Rutherford County, North Carolina Land Entries, 1795-1803. (Volume #2)

By: Albert Bruce Pruitt, published 1994, reprinted 2026, 258 pages, index, soft cover, ISBN #978-0-94499-224-1. Rutherford County was formed in 1779 from Tyron County, NC. The best contemporary documentary evidence for an accurate location of these settlers when the county was created is the original Land Entry Book. It has better details than that to be found in the subsequent land grants. It was customary for the settler to describe the location of his plantation on some stream or head wa...