Records & Data

• Obituaries & Death Notices – misc. listings from historical newspapers
• 1799-early 1900s – Washington County Deaths reported in various newspapers; an ongoing project
• 1906-1930 – NC Death Certificates:1906-1930– from Family Record Search. Microfilm images of death certificates
• 1913-1980 – Washington County Death Index –deaths recorded by the Register of Deeds
• 1898 -1994 – North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994 –from Family Record Search
• US Social Security Death Index – free from FamilySearch

DEEDS

• Linda Haas Davenport has compiled a book of more than 950 deed transcriptions from Washington County covering 1799-1814. – Washington County, North Carolina Abstracts of Deed Books A-B-C (1799-1814): Including Some Dated Earlier. Broken Arrow, OK: L.H. Davenport, 2008. You can view the surname index on this archived version of her website. You can check for a library that may hold the book by going here.
• The Register of Deeds office has online searching of deeds from 1996 to present. Deeds from 1974- 1996 can be viewed if you have the Deed Book # and page. Read the blog entry for more details on how it works.

DIRECTORIES

• 1872 NC Business Directory
• 1902 –NC Yearbook
• 1903 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1904 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1905 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1906 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1910 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1911 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1912 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1913 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1914 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1915 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1916 NC Yearbook & Business Directory
• 1960 – Hill’s Plymouth Directory
• 1962 – Hill’s Plymouth Directory