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Granville County Wills and other Records Available to Members of North Carolina Pioneers
Miscellaneous Wills
- Abstracts of Granville County Wills 1707 to 1760
Digital Images of Loose (unrecorded) Wills 1749 to 1771
Testators: Anderson, George | Arendell, Richard | Bell, Thomas | Benson, Thomas | Bledsoe, Abraham | Bradford, Richard | Bridger, William | Bullock, David | Cooper, Benjamin | Daniel, John | Draughton, Robert | Elwick, Darwin | Fowler, Richard | Goodloe, John | Griggs, Minor | Hargrave, Richard | Harris, Sherwood | Hicks, Absalom | Hightower, Joshua | Holmes, Frederick | Howard, Alexander | Hunt, Henry | Jones, Edward | Jordan, George Sr. | Jordin, Sarah | Langston, Solomon | Linsey, Dennis | McMillan, Alexander | Mershaw, John | Miers, Mathias | Mitchell, Robert | Moore, William | Moss, William | Olliver, William | Parlic, Benjamin | Patterson, Francis | Person, Mary | Phipps, Isaiah | Priddey, Robert | Priddy, Robert | Rieves, William | Robeson, George | Rose, William | Shearon, Joseph | Smith, John | Spivey, Littleton | Taylor, Philip | Veazey, Edward | Wallace, John | White, Richard Sr. | Williams, Daniel | Williams, Thomas | Wilson, Ebenezer | Winston, Isaac | Wood, John | Wright, Joseph
Richard Henderson
1716 Exploration of Governor Alexander Spotswood
Your Real Story
Tracing ancestors is more than just charts of names. And it is not a picture of a leaf or tree, but rather real people who existed. Many people trace their ancestry to patriots of the American Revolution and to the first Colonists in America were is one thing certain: somewhere, someone immigrated to this country and began living the story of their life, It all begins in county records, where the first land grant was acquired or deed filed of record. Taxes were paid and recorded on tax digests. Sons and daughters were given in marriage and these certificates were. Later on, people died, leaving estates to be dealt with. Wills, inventories, sales, receipts, and
annual returns surrounded this process, all filed in the county courthouse
Planting the Crop and Soldiering During the Revolutionary War
Among those who enlisted in the Revolutionary War for 3-month periods was Elisha Dyer. During planting and harvesting, it was necessary to return home. Dyer first enlisted in 1778 when he was sixteen years old and went to Brier Creek where he skirmished with the British at Stono, South Carolina. He re-entered the war about two weeks before the defeat of Gates near Camden (1780). His father sent Jesse Gaskins to serve out his tour as " t was the sickly season" The following year he entered the North Carolina Miitia and participated in the battle of Guilford.
Capt. Thomas Harris
Peter Coffey
Names of Families in Granville County Wills and Estates
Stono River to the Left.
Granville County was formed in 1746 from Edgecombe County and was named after John Carteret, the second Earl Granville, an heir to one of the eight original Lord Proprietors of the Province of North Carolina claimed in the charter of 1665.
In 1752 parts of Granville County, Bladen County, and Johnston County were combined to form Orange County. In 1764 the eastern part of Granville County became Bute County. Finally, in 1881 parts of Granville County, Franklin County, and Warren County were combined to form Vance County.
