- Title
- Yadkin County survey
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- Date
- 1985
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- Place
- ["Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States","North Carolina, United States"]
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Yadkin County survey
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In the early part of the eighteenth century present
day Yadkin County was located at the northwestern edge of
the North Carolina settlement frontier and entirely within
the vast Granville district. ^ Bordered to the north and
east by the broad run of the Yadkin River, the area contained
rich bottomlands along its major waterways such as Deep Creek
and Forbush Creek and a varied terrain which became more
mountainous in the northwestern section. j0hn Lawson's early
descriptions of the region are not specific about this
area, but it is probably safe to assume that it, like much of the
Piedmont, had an 2
/abundance of woodland and wild game.
The tide of immigration which would populate the area
west of the Yadkin River appears to have commenced with the
Bryan Settlement about 1748.^ Among the first settlers
known to have taken up land in Yadkin County were Morgan
Bryan and George Forbush and, in the early 1750s, Abraham
Creson.^ These three men and others who followed obtained
land warrants from the agents of Lord Granville. After the
American Revolution the State of North Carolina issued land
grants to the remaining parcels not already taken up.
A number of factors contributed to the influx of settlers
into piedmont North Carolina in the mid to late eighteenth
century.^ Among the most important causes, however, were
the scarcity and high cost of land and high taxes in Penn¬
sylvania and later in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
The westward and southward migration of people into pied¬
mont North Carolina took place only after the choice lands
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