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 ...
In 1907, the Indian Territory became the State of Oklahoma. To qualify for the payments and land allotments set aside for the Five Civilized Tribes, the former slaves of these nations had to apply for official enrollment, thus producing testimonies of immense value to todays genealogist. In this expanded edition, Ms. Walton-Raji shows where to find and how to use the Indian Freedman Records, ...
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 ...