>Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:30:46 -0600 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Tue Oct 26 13:30:45 2004 >From: "Rae Jean" <[email protected]> >Old-To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [NCCraven] new books >Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:30:36 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/949 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >Concerning Hofmann's "North Carolina Abstracts of State Grants" series... > >Volume One contains Grant Book 28 through Grant Book 33 >Volume Two contains Grant Book 34 through Grant Book 38 > >There are several counties covered in each Grant Book > >This is a partial quote from George Stevenson, Private Manuscripts >Archivist, North Carolina State Archives dated October 13, 1998 (from the >General Introduction to the State Grants books): >"In the three hundred year history of the land office the volumes have been >numbered and renumbered and the loose papers rearranged more than once. The >final arrangement and renumbering were put into numbered "shuck" files and a >comprehensive grantee card index was made for all the volumes and the loose >papers...." then "... Consequently, though Mrs. Hofmann has commenced with >the lowest numbered state grant book, L.G.B.28, and has continued on with >each succeeding volume, one is going to find whole blocks junior grants >appearing before their seniors. It cannot be helped, for the books can no >longer be restored to their correct order without pulling to pieces the >whole apparatus of numbered volumes, shucked files, and comprehensive card >index. In the end, as Mrs. Hofmann publishes her abstracts with their >personal and geographical name indexes, the awkwardness of the present >numbering system will be overcome by her work." > >Rae Jean ... in Tennessee > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Martha Marble" <[email protected]> > > >: According to Dr. Pruitt and her new catelogue, Margaret Hoffman is >: currently working on a lengthy series entitled "North Carolina Abstracts >of >: State Grants". Someone raised the question recently on one of the lists as >: to whether there were patents/Grants after the Rev. War. There were but >the >: State issued them. These books will help fill in the gaps especially for >: our burned counties and they also cover grants in Tenn.. There are two >: books published so far but I have not seen them. I don't have an URL for >: ordering but will try to get one for the lists. As Dr. Pruitt said - we >: hope she has a long and healthy life. >: > > >==== NCCRAVEN Mailing List ==== >Craven County, North Carolina NCGenWeb >http://www.usgennet.org/~nccraven/ > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237