Old North Carolina Notes. Tryon County also included York, Union, Chester, Spartanburg and pieces of other SC districts or counties. Tryon was so big as to be totally impossible to sort out any of these records except the "for sure" locations. Fred Hambright was very active in buying and selling. Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln & Rutherford Counties, N.C.: 1769-1786, Brent Holcomb, Southern Historical Press July 22, 1769, Thomas Welsh to Rev. John Frederick Doubber ... 300 A N side beaver Dam Creek waters of S fork Catawba. July 26, 1769, Joseph Harden to John Mullinax ... Kings Creek about a mile above John Hardin. April 17, 1770, Hezekiah Collins to Isaac Collins ... E side Kings Creek below Milstone Branch near Moores land. June 17, 1770, John Collins to Hezekiah Collins ... part of tract granted to John Collins 1768 on both sides of Kings Creek. March 12, 1770, James Fanning to Joseph England ... E side of Broad River on the High Shoal branch of Kings Creek above John Alexander & Frederick Hambright ... granted to James Fanning October 26, 1767. January 1, 1773, Daniel Devour to Joseph England ... livestock. July 22, 1773, John Mullinax & wf Sarah to James Patterson land on a branch of Kings Creek.