Jones County was carved out of Craven County in 1779. The records abstracted in this volume are the earliest and oldest records of the county, beginning in 1779 and continuing through 1868, and they relate to several thousand individuals. The abstracts consist of Deeds, Wills, Tax Lists, Guardian Accounts and Settlement, Census Records (Censuses of 1786 and 1850), Land Grants and Entries, and ...
More than thirteen years in preparation, Mackenzie's Colonial Families treats only those families who trace their ancestry back to the period 1607-1776. Ranging from three or four pages to ten or twenty pages or more, each family history article furnishes the British or European pedigree of the colonial ancestor, followed by a listing of his descendants--generation by generation--up to the ...
This volume and Volumes II and III represent the best and by far the most ambitious work on the Loyalists published in recent years. Based on the author's wide-ranging investigations in military records in the archives of the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, this work contains a vast amount of previously undiscovered data pertaining to the identification of Loyalist soldiers and their ...