Timothy Wiley Rackley

Vol.1 1755-1782 "covers Granville County's Deed Book M and State Land Grants issued in 1779 through 1782"--Introd., [1st] prelim. p.

"The definition of taxable or tithable persons was first made by the General Assembly of 1715 which enacted that 'all Males not being slaves in this government shall be Tythable at the Age of Sixteen Years And All Slaves Male or Female, either Imported or born in the Country shall be Tythable at the Age of Twelve Years"-Introd.

The first section has cemeteries in Nash County. The second section has cemeteries in neighboring counties of Franklin, Johnston, Wake, Edgecombe.

Edward Rackley immigrated from England to Virginia in 1639, and lived in New Kent and Essex Counties, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, California, Oregon and elsewhere.