Albert Bruce Pruitt
By: Albert Bruce Pruitt, Pub. 1998, reprinted 2026, 180 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-0-94499-265-4. Anson County was created in 1750 from Bladen County. Deeds are a GREAT source for genealogical research due to the many and varied family members that are mentioned. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often times such things as: marriages, relinquishment of dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds. These abstracts list such things as: the grantee and grantor, occupations, dates, page & book numbers, sales price, detailed location of property and etc.... These 919 deed abstracts are from Books 4, 7 and B2 which cover the years 1757-1795.