Stokes County, North Carolina Land Entries, 1790-1798

Name: Stokes County, North Carolina Land Entries, 1790-1798
Brand: Southern Historical Press, Inc.
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By Pruitt, Albert Bruce

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By Albert Bruce Pruitt, published 1987, reprinted 2026, 84 pages, index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-209-8. Stokes County was formed in 1789 Surry County, NC. The best contemporary documentary evidence for an accurate location of these settlers when the county was created is the original Land Entry Book. It has better details than that to be found in the subsequent land grants. It was customary for the settler to describe the location of his plantation on some stream or head waters of some stream, or on some mountain. Each entry is dated. There were numerous transfers of entries before the issuance of a grant. Some are referred to in the entry, but generally the entry taker would mark through the name of the original entree and insert the name of the one to whom it was transferred. Not only was the first named entered, frequently marked out, but many times erased and the next name written in its place. Many of the entries had as many as four names marked out and written in with no way of knowing whose name was the last one written. North Carolina started recoding land transactions through the Land Entry System around March 1778. This old Entry Book Abstracts will be of help to many whose ancestors either passed through or remained in Stokes County.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

86

Release Date:

2026-02-06

Publication Date:

2026-02-06

Publisher:

Southern Historical Press, Inc.

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0944992099

ISBN13:

9780944992098

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

139 g

Height:

152 cm

Width:

229 cm

Thickness:

5 cm

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