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North Carolina (PDF) North Carolina Titles in Genealogy & Local History (Unit 1 through Unit 74) Title Author Imprint GLH # # fiche OCLC Record # 1812 tax list of Surry County, North Carolina Surry County (N.C.) c1973. PS 260. 1 microfiche 7546725 Abstract of North Carolina wills compiled from original and recorded North Carolina. 1910 PS 229. 8 microfiches 7528678 wills in the office of the secretary of state An abstract of North Carolina wills from about 1760 to about 1800 Olds, Fred A. 1925 PS 235. 4 microfiches 7532622 Abstract of pensions of North Carolina soldiers of the Revolution, War Burns, Annie Walker, [1960?- ] LH13680. 14 microfiche 49041902 of 1812 & Indian Wars Abstracts of wills recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1752- Shields, Ruth Herndon, 1972 LH12835. 5 microfiche 44843704 1800 An account of the assassination of loyal citizens of North Carolina for Hawkins, Rush C. 1897 LH13256. 1 microfiche 46544251 having served in the Union Army which took place at Kingston [sic] in the months of February and March, 1864 An address delivered before the Anna Jackson Book Club, in the hall of Nixon, Alfred, 1902 LH 44. 1 microfiche 7898583 the Mary Wood School, Lincolnton, N.C. February 22, 1902. Address delivered by Charles H. Armfield, at the laying of the corner- Armfield, Charles H. [1899?] LH 111. 1 microfiche 7961632 stone of Iredell County's new court house, Statesville, N.C., August 29, 1899 Address of Gen. Rufus Barringer at the Luther Commemoration in Barringer, Rufus, [1883] LH 66. 1 microfiche 7919664 Concord, N.C., Nov. 10th, 1883, on the early German settlers in eastern Cabarrus Addresses at the unveiling of the bust of Matt W. Ransom 1911 LH19171. 1 microfiche 262695931 The adventures of a conscript Younce, W. H. 1901 LH19169. 2 microfiches 262695928 Agricultural Mecklenburg and industrial Charlotte Thompson, Edgar Tristram, 1926 LH 165. 5 microfiches 8022982 Alamance Church Wiley, C. H. 1880 LH 45. 1 microfiche 7898654 Among deserving girls in the South Ufford, Frances Ellingwood. [1915?] LH 120. 1 microfiche 7988608 Annals of Caldwell County Scott, W. W. [1930?] LH13608. 2 microfiche 49041831 The annals of Haywood County, North Carolina Allen, W. C. 1935 LH14380. 8 microfiche 51721885 Annals of Lincoln County, North Carolina Sherrill, William L. 1937 LH 114. 7 microfiches 7967559 Annals of progress Powell, William Stevens, 1963 LH13620. 2 microfiche 44843755 Annual register of the Davis Military School Davis Military School (Winston, [1894] LH19031. 1 microfiche 263022961 N.C.) Appreciations and historical addresses Moore, Walter William, [1914?] LH 43. 3 microfiches 7898525 Asheville and Buncombe County Sondley, F. A. 1922 LH13607. 3 microfiche 49041830 Aunt Sally, or, The cross the way to freedom 1858 LH13549. 3 microfiche 47067440 The beginnings of the Pennsylvania-German element in Rowan and Gehrke, William Herman. [1934] LH 33. 1 microfiche 7894255 Cabarrus Counties, North Carolina Bethel to Sharpsburg Hill, Daniel Harvey, 1926 LH16556. 10 microfiche 57621918 Biographical sketches of the early settlers of the Hopewell section Alexander, J. B. 1897 LH 11. 2 microfiches 7882023 Biography of James Patton Patton, James, [1850] LH 121. 1 microfiche 7988670 Branson's North Carolina business directory 1866-1896. PS 226. 42 microfiches 7525264 5/19/09 Page 1 ProQuest ● 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor MI 48106-1346 ● 800-521-0600 ● www.umi.com ● [email protected] North Carolina Titles in Genealogy & Local History (Unit 1 through Unit 74) A brief history of Alamance County, North Carolina Whitsett, William Thornton, 1926 LH 108. 1 microfiche 7960433 A brief history of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cabarrus Steffey, Sidney D. 1899 LH 70. 1 microfiche 7930244 County, N.C. Brief history of the organization of Memorial Primitive Baptist Church, Gooch, J. H. [19--] LH 76. 1 microfiche 7930813 Stem, N.C., December 31, 1923. A brief sketch of the Confederate soldiers who went to the army from Boyden, A. H. 19--?] LH 53. 1 microfiche 7912808 Rowan in 1861 Brief sketches of the North Carolina state troops in the War Between Birdsong, James C. 1894 LH15858. 3 microfiche 55730781 the States A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia Hariot, Thomas, 1900 LH14127. 2 microfiche 51459694 The building and the builders of a city. High Point Chamber of 1947 LH 97. 4 microfiches 7955035 Commerce. The Burnside expedition Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1882 LH18109. 1 microfiche 123305202 The Burnside expedition and the engagement at Roanoke Island Welch, William L. 1890 LH18131. 1 microfiche 123305285 Burnside expedition in North Carolina Traver, Lorenzo. 1880 LH18108. 1 microfiche 123305199 Cabarrus reborn Moore, James Lewis. 1940 LH 69. 2 microfiches 7919788 Capture of Fort Hamby Gwaltney, W. R. 1903 LH 123. 1 microfiche 7992807 Carolina memories Coffin, Helen Watts, [1930?] LH 113. 1 microfiche 7967172 The Catawba soldier of the Civil War Hahn, George W., 1911 LH 118. 5 microfiches 7985178 Centennial history of Alamance County, 1849-1949 Whitaker, Walter E. [1949?] LH 105. 4 microfiches 7960172 Centennial history of Davidson County, North Carolina Leonard, Jacob Calvin, 1927 LH 134. 6 microfiches 7996414 Centennial of Haywood County and its county seat, Waynesville, N.C. Allen, W. C. [1908?] LH10946. 2 microfiche 36348274 Charlotte in picture and prose Alexander, Julia McGehee, c1906. LH 141. 2 microfiches 8011273 Chas. Emerson's North Carolina tobacco belt directory Emerson, Charles. 1886 PS 227. 9 microfiches 7525343 Chatham County, 1771-1971 [1971] LH13621. 6 microfiche 49041842 Christ Church, Rowan County Owens, Robert B. [1921?] LH 56. 1 microfiche 7912952 Chronicles of the Cape Fear River Sprunt, James, 1914 LH13681. 7 microfiche 49041903 Church year book, history and directory of Stoney Creek (1776), Shiloh 1933 LH 106. 1 microfiche 7960240 (1913), Burlington Second (1913) Presbyterian Churches, May 7, 1933, Rev. Frank Smith Blue, pastor Col. J.H. Wheeler's lecture on the Mecklenburg Declaration of Wheeler, John H. 1876 LH 147. 1 microfiche 8014925 Independence Colonial Granville County and its people Ray, Worth S. 1945 LH 98. 2 microfiches 7955086 Colonial homes in North Carolina Allcott, John V., 1963 LH12829. 2 microfiche 44843698 The colonial records of North Carolina Saunders, William Laurence, 1886-1905. PS 268. 291 microfiches 17250850 Colored Charlotte Watson, C. H. 1915 LH 154. 1 microfiche 8019485 Confederate memoirs Alamance County (N.C.). [196-] LH 104. 1 microfiche 7960129 The conquest of the old Southwest Henderson, Archibald, 1920 LH12445. 5 microfiche 43635808 The conquest of Virginia, the first attempt Sams, Conway Whittle, 1924 LH14100. 10 microfiche 51459667 Constitution and by-laws of the Granville Grays, approved February, Granville Grays (N.C.) 1885 LH 99. 1 microfiche 7955232 5/19/09 Page 2 ProQuest ● 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor MI 48106-1346 ● 800-521-0600 ● www.umi.com ● [email protected] North Carolina Titles in Genealogy & Local History (Unit 1 through Unit 74) 1885 The country church in North Carolina Ormond, Jesse Marvin, 1931 LH 12. 6 microfiches 7882074 The Curetons of Lancaster Co., S.C. Cureton, Thomas Kirk, [1949?] G8395. 1 microfiche 47066950 Cyclopedia of eminent and representative men of the Carolinas of the 1892 LH 19. 18 microfiches 7889735 nineteenth century Dark days of the rebellion, or, Life in Southern military prisons Booth, B. F. 1897 LH 62. 5 microfiches 7916920 Davidson College Shaw, Cornelia Rebekah. c1923. LH 164. 4 microfiches 8022885 Davidson County, economic and social Sink, Margaret Jewell. 1925 LH 132. 2 microfiches 7996302 Death notices from the Mecklenburg Jeffersonian, Charlotte, N.C., Grantham, Rose L. 1966 PS 252. 2 microfiches 7543170 1841-1849 Death notices from the Western Democrat, Charlotte, N.C., 1853-1870 Haywood, Carol. 1966 PS 253. 4 microfiches 7543253 Death records from the files of the Greensboro, N.C. Patriot, 1826- Greensboro Public Library (N.C.) [1900?] PS 244. 2 microfiches 7537185 1899 Diary of Captain William Wallace White, 1857-1910 White, William Wallace, [1956?] LH 73. 5 microfiches 7930478 The discoveries of John Lederer Lederer, John. 1902 LH 183. 1 microfiche 8027409 Early history of Tarboro, North Carolina Lichtenstein, Gaston, 1908 LH13253. 1 microfiche 46544246 Early marriage licences formerly in the possession of Reverend William Paisley, William Denny. [1900?] PS 246. 1 microfiche 7539996 D. Paisley Early social life in Edgecombe Lichtenstein, Gaston, 1904 LH13252. 1 microfiche 46544245 Economic and social history of Chowan County, North Carolina, 1880- Boyce, W. Scott 1917 LH13614. 4 microfiche 49041837 1915 Extracts of letters of Major-General Bryan Grimes, to his wife Grimes, Bryan, 1884 LH17493. 2 microfiches 70262794 The Fifty-seventh Regiment Jones, Hamilton C. 1900 LH16692. 1 microfiche 61398737 The Finger family of Lincoln County, N.C. Nixon, Alfred, 1903 LH 117. 1 microfiche 7980540 First Baptist Church, Charlotte, N. C., 1832-1916 McLean, Carrie L. 1917 LH 163. 2 microfiches 8022843 Fisher's River (North Carolina) scenes and characters Taliaferro, Hardin E., 1859 LH 138. 3 microfiches 7999978 Forsyth 1949 LH13640. 3 microfiche 49041863 Forsyth County Fries, Adelaide L. 1898 LH13617. 2 microfiche 49041840 Forsyth County, economic and social Siewers, Charles N. 1924 LH13625. 2 microfiche 49041848 Forsyth County, North Carolina Forsyth Immigration Agency 1884 LH 125. 1 microfiche 7993023 (Salem, N.C.) Fort Dobbs, historical sketch Eliason, Minnie Hampton. 1915 LH 112. 1 microfiche 7963437 Founders and builders of Greensboro, 1808-1908... 1925 LH 86. 4 microfiches 7941322 From the roll of honor Iredell, Jas. J. [1864?] LH16693. 1 microfiche 61398738 Genealogical records from Mrs. Otis O. Fleming Fleming, Celia. [197-?] LH13800. 1 microfiche 49042024 A genealogy of the Clarks of Guilford Court House (now Greensboro) Clark, Edward Everett, 1912 G10782. 1 microfiche 191533792 North Carolina The German settlers in Lincoln County and western North Carolina Nixon, Joseph R. 1912 LH 10. 1 microfiche 7878775 Grandmother dear, or, One who held a lighted torch Harris, Agnes Helene Roueche, [1937] LH 4.
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