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Before 1663 a few settlers from Virginia had filtered down to the Albemarle Sound of present-day North Carolina. None of the Virginians held land by grant from an English authority, but some had made formal or informal agreements with the American Indians who already occupied the area..  

'''The Land Grant Process'''. Various royal, colonial, state, and federal governments established the first claims to land in what is now North Carolina. These governments later gave or sold much of this land to individuals. The person who obtained title to the land from government agents received a land grant, also known as a land patent. Obtaining a grant of land from the government was the final step in a process that often resulted in the creation of several documents:  

*Grants or patents

A more detailed description of the land grant process and the records associated with it is found in [[United States Land and Property]]. <br>  

'''Provincial or Proprietary Era''' (1663–1729). In 1663 King Charles II of England granted land in the Carolinas to eight men who had helped him regain the throne. These men were called the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, and they had the right to grant land to others. The boundaries of their grant extended from the present-day North Carolina-Virginia border on the north to a line drawn across present-day Florida on the south. During the time when they controlled the land, North Carolina was a proprietary colony.  

Many North Carolina land documents for the years 1663–1959 still survive and are kept at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh. Many have been microfilmed or published in abstract form.  

Three alphabetical name indexes of those who received a land grant either in North Carolina or for land that later became a part of Tennessee are:  

The original Crown warrants and surviving plats are located at the North Carolina State Archives and have been microfilmed in:  

*List of Warrants for Various Counties of North Carolina, 1769–1771. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1941. {{FHL|347950|item}}, FHL film 018065.

TENNESSEE- LAND AND PROPERTY

'''County Records'''. After land was transferred to individual ownership, later transactions, including deeds and mortgages, were recorded by the county registers of deeds, clerks of the superior courts, and sheriffs. Recording for most counties was incomplete in the early years. Probate records and wills were also used to transfer property. They were usually recorded by other county officials.  

Land records can be found in the FamilySearch Catalog by using a Place Search under the county.  

[http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/ North Carolina State Archives]  

[http://www.nclandgrants.com NC Land Grant Images and Data] is a free site containing searchable data for over 216,000 land grants issued by the state of North Carolina from 1663 to 1960, including around 12,000 grants issued for what is now Tennessee.  Issued grants are linked directly to an image of the page in the corresponding Land Patent Book where the land description was recorded. For Caswell, Mecklenburg, Orange, Person, Wake, and Wilkes County, grants are linked to over 100,000 high quality images of original warrants, surveys and other related documents.

*[[North Carolina Davidson County Vital Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|North Carolina Davidson County Vital Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)<br>]]

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