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Land Entries of Chatham County, North Carolina, 1778-1790

Albert Bruce Pruitt Albert Bruce Pruitt

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Southern Historical Press
01 April 2026
By Albert Bruce Pruitt, published 1990, reprinted 2026, 154 pages, index, soft cover, ISBN #978-0-94499-229-6. Chatham County was formed in 1770 from Orange County. 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. These abstracts of 1,356 entries of this old Entry Book will be of help to many whose ancestors either passed through or remained in Chatham County.
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Imprint:   Southern Historical Press
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   218g
ISBN:   9780944992296
ISBN 10:   0944992293
Pages:   156
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Recommended Age:   17 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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