Carolina’s Land Claims, Grants, and Deeds – The Story of

Carolina’s Land Claims, Grants, and Deeds – The Story of Our Families - Part 2

J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA

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State Archives - https://archives.ncdcr.gov/ Deeds: Includes record of deeds (volumes) and original handwritten deeds left in the courthouse after being deposited with the clerk for probate and recording. The loose deeds may be segregated into various types, such as deeds of sale, deeds of gift, deeds of trust, mortgage deeds, and quitclaim (or release) deeds. In many counties, all but the deeds of sale are boxed together as miscellaneous deeds. Deeds of sale are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the grantee; other deeds are arranged chronologically.

(Cross) Index to Deeds: Superceded volumes of indices, usually cross referenced to grantee and grantor.

Ejectments: Papers in ejectment suits, arranged chronologically. Ejectment was an artificial form under common law devised to try title to land. After 1868, when common law forms were abolished under the new state constitution, ejectment cases were tried as a summary proceeding (without a jury).

Land Entries: Includes land entry books and boxes of loose entries.

Land Grants: Includes Record of Grants (volumes) and boxes of loose grants.

Land Divisions, Partitions and Surveys: Includes volumes and boxes concerning divisions of land between tenants in common and the processioning of boundary lines between contentious neighbors. Volumes may include Land Divisions, Record of Surveys, and Record of Processions. Loose papers may include petitions for partition or sale of land (culled from actions at equity and, after 1868, special proceedings) and processioners' records.

Land Sales for Taxes: Includes volumes and boxes concerning the sale of land for nonpayment of taxes. Volumes may include Tax Levies on Land, Tax Suit Judgment Dockets, and Sheriffs' Deed Books. Papers from tax suits that resulted in the sale of land are arranged chronologically.

Miscellaneous Land Records: Contains records from other series of land records of insufficient quantity to make a full box. May also include boxes of records concerning land for which no series number has been assigned, such as condemnation proceedings, foreclosures, and attachments, executions, liens and levies on land, and volumes relating to the probate of deeds. Many box and volume titles may be peculiar to one or two counties.

Record of Sale and Resale of Land: Twentieth-century record of land sold under foreclosure by trustees and mortgagees. Case papers from foreclosure actions may be filed in some counties as civil actions concerning land or as miscellaneous land records.

Lists of Taxables: Includes volumes and boxes of tax lists, chronologically arranged.

Tax Scrolls: Volumes of tax rolls prepared by individual list takers, from which the official tax list is compiled.

Miscellaneous Tax Records: Volumes and boxes of records relating to taxation. Boxes may include tax lists (if less than a box full), civil and criminal actions concerning taxation, lists of insolvent taxpayers, tax receipts, and merchants' purchase returns. Volumes may include Record of Federal Direct Taxes Collected, Poll Tax Register, Record of Assessment of Land for Taxation, and Schedule "B" Taxes.

Secretary of State's Office Records, 1663-1959 Includes letter books, general correspondence, land entries, land surveys, land grants, court records, tax lists, original wills and estates papers prior to 1798, Constitutional Convention, Provincial Congresses, Committees of Safety, Court of Chancery, Continental Congress, election returns, Revolutionary military papers, oaths of allegiance, Indian affairs, boundaries, voter registrations.

NC Tax Lists and Records: http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/home/collections/tax-lists

South Carolina Department of Archives and History scdah.sc.gov/

8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, SC 29223

Legislative records: Journals from 1692 and acts from 1691, supplemented by bills, petitions, reports, and so forth from 1782. Court records: Journals and case papers of provincial and appellate courts. Land records: Plats and grants virtually complete from 1731; nearly complete records of grants and conveyances 1671-1730; memorials of land titles, 1732-1775; microfilm of deeds available to 1920.

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Records of the Secretary of the Province and State: Wills, inventories of estates, marriage settlements, commissions, mortgages, bills of sale, registers of trademarks, and charters of incorporation from 1671. County and Municipal records: Several thousand cubic feet of manuscript records and a growing collection of microfilm produced by the Department; microfilm and typed copies of selected records to 1860 made by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the Works Progress Administration

Online Records Index: www.archivesindex.sc.gov Database of records from SC Archives holdings indexed by topics, including: Will Transcripts (1782-1855); Records of Confederate Veterans (1909-1973); Plats for State Land Grants (1784-1868); Legislative Papers (1782-1866); Criminal Court Records (1769-1891); School Insurance Photographs (1935-1952); and National Register Properties.

Guide to Collections: www.archivesindex.sc.gov/guide/guide.htm Listing of summary information of every record series in the department's archival holdings, with records organized by State, Local, Federal, British, Confederate States of America, Government Records of other States and Nations, and Private Records (records of Churches, Newspapers, Personal Papers, and Organizations).

SCArchCat: rediscov.sc.gov/scar/ Online catalog that allows searching and browsing of information about the holdings of the SC Archives, including non-current state, county, and municipal records, as well as copies of records relating to South Carolina government and history from other government and private sources. Digital Collections: https://archives.sc.gov/research-and-genealogy/online-research Selected portions of SC Archives holdings digitized for online access via the Online Records Index, including Confederate Pension Applications (1919-1938); School Insurance Photographs (1935-1952); Grand Jury Presentments to the General Assembly (1783-1877); Colonial Plats; National Register of Historic Places; Will Transcripts (1782-1855); and Militia Enrollments of 1869. State Historic Preservation Office's Online Research: https://scdah.sc.gov/historic-preservation Provides links to ArchSite, the state's online cultural resource GIS; select historic contexts and survey reports; the Historical Marker database; National Register of Historic Places records (nominations, select photographs, and maps); a guide to researching historic properties; and the Statewide Survey program's finding aid index. South Carolina Historical Society www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/ 100 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29401-2215 South Caroliniana Library library.sc.edu/socar/ 910 Sumter St., University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. 29208 Browse their Collections: https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/index.php Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina Archives www.dioceseofsc.org/ Diocesan House, 126 Coming Street, Charleston, SC 29403 Many original Church of England (Episcopal Church) records dating from South Carolina's colonial period (1706-1778) are kept at this facility. Charleston County Register of Deeds: www2.charlestoncounty.org/

Selected Resources Andrews, Charles M., The Colonial Period of American History, 4 vols New Haven, 1934-38. Vol III 185-92.

Calendar of The Tennessee And Kings Mountain Papers of The Draper Collection of Manuscripts. Madison, Wisconsin Historical Society, 1929. An index covering Series XX (Tennessee Papers) and Series DD (Kings Mountain Papers) in the Draper Manuscripts.

Carter, Clarence E., ed. Territory South of The River Ohio, 1790-1796. (Territorial papers of the US, v.4). Washington, GPO, 1936.

First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-Day Descendants. East Tennessee Historical Society, 2000. Goodspeed's General History of Tennessee. Nashville, Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1887 (reprinted 1972 by Charles & Randy Elder Booksellers).

Gallay, Alan. The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. University of Georgia Press, 1989.

Greene, Jack P., Rosemary Brana-Shute, Randy J. Sparks, Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina’s Plantation Society. University of South Carolina Press, 2001.

Griffey, Irene M. Earliest Tennessee land records & earliest Tennessee land history, Baltimore: Clearfield, 2000.

——. John Armstrong's entry book October 21, 1783-May 25, 1784: volume 2 of a series of early Tennessee land records. Clarksville, TN: I.M. Griffey, 1993.

——. The Preemptors: Middle Tennessee's First Settlers. Clarksville, TN: I.M. Griffey, 1989.

Grigg, Barbara N., Carolyn N. Hager, and A.B. Pruitt. Randolph County, NC, land entries. self-published, 1994. Haywood, John. Civil and Political History of The State Of Tennessee. Heiskell & Brown, 1823 (reprinted 1971 by Arno Press).

——. Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, Up To The First Settlement Therein By The White People, In The Year 1768. Nashville, G.

Wilson, 1823 (reprinted 1973 by F. M. Hill Books). Hofmann, Margaret M. Abstracts: Granville grantee, Halifax County, North Carolina, public registry, 1749-1763.



——. Abstracts of deeds Edgecombe Precinct, Edgecombe County, North Carolina: 1732 through 1758, as found in Halifax County, North Carolina Public registry deed books 1-2-3-4-5-6. Three Rivers, Massachusetts: Van Volumes, 1969, 1987

——. Abstracts of deeds, Northampton County, North Carolina, Public Registry, deed bk 1 and deed bk 2, 1741-1759. M.M. Hofmann, 1982.

——. Chowan precinct, North Carolina, 1696 to 1723: genealogical abstracts of deed books. Weldon, NC: Roanoke News Co., 1972. ——. Colony of North Carolina, abstracts of land patents. Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina: M.M. Hofmann, 1982-1984.

——. The Granville District of North Carolina, 1748-1763: abstracts of land grants. Weldon, North Carolina: Roanoke News, c1986-c1995.

——. North Carolina abstracts of state grants. Vol. 1. Abstracts from grant books 28-33, 10 Dec 1778 - 11 Apr 1780 -- v. 2. Abstracts from: grant book 34 (Surry & Bladen counties), 10 Dec. 1778 - 12 November 1779; grant book 35 (Caswell, Granville, Tryon, Rowan &

Surry counties), 3 Mar. 1779 - 3 Apr. 1780; grant book 36 (Washington [Tennessee], Randolph, Tyrrell, Martin, Onslow, Franklin,

Onslow, Guilford, Onslow, Wake & Chatham counties), 15 Dec. 1778 - 31 Mar. 1780; grant book 37 (Tryon, Craven, New Hanover, Edgecombe, Nash, Anson, Hertford, Anson, & Tryon counties), 3 Mar. 1779 - 25 Mar. 1780; grant book 38 (Mecklenburg, Carteret,

Wake, Pitt, Bute, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Northampton & Mecklenburg counties), 3 Mar. 1779 - 10 Nov. 1779; grant book 39 (Wilkes,

Grantville, Tyrrell, Hyde, Franklin, Warren, Martin & Nash counties), 3 Mar. 1779 - 10 Nov. 1779. Ann Arbor, Michigan: M.M. Hofmann, c1998-2003.

——. Province of North Carolina, 1663-1729, abstracts of land patents. Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina: M.M. Hofmann, 1983

Leary, Helen F.M. and Maurice Stirewalt, eds. North Carolina Research: Genealogy And Local History,2nd ed., Raleigh, N.C. Genealogical Society, 1996. See Chapter 31, “Land Grants” by Margaret M Hofmann for a detailed explanation of the grant timeline and process.

Morris, Eastin. The Tennessee Gazetteer... Nashville, W. H. Hunt, 1834 (reprinted 1971 by Gazetteer Press).

Parker, Mattie E.E., ed., North Carolina Charters and Constitutions, 1578-1698. Raleigh, Carolina Charter Tercenterary Commission, 1963. Pp74-104. (https://archive.org/details/northcarolinacha00nort/mode/2up)

Paschal, Herbert R. [Jr.], Proprietary North Carolina: A Study in Colonial Government [unpublished] Ph.D. dissertation, University of North

Carolina, 1961, pp 70-74. Pruitt, A.B. Abstracts of Burke Co., NC: civil actions about land (1779-1891) A.B. Pruitt, 2007.

——. Abstracts of deeds, Anson County, N.C. v. 1 Books 4, 7, & B2 (Sept. 1779-Nov. 1792) -- v. 2. Books D, C2 & E (ca. 1758, 1768, 1782,

1787, 1789, 1791-1798) -- v. 3. Books H1, K & H (dates not estimated for this book) -- v. 4. Books F, G, H2, L & M (ca. 1793-1809) -- v. 5. Books N, S, O & P (ca. 1782-1783, 1790, 1801-1815) -- v. 6. Books Q, R, T & U (ca. 1796, 1805-1809, 1813-1825) -- v. 7.

Books V, W & X (ca. 1816-1819, 1821-1831) -- v. [8] Books Y & Z (ca. 1830-1838) -- v. [9] Books 10-12 (ca. 1839-1849) -- v. [10].Books 13-14 (1849-1854) -- v. [11]. 1749-1854. A.B. Pruitt, 1998-2007.

——. Abstracts of deeds, Craven Co., NC. [v. 1]. Books 2-4, (1708-1765) -- [v. 2]. Books 6-10 (1750-1758) -- [v. 3]. Books 11-13 (1761-1766) --

[v. 4]. Books 14-19. (1766-1772) -- [v. 5]. Books 20-24, 1772-1783 -- [v. 6]. Books 25-28, 1782-1788. A.B. Pruitt, 2004-2009, ——. Abstracts of deeds, Guilford Co, NC. [v. 1]. Deed books 3-6 (1784-1799) (1848) – [v. 2]. Deed books, 7-9 (ca. 1796-1809) -- [v. 3]. Deed

books 10-13 (1809-1819) -- [v. 4]. Deed books 14-16 (1819-1826) -- [v. 5]. Deed books 17-18 (1824-1833) -- [v. 6]. Deed books 19.

20 & 21, (1825-1836) -- [v. 7]. Books 22-24, 1835-1839 -- [v. 8]. Deed books 25 & 26 (1839-1842). A.B. Pruitt, 2002-2009. ——. Abstracts of deeds, Lincoln Co., N.C. v. 1. Books 3-4, & 16, 1786-1793 -- v. 2. Books 17-19, 1793-1800 -- v. 3. Books 20-22, 1800-1807 --

v. 4. Books 23-25, 1804-1813 -- v. 5. Books 26 & 27 (1813-1817) -- v. 6. Books 28, 29 & 30 (ca. 1800-1802, 1806-1807, 1811-1824).

-- v. 7. Books 31 & 32 (ca. 1799-1803, 1812, 1815-1828) -- [v. 8]. Books 33 & 34, 1828-1833 – [v. 9]. Books 35 & 36 (1833-1837) -- v. [v. 10]. Civil actions concerning land, 1790-1874, loose papers -- [v. 11]. Books 37 & 38 (1837-1843) -- [v. 12]. Civil actions

concerning land 1875-1918 -- [v. 13]. Books 39 & 40 (1841-1846) -- [v. 14]. Books 41 & 42, 1843-1856. Whitakers, North Carolina:

A.B. Pruitt, 1988-2008

——. Abstracts of deeds, New Hanover Co, NC. [v. 1]. Book C (1744-1752), Book D (1752-1766), book E (1762-1773) – [v. 2]. Book F (1754-

1774), Book G (1774-1780), Book H (1782-1788) -- [v. 3]. Books I-K (1788-1793) -- [v. 4]. Books L-M (1794-1805) -- [v. 5]. Books

N-O (1805-1813) -- [v. 6]. Books R & S, 1820-1826 -- [v. 7]. Books T & U (1828-1833). Whitakers, North Carolina: A.B. Pruitt,2002-2008.

——. Abstracts of Henry E. McCulloh's survey book and petition to the crown and warrants, money, issued in 1787 by Gov. Richard Caswell.

Rocky Mount, North Carolina: A. B. Pruitt, 1992. ——. Abstracts of land entires; Edgecombe County, North Carolina, 1783-1784; Nash County, North Carolina, 1778-1794; Halifax County,

North Carolina, 1778-1795; Northampton County, North Carolina, 1778-1794. Rocky Mount, North Carolina: A.B. Pruitt, 1992.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Ashe County, North Carolina, 1800-1823. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1994 ——. Abstracts of land entries, Bertie County, North Carolina, 1778-1794; Martin County, North Carolina, 1778-1795. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B.

Pruitt, 1992.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Bladen County, North Carolina, 1778-1781. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1989 ——. Abstracts of land entries, Brunswick County, North Carolina, 1794-1820. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1989

——. Abstracts of land entries, Buncombe County, North Carolina, 1794-1796. Cary, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1989.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Bute County, North Carolina, 1778-1779; Franklin County, North Carolina, 1779-1781; Warren County, North Carolina, 1779-1791. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1992.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Carteret County, North Carolina, 1778-1803. Rocky Mount, North Carolina: A.B. Pruitt, 1990.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Caswell County, North Carolina, 1778-1795, 1841-1863; Person County, North Carolina, 1792-1795. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1990.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Chatham County, North Carolina, 1778-1790. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1990.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Craven County, North Carolina, 1778-1796. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1991. ——. Abstracts of land entries, Duplin County, North Carolina, 1778-1795, Sampson County, North Carolina, 1784-1795 and 1853-1860. Rocky

Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1990.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Gates County, North Carolina, 1779-1794; Chowan County, North Carolina, 1787-1795; Perquimans County, North Carolina, 1778-1795; Pasquotank County, North Carolina, 1778-1795; Camden County, North Carolina, 1778-1795;

Currituck County, North Carolina, 1778-1795. Rocky Mount, North Carolina: A.B. Pruitt, 1992.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Granville Co., N.C., 1778-1877. A.B. Pruitt, 1988. ——. Abstracts of land entries, Hyde County, North Carolina, 1778-1795. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1991.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Iredell County, North Carolina, 1789-1804; Cabarrus County, North Carolina, 1793-1795; Anson County, North

Carolina, 1795-1797. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1990. ——. Abstracts of land entries, Lincoln Co., N.C. Whitakers, North Carolina: A.B. Pruitt, 1987.



——. Abstracts of land entries, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1778-1795. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1988.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Montgomery County, North Carolina, 1778-1795. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1988.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Moore County, North Carolina, 1784-1797. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1990.

——. Abstracts of land entries, New Hanover County, North Carolina, 1778- 1796. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1990. ——. Abstracts of land entries, Onslow County, North Carolina, 1778-1796; Jones County, North Carolina, 1795-1797. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B.

Pruitt, 1990.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Orange County, North Carolina, 1778-1795. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1990. ——. Abstracts of land entries, Pitt County, North Carolina, 1778-1797. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1991.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Richmond County, North Carolina, 1780-1795. Cary, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1988.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Robeson County, North Carolina, 1787-1795. Cary, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1988. ——. Abstracts of land entries, Rowan County, NC, Dec. 1778- Feb. 1795. Cary, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1987.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Rutherford County, North Carolina. Cary, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1989.

——. Abstracts of land entries, Tyrell County, North Carolina, 1778-1794. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1991. ——. Abstracts of land entries, Wilkes County. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1989.

——. Abstracts of land entrys, Guilford County, North Carolina, 1779-1796; Rockingham County, North Carolina, 1790-1795. Cary, NC: A.B.

Pruitt, 1987. ——. Abstracts of land entrys, Tryon and Lincoln counties, North Carolina, 1778-1780; Lincoln County, North Carolina, 1780 and 1783-1834;

Lincolnton, North Carolina, 1785-1868. Cary, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1987.

——. Abstracts of land entrys, Stokes Co., N.C., 1790-1798. Cary, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1987. ——. Abstracts of land entrys, Anson Co., N.C., 1778-1795. Cary, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1987.

——. Abstracts of land entrys, Cumberland County, North Carolina, 1778-1795. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1988.

——. Abstracts of land entrys, Rowan County, N.C. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1987. ——. Abstracts of land entrys, Surry Co., N.C., 1784-1795. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1988.

——. Abstracts of land warrants: Chowan County, 1778-1932, Gates County, 1778-1888, Hertford County, 1778-1904, & Perquimans County,

1778-1940. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1989. ——. Abstracts of land warrants, Bladen County, NC. vol. 1. pg. 1-256, 1778-1803 -- v. 2. pg. 257-511, 1778-1803 -- [v. 3, pt. 1] Shucks 4383-

6197, p. 1-234, 1802-1935[i.e. 1845] -- [v. 3, pt. 2] Shucks 6198-7197, p. 235-476 (includes indexes for parts 1-2), 1802[i.e. 1845]-1935. A.B. Pruitt, 2001-2005.

——. Abstracts of land warrants, Brunswick County, NC : 1778-1810. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2001.

——. Abstracts of land warrants, Edgecombe County, NC, 1778-1900. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2001. ——. Abstracts of land warrants, Guilford County, NC. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2000.

——. Abstracts of land warrants, Randolph County, NC. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2001.

——. Abstracts of land warrants, Rockingham County, NC, 1778-1929. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2001. ——. Abstracts of sales of confiscated Loyalists land and property in North Carolina. Rocky Mount, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1989.

——. Burke County, NC land entries: 1791-1795. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2001.

——. Colonial land entries in North Carolina. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1994, 1995. ——. Colonial petitions for land resurveys, some land warrants 1753-1774, caveats of land warrants 1767-1773 in North Carolina. Whitakers,

NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1993.

——. Corrections or alterations to land grants in North Carolina (1714-1873) & Tennessee (1778-1796). Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2002.

——. Davidson Co., Tennessee: land entries 1824-1836, land surveys 1824-1852. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2007.

——. East Tennessee Board of Commissions minutes, 1806-1818. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2001.

——. Glasgow land fraud papers, 1783-1800: North Carolina Revolutionary War bounty land in Tennessee. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1988, 1993.

——. Index of people and places in North Carolina land warrants (1735-1774) Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2004.

——. Index to land entries: Beaufort Co, NC (1778-1795); Johnston Co, NC (1778-1805); Wake Co, NC (1778-1846) and land warrants, Johnston Co, NC (1737-1763) Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1993.

——. Index to North Carolina land entries: 1778-1795. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1997,2001.

——. Land warrants and surveys: Montgomery Co, NC (1778-1850) Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2006, 2008. ——. North Carolina land warrants in Tennessee, valid and invalid. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2004.

——. Petitions for land grant suspensions in North Carolina, 1776-1836. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1993.

——. Place name index to North Carolina land entries (1778-1795). Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1987-2001. ——. Sheriff's sales to North Carolina's Governor: 1799-1815, 1830, 1831, 1857, & 1868. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2006.

——. Tennessee land entries: John Armstrong's office. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2005.

——. Tennessee land entries military bounty land (1783-1841) vol. 1. location book, no. 3138-4839 -- v. 2. location book, no. 5572-7490 & 2754-3111 -- v. 3. warrants first series, no. 1-2500, Oct, 1783- Sept. 1785 -- v. 4. warrants first series, no. 2501-5312, Sept. 1785-Dec.

1797 -- v. 5. warrant second series, no. 1-1242, Dec. 1799-Feb. 1841 -- v. 5. index for first 5 v -- v. 6. military bounty land warrants,

no. 2-2742 and 4840-5569 -- v. 7. index. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1997. ——. Tennessee land entries, Washington County, 1778-1796. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1997.

——. Tennessee land entries/locations: First Surveyor's District. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2008-2010.

——. Tennessee land warrants. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 1999. ——. Washington Co., TN, land entries: 1802-1805, 1824-1875, 1879-1904. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2007.

——. West Tennessee surveys. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2000.

——. William Maclin warrants and West Tennessee Commissioners' decisions. Whitakers, NC: A.B. Pruitt, 2002. Ramsey, J. G. M. Annals Of Tennessee To The End Of The 18th Century... J. Russell, 1853 (reprinted 1971 by Arno Press).

Ratliff, Clarence E., North Carolina Taxpayers, 1679-1790. Vol 2. Baltimore, MD, GPC, 2003, Ancestry.com

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/49269/ Simans, M. Eugene, Colonial South Carolina: A Political History, 1663-1763. UNC Press Books, 1966, 2012.

Whitney, Henry D., ed. The Land Laws of Tennessee. Cincinnati: W.H. Anderson & Co., 1893.

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