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Historical Records: Digital Randolph

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Confederate Government Lists Enslaved Peoples' Research Register of Deeds Records Schools
Abstracts of the Confederate Conscript Office Papers 1862-1865, 7th North Carolina Congressional District. Lists of detailed men including free men of color; officeholders exempt from conscription; men seeking medical exemptions from conscription; and lists of deserters, recusants and prisoners. May include age, occupation, militia unit, and names of friends/neighbors supporting exemption claims.  Randolph County Slave Deeds lists the slave deeds found on the Randolph County Register of Deeds site and has a link to the actual deed. Transcription of the corporations book from the Randolph County Register of Deeds. Ledger of Common Schools Committees - 1840-1864.
Record Book of the Camp of Senior Reserves, 7th North Carolina Congressional District, Confederate States Army, 1864-1865. Includes special orders of Randolph County Enrolling Officer John H. Welborn; lists of deserters, recusant conscripts and federal prisoners in Asheboro; lists of conscripts and senior reserves from Asheboro; lists of detailed free men of color from Anson, Davidson, Montgomery and Moore Counties; and lists of conscripts from Anson, Davidson, Montgomery and Moore counties. Gray Estates - abstract listings of enslaved people in the estates of Sarah Harper Gray (1789-1858), Robert Harper Gray (1831-1863) and General Alexander Gray (1768-1864). The Gray family estate files contain names of more than 120 enslaved people and many of their family connections. Abstract listing of plat maps without book and page numbers, recorded in the Randolph County Register of Deeds Office. 1919 School Census Information
    Abstract listing of NC Department of Transportation Right of Way Plans on file in the Randolph County Register of Deeds Office.