A listing of materials relevant to Onslow county.  This is not an exhaustive list, but meant to be a general guide.  A link from each is provided to identify libraries that have it in their collection.

• Brown, Joseph Parsons. The Commonwealth of Onslow; A History. New Bern, N.C.: O.G. Dunn, 1960. [Full-text available online | Find in a Library]
• Pezzoni, J. Daniel. The Architectural History of Onslow County, North Carolina. Richlands, N.C.: Onslow County Museum, 1998 [Find in a Library]
• North Carolina, and Zae Hargett Gwynn. Abstracts of the Records of Onslow County, North Carolina, 1734-1850. 1961. [Find in a Library]
• Onslow County Historical Society. The Heritage of Onslow County, 1983. Jacksonville, N.C.: Onslow County Historical Society, 1983.  [Find in a Library]
  • Onslow County Historical Society. Onslow County Heritage Full Name Index. Jacksonville, NC: Onslow County Historical Society, 1983. [Find in a Library]

Biographical/Families

• Fountain, Alvin Marcus, Maxine Eleanor Taylor Fountain, Marcia Taylor Fountain, and Alvin Marcus Fountain. The John R. Fountain Family of Onslow County, North Carolina: Being a Collection of Family Researches, Writings, and References of Alvin Marcus Fountain and Some Seventy Plus Other Members of the Family. Raleigh, N.C.: M.T. Fountain, 1992. [Find in a Library]
• Littleton, Tucker R. The Tucker Littleton Notes. Swansboro, NC: Coastal Genealogical Society, 1998. [Find in a Library]
• Kammerer, Roger E., and David E. Carpenter. Onslow Register: Records of Onslow and Jones County Citizens and Related Families. [Greenville, N.C.]: R.E. Kammerer, 1984. [Find in a Library]
• Stroscio, Michael A., 1949-. Some Onslow Families : with Collateral Lines (Onslow County, North Carolina), November 1976 with Additions and Appendices Continuing to December 1997. 1998. [full-text PDF - courtesy of Family History Archives]
• Ungar, Elizabeth Silance Ballard, Hilda Silance Corey, and Estel Stanley Silance. Whoopin’ and Hollerin’ in Onslow County. Virginia Beach, Va: Eslyn Pub, 2002.  [Limited preview @ Google Books]

Cemeteries

• Wiggs, Matisha Hayden. At Rest Together: Family Graveyards in Onslow County, North Carolina. Thesis (M.A.)–University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2005, 2005. [Find in a Library]
• Onslow County Old Cemetery Society, and Ramona R. Renfroe. Markers of Time: Cemeteries of Onslow County. Jacksonville, NC: Onslow County Old Cemetery Society, 1997. (2 volumes) [Find in a Library]
• Whaley, James Michael. Onslow County Cemetery Records: Stump Sound Township. Wilmington, N.C.: New Hanover County Public Library, 1989. [View Index to Volume 1 & Volume 2 | Find in a Library]

Land

• Pruitt, Albert Bruce. Abstracts of Land Entries: Onslow Co, NC, 1778-1796, Jones CO, NC, 1795-1797. [Rocky Mount, N.C.]: A.B. Pruitt, 1990. [Find in a Library]
• North Carolina. Administrative Bonds [microform]. Raleigh, N.C.: N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, Archives and Records Section, 1961. [Find in a Library]
• Onslow County (N.C.). Inventories & Accounts of Sales [microform]. [Southport, N.C.]: Register of Deeds, 1945. [Find in a Library]

Legal/Court/Taxes

• Rhodes, John T. Minutes of the Onslow County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, January Session 1776 Thru October of 1778. Hampstead, N.C.: John T. Rhodes, 1994. [Find in a Library]
• Davis, John B. Onslow County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Abstract of Minutes, 1779-1782. Cary, N.C.: J.B. Davis, 1989. [Find in a Library]
• Mountain Press. 1769 Onslow County, North Carolina Tax List. North Carolina tax series. Signal Mountain, TN (P.O. Box 400, Signal Mountain 37377-0400): Mountain Press, 1900. [Find in a Library]
• Haskett, Delmas D. Onslow County, North Carolina Voter Registration Records, 1902, 1904, 1906, 1908. Wilmington, N.C.: Old New Hanover Genealogical Society, 1995. [Find in a Library]

Military

• Douthat, James L. 1754-1755 Onslow County, North Carolina Militia Records. Signal Mountain, Tenn: Mountain Press, 1999.  [Find in a Library]
• Murrell, Stratton C., and Billie Jean Murrell. Jacksonville and Camp Lejeune. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2001.  [Find in a Library]

Probate Records/Wills

• Douthit, Ruth Long, and Zae Hargett Gwynn. Index to Abstracts of the Wills (1746-1864) in Zae Hargett Gwynn’s Abstracts of the Records of Onslow County, North Carolina, 1734-1850. 1982. [Find in a Library]
• North Carolina. Appointment of Executors: 1869-1912 [microform]. Raleigh, N.C.: N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, Archives and Records Section, 1961. [Find in a Library]
• North Carolina. Estate Records [1735-1914] [microform]. [Raleigh, NC]: Clerk of Superior Court, Onslow County, 1735. [Find in a Library]
• Onslow County (N.C.). General Index to Real Estate Conveyances Grantors. Raleigh, N.C.: N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, Archives and Records Section, 1961. [Find in a Library]
• Onslow County (N.C.). Record of Wills:1790-1968 [microfilm]. [Jacksonville, N.C.]: Clerk of Superior Court, 1790. [Find in a Library]
  • Onslow County (N.C.). General Index to Wills, Devisee [microfilm]. [Jacksonville, N.C.]: Clerk of Superior Court, 1765. [Find in a Library]
  • Onslow County (N.C.). General Index to Wills, Devisor [microfilm]. [Jacksonville, N.C.]: Clerk of Superior Court, 1765. [Find in a Library]