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'''1868--'''A courthouse fire destroyed many records.
'''1868--'''A courthouse fire destroyed many records ==
Places/Localities == == Places/Localities == Revision as of
20:34, 31 December 2012 |Anson County, North Carolina| Location
in the state of North Carolina Location of North Carolina in the
U.S. Anson County Courthouse N Green Street P O Box 352
Wadesboro, NC 28170 Death & Register of Deeds has birth records
from 1913 marriage records from 1869 and land records Clerk
Superior Court has divorce from 1868 Probate records from 1750 &
court records from 1770 "The county was formed in 1750 from
Bladen County. It was named for George Anson, Baron Anson, a
British admiral, who circumnavigated the globe from 1740 to
1744, and later became First Lord of the Admiralty. Like its
parent county, Anson County was originally a vast territory with
indefinite northern and western boundaries. Reductions i