History of Perquimans County [Nc]

Here is a county history that is extraordinarily rich in primary source materials including abstracts of deeds from 1681 through the Revolutionary War period and moreover petitions divisions of estates wills and marriages found in the records of Perquimans and adjacent North Carolina counties. Numbering in the tens of thousands the records provide the names of all principal parties and related family members places of residence and migration descriptions of real and personal property dates boundary surveys names of executors witnesses and appraisers and dates of recording. Altogether the index contains references to about 35000 persons! Researchers should note that Perquimans was one of the original North Carolina precincts--with very close ties to the southeastern Virginia counties of Norfolk Princess Anne Nansemond and Isle of Wight--and for many years had fluid boundaries with the North Carolina counties of Chowan Gates and Pasquotank.