For those of us PATE researchers who are researching North Carolina during the late 1800s: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familyinformation/ The links at the bottom of the page include: Digest of Disallowed Claims for North Carolina for the years 1878 and 1879; NC Southern Claims Commission Disallowed Claims 1871-1879 Both pages include several PATEs. Carol