History of Anson County, North Carolina, 1750-1976Genealogical Publishing Com, 1976 - 417 páginas Anson County, which at its formation in 1750 encompassed all of central and western North Carolina and portions of South Carolina, is the parent of the North Carolina counties of Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Richmond, Rowan, and Union. The work at hand, written by journalist and historian Mary Medley and sponsored by the Anson County Historical Society, is the only comprehensive history of Anson County. The narrative spans over 225 years of the county's growth from a vast wilderness to a thriving industrial and agricultural community. The first third of the volume traces politics in the county, with important chapters devoted to Anson's fiercely independent Regulator movement preceding the American Revolution. The middle portion of the volume covers Anson's social history: education, religion, agriculture and industry, social and cultural life, etc. Genealogists will undoubtedly be most interested in the final third of the book. It is here that the author provides biographical sketches of scores of Anson "Men and Women of Note" and the following important source records: First Land Grants in Anson County; Early Deeds from Anson County Deed Book I; Anson County Marriage Records, 1786-87; various Anson County Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension lists; and a number of lists of elected and appointed officials spanning the history of Anson County. |
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A County is Born | 12 |
Anson in the French and Indian War | 20 |
The Anson Regulators | 29 |
The Gathering Storm | 38 |
The Winds Blow | 43 |
Glory to GodReligion | 195 |
Fraternal Cultural Recreational and Social Life in Anson | 217 |
Medicine in the Twentieth Century | 231 |
Towns and Communities | 238 |
Men and Women of Note | 259 |
Appendices | 301 |
First Land Grants in Anson County | 303 |
Early Deeds as Recorded in Anson County Deed Book I | 306 |
Thunder from the South | 47 |
Whig and Tory Blood Bath | 52 |
After Camden | 58 |
Creating a County Seat | 64 |
Romantic Ghost Town | 72 |
The Story behind Sneedsborough | 78 |
War Drums Again | 84 |
Phases of Growth 18201850 | 86 |
Letters from Mexico | 91 |
Plank Road and Prosperity | 98 |
Anson Men in the War between the States | 104 |
At Homeat the FrontInvasion | 111 |
Reconstruction and Anson County | 128 |
Up to 1900 | 131 |
Eclipse of the Sun and World War I | 141 |
Agriculture in the Twentieth Century | 154 |
Industrial Growth | 165 |
From Logs to BrickEducation | 183 |
List of Anson County Marriage Records 17861787 | 308 |
Regulator Protest Paper April 28 1768 | 309 |
Regulator Petition 1769 | 312 |
List of Major James Cottons Accounts 1776 | 318 |
Principal Slave Holders 1790 | 320 |
War Veterans from Anson County | 321 |
Anson County Sheriffs Clerks Registers and Deputies | 329 |
Anson County Post Offices and Postmasters | 334 |
Men and Women in Government | 342 |
Practicing Professionals 1850 | 357 |
Anson Alumni North Carolina Schools | 359 |
Organization Dates of Anson County Churches | 372 |
Tavern Rates Anson County 1771 | 376 |
Hotels and Boarding Houses 18961976 | 377 |
Bibliography | 379 |
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