be found in two crucial collections of primary sources for the Tarheel State--North Carolina Colonial Records and The Colonial Records of North Carolina Series II. In this volume, William Doub Bennett, a leading authority on the colonial records of North Carolina, has brought together a comprehensive list of inhabitants of Currituck County from 1700 to 1780 as found in tax and military records buried in the aforementioned colonial records, as well as in British records and in published works. Read more... -

• Deed Abstracts of Tyron, Lincoln and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina 1769-1786 - (Book - Amazon.com) -

• Duplin County, N.C. Abstracts of Deeds, 1784-1813 - (Book - Amazon.com) -

• Genealogical Abstracts from Duplin County, N.C., Wills - (Book - Amazon.com) -

• Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Abstracts of Early Wills, 1763-1790 (1749-1790) - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The will abstracts in this volume, 1749-1790, are based on the oldest Mecklenburg County wills of record, as well as upon the extant returns of wills and estates of the North Carolina Secretary of State. While the length and contents of these abstracts vary, most of them provide the name of the testator, date of the will, names and relationships of all heirs to the estate (sometimes with ages given or inferred), contents of the estate, names of executors, and, usually, the date of probate. -

• North Carolina General Assembly Sessions Records: Slaves and Free Persons of Color, 1709-1789 - (Book - Amazon.com) : These pages contain a wealth of information transcribed from obscure and fragile, original documents housed at the North Carolina General Assembly Sessions Records at the North Carolina State Archives. Every attempt has been made to transcribe the complete collection, including partial or fragmented documents. The wide variety of documents transcribed includes: Magistrates or Special Courts for slaves, owner’s claims for executed slaves, runaway slaves, outlawed slaves, slave rebellion, clandestine trading with slaves, hiring of slaves, petitions relative to the Revolutionary War, importation of slaves from the Caribbean and Africa, Quaker petitions, emancipation petitions, and many other diverse records. All races are represented in these records—slaves, free mulattoes, free Blacks, and Whites. These records are teeming with intrigue of every description. They abound with murder, poison, conspiracy, angry pilots, clandestine dealings with slaves, pious Quakers, slaves from Africa, greed, and last, but not least, the ordinary people themselves. -

• North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register - (Book - Genealogical.com) : In its 1,760 pages the Register bears reference to no fewer than 50,000 North Carolina settlers. Chief among its contents we find abstracts of land grants, court records, conveyances, births, deaths, marriages, wills, petitions, military records (including a list of North Carolina Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line, 1775-1782), licenses, and oaths. -

• North Carolina Slaves And Free Persons Of Color: Hyde And Beaufort Counties - (Book - Amazon.com) : Hyde County, originally known as Pamptecough, is bound by Craven, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Pitt and Washington counties. Anyone researching this area will want to add this rich catalog of names to their library. Interactions between Black and White are displayed on both legal and domestic levels, giving the reader a vivid account of everyday life in the Antebellum South. Descendants of Mattamuskett and Hatteras Indians can also be found herein. Records are grouped by county and category, including: Criminal Actions, Civil Actions, Patrol Records, Hiring Agreements, Sale of Slaves, Bills of Sale, Division of Slaves, Deeds of Gift of Slaves, Miscellaneous Records, and Unlawful Marriages of Slaves. A table of cases for criminal and civil actions, a full name and subject index, and a glossary of legal terms augment this work. -

• North Carolina Slaves And Free Persons Of Color: McDowell County - (Book - Amazon.com) : These pages contain a wealth of information transcribed from obscure and fragile, original documents housed at the North Carolina State Archives. Every attempt has been made to transcribe the complete collection, including partial or fragmented documents. Papers were listed under the general headings of “Slaves and Free Negroes,” “Slaves and Free Persons of Color” and “Miscellaneous Records.” Read more... -

• North Carolina Slaves And Free Persons Of Color: Mecklenburg, Gaston, and Union - (Book - Amazon.com) : At one time, Mecklenburg Co. also included all NC counties west of Anson and south of Rowan, and portions of the SC counties of York, Chester, Lancaster, Spartanburg, Union, Cherokee, Kershaw, Laurens, Newberry, and Greenville. A table of cases for criminal and civil actions, a full name and subject index, and a glossary of legal terms augment this work. 2001, 247 pp. -

• North Carolina Taxpayers, 1701-1786 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This work lists the names of the taxpayers resident in about half of the North Carolina counties formed before 1786. Most of the data came from tax lists microfilmed at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh, and they are supplemented with names from the periodical North Carolina Genealogy, which includes persons owning headrights and landrights. The names of the taxpayers are listed alphabetically with the county of residence and date, and in some cases additional data is supplied. In all there are about 28,000 names. Click on link for the list of counties covered. -

• North Carolina Wills and Inventories - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The work consists of the full text of 200 wills and 50 inventories for the period reaching to the 1760s, when the recording of wills became the responsibility of North Carolina's counties. -

• Records of Old Macon County, North Carolina, 1829-1850 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : For this original Clearfield book, Barbara Sears McRae has abstracted Macon County Deed Books A-E (1829-1850) to yield an accounting of the county's earliest settlers. Each abstract typically identifies the buyer and seller of the land, the date of the transaction, the location of the land transferred, and the names of witnesses. -

• Residents of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1762-1790 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The principal sources for this book are Mecklenburg County Deed Volumes 1-3 (July 1778 through September 1786), Mecklenburg wills, the 1790 U.S. Census for Mecklenburg County, and several other primary and secondary sources. -

• Surry County, North Carolina Wills, 1771-1827 : Annotated Genealogical Abstracts - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Based on recorded wills and original wills at the North Carolina State Archives as well as "Loose Estate Papers" of intestates, these abstracts cover not only wills but powers of attorney, bonds, inventories, bills of sale, etc. -

• The Lost Tribes of North Carolina. Part II: Colonial Granville County [North Carolina] and Its People - (Book - Genealogical.com) : For this Granville County genealogical miscellany, Ray has assembled the data in a variety of lists, some of the most notable being: Notes from the Records of the Counties of Anson, Buncombe, Caswell, Chatham, Cleveland, Duplin, and Franklin; First and Earliest County Courts of Granville; Muster Roll of the First Residents in Granville County in 1754; Taxpayers of Granville County in 1788; and Marriage Bonds and Records of Caswell, Chatham, Franklin, and Granville Counties. In addition, the work includes separate studies of the following families: Bates, Bennett, Boyd, Bullock, Burton, Christmas, Daniel, Eaton, Graves, Harris, Harrison, Hawkins, High, Hill, Hunt, Jones, Knight, Lanier, Morrow, Royster, Satterwhite, Searcy, Sims, Taylor, White, and Williams. -

• The Lost Tribes of North Carolina. Part III: the Mecklenburg Signers and Their Neighbors - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Probably the finest genealogical record ever compiled on the people of ancient Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, this work consists of extensive source records and documented family sketches. Collectively, what is presented here is a veritable history of a people--a "tribe" of people--who settled in the valley between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers more than two hundred years ago. The object of the book is to show where these people originated and what became of them and their descendants. -

• The Lost Tribes of North Carolina. Part IV: Old Albemarle and Its Absentee Landlords - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This is a collection of genealogical and historical records--land grants, tax records, and birth, death, and marriage records--of early Albemarle County, the original gateway to the present State of North Carolina. Ray further includes genealogical notices and histories of these families: Barrett, Bryan, Cotton, Crudup, Dawson, Edwards, Hardy, Hunt, Lawrence, McKinnie, Marshall, Martin, Robinson, Rogers, Scowen, Sherer, Thomas, West, and Whitfield. -

• Transcription of Provincial North Carolina Wills, 1663-1729/30. Two Volumes - (Book - Genealogical.com) : These volumes contain meticulous transcriptions of 900 of the earliest wills in North Carolina. With the exception of a handful of wills that were previously published in J Bryan Grimes' North Carolina Wills and Inventories, none of these transcriptions has ever appeared in print before. The wills are part of the North Carolina Secretary of State papers, and they encompass the entire period BEFORE North Carolina became a royal colony. (A number of the wills in this collection, we should note, come from Nansemond and Warwick counties, Virginia.) -

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