Dobbs County, NC - Edwin Lawrence Miller Collection ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ North Carolina State Archives - Private Manuscript Collections Edwin Lawrence Miller Collection 1765-1848 PC 1098 Physical Description: Land grants and plats, deeds, 41 items Acquisition: Loan - Edwin Lawrence Miller, Jr., Raleigh, NC - November 17, 1944 Description: The various land grants and survey (1765-1818) are to land on Joshua's Creek in Dobbs (later Lenoir and Jones) County to Philip Miller, Howel Brown, Jospeh Davis, John Lowry, James Brown, Benjamin Davis, Durham Leigh, Jacob Truhitt, Job Ives, and Benjamin Fordham. The deeds (1768- 1808) trace the transfer of these lands. Philip Millier apparently acquired a large part of this property by grant and deed. One item is an account of Stephen Miller (1786), sheriff of Anson County, with the State of North Carolina ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by North Carolina Archives ___________________________________________________________________