By: Dr. A.B. Pruitt, Pub. 2003, reprinted 2026, 318 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-0-94499-269-8. Guilford County was created in 1771 from Rowan and Orange Counties. Deeds are GREAT source for genealogical research due to the many and varied family members that are mentioned. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often times such things as: marriages, relinquishment of dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds. These 1,994 deed abstracts are from Books 7,8,& 9 which covers the years 1799-1809.