Mark Ulmer wrote: > > >Is anyone familiar with what are called the Nottingham land grants? My > >understanding is that they were Presbyterian church members from > >Pennsylvania and Maryland. Does anyone have access to them? > > The Nottingham Company was a Presbyterian congregation that moved to Orange > and Rowan Counties in what is today Guilford County, NC, in the 1750s. I > believe there were about 25 Granville land grants to members of this > congregation. They are plotted on a map by Fred Hughes (there is also a > typed supplement) that is available from the Guilford County Genealogical > Society; it's called "Guilford County, North Carolina, Historical > Documentation", prepared August, 1988. > > Mark Ulmer > > msulmer@ix.netcom.com You can find abstracts of the Nottingham tracts in "The Granville District of North Carolina 1748-1763, Abstracts of Land Grants, vol. 3" by Margaret M. Hofmann. These tracts are sometimes referred to as "being one of the Thirty Irish tracts" or "being one of the Thirty Entries of the Nottingham Settlement" or something similar. Sometimes they are referred to only by number ("So-and-So's Land Known as Number Eighteen"). It helps to know the name of the grantee, as in some instances there is no reference to the Nottingham settlement in the entry. Ideally, those interested will want to get copies of the original grants from the NC State Archives in Raleigh. Nancy Maxwell cmaxwell@flash.net