Abstracts of the Land Records of Granville County, North Carolina, Dockets V, W, X, Y, Z, 1, 2, 1810-1826


Book Description

"Trudie Davis-Long continues the series of land and property record abstracts originally begun by Bonnie Zae Hargett Gwynn for Granville County, North Carolina. This volume is a guide to the original documents that are housed at the Granville County Courthouse in Oxford, North Carolina, and the North Carolina State Archives. This work covers Book V (1810-1812), Book W (1812-1816), Book X (1816-1818), Book Y (1818-1820), Book Z (1820-1821), Book 1 (1821-1823) and Book 2 (1823-1826) of the original docket books and includes a full-name, line, and place index. Items of questionable interpretation were checked against microfilm of the original courthouse records. Entries typically include the full names of the person selling the land and the buyer, the amount paid, number of acres and location, line, and names of witnesses. Some entries may also list the name of the spouse, place of residence (county and state), details regarding property and its division, and/or other related tidbits of interest. Surnames are printed in bold. There are handwritten notes on the original Gwynn manuscript, which have been included here. Obvious spelling errors were corrected, and some punctuation was changed; however, all names are spelled as listed in the manuscript."--page 4 of cover.




Abstracts of the Land Records of Granville County, North Carolina, Dockets P, Q, R, S, T, 1793-1810


Book Description

"Trudie Davis-Long continues the series of land and property record abstracts originally begun by Bonnie Zae Hargett Gwynn for Granville County, North Carolina. This volume is a guide to the original documents that are housed at the Granville County Courthouse in Oxford, North Carolina, and the North Carolina State Archives. This work covers Book P (1793-1797), Book Q (1797-1802), Book R (1801-1805), Book S (1805-1806), and Book T (1806-1810) of the original docket books and includes a full-name, line, and place index. Items of questionable interpretation were checked against microfilm of the original courthouse records. Entries typically include the full names of the person selling the land and the buyer, the amount paid, number of acres and location, line, and names of witnesses. Some entries may also list the name of the spouse, place of residence (county and state), details regarding property and its division, and/or other related tidbits of interest. Surnames are printed in bold. There are handwritten notes on the original Gwynn manuscript, which have been included here. Obvious spelling errors were corrected, and some punctuation was changed; however, all names are spelled as listed in the manuscript."--page 4 of cover.




Abstracts of the Land Records of Granville County, North Carolina, Dockets H-M, O, N, 1765-1793


Book Description

"Trudie Davis-Long continues the series of land and property record abstracts originally begun by Bonnie Zae Hargett Gwynn for Granville County, North Carolina. This volume is a guide to the original documents that are housed at the Granville County Courthouse in Oxford, North Carolina, and the North Carolina State Archives. This work covers Book H (1765-1768), Book I (1769-1772), Book K (1772-1775), Book L (1775-1778), Book M (1755-1779), Book O (1779-1790) and Book N (1790-1793) of the original docket books and includes a full-name, line, and place index. Items of questionable interpretation were checked against microfilm of the original courthouse records. Entries typically include the full names of the person selling the land and th e buyer, the amount paid, number of acres and location, line, and names of witnesses. Some entries may also list the name of the spouse, place of residence (county and state), details regarding property and its division, and/or other related tidbits of interest. Surnames are printed in bold. There are handwritten notes on the original Gwynn manuscript, which have been included here. Obvious spelling errors were corrected, and some punctuation was changed; however, all names are spelled as listed in the manuscript."--page 4 of cover.




Abstracts of the Wills and Estate Records of Granville County, North Carolina, 1863-1902 by Zae Hargett Gwynn


Book Description

Trudie Davis-Long continues the series of estate abstracts originally begun by Zae Hargett Gwynn for Granville County, North Carolina, which were published through Estate Docket Book 12 by Joseph W. Watson. This volume is a guide to the original documents that are housed at the Granville County Courthouse in Oxford, North Carolina, and the North Carolina State Archives. This work covers volumes twenty-two (1863-1868), twenty-three (1868-1887), and twenty-four (1887-1902) of the original docket books and includes a full-name, tract, and place index. Items of questionable interpretation were checked against microfilm of the original courthouse records. Entries typically include the full name of the deceased, and may contain any combination of the following: name of administrator, name of executor, name of spouse, name of guardian appointed for minor children, names of children, names of witnesses, names of slaves, names of buyers at estate sales, details regarding property and its division. Property generally includes money, land, slaves, livestock, furniture, and/or household goods. Surnames are printed in bold. There were handwritten notes on the original Gwynn manuscript, which have been included here. Obvious spelling errors were corrected and some punctuation was changed; however, all names are spelled as listed in the manuscript.




Kinfolks of Granville County North Carolina 1765-1826


Book Description

Selected from Deed books H, I, K-T, V-Z, 1-2, and Tax list for 1769, for help in "proving or indicating relationships" or "in which either the grantor or grantee, or both, lived in another county. ... Also included are deeds in which both the grantor and the grantee had the same surname."--Introduction.







Granville Proprietary Land Office Records


Book Description

By: William D. Bennett, Pub. 1988, Reprinted 2019, 8 1/2" x 11", soft cover, 184 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-995-8. These are the so-called "Granville Grants" from the Secretary of State Land Grant Office (held by the NC State Archives) for the original Orange County area, including what became Chatham, Caswell, Alamance, Person, and parts of Guilford, Rockingham, Randolph, and Wake Counties. A detailed introduction by George Stevenson, supplemented by the editor's research, explains what the Granville Proprietary was and the records created by it's Land Office. In his abstracts of the deeds, Mr. Bennett has included the metes and bounds description, the neighboring land owners, the surveys and plats with the names of the chain bearers and facsimile copies of the signatures of the grantees and the witnesses. This volume provides the at-home researcher with all the information to be found from examination of the original documents. There are 428 of these grants, of which less than 50 appear in surviving Orange County Deed Books. Since this is the one place where the researcher is apt to find his ancestor's signature (many wills and deeds not having survived), it is particularly convenient for the researcher to have a reproduction of the signature with the survey, plat, and abstract of the deed. The author has also included a notation as to the Patent Book and Deed Book where the grant is recorded. The format of this particularly useful book is pleasing. because of its size and location, Orange County is a pivotal county in tracing North Carolina lineages.




History and Genealogies of Old Granville County, North Carolina, 1746-1800


Book Description

Thomas MCAdory Owen, 1866-1920, was at one time Head of the Alabama State Dept. of Archives and History together with his wife Marie Bankhead Owen. In An explanatory note to these records Mr. Owen states that he visited Granville County in Dec. 1895 to examine the official records for a genealogy of the Owen and Grant families of Grassy Creek, also the Williams family. In the process, he conceived the idea of preparing a history of the county, and the county clerk placed at his disposal 10 of the old "Minute" and "Record" books prior to 1800. He noted that there were some gaps in the records, particularly from May 9, 1776 to Feb.. 4, 1777, when apparently no court was held, as the pagination was continuous in the Book. He abstracted just about everything, and he listed the documents he did not abstract. This includes wills and inventories, bastardy bonds. (lots of these), apprenticeship indentures, marriage and bonds etc. Some documents that he considered important he copied in full. His notes start in 1746 and most stopped after the Revolution, but he continued the marriage bonds to 1815. The records this book is taken from are as follows: Vol. I, county court minutes, 2 Dec. 1749-4 Dec. 1750 & Record Book 1750-1761; Ibid, Vol. II, 5 March 1750/1-21 Sept. 1759; Ibid, Vol. III, 1759-1767 lost; Ibid, Vol. IV, 3 August 1768-20 July 1770; Ibid, Vol. V, 5 May 1774-3 Feb. 1778; Ibid, Vol. VI, 7 August 1781-6 Aug. 1783; Vol. II, minute & record book 1760-1762; Vol. III, minute & record book 1762-1765; Vol. IV, record book 1765-1772, county court minutes 2 Feb. 1767-3 May 1779, county court minutes 19 July 1769-18 Aug. 1772; Vol. V, minute & record book 4 May 1774-1782; Vol. VI, minute & record book 1782-1785 and 6 Nov. 1781-5 May 1785; Selective Marriages License Bonds, Coroners Inquisitions.




Marriages of Granville County, North Carolina, 1753-1868


Book Description

Marriages of Granville County contains abstracts of all marriage bonds issued in Granville County between 1753 and 1868--some 8,000 bonds, mentioning a total of 23,000 persons! The data are arranged throughout by the surname of the groom, and each entry provides the name of the bride, the date of the marriage bond or officiant's return, or both, and the names of clergymen, witnesses, and bondsmen.