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Southern Historical Press, Inc., 2018. Soft cover. New. By: W.O. Absher, Pub. 1989, Reprinted 2018, 130 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-645-2. 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 refereed 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…
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Wilkes County, North Carolina Land Entry Book, 1778-1781. Paperback - 2017
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- Title Wilkes County, North Carolina Land Entry Book, 1778-1781.
- Author W. O. Absher
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 132
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Southern Historical Press
- Date 2017-12-21
- ISBN 9780893086459 / 0893086452
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.31 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.79 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: South
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