It probably cost too much to get brick or rock brought in to build a courthouse that would withstand fire at that time. The Lenoir Co. courthouse burned twice but many years apart, but destroying all the county records from 1757-1880 except the Grantee Index. There are District and Superior Court records at the NC Archives for Lenoir and many deeds and wills were in individual hands. The Secretary of State has a "list" that the counties had to provide of early wills, but it is just the month and year written and probated, persons name, executor is about all the info it contains. Hope this at least gives you some ideas and there are many court records that are good from what I have seen from Lenoir Co. Rose Parks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terrell Johnson" <terelmann19@carolina.rr.com<mailto:terelmann19@carolina.rr.com>> To: <NCROBESO@rootsweb.com<mailto:NCROBESO@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:53 PM Subject: [NCROBESO] Bladen County Courthouse Fires > Just read a post about three separate Bladen County Courthouse fires which > I find odd that any people should let their Courthouse Records be > destroyed by fire 3 times. Didn't they take care of the peoples property? > > Anyway, this could be why I'm having so much difficulty researching one of > my ancestors born in Bladen in the very Late 1700 or early 1800's. > > How long did it take to rebuild them after each fire and what years are > reasonably safe to check records for or must all records be physically > searched at the NC Archives in Raleigh and why would anything be there if > the records all burned. > > Lot's of questions I know. But 3 fires seems to indicate a lack of care by > the Bladen County residents. I'm sorry. > > Terrell Johnson > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >