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By: Worth S. Ray, Pub. 1947, Reprinted 2019, 160 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-899-4 Albemarle County was created in 1664 and its land mass covered the entire northeastern portion of the state. Six years later, its 4 precients were created and by 1722 it ceased to function as county. It land mass was carved up to create in part or whole the counties of: Chowan, Currituck, Paquotank and Perquimans. This book is a collection of genealogical and historical records covering such things as: Land Grants, Tax records, Birth, Death, and Marriage records for early Albemarle County, the original gateway to the present State of North Carolina. The author has also included Biographical Sketches on: Barrett, Bryan, Cotton, Crudup, Dawson, Edwards, Hardy, Hunt, Lawrence, McKinnie, Marshall, Martin, Robinson, Rogers, Scowen, Sherer, Thomas, West, and Whitfield.

By: Thomas M. Owen, Pub. 1911, Reprinted, 2018, 129 pages, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-986-X. This book is arranged alphabetically covering approximately some 537 soldiers who served in the Revolution War. The reader will discover such information such as: age, place of residence, rank, line, and, in some cases, names of wives, dates of marriage, and names of children.

By: May Wilson McBee, Pub. 1950, Reprinted 2018, 188 pages, Index, soft carver, ISBN #0-89308-980-X.Anson County was created in 1750 from Bladen County. Parts of it were carved off to create the counties of: Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Richmond, Rowan, and Union County S.C. The fire of 1868 destroyed most of her records but some still exists. This book contains List of Land Grants, Abstracts of Land Grant Surveys, Abstracts of Deeds, Abstracts of Court Minutes, Civil Suits in Salisbury District of Superior Court, Abstracts of Wills, Abstracts of Probarte Reports, Petitions, List of Major James Cotton's Accounts 1778, Montgomery County Miscellaneous Records, and Richmond County Miscellaneous Records.

By: Michael A. Ports, Pub. 2018, 270 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-981-8..Camden County was one the original 7 counties of the state. It was created in 1777 and is located in southeastern corner of the state boarding the Atlantic Ocean. The Inferior Court tried any civil case except those involving title to land. The court had jurisdiction over county business matters, such as care for the poor, building and maintaining the courthouse, jails, roads bridges and ferries, issuing liquor licenses, nominating justices of the peace, performing naturalizations, appointing guardians, authorizing apprenticeships & indentures, maintaining a register of wills and administering county funds. The Clerk of the Inferior Court kept minutes of the foregoing proceedings--every one of which places individuals in Camden County at a particular point in time

By: Wilbur H. Siebert, Pub. 1929, Reprinted 2018, 264 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-979-6.This book is the consolidation of two volumes. Part one is a narrative in which the events of the American Revolution involving the participation of British Loyalists of East Floriida or those loyalists who went to East Florida from other neighboring proviences / states, either during or at the close of the Revolution, are detailed. Part two consists of the claims of the loyalists who were mentioned in part one.

By: William D. Bennett, Pub. 1990, Reprinted 2018, 132 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-970-2.Guilford County was formed in 1771 from Orange and Rowan Counties. Many of its early settlers were Scotch-Irish, German Exiles, English Quakers, and even some Welsh. Deeds are one of favorite research tools of the genealogists due to the wide variety of family connections found within them. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often times such things as: marriages, relinquishments of dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds.

By: William D. Bennett, Pub. 1993, Reprinted 2018, 174 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-971-0.Guilford County was formed in 1771 from Orange and Rowan Counties. Many of its early settlers were Scotch-Irish, German Exiles, English Quakers, and even some Welsh. Deeds are one of favorite research tools of the genealogists due to the wide variety of family connections found within them. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often times such things as: marriages, relinquishments of dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds.

By: Wlliam D. Bennett, Pub. 1991, Reprinted 2018, (Grants 1-500), 174 pages, 8 1/2" x 11", Index, ISBN #0-89308-968-0.Orange County was formed in 1752 from Granville, Johnston and Bladen counties. Orange County lay within the Granville Proprietary. After John Earl Granville died, the land office closed in March 1763. Between 1763 and 1777 it was not possible to gain title to vacant land because there was no one to grant it. When the state opened its land office in 1777, entry takers were selected in the various counties; persons who swore allegiance to the State were then entitled to land at 50 shillings per 100 acres, The entry taker recorded the amount of land, the nearest watercourses, natural boundaries, and adjoining property owners; if in three months no one made a claim for the land, the claimant took a copy of the entry and warrant to the surveyor who then laid off and surveyed the tract., providing two copies of the plat. Sworn chain carriers assisted the surveyors. The paperwork was then forwarded to the Secretary of State, and grants were issued twice a year: in April and October. The grantess had tweleve months to register the grant, or it became void. The authors have abstracted the grants to include: grant number, name of grantee, patent book citation, date of entry, date of issue, entry number, name of grantee, acerage with metes and bounds description, date of survey, name of surveyor and chain carriers, and a facsimile of the plat.

By: Wlliam D. Bennett, Pub. 1992, Reprinted 2018, (Grants 501-1000), 164 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-969-9.Orange County was formed in 1752 from Granville, Johnston and Bladen counties. Orange County lay within the Granville Proprietary. After John Earl Granville died, the land office closed in March 1763. Between 1763 and 1777 it was not possible to gain title to vacant land because there was no one to grant it. When the state opened its land office in 1777, entry takers were selected in the various counties; persons who swore allegiance to the State were then entitled to land at 50 shillings per 100 acres, The entry taker recorded the amount of land, the nearest watercourses, natural boundaries, and adjoining property owners; if in three months no one made a claim for the land, the claimant took a copy of the entry and warrant to the surveyor who then laid off and surveyed the tract., providing two copies of the plat. Sworn chain carriers assisted the surveyors. The paperwork was then forwarded to the Secretary of State, and grants were issued twice a year: in April and October. The grantess had tweleve months to register the grant, or it became void. The authors have abstracted the grants to include: grant number, name of grantee, patent book citation, date of entry, date of issue, entry number, name of grantee, acerage with metes and bounds description, date of survey, name of surveyor and chain carriers, and a facsimile of the plat.

By: Nelle Morris Jenkins, Pub. 1961, Reprinted 2018, 276 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-944-3.Sumter County was created in 1832 from lands ceded from the Choctaw Nation. Its early settlers were French explorers who came up from Mobile. This book begins with a historical background of the county and then moves into the genealogical records found in old Church records. One chapter is devoted to death notices in early newspapers, another chapter is devoted to Tract Book records, showing who entered the land and information about the family. But the main part is devoted to tombstone inscriptions. Almost every inscription is followed with details about the person's family. In most cases the author was able to trace the families back to the Carolinas or Virginia.