By: Helen C. & Timothy R. Marsh, Pub. 2003, 389 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-785-8. Bedford County was formed in 1807 out of Rutherford County. These books include all deeds from 1802-1852, then skip the Burned years of 1852-1861 and then pick back up in 1861-1869. Information found in each volume: including family genealogical material, to giving names, dates, and places and early land grants contained in all deeds recorded in the Register's Office for the years given above. 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.