ALABAMA MORTALITY SCHEDULE 1860 compiled by Marilyn Davis Barefield. I.S.B.N.
#0-89308-603-7. List of everyone who died from June 1859 to June 1860. Information given was age,
sex, color, whether free person or a slave, place of birth, occupation, month of death, cause of
death, and number of days sick.
BUTLER COUNTY, ALABAMA OBITUARIES Marilyn Davis Barefield. All Probate records
in Butler Co. were destroyed in a fire in 1853. The obituaries included in this book will help
replace some of the valuable genealogical data that was lost at that time. I.S.B.N. #0-89308-549-9.
159 pages, soft cover, full name index.
BUTLER CO. ALABAMA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Marilyn Davis Hahn. Contains civil and military appointments 1817-1842, 1856 Real Estate Tax, 1865-66 Income Tax, Family sketches, 1886 Gazetteer of Alabama. All the local news from two rare newspapers, inscriptions from the headstones of people who were born before 1850 are listed in alphabetical order with pertinent data added from obituaries. Many marriage records are gathered from correspondents, from Bibles, obituaries, biographies to
replace
data that was destroyed by fire. 209 pages, indexed, maps and photos, hard cover.
CLARKE CO. ALABAMA RECORDS 1814-1885 Marilyn D. Barefield. Contains Marriage Books A. & B, 1815-1865: obituaries from Clarke Co. papers in the 1800s; an assortment of notices from 1896 and 1850 Clarke Co. papers: Clarke Co. Deed Records 1819-1820; Clarke Go, Civil Register: Co. Officers: Clarke Co. Civil War Pensions; Deed Record A, and many cemetery records. Probate Records Book A. 1813-1825 and Records of Guardians of Estates and Wills, 1832-1839. A GOLDMINE OF INFORMATION. 172
pages,
full name index, hard binding.
OLD DEMOPOLIS LAND OFFICE RECORDS & MILITARY WARRANTS. 1818-1860 RECORDS OF
THE VINE & OLIVE COLONY Marilyn Davis Barefield, 1988. Records of Choctaw, Greene, Hale, Mareng
o & Sumter Counties. 172 pp. maps, full name index. Cloth binding.
OLD HUNTSVILLE LAND OFFICE RECORDS Marilyn Davis Barefield. Public lands sold
from counties of Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Lamar,
Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Morgan, Shelby, St. Clair, Tuscaloosa,
Walker, and Winston. approx. 9,600 names listed. Full name index, maps.
THE OLD MARDISVILLE, LEBANON & CENTRE LAND OFFICE RECORDS & MILITARY W
ARRANTS 1834-1860 Marilyn Davis Barefield. Mardisville was opened up in 1839 along the
Georgia-Alabama border.
OLD MONTGOMERY LAND OFFICE RECORDS AND MILITARY WARRANTS 1834-1869, by Marilyn
Davis Barefield. Contains records from the present-day counties of: Autauga, Barbour, Bullock,
Chambers, Coosa, Elmore, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery, Russell, Talladega and Tallapoosa. About
150 pages, full name index, library binding.
PICKENS COUNTY, ALABAMA Marilyn Davis Barefield. I.S.B.N. #0-89308-532-2. Contains data abstracted from early newspapers, marriages, obituaries, probate notices and many other items of local interest. Included are records from Alabama Mortality Schedules for 1850 & 1860; an 1890 election; Civil Register of County Officials, biographical sketches, early post offices and postmasters; and excerpts from the HISTORY OF PICKENS CO. An early map is also included. 120 pages, full name index,
soft
cover.
HISTORICAL RECORDS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA 1832-1900 Marilyn Davis
Barefield. I.S.B.N.#0-89308-548-0. Compilation of genealogical & historical data to help repl
ace records destroyed in a fire in 1897. Three newspapers have been abstracted, Register of Death
from 1886 to 1897 provide name of deceased, and information about the deceased, 1850 Mortality
Schedule, Civil War Pensioners, and a few wills and deeds are also included. 229 pages, full name
index. Cloth.
OLD ST.STEPHENS LAND OFFICE RECORDS Marilyn Davis Hahn -I.S.B.N. #0-89308-332-1.
Contains records from six of the ledgers in the St. Stephens Land Office in what is now southwest
Alabama and southern Mississippi beginning in 1805. Two ledgers contain military bounty land
warrants. Two series of maps showing development of Alabama counties and the other the territory
controlled by the Land Offices of Alabama. Approx. 6,300 early settlers are listed. 196 pages, full
name index. cloth cover.
OLD SPARTA & ELBA LAND OFFICE RECORDS Marilyn Davis Hahn. I.S.B
.N. #0-89308-339-9. Land Office opened in Sparta in 1822 in the territory taken from the Cahaba
Land Office and later transferred to Elba in 1854. All of the land sold out of these offices was
located in the counties of Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Conecuh, Dale, Escambia, Geneva, Henry,
Houston & Pike. Nearly 8,000 early settlers are listed. 202 pages, full name index. Cloth cover.
OLD TUSKALOOSA LAND OFFICE RECORDS Marilyn Davis Barefield. I.S.B.N.# 0-89308-530-8. Tuskaloosa Land Office was created 1820 and controlled the sale of land in Tuscaloosa, Jefferson, St. Clair, Bibb, Pickens, Sumter, Greene, Perry, Hale, Shelby, Fayette, and Walker counties in Alabama, and the eastern portion of Monroe County, Mississippi. About 8,800 settlers from 1821-1855 are enumerated. Also included Military Bounty Warrants. Contains a series of maps depicting the development of
the State
with the addition of several maps not previously used. 228 pages, full name index, Cloth binding.
RECORDS OF WILCOX COUNTY, ALABAMA Marilyn Davis Barefield. 1988. 219 pages, full
name index, cloth binding.
NORTH CAROLINA
BOOKS
NORTH CAROLINA WILLS: A TESTATOR INDEX 1665-1900 by Thornton W. Mitchell.
Corrected and revised edition, in one volume. 582 pages, library binding. EXCELLENT SOURCE FOR N.C.
RESEARCH!
War of 1812 - Muster Rolls of Soldiers Detached from the Militia of North
Carolina in 1812 & 1814. 193 pages, reprint of 1851 volume. Contains names of 12,000 men who ser
ved in War of 1812. Library binding.
BUTE CO. N. C. MINUTES OF THE COURT OF PLEAS AND QUARTER SESSIONS 1767-1779 by
Brent Holcomb.
NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER by William S. Powell - State glossary compiled by prof.
of history at Chapel Hill. Gives names and locations of creeks, mountains, formation of counties,
etc. YOU NEED THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE DOING N.C. RESEARCH.
CHOWAN PRECINCT N.C. 1696-1723 by Hofmann. 295 pages. Contains genealogical
abstracts of deed books.
COLONY OF N.C.1735-1764 Hofmann. abstracts of 7500+ land patents issued during
the first 35 years N.C. was a crown colony.
EDGECOMBE PRECINCT 1732-1758 by Hofmann. 287 pages, Contains abstracts of
deeds.
THE GRANVILLE DISTRICT OF N.C. 1748-1763 Vol. 1, by Margaret M. Hofmann. The
following counties were cut from the old Granville District: ANSON, BEAUFORT, BERTIE, BLADEN,
CHOWAN, CUMBERLAND, CURRITUCK, DOBBS andEDGECOMBE. Hard cover, place name index as well as surname
index. 209 pages, hard binding.
THE GRANVILLE DISTRICT OF N.C. 1748-1763 Vol. 2, by Hofmann. Records from
present-day Granville, Halifax, Hyde, Johnston, Northampton, Orange, and Tyrrell. 415 pages, hard
cover, dust jacket, full name index.
THE GRANVILLE DISTRICT OF N. C. Vol. 3, by Hofmann. Contains abstracts of land
grants from Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, and Rowan counties. 169 pages, completely index, library
binding.
THE GRANVILLE DISTRICT OF N.C. 1748-1763, Volume IV by Margaret Hofmann.
Compiled from loose Granville District papers--includes counties of Anson, Beaufort, Bertie,
Bladen, Chowan, Cumberland, Currituck, Dobbs, Edgecombe, and Granville. 417 pages, library binding.
Full name index, place index.
THE GRANVILLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA 1748-1763, Volume V by Margaret M.
Hofmann. Contains abstracts of miscellaneous land office records from Halifax, Hertford, Hyde,
Johnston, Northampton, Orange, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Rowan and Tyrrell counties. 463 pages,
library binding, full name index.
HALIFAX CO. WILLS 1758-1824 by Hofmann. Genealogical abstracts of wills. 296
pages.
MECKLENBURG CO., N.C. ABSTRACTS OF EARLY WILLS 1763-1790 by Brent Holcomb, soft
cover.
MECKLENBURG CO. N.C. WILL ABSTRACTS 1791-1868 Books A-J by Herman W. Ferguson.
Also includes Tax Lists for 1797, 1798, 1799, 1806 & 1807. The advantage of two books in one -
the tax lists supplement the wills to give data on early residents. Index to names, places and
subjects, such as cotton gins, occupations etc. Excellent new source!
MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N. C. GENEALOGICAL DEED ABSTRACTS, Books 10-14, by Herman W.
Ferguson. Soft cover, place name index as well as full name index.
MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N. C. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS AND QUARTER SESSIONS, by Herman
W. Ferguson. Very valuable new book.
NORTHAMPTON CO. WILLS 1759-1808 by Hofmann. 175 pages, hard binding, full name
index.
NORTHAMPTON CO. DEEDS 1741-1759 by Hofmann. 178 pages.abstracts of deeds.
ABSTRACTS OF DEED BOOKS 11-14 OF ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. 1786 - 1797 by James W.
Kluttz. 220 pages, library binding, with fold-out map of county, full name index.
PROVINCE OF N.C. 1663-1729 Hofmann. Abstracts of 3900 land patents of the
Proprietary period.
TRYON COUNTY N.C. - MINUTES OF COURT OF PLEAS AND QUARTER SESSIONS 1769-1779 by
Brent Holcomb. 234 pages, library binding, full name index.
TYRRELL CO. N.C. MINUTES COURT OF PLEAS & QUARTER SESSIONS 1735-1754 Book 1
by Betty Fagan Burr. Verbatim transcripts, glossary of legal terms. 137 pages, full name index.
TYRRELL CO. N.C. MINUTES COURT OF PLEAS & QUARTER SESSIONS 1755-1761 Burr. B
ook 2 - continuation of Book 1.
ABSTRACTS OF LETTERS OF RESIGNATIONS OF MILITIA OFFICERS IN N.C. 1779-1840, by
Timothy Kearney. 1406 numbered entries with numerous other officers mentioned as taken from the NC
General Assembly Papers and other sources. 144 pages, soft cover, full name and place index.
Some additional materials that may be of interest to those researching North
Carolina are shown below. In this list, those items preceeded with FHC are obtainable through the
Family History Centers (FHC) of the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) and are generally
microfilms which must be viewed at the center.
COUNTY HISTORIES:
Biggs, for DAR., Colonial Robeson and Its Contribution to the Revolutionary
War.1945.
Gibson, Joyce, Scotland County Emerging 1750-1900; The History of a Small Section of NC [Some material relates to Robeson County], Walsworth Publishing Co of Missouri, 1995, Features: Hardcover, 316 pages, Table of Contents, 97 photos, 19 illustrations, Foreward, Preface, Endnotes, and index Contents: Economic, Social, and Political History and some Genealogy, Costs: $36.00; 2.16 sales tax NC residents only; $3.50 shipping & handling Total: NC residents $41.66; Out of state $39.50,
Order
From: Joyce M. Gibson, 14921 McFarland Rd, Laurel Hill, NC 28351
Lawrence, The State of Robeson. 1939.
BIBLE RECORDS:
FHC Film Numbers 0893722, NC Cemeteries, Wills, military records, Bible
records
FHC Film Numbers 0860237, Scotland, Robeson, Marriage, cemetery, Bible
records
CEMETERY RECORDS:
Townsend, Peggy T., Vanishing Ancestors, Cemetery Records of Robeson County,
North Carolina, Volume Two, By author: 1979.
FHC Film Numbers 0893722, NC Cemeteries, Wills, military records, Bible
records
FHC Film Numbers 0018068, 0018069, 0873690, 0860339, 0901215, NC
Cemeteries
FHC Film Numbers 0860237, Scotland, Robeson, Marriage, cemetery, Bible
records
FHC Film Numbers 0882939, Robeson co. cemeteries before 1914
Williamson, Jason McLeod, Robeson County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts,
1787-1793, Vol. I. 1982.
Williamson, Jason McLeod, Robeson County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts,
1793-1797, Vol. II. 1984.
Williamson, Jason McLeod, Robeson County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts,
1797-1800, Vol. III. 1986.
MARRIAGE RECORDS:
Microfiche, Brides and Grooms of North Carolina, LDS/FHL micro-fiche...filmed by
the LDS Church at the North Carolina Archives and History Dept., Raleigh, Brides Bonds: #6330591
1-44 fiche, Grooms Bonds: #6330596 1-44 fiche, Lookups for Robeson County ONLY.
FHC Film Numbers 0860237, Scotland, Robeson, Marriage, cemetery, Bible
records
FHC Film Numbers 0019702, Robeson co. marriage records
FHC Film Numbers 0418149, Robeson co. marriages, early to 1868
WILLS - PROBATE AND EQUITY RECORDS:
J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, Abstract Of North Carolina Wills compiled
from Original and Recorded Wills In The Office Of The Secretary Of State. Reprint for Clearfield
Co., Inc. by Genealogical Pub. Co., Inc., Baltimore: 1991. Lookups for Robeson County ONLY.
Mitchell, Thornton W., North Carolina Wills: A Testator Index 1665-1900
Corrected and Revised Ed. 2nd printing, (Genealogical Pub. Co., Inc. Baltimore: 1993. Lookups for
Robeson County ONLY.
FHC Film Numbers 0893722, NC Cemeteries, Wills, military records, Bible
records
SOUTH CAROLINA
BOOKS
A GUIDE TO S. C. GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH WITH RECORDS (revised 1991) by Brent
Holcomb.
SOUTH CAROLINA DEED ABSTRACTS 1773-1778 by Brent H. Holcomb.
SOUTH CAROLINA DEED ABSTRACTS 1776-1783 by Brent H. Holcomb.
RECORDS OF DEATHS IN COLUMBIA, S.C. AND ELSEWHERE AS RECORDED BY JOHN GLASS
1859-1877 by Brent Holcomb. Contains 223 pages, library binding, full name index. Includes deaths
from GA as well as SC.
ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN DEATH & MARRIAGE NOTICES FROM THE CHRIST
IAN MAGAZINE OF HE SOUTH 1843-1863 compiled by Lowry Ware. 209 pages, library binding, full
name index.
WINTON (BARNWELL) CO., S. C., MINUTES OF CO. COURT AND WILL BOOK 1 1785-1791 by
Brent Holcomb.
MARRIAGE AND DEATH NOTICES FROM BAPTIST NEWSPAPERS OF S.C. 1835-1865 by Brent
Holcomb.
MARRIAGE AND DEATH NOTICES FROM COLUMBIA, S. C. NEWSPAPERS 1838-1860 INCLUDING
LEGAL NOTICES FROM BURNT COUNTIES by Brent Holcomb.
SPARTANBURG CO., S.C. WILL ABSTRACTS 1787-1840 by Brent Holcomb.
SPARTANBURG CO., S.C. - MINUTES OF THE COUNTY COURT 1785-1799 by Brent H.
Holcomb. 326 pages, library binding, full name index.
MARRIAGE AND DEATH NOTICES FROM THE UP-COUNTRY OF S. C. AS TAKEN FROM GREENVILLE
NEWSPAPERS 1826-1863 by Brent Holcomb.
YORK, S. C. NEWSPAPERS MARRIAGE AND DEATH NOTICES 1823-1865 by Brent
Holcomb.
Laurens Co., S. C. Will Bk. A-C 1777-1809 by Frances Terry Ingmire. Full copies
of each will, with names of witness, and which Will book the document is recorded.
LAURENS CO., S. C. WILL BK. D-E by Frances Terry Ingmire. 1810-1825.
LAURENS CO., S. C. WILL BK. F by Frances Terry Ingmire 1825-1834.
EDGEFIELD, S. C. WILLS, Volume I 1787-1806 by Frances Terry Ingmire.
EDGEFIELD, S. C. WILLS, Volume II 1785-1818 by Frances Terry Ingmire.
MARRIAGE NOTICES FROM THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1867-1878 by Brent
Holcomb.
DEATH AND OBITUARY NOTICES FROM THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1867-1878.
VIRGINIA BOOKS
COLONIAL CAROLINE - A History of Caroline County, Virginia by T. E. Campbell.
Publishing originally in 1954, this is the third printing of this valuable book. 561 pages, library
binding, dust jacket, full name index.
THE HORNBOOK OF VIRGINIA HISTORY, fourth edition. A MUST for those doing
Virginia research. Tells formation of counties, brief history, burned counties, etc. 324 pages,
soft cover.
THE JAMES - WHERE A NATION BEGAN - by Parke Rouse, Jr. The story of America's
most historic river, from the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 to the present. By the same
author as THE GREAT WAGON ROAD.
VESTRY BOOK OF PETSWORTH PARISH - GLOUCESTER COUNTY, VA 1677-1793, published by
Virginia State Library. 429 pages, surname index, topic index, soft cover.
VESTRY BOOK OF STRATTON MAJOR PARISH - KING AND QUEEN CO. VA 1729-1783,
published by the Virginia State Library, 257 pages, soft cover, surname index, topic index.
VESTRY BOOK OF UPPER PARISH - NANSEMOND CO. VA 1743-1793, published by Virginia
State Library, 328 pages, soft cover, surname index, topic index.
CHARLES PARISH - YORK CO. VA HISTORY AND REGISTERS. Contains births from 1648 to
1789 and deaths from 1665 to 1787. Fantastic source of York Co. data. Published by Virginia State
Library. 285 pages, soft cover, full name index.
ALBERMARLE PARISH - SURRY AND SUSSEX COUNTIES 1739-1798 by National Society
Colonial Dames of America. 275 pages, library binding, indexed.
BRISTOL PARISH, VA 1720-1789 by Churchill G. Chamberlayne. 428 pages, library
binding.
A HISTORY OF BRISTOL PARISH - with genealogies of family connected there. by
Rev. Philip Slaughter. 238 pages, library binding. Genealogies include: ATKINSON, BOLLING, BLAND,
CLAIBORNE, EPPES, FIELD, GILLIAM, GRAMMER, HAXALL, KENNON, MAY, MUNFORD, MURRAY, PETERSON, PEGRAM,
RAMSEY, RANDOLPH, ROBERTSON, SKIPWITH, WALKER, WITHERS and WORSHAM.
VESTRY BOOK OF HENRICO PARISH 1730-1773 by Dr. R. A. Brock. 204 pages, new
index, library binding.
CUMBERLAND PARISH, LUNENBURG CO., VA 1746-1816 and VESTRY BOOK 1746-1816, 633
pages, library binding.
THE GREAT WAGON ROAD - From Philadelphia to the South, by Parke Rouse, Jr. - How
the Scotch-Irish and Germanics Settled the Uplands. 292 pages, soft cover, indexed.
ADVENTURES OF PURSE AND PERSON - VIRGINIA 1607-1624/5, Third edition. Published
by Order of First Families of Virginia. 827 pages, library binding. A MUST for early Virginia
research.
ALABAMA BOOKS