Lately have come across several posts asking about the availability of Bastardy Bonds. Several of the USGenweb/Rootsweb County websites have abstracts for their counties online. Here are some of the links I have found where others have generously posted them online. While you're at it, check out the entire websites to see what else may be of help to you: For those of you on the Warren County Mailing list, you already know this one where I have posted a series of messages containing Bastardy & Apprenticeships abstracts covering 1805-1868 on the Warren County Message Board: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.warren Nash County USGenweb- Illegimate Children 1787 -1833: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnash/base.htm Granville County USGenweb- Bastardy Bonds 1749-1780: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgranvi/other/bas-bond.htm Orphan Bonds Granville County 1749-1786: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgranvi/other/orph-bnd.htm This is the link to the Franklin County USGenweb Home Page. Click onto the COURT RECORDS, and scroll through the various records for years 1786 - 1840, where apprenticeships & bastardy cases were handled. There are also many other records at this site, check it out if you haven't already: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncfrankl/ Bastardy Bonds-Chatham County: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncchatha/bastardy.htm You can check out the other counties from the USGenweb site by clicking onto the County you want: http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Encgenweb/county.html Also, the author, Betty Camin, who wrote a book about the bastardy bonds of North Carolina, has a website which has abstracts of these kinds of records at: http://home.earthlink.net/~bcamin/betty.htm Deloris Williams