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http://www.nclandgrants.com contains searchable data for over 216,000 land grants issued by the state of North Carolina from 1663 to 1960. Of these, 42,995 are linked directly to the page image from the corresponding Patent Book where the land description ("metes and bounds") was recorded. Images from books 1-43 are online now, and the rest of the 198 books will be added in 2015. For all of Mecklenburg County and part of Wilkes County, grants are linked to over 42,000 high quality images of original warrants, surveys and other related documents.