Guilford County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions


Book Description

Transcription of the 1781-1811 court records of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Guilford County, N.C., a primary source of early local history. These records document not only land transactions, wills, and criminal cases, but also slave manumissions, Loyalist land confiscations, and the daily workings of early Guilford County. Records contain information on thousands of early residents, their families and their occupations. Transcribed from the microfilm made by the N.C. Dept. of Archives & History.