Not to be disagreeable, but I live in North Carolina and while some counties have less than others, and some counties had court houses burn, a lot have loads of court records in the 1700's. They went to court for recreation. I think as a blanket statement, no records in the 1700's for North Carolina is just too great a generalization. IMHO Christina Charlotte, North Carolina > Like Clare, my kin are in NC, Va, Md, Mo with the first and last > being -- no records.