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After 1780, the State of North Carolina began issuing State Land Grants for vacant land. [18] During his lifetime, Thomas was granted or purchased a total of 2,570 acres of land in Rowan County, beginning with two Granville Land Grants in 1751 and 1752.
The warrant program was discontinued before the American Civil War. [11] ... Free online collection of 216,000 land grants issued by North Carolina from 1663 to 1960 ...
The North Carolina Experience: An Interpretive and Documentary History 1984, essays by historians and selected related primary sources. Cheney, Jr., ed., John L. North Carolina Government, 1585–1979: A Narrative and Statistical History (Raleigh: Department of the Secretary of State, 1981)
North Carolina plantation were identified by name, beginning in the 17th century. The names of families or nearby rivers or other features were used. The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land. In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records.
This was the first record of Adam Campbell in North Carolina. [13] August 4, 1778, Theophilus Morgan (a neighbor and in-law of Perciphull) filed a State Land Grant in Rowan County, North Carolina, for 150 acres on north side of the South Fork of Hunting Creek including his improvement and adjoining the Surry County line [14]
The approximate location of the dividing line between the Granville District and the Royal territory. The Granville District (or Granville's district) was an approximately 60-mile wide strip of land in the North Carolina colony adjoining the boundary with the Province of Virginia, lying between north latitudes 35° 34' and 36° 30'.
While Stanley spends his days tending to the land, Linda, who spent 30 years in education before retiring, manages the mountain of paperwork that comes with modern farming. Her daily planner is ...
Colonial records show land grants in northern ... The free settlers who lived in the county before 1800 were mostly of ... North Carolina, 1777-1977. Durham, NC ...