On Microfilm:

• Cross Index to Wills: 1830-1866

• Record of Wills: 1830-1927

• Land Entries: 1836-1852; 1852-1861;1861-1867; 1871-1899

• Records of Estate Settlements: 1870-1927

• Records of Accounts 1868-1921 (Guardian accounts and detailed estate sales)

• Tax Lists: 1857-1868 (1862 Military Rolls)

• Agricultural Census: 1850-1880

• Cherokee Land Surveys: 1837

• Marriage bonds: 1828-1868 (alphabetical by Groom; 5 reels)

• Mortality Schedules 1850 and 1860 census

• World War I Draft Cards - Macon County, NC

Record of Deeds on Microfilm:

• 1826-1855 Vols. ABCD
• 1845-1855 Vols. EFG
• 1855-1860 Vols. HI
• 1860-1869 Vols. JK
• 1869-1870 Vol. L
• 1871-1875 Vols. MN
• 1875-1880 Vols. OP

Court Records on Microfilm:

• Superior Court Mins: 1843-1897
• County Court Mins: 1829-1836; 1838-1866
• Equity Court Mins: 1837-1868
• Orders and Decrees (this includes land sales by guardians and widow's dowers. This reel lists many names and the handwriting is very good.
• Appointments of Administrators and Guardians: 1868-1913
• Records of Executors, Guardians and Administrators: 1913-1930
• Inventories of Estates: 1866-1868
• Index to Estates: 1868-1966

Other County Records on Microfilm:

• Commissioners Mins: 1868-1892
• WPA Pre-1914 Cemetery Survey

Census Records on Microfilm:

• Slave Schedule of 1850
• Macon County Census Records: 1830-1920 (no 1890 census)

Newspapers on Microfilm:

• Franklin Press: 1889-1902; 1920-1985 (except 1936)

 In Books:

• North Carolina Census Index: 1784-1787; 1790; 1800; 1810; 1820; 1830; 1840; 1850
• North Carolina Troops: 1861-1865
• Civil War: Volumes 1-10
• Macon County Marriages 1829-1939

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This page was last updated August 10, 2009

Dee Gibson-Roles  Franklin, NC