Colonial Bertie County, North Carolina, Deed Books A-H, 1720-1757., Paperback

By: Mary Best Bell, Orig. Pub. 1963, Reprinted 2019, 328 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN # 0-89308-048-9.

Bertie Precinct was formed in 1722 and form it were formed the later N.C. counties of Tyrell, Edgecombe, Northampton, Granville, Halifax, Nash, Wilson, Hertford, Martin, Washington, Orange, Vance, Franklin, and Warren. Deeds are one of the favorite research tools of the genealogists due to the wide variety of family connections found within them. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often things such as: marriages, relinquishments of dower, divisions of family farms among the heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds. This book contains the names of more than 24,000 persons in these deeds.