Transcriptions of Provincial North Carolina Wills L-Z Genealogy New Book

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Transcription of Provincial North Carolina Wills, 1663-1729/30.
Volume Two,  Testators L-Z
John Brayton
Hardbound volume totaling
437
pages. Book is in new condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
This is the second volume of a two-volume set containing      meticulous transcriptions of 900 of the earliest wills in North Carolina.      With the exception of a handful of wills that were previously published in J      Bryan Grimes'
North Carolina Wills and      Inventories
(1912, reprinted by Clearfield Company in 2005), none of      these transcriptions has ever appeared in print before. The wills are part      of the North Carolina Secretary of State papers, and they encompass the      entire period before North Carolina became a royal colony. (A number of the      wills in this collection, we should note, come from Nansemond and Warwick      counties, Virginia.) With the exception of the Grimes wills referred to      above, these wills are neither transcribed nor referenced in the North      Carolina will titles associated with Grimes, Fred Olds, Thornton Mitchell,      or Stephen Bradley.
The wills themselves are arranged in alphabetical order      according to the surname of the testator. Since Mr. Brayton has transcribed      the will--and not merely abstracted it--researchers are privy to every      detail; in other words, not only the names and relationships of all persons      identified but also disposition of property, locations, proximity to water      courses and landmarks, and so on. Each volume contains a complete name      index, an index to locations, and a separate slave index.
This volume contains a number of corrections to the first      volume and includes a few wills subsequently discovered by the compiler      whose testators fall within the alphabetical sequence of
Volume      I
.
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Thomas Nicholas
Hardbound   set of two volumes  totaling
948
pages. Books are in  excellent  condition. Per  the publisher.
"First published in 1872, with a second edition in 1875, Nicholas's Annals and Antiquities of the County Families of Wales is still the standard work on Welsh family history and the chief source of genealogical data on the counties and families of the principality. Unlike other books on the subject, it combines histories of the ancient counties of Wales with family      lineages, integrating the two to show the social and genealogical evolution of the country. Again unlike other works, it is based on the author's personal investigation of county records and family papers, producing in the end what can only be described as the most complete and faithful compendium of Welsh family history ever published.
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