Abstracts of Deeds, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania: Documents dating from 1751 to 1802 included in Deed book H1 (recorded 1791 to 1802), Deed book A2 (recorded 1792 to 1798)


Book Description

"These other counties which were once a part of Northampton County were Wayne, formed in 1798; part of Schuylkill, formed in 1811; Lehigh, formed in 1812; Pike, formed in 1814; Monroe, formed in 1836; and finally, Carbon, formed in 1843. Territory taken by Northumberland [in 1772] from Northampton County eventually was divided into the counties of Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Bradford, Sullivan, Wyoming, Luzerne, part of Lycoming, and part of Columbia. Interestingly, none of present-day Northumberland County was within the original Northampton County boundaries." -- Introd.
















Abstracts of Deeds, New Hanover Co., N.C.


Book Description

From the introduction: This book contains abstracts of deeds in New Hanover County, NC, deed books AB. Books A and B are together as one book on microfilm roll C 070.40001 in North Carolina archives. The original books are in the office of New Hanover County Register of Deeds.




The Families of Henry Nail & Mary Keller and Thomas Ray & Elizabeth Pearce


Book Description

Heinrich Nagel (Henry Nail) (1771-1827), son of Gottlieb Nagel (Caleb Nail) and his wife Margaret of Döffingen, Germany, married 1798 in Rowan Co., North Carolina, Mary Keller (1776-1857), the daughter of Jacob and Barbara Keller. Henry Nail died in Addison Twp., Shelby Co., Indiana. They were parents of thirteen children. Gottlieb Nagel (Caleb Nail) arrived in Pennsylvania in 1754 where he spent the next twenty years. By about 1774 he had left Pennsylvania and moved with at least four of his children to North Carolina. Thomas Ray (1762-1829) was the son of William Ray of Wake Co., N.C. He was born in Granville Co., North Carolina. He married in Wake County Elizabeth Pearce (ca. 1764-1844) in 1783. She was the daughter of Nathan and Nance Weston? Pearce. Family members migrated to Shelby County, Ind. in the early 1820s.