Rowan County, North Carolina Genealogy

United States &gt; North Carolina &gt; Rowan County

Parent County
1753--Rowan County was created from Anson County. County seat: Salisbury

Record Loss
1865--Some of the records were destroyed by Federal troops.

Neighboring Counties

 * Cabarrus
 * Davidson
 * Davie
 * Iredell
 * Montgomery
 * Stanly

African American

 * Watson, June Clodfelter. Cohabitation Bonds for Rowan County, North Carolina: Recorded in 1866. [Salisbury, North Carolina]: Genealogical Society of Rowan County (North Carolina), [1996?]. Available at FHL. [Legitimization of ex-slave marriages.]

Church
General


 * Fries, Adelaide L. Colonial Churches of North Carolina Within the Bounds of Rowan County as Set Off in 1753. 1936. Available at FHL.
 * Rankin, S.M., George Swelle, and Adelaide Price. Churches of the Colonial Period in Rowan County [North Carolina]. Raleigh, North Carolina: Filmed by North Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1962. Available at FHL. [Includes Baptist, Church of England, Friends, Lutheran, Moravian, Reformed, and Presbyterian Churches.]

Lutheran


 * Rothrock, Samuel. Diaries of Rev. Samuel Rothrock of Rowan County, [North Carolina], 1834-1863. MSS., Rowan Public Library, Salisbury, North Carolina, available at FHL. [Includes confirmations, baptisms, and burials, 1850-1858, for Organ Lutheran Church, St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, and St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church.]

Family Histories
Bibliography


 * [Andrews] Craig, Marion Stark. James Andrews (RW Soldier) of Back Creek, Rowan County, NC: Died 20 November 1821: A Genealogical Compilation. Little Rock, Arkansas: M.S. Craig, 1991. Available at FHL.
 * [Beanblossom] Hays, Samuel P. The Descendants of J. Christian and Catherine Beanblossom of Rowan County, North Carolina and Harrison County, Indiana and Darke County, Ohio. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: S.P. Hays, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Bodenhamer] Heuss, Lois Ione Hotchkiss, Hubert E. Bodenheimer, and David R. Bodenheimer. Christian Bodenhamer (Bodenheimer-Bodenhammer) of Rowan County, North Carolina, and His Descendents. [Charlotte, North Carolina?: L.I.H. Heuss, H.E. &amp; D.R. Boednheimer, 1989]. Available at FHL.
 * [Briggs] Barker, Harold G., Maurine Clifford, and William M. Hunt. The Briggs Families of Old Anson, Old Rowan, and Davidson Counties, North Carolina and Brown County, Illinois. 2 vols. Rye, New York: H. G. Barker &amp; M. Clifford &amp; W.M. Hunt Jr., 1985. Available at FHL.
 * [Buttram] Waid, Charles V. and Barbara L. Brown Waid. Buttram: Bertram - Boutteram - Burtram - Butrum - Burtrum - Buttrum - Butram - Burtrum - Burttram - Burttrum: The Descendants of William Buttram I &amp; Margaret of Rowan County, North Carolina. Birmingham, Alabama: Buttram Family Association, 1998. Available at FHL.
 * [Deacon] See Reed.
 * [Denny] Rankin, S.M. and Elizabeth Chapman Denny Vann. Denny Families of Buffalo Church, Rowan and Guilford Counties, North Carolina: A Study of a Group of North Carolina Dennys, Information Extracted Mainly from History of Buffalo Church and Her People and Rankin and Wharton Families. MSS., 1946, available at FHL.
 * [Hunt] Hunt, Mitchell J. A Corrected Genealogy of Col. Jonathan Hunt (1716-1782) and His Rowan Co., North Carolina Siblings and Their Descendants. Willow Grove, Pennsylvania: M.J. Hunt, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Little] Little, Lawrence L. Captain Daniel Little, Esquire of Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. Portales, New Mexico: L.L. Little, 19--?. Available at FHL.
 * [Little] Shook, Pauline Moser and John C. Roberts. Capt. Daniel Little, Esq., and His Contemporaries: John Dunn, John Lewis Beard, Conrod Michael, Michael Brown, William Temple Coles, and Most of the Population of Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, 1753-1792: Documented. Sandpoint, Idaho: P.M. Shook, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Park] Park, Evelyn Potter and Warren R. Park. Allen Park, 1745-1805, of Rowan County, North Carolina and Madison County, Kentucky: Including Some of His Descendants and Allied Families. Chandler, Oklahoma: n.p., 1970. Original edition and 1977 supplement available at FHL.
 * [Pope] Sparks, Mildred Jenkins. Descendants of George Whitefield Pope, 1750-1989: Pastor of Abbotts Creek Baptist Church, Rowan (now Davidson Co.), North Carolina. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Reed] Craig, Marion Stark. Joseph Reed (Died 1751) of Anson County, NC &amp; Wife, Elizabeth, Who Married James Deacon and Lived in Rowan County, NC: A Genealogical Dompilation. Little Rock, Arkansas: M.S. Craig, 1991. Available at FHL.
 * [Reid] Barlow, Lundie W. The Descent of Emmaline Jernigan Moore Barlow from Alexander Reid (ca. 1700-1777) of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and Rowan County North Carolina. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Riddle] Sheek, Ann Carol Ellis. Descendants of Stephen and Elizabeth Douthit Riddle of Rowan County, North Carolina. [Clemmons, North Carolina]: A.E. Sheek, 1982. Available at FHL.
 * [Scott] Craig, Marion Stark. John Scott (Died 1760) of Rowan county, NC and Son, John Scott, of Rowan, Tryon &amp; Rutherford (Cain/Cane Creek) Counties, NC &amp; Livingston County, Ky. (Died 1811): A Genealogical Compilation. Little Rock, Arkansas: M.S. Craig, 1991. Available at FHL.
 * [Tatum] Tatum, James Orval. The Ancestry [of] Haley Tatum (1752 or 1760-1819) of Rowan County, North Carolina and His Descendants 1599-1995. n.p.: J.O. Tatum, 1995. Available at FHL.
 * [White] Brayton, John Anderson. The Descendants of Moses White of Rowan Co., NC: Including the Families of Peden, Templeton, Wilson, Fowler, Pearson, Trim and Morrow. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: J.A. Brayton, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Wilson] Coal, Darlene White. Wilsons of Abbott's Creek, Lexington, NC and Wilsons of Pott's Creek, Rowan County, NC: Wilson Family Notes, Giles County, Tennessee. Orangeville, California: D.W. Cole, 1988. Available at FHL.

Immigration

 * Gehrke, William H. "The Beginnings of the Pennsylvania-German Element in Rowan and Cabarrus Counties, North Carolina," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 58, No. 4 (1934), pp. 342-369. Available at FHL; digital version available at JSTOR ($).

Local Histories

 * Shook, Pauline Moser and John C. Roberts. Capt. Daniel Little, Esq., and His Contemporaries: John Dunn, John Lewis Beard, Conrod Michael, Michael Brown, William Temple Coles, and Most of the Population of Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, 1753-1792: Documented. Sandpoint, Idaho: P.M. Shook, 1994. Available at FHL.

Maps

 * Brawley, James S. Bicentennial Commemorative Map of Rowan County, North Carolina, 1753-1953. Salisbury, North Carolina: J. Brawley, 1953. Available at FHL.

Occupations

 * Thorp, Daniel B. "Doing Business in the Backcountry: Retail Trade in Colonial Rowan County, North Carolina," The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Jul., 1991), pp. 387-408. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * Thorp, Daniel B. "Taverns and Tavern Culture on the Southern Colonial Frontier: Rowan County, North Carolina, 1753-1776," The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Nov., 1996), pp. 661-688. Available at JSTOR ($).

Private Papers

 * [Rothrock] Rothrock, Samuel. Diaries of Rev. Samuel Rothrock of Rowan County, [North Carolina], 1834-1863. MSS., Rowan Public Library, Salisbury, North Carolina, available at FHL. [Includes confirmations, baptisms, and burials, 1850-1858, for Organ Lutheran Church, St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, and St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church.]

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog