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All sales must be paid with certified funds.

All sales are held subject to tax years not included in the judgment and the purchaser will be responsible for paying those subsequent taxes once the deed is recorded. Chatham County will not pay recording fees at the Register of Deeds office.

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Those fees are the responsibility of the purchaser and are to be paid when recording the deed. If Chatham County purchases the property at the sale, the property will be disposed of in accordance with N. Other hardships also may qualify. If you have any questions or need additional information please contact: Angela McMahon angela. How can we improve this page for you? Free viewers are required for some of the attached documents. Select the collections to add or remove from your search. Select All Collections.

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North Carolina State Parks. Office of Archives and History Research Reports. Bath, Bute, Dobbs, Glasgow, and Tryon counties are included. Granville District grants. The index is at the beginning of the film. Lords Proprietors grants prior to This portion covers grants mainly within the old Albemarle County area. The index follows the Granville District grants index.

Lords Proprietors grants for which no county is given. Most of these grants were probably in the old Albemarle County area. This is the last index on the film. Tennessee grants.

This index also includes grants based on military bounty warrants that have the words Military Warrant stamped at the bottom. Prior to the border between Virginia and North Carolina was not defined, so many early North Carolina grants were found in Virginia. For example, one of the eight Carolina proprietors, Sir William Berkeley, lived in the American colonies and served as the governor of Virginia. In he started granting patents for land that was located in the Carolinas. Abstracts of 29 of his patents can be found in volume 1 of:. Nugent, Nell Marion. Richmond, Virginia.

See the index in volume 1. Volume 1 includes records for — No entries, warrants, or plats have been found for the years — Most of the Lords Proprietors began granting land in the Carolinas in , but unfortunately all of the entries, warrants, plats, and patents for through are lost. For the time period of through the entry records are also lost, but a transcription of some of the surviving warrants and surveys can be found in:.

Haun, Weynette Parks. Durham, North Carolina: W. Haun, Many of the original warrants and surveys have been microfilmed in the Land Records, s thru , Land Grant Index listed above. The original land patent books or copies of these books covering —, have survived and are located at the North Carolina State Archives.

Microfilms of these patent books are not available at the Family History Library. These patent books contain approximately 3, patents and are abstracted in:. Hofmann, Margaret M. Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina: M. Hofmann, Headright Patents. During the Proprietary Era and ending in , emigrants to North Carolina could obtain entitlement to land patents, usually 50 acres for each family member, friend, or stranger for whom they paid passage. The same rules also applied to those who brought settlers into North Carolina from other American colonies. These requirements changed over time.

The number of acres was determined by the number of people or "heads" brought into the colony. Lands obtained in this fashion are often described as headrights, and no fees were paid by those entitled to these patents. Many people sold their entitlement to a buyer known as an assignee. Purchase Patents.

Beginning in the s, settlers who moved into the Carolinas could also obtain a patent by paying the necessary paperwork fees associated with the steps of entry, warrant, and plat.