Greene/Lenoir Counties, North Carolina Grantor-Grantee Indices of Johnston, Dobbws and Lenoir Counties Transcribed by Martha Mewborn Marble PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ACTUAL DEEDS DO NOT EXIST TODAY. Johnston County was formed from the western part of Craven County in 1746 and in 1758, Dobbs County was formed from the eastern portion of Johnston; however, the records of Johnston went with the newly formed Dobbs. In 1779 Wayne County was formed from the western portion of Dobbs and in 1791, most of the remainder of Dobbs was divided into Glasgow - now Greene - and Lenoir Counties, and Dobbs ceased to exist. The records of early Johnston (and other Counties formed from Johnston), Wayne, Greene, and Lenoir Counties were placed at the Courthouse in Lenoir County. In 1878, a Courthouse fire in Kinston destroyed almost all these records except the original Grantee Index. Greene County also suffered a destruction of its records in a similar fire. According to Charles Holloman, a Grantor Index was prepared from the Grantee Index and both those books were saved during another Courthouse fire in 1880. I am inclined to think that the Grantor Book was the original as there are too many differences in the two books. Charles Holloman was instrumental in locating the Grantee Book at the Courthouse in Kinston many years ago and then published Books 1-5 from the Grantee Index in various issues of "The North Carolina Journal". It was not until a new Courthouse was built in the early 1980's that the Grantor Index was found. While there is nothing to indicate the nature of the Instruments or the relationships between Grantor and Grantee, these Books provide us with a list of names in otherwise "burned or partially burned Counties". This transcription was taken from the Grantor Index, but double checked against the Grantee Index for differences in spelling and entries that appear in one but not the other. Approximate dates of each Book are listed at the front of the microfilm roll from which this is taken. This sentence is at the front of the roll - "Following Records have many carbon copies and light pencil or ink and will not be legible on film" so the reader should consult the original. ------------------- Lewis Surname Doobs County deed references from the Grantor/Grantee Indices by Martha Marble Locations were determined by land grants, surviving deeds, court cases, olddobbers.net and NCGenWeb Archives. Old Dobbs County Book l - November l746 - April l750 John Beck to William Lewis (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Thomas Lewis to Benjamin Creech (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Book 2 - April 1750 - April 1754 Roger Cannon to Thomas Lewis (Lenoir-Atkins Branch or Falling Creek) Edward Fitzpatrick to Jacob Lewis (Greene-south side Contentnea Creek) Henry Garret to Thomas Lewis (Lenoir-Atkins Branch or Falling Creek) William Lewis to James Lewis (Location unknown) Joseph Lewis to John Pate (Greene-west side of Contentnea Creek) Thomas Lewis to John Pate (Lenoir-Atkins Branch or Falling Creek)) Thomas Lewis to Wiliam Clark (Lenoir-Adkins Branch) Thomas Lewis to John Farris (Lenoir-Atkins Branch or Falling Creek) John Pate to William Lewis (Greene-west side of Contentnea Creek) Patience Snowden to Benjamin Lewis (Greene-north side of Contentnea creek) Book 3 - Apr 1754 - Apr 1755 John Harris to Thomas Lewis (Lenoir-Atkins Branch) Thomas Lewis to Samuel Thomas (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Book 4 - 1756 - 1757 Thomas Lewis to William Williams Jr (Greene-south side Contentnea Creek, Tysons Marsh) Book 5 - April 1757 - April 1758 William Clark to Thomas Lewis (Lenoir-Atkins Branch) William Lewis to John Pate (Greene-on Contentnea Creek) Benjamin Lewis to Samuel Edmunds (Greene-north side Contentnea Creek) Jacob Lewis to Daniel Powell (Greene-south side Contentnea Creek) Lewis McClendon to Jacob Lewis (Greene-south side Contentnea Creek, east side Rainbow Creek) Book 6 - April 1758 - April 1765 Richard Caswell to Thomas Lewis (Lenoir-Atkins Branch) Thomas Lewis to David Hartsfield (Lenoir-south side Wheat Swamp) Thomas Lewis to Matthew Jordon (Lenoir-James Jordan grant at Beaverdam) Book 7 - April 1765 - April 1769 William Lewis to Phillip Stone (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Benjamin Lewis to Micajah Rice (Greene-north side Contentnea Creek at Cattail Swamp) William Lewis to Major Croom (Lenoir-Falling Creek) William Lewis to George Bell (Lenoir-south side Wheat Swamp) William Lewis to James Jones (Greene-south side Contentnea Creek, Boss Branch, Jones grants were at Rainbow Creek) Book 10 - April 1773 - May 1775 Jacob Lewis to James Lewis (Greene-Rainbow Creek/Wheat Swamp) Jacob Lewis to Stephen Lewis (Greene-Rainbow Creek/Wheat Swamp) Book 11 - April 1771 - April 1773 Jesse Handly to James Lewis (Greene-Wheat Swamp) James Lewis to John Hartsfield (Greene-Wheat Swamp) Jacob Lewis to William Lewis (Greene-Rainbow Creek/Wheat Swamp) William Morris to William Lewis (Location unknown) Old Dobbs County Grantors-Grantees Book 12 - April l779 to April 1784 Jacob Lewis to Samuel Hooker (Greene-south side Rainbow Creek) James Lewis to William Lewis (Greene-Rainbow Creek) William Lewis to John Wilson Jr (Unknown location) BooK 13 - April 1784 - April 1789 Hymerick Hooker to William Lewis (Greene-Wm Hooker grant on north side Rainbow Creek) Joseph Hail (Hale) to William Lewis (Greene-north side Wheat Swamp) William Lewis to Stephen Lassitor (Greene-north side Wheat Swamp) William Lewis to John Cails (Caile) (Greene-Rainbow Creek, Wheat Swamp) -------------------- Lenoir County Book 16 - 1793 - 1795 Moses Westbrook to Benjamin Lewis (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Book 18 - 1798 - 1799 (some pages had 1794 deeds) William Ayler to Benjamin Lewis (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Book 19 - 1799-1801 John (James) Dukes to Elizabeth Lewis (Unknown location) Book 20 - 1802 - 1803 Spencer Caldwell to Benjamin Lewis (Greene-SS Wheat Swamp, Loosing Swamp) Benjamin Lewis & others to William Arrendall (Arendal) (Lenoir-Gum Swamp, Falling Creek) Benjamin Lewis to John Ingram (Lenoir-Mill Creek) William Sutton to Benjamin Lewis (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Book 21 - 1804 - 1805 Benjamin Lewis to Gersham Wiggins (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Book 22 - 1746-ca1810 Moses Grizard to Jacob Lewis (Greene-north side Rainbow Creek) William Lewis to Murfree Dickson (Dixon) (Greene-south side Contentnea Creek, Rainbow Creek) Thomas Lewis to Michael Risher (Lenoir-unknown location) Thomas Lewis Jr to William Miller (Greene-south side Contentnea adj Tilmans Branch) Lewis McLendon to Jacob Lewis (Greene-east side of Rainbow Creek) Book 23 - 1805 - 1810 Benjamin Lewis to John Parrott (Lenoir-Loosing Swamp) Benjamin Lewis to Benjr. Robinson (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Benjamin Lewis to John Wiggins (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Simon Sutton to Benj Lewis (Lenoir-Falling Creek) Book 24 - 1810 - 1819 Benjamin Lewis & others to William Arandall (Lenoir-Gum Swamp, Falling Creek)