County Deed Databases
Beaufort County (Index to real estate conveyances, 1696-1959; deeds & mortgages, 1700-1960 – FamilySearch); Also:
- Deeds proven in court, 1802-1805
- Deeds, mortgages and bills of sale, 1784, 1803-1807
- Entries and claims of land, 1882-1926, and register of claims, 1892-1900
- Land patent book, 1804-1805; land sold for taxes, 1876-1905
- Miscellaneous material : includes few marriage licenses and land records, etc., and land entries and land patents, 1778-1795
- North Carolina, Beaufort County, civil action papers, 1785-1910
- North Carolina, Beaufort County, land record
- Partitions and divisions, 1736-1878
- Patent records, grants, 1798-1816
- Record of sale and resale under mortgages and deeds of trust, 1915-1960
- Registration of titles and index, 1914-1959
Carteret County (Deeds, 1721-1931; index to deeds, 1720-1961 – Family Search); Also:
- Land entries, 1778-1823
- Land entry books, 1866-1958
- North Carolina warrants, surveys and related documents, ca. 1735-1957
- North Carolina, Carteret County, sherrif’s deeds, 1882-1888
- Record of resale of land by trustees and mortgagees, 1922-1961
Craven County (Index, Deeds, and Land Grants from 1739 – Craven County Register of Deeds); Also, FamilySearch has the following:
- Deeds & mortgages, 1708-1918; index to deeds & mortgages, 1708-1960
- Deeds and wills, 1744-1789; inventories, accounts of sales and deeds, inventories of estates, administrators’ accounts, Craven County, North Carolina
- Grants, surveys, and land entries 1716-1778 and 1809-1813
- Land divisions and plots, 1793-1868
- Land entries, 1770-1959
- Land grants, 1710-1835; deeds 1911-1938
- Land records, 1745-1759
- Patent records, 1738-1936
- Record of land sales, 1921-1925
Duplin County (Deeds, Land Grants, Maps, Marriage Records, Slave Records, Co-Habitation Records – Duplin County Register of Deeds); Also, FamilySearch has the following:
- Divisions of land, 1800-1860
- General index and record of committees to divide real estate, 1800-1960
- Index to plat books, 1784-1962; registration of titles, 1927-1960; plat books, 1784-1962
- Processioners’ certificates, 1859-1877; land entries, 1893-1941
- Record of deeds, 1754-1927; index to real estate conveyances, 1779-1962
- Record of mortgage resales, 1922-1931
Edgecombe County (Sign in as guest, then click on Online Index Books. That will let you search index for 1759-1920. – Edgecombe County Register of Deeds); Also, FamilySearch has the following:
- Deed records, 1732-1931; index to deeds, 1759-1920
- North Carolina, Bute and Edgecombe counties, land record
Johnston County (Index, Deeds, Co-Habitation records – Johnston County Register of Deeds); Also, FamilySearch has the following:
- Accounts of commissioners land sales, 1907-1962
- Deeds and land grants 1759-1936; index 1749-1939
- General index to plats, 1914-1962; plat books, 1914-1962
- Index to intestate land divisions and heirs’ land divisions, 1789-1925; land book division of estates, 1789-1960
- Land division, 1818-1914
- Land entries, 1778-1880
- Land entries, 1778-1926
- Record of dowers, 1902-1949; record of widow’s years support, 1902-1939
- Widows dowers and partitions of land, 1793-1817; will of Samuel Mitchener, 1836
Jones County (Deeds, 1779-1901; index, 1779-1959 – FamilySearch); Also:
Lenoir County (Limited, late offerings. Record of deeds and mortgages, 1880-1901; index to real estate conveyances, 1880-1966 – FamilySearch)
Martin County (Index, Deeds, and Land Grants from 1771. Please note, index books mention date range beginning with 1762, but county wasn’t formed until 1774. Martin County Register of Deeds); Also, FamilySearch has the following:
- Division of land and resale records, 1885-1963
- Land entries, plat books, homestead records, registration of titles, etc., 1886-1963
