Land Entries of Rowan County, North Carolina, 1778-1795

Name: Land Entries of Rowan County, North Carolina, 1778-1795
Price: 56.27 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780944992043

Albert Bruce Pruitt

$65.95 $56.27

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We will update you on expected arrival time to us. If this delay is too long, please let us know within 2 business days and we can give you options regarding cancelling or adjusting your order. More details on cancelling your order can be found in our Terms of Trade.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Southern Historical Press
24 April 2026

Reference works; History of the Americas; Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours; Local history; Family history, tracing ancestors

Summary
Details

By Albert Bruce Pruitt, published 1987, reprinted 2026, 198 pages, index, soft cover, ISBN #978-0-94499-204-3. Rowan County was formed in 1753 from Anson 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 1,876 entries of this old Entry Book will be of help to many whose ancestors either passed through or remained in Rowan County.

By: Albert Bruce Pruitt
Imprint: Southern Historical Press
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780944992043
ISBN 10: 0944992048
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 24 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active