Hi, I am new to the list. I am researching Hilburns in the North Carolina,and I am trying to put together family trees on the some of the following names. George V Hilburn Hillb-4@Juno.com http://www.geocities.com/ghilburn888/index.html North Carolina Duplin & Sampson County Deeds (Abstracts) NOTE: These deeds are on file in Sampson County that was formed out of Duplin County Source: Sampson County Historical Society 19 Aug 1755 John Roe to John HILBURN, book 2, pg 284 Bought 100 acres south of Little Coharie 2 Mar 1756 John HILBURN to James Parker, Book 2, pg 346 Sold land south of Little Coharie 2 Feb 1767 Joseph Register to John HILBURN, Book 1, pg 235 Bought 150 acres northwest of Six Runs 1767 James Cook to Hamblin HILBURN, Book 1, pg 312 Bought 300 acres west of Six Runs on both sides of Crane Creek 1769 John HILBURN to Matthew Spivy, Book 3, pg 347 Sold land northwest of Six Runs 29 Aug 1769 Hamblin HILBURN to James Cook, Book 4, pg 269 Sold 150 acres of the land east of Crane Creek 2 Jan 1770 Hamblin HILBURN to James Elkins, Book 4, pg 412 Sold 50 acres west of Crane Creek 11 Nov 1770 James Elkins to Hamblin HILBURN, Book 4, pg 431 Bought 150 acres west of Six Runs, lower side of Crane Creek 27 Mar 1771 Hamblin HILBURN to Benjamin Register, Book 4, pg 443 Sold 150 acres west of Six Runs, lower side of Crane Creek 27 July 1777 Stephen Gayney to Hamblin HILBURN, Book 5, pg 472 Bought 50 acres east of Buckhorn Creek 17 Dec 1786 John Jones to Patience HILBURN, Book 8, pg 169 (proved in court 13 Aug 1787) bought 100 acres west of Little Coharie 20 Sep 1787 Hamblin HILBURN to William Jordon, Book 8, pg 208 (proved in court 13 May 1788) sold 100 acres west of Six Runs 2 Feb 1790 James Cook to Vaughn HILBERN, Book 9, pg 2 Bought 350 acres in two tracts, 150 acres west side of Six Runs on both sides of Buck Horn Creek, and 200 acres, a new survey beginning on the east line of the first tract 4 Nov 1793 Vaughn HILBURN to William Peterson, Book 9, pg 192 Sold 350 acres that was in two tracts Dobbs County (part of which became Wayne County) Abstracts of Land Patents 1765-1775 By Hofmann, Carlsbad CA Library, 975.6 3958 pg 119, William Alfred, 23 Jan 1773, 450 acres in Dobbs on the south side of Norhunty Swamp above Peacocks Bridge, joining Robert Fellows, VACEN HILLBURN, a pond, John Elliot, Moses Vitters, and Henry Easterling. 31 May 1784 Sam Pike to son, Book 2, 1784-1785 100 acres on the south side of Naughhunty Swamp, being part of a tract granted to Vaun Hillborn on 21 Dec 1763 12 Aug 1789 Vaughn Hilband to Hardy Pope, Book 5, pg 150 60 acres being part of a tract of land which Vaughn Hilband purchased of Daniel Howell