At 03:01 PM 10/11/99 -0400, Betty Faye Lawton wrote: >Can someone tell me where I might find a copy of the book"The Granville >Proprietary(ies)"? What library it would be in,etc? I searched in the LDS FHL >to no avail. I've all or part of a series of books of old Granville and/or Craven Co. records in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library. This was about four years ago. >The CLOUD family came to Rowan co and my GGGGrandfather was born in 1763 >somewhere in western NC, supposedly Wilkes co area but the family was there >before then. Any leads/help would be greatly appreciated. That seems to be a variant of McLeod. There's a story in one of my mother's families that they dropped the Celtic prefix on the boat before they landed in North America. Elizabeth Whitaker