Chief among its contents we find abstracts of land grants, court records, conveyances, births, deaths, marriages, wills, petitions, military records (including a list of North Carolina Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line, 1775-1782), licenses, and oaths. The abstracts derive from records now located in the state archives and from the public records of the following present-day counties of the Old Albemarle region: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington, and the Virginia counties of Surry and Isle of Wight.

Excerpt from The Historical Records of North Carolina, Vol. 3: The County Records, Nash Through Yancey The third volume of The Historical Records of North Carolina completes the Nlists of county records for all the existing and extinct counties of the state. For detailed descriptions of the various types and series of county records and for other explana tory material, reference should be made to the General Intro duction to the Series and the Introduction to the County Records, Volume I, pages 1-129. These pages are also available as a separate reprint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Historical Records of North Carolina, Vol. 2: The County Records, Craven Through Moore The second volume of The Historical Records of North Carolina carries the lists of county records through sixty-three of the state's one hundred existing counties. It is expected that the third volume Will cover the other thirty-seven counties. For detailed descriptions of the various types and series of county records and for other explanatory material, reference should be made to the General Introduction to the Series and the Introduction to the County Records, Volume I, pages 1-129. These pages are available as a separate reprint. The copy for this volume has been prepared by the Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration. Dr. Luther H. Evans is National Director of the Survey, and since July 1, 1937, Mr. Dan Lacy has been State Director for North Carolina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This edition contains an exhaustive list of all of the original and microfilmed records for each North Carolina county that are housed in the State Archives as of March 1, 2009. Describes more than 13,000 bound volumes, 22,000 boxes of loose records, and 24,000 reels of microfilm.