New Hanover County, North Carolina Deeds, 1789-1793. (Volume #4)

By: Dr. A.B. Pruitt, Pub. 2004, reprinted 2026, 172 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-736-6. New Hanover was created in 1729 as New Hanover precinct of Bath County which was later dissolved. It is the parent county to Brunswick, Duplin and Pender Counties. It sits on the Atlantic Ocean in the Southeastern portion of the state. It is surrounded by: Brunswick, Bladen, Duplin, Onslow and Sampson Counties. Deeds are GREAT source for genealogical research due to the many and varied family members that are mentioned. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often times such things as: marriages, relinquishment of dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds. These 638 deed abstracts are from Books I & K which cover the years 1789-1793.