North Carolina Land and Property: Difference between revisions

'''Card Index'''. This index, also referred to as the Land Grant Index, is the predecessor to the newer MARS index. This index is located at the North Carolina State Archives, and a microfilm copy of part of the index is available at the Family History Library.  

'''Grants covering 1693–1959'''. This is the largest and principal index and has the cards arranged first alphabetically by surname and then each surname is broken down by the county where the land was originally located. {{FHL|695114|item}}, FHL films 1942606–643.  

'''Lords Proprietors grants prior to 1729'''. This portion covers grants mainly within the old Albemarle County area. {{FHL|695114|item}}, FHL film 1942645 item 2. The index follows the Granville District grants index.  

'''Crown Grants.''' Numerous Crown land entries, warrants, and some surveys for this southern area, covering 1735–1774, have been abstracted and can be found in the following three sources:  

Philbeck, Miles S. ''Bladen Precinct/County, North Carolina Surviving Land Warrants and Surveys, 1735–1749, and Surviving Land Entries 1743–1761''. N.p.: M. S. Philbeck, 1985. {{FHL|549101|item}}, FHL book 975.632 R28p. Old Bladen County was formed in 1734 and was the parent county of Anson, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Robeson, and part of Orange counties. For additional abstracts of warrants and surveys by Mr. Philbeck, see the Author/Title Search of the Family History Library Catalog under his name.  

*North Carolina. Secretary of State. Land Grant Office. Land Records, 1600s thru 1957, Land Grant Index cited earlier.  

*The Secretary of State’s office kept lists of the warrants they issued. For the lists from 1769 to 1771, see:  

The original Crown patent books are located at the North Carolina State Archives and are not on microfilm at the Family History Library. Abstracts of these patents for the time period of 1735–1775, are found in:  

'''Suspended Grants'''. Many North Carolina land owners and potential land owners wrote to the governor of North Carolina asking him to not sign certain land grants until true ownership could be determined by a trial. The trials were to be held in the county where the land was located. Details from approximately 1,600 of these disputes showing the names of those involved and covering the years 1776–1836 can be found in:  

'''Loyalist Land Losses'''. Many residents of North Carolina remained loyal to the British Crown during the Revolutionary War. Because of this, their lands were taken from them and sold. Descriptions of many of these lands giving the name of the Loyalist and the name(s) of the new owner can be found in:  

Many names of these Loyalists from 1776 onwards can also be found beginning in volume 10 of the Colonial Records of North Carolina described in [[North Carolina Public Records]].  

In 1791 the United States Congress requested the state of North Carolina to provide a list of all grants (military included) that they had issued for land in what later became the state of Tennessee. This list totaled 5,486 grants and included the counties of Davidson, Greene, Hawkins, Sullivan, Summer, Tennessee, and Washington and the Eastern, Middle, and Western districts. The list can be found on the following film:  

For additional records of lands within the boundaries of present-day Tennessee that were granted by the state of North Carolina, see [[Tennessee Land and Property]] and the Family History Library Catalog, using a Place Search under:  

=== Subsequent Exchanges of Land  ===

''[[North Carolina]] Research Outline]. ''Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001.  

:NOTE: All of the information from the original research outline has been imported into this Wiki site and is being updated as time permits.

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