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Watauga County, North Carolina Records Inventory

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Original Records

Bonds

  • Apprentice Bonds, 1874-1906
  • Apprentice Bonds, 1899-1900
  • Bastardy Bonds, 1874-1935
  • Bastardy Bonds, 1873-1878
  • Officials Bonds, 1873-1958

Court Records

  • Superior Court
    • Minutes, 1873-1924
    • Civil Action Papers, 1873-1953
    • Civil Action Papers Concerning Land, 1874-1948
    • Criminal Action Papers, 1873-1962

Election Records

  • Record of Elections, 1878-1938

Estates Records

  • Record of Accounts, 1873-1914
  • Administrators’ Bonds, 1873-1911
  • Appointment of Administrators, Executors, Guardians and Masters, 1873-1926.
  • Estates Records, 1858-1948
  • Guardians’ Records, 1873-1955
  • Guardians’ Bonds, 1888-1910
  • Record of Settlements, 1873-1925

Land Records

  • Deeds, 1858-1976
  • Deeds of Trust, 1882-1976
  • Mortgage Deeds, 1877-1957
  • Cross Index to Deeds, 1873-1949
  • Ejectments (Summary Proceedings), 1915-1947
  • Tax Levies on Land, 1874-1939
  • Attachments, Executions, Levies, and Liens on Land, 1876- 1947
  • Miscellaneous Land Records, 1830-1962
  • Records of Probate 1873-1885

Marriage, Divorace and Vital Statistics

  • Marriage Licenses, 1873-1894
  • Marriage Registers, 1873-1954
  • Divorce Records, 1874-1948

Miscellaneous Records

  • Alien Registration, 1940
  • Homestead and Personal Property Exemptions, 1874-1933
  • Miscellaneous Records, 1858-1974
  • Records fo Assignees, Receivers and Trustees, 1911-1936.

Officals, County

  • Minutes, Board of County Commissioners, 1913-1921

Roads and Bridges

  • Road and Bridge Records, 1867-1946

School Records

  • School Census, 1868-1896
  • School Vouchers and Miscellaneous School Records, 1870-1936

Tax and Fiscal Records

  • Miscellaneous Tax Records, 1873-1936

Wills

  • Wills, 1859, 1872-1947

Microfilm Records

Bonds

  • Apprentice Bonds, 1874-1906

Court Records

  • Superior Court
    • Minutes, 1873-1924

Election Records

  • Record of Elections, 1878-1968

Estates Records

  • Record of Accounts, 1873-1968
  • Administrators’ Bonds, 1873-1911
  • Appointment of Administrators and Guardians 1873-1926.
  • Record of Administrators, 1911-1968
  • Record of Guardians, 1911-1968
  • Trust Funds and Accounts for Indigent Children, 1915-1968
  • Inheritance Tax Records, 1920-1969
  • Record of Settlements, 1873-1968
  • Index of Adminstrators and Executors, 1873-1968
  • Index of Guardians 1873-1968

Land Records

  • Deeds, 1870-1958
  • Index of Real Estate Conveyances, Grantor, 1872-1969
  • Index of Real Estate Conveyances, Grantee, 1872-1969
  • Record of Surveys, 1904-1953
  • Plat Books, 1922-1967
  • Record of Resale of Land, 1922-1968

Marriage, Divorace and Vital Statistics

  • Marriage Registers, 1873-1969
  • Index to Births, 1914-1969
  • Index to Deaths, 1914-1968

Military and Pension Records

  • Record of Armed Forces Discharged, 1922-1980

Miscellaneous Records

  • Orders and Decrees, 1872-1967
  • Cross Index to Orders and Decrees 1873-1968
  • Special Proceedings Docket, 1902-1921
  • Index to Special Proceedings, 1968-1980
  • Records of Assignees and Receivers 1910-1920.

Officals, County

  • Minutes, Board of County Commissioners, 1873-1938

Tax and Fiscal Records

  • Tax Lists, 1918, 1921
  • Tax Scrolls, 1888-1926

Wills

  • Record of Wills, 1902-1968
  • Cross Index to Wills, 1873-1969