©2009 -  Sue Ashby
Updated 30 July 2009
Moore County (1747 - 1847)
Original landowners and the date of their land plat
Landowner or site Date of Plat

James McCallum........1753
William Killet........1754
Charles Seal..........1758
John Cox..............1760
James Muse Jr.........1762
Joseph Dunn...........1764
James Caddell.........1767
John Medlin...........1767
William Fagin.........1768
Thomas Ritter.........1770
Michael Honsacker.....1770
Anthony Seal..........1772
Donald McQueen........1772
Peter Bethume.........1772
Donald McDonald.......1772
William Meares........1772
Obediah Sowell........1772

 Christian Jackson.....1774
Richardson Fagin......1774
Donald Shaw...........1774
Kenneth Campbell......1774
Alexander McLeod......1774
Donald McDonald.......1774
Alexander Morrison....1774
John McLeod...........1774
Alexander McLeod of Glendale.......1774
John Weir.............1775
John McDonald.........1775
Alexander McRae.......1775
Joseph Fry............1783
Flora Wadsworth.......1784
Edmund Hurley.........1787
Thomas Wadsworth......1795?
Rev. James Holcombe...1798
Carthage, NC..........1804
Bethlehelm Church.....1832
180 North Carolina land grants
issued to various Monroe/Munroe/Munro/Munrow individuals in the Cape Fear
area -- Anson, Bladen, Cumberland, Montgomery and Moore counties.
The earliest grants are in old Bladen County
from 1752. The majority of the grants are in Cumberland. The data is from
the main land grant card catalog at the North Carolina State Archive.