Peter Pfaff's Property Deed

In December 2000 Robert H Reed, along with several other citizens and business owners from Pfafftown attempted to incorporate the community into the Village of Pfafftown. Their proposal became senate bill S676 which was presented in 2001. Unfortunately, the bill withered on the vine due to unanswered phone calls.

One thing that could have prevented all of this, serving as the foundation for an automatic incorporation, was the property deed detailing the land granted to Peter Pfaff. Robert spent a day in the Danbury and Winston-Salem libraries, having learned that Forsyth County came from Stokes. He was unsuccessful in his search and the idea was abandoned.

Unfortunately, at that time Stokes County was still a part of Surry County. It formed just five years later in 1789. Accessible from the Surry County Register of Deeds is a copy of the property deed from Andrew Fulk to Peter Pfaff in 1784. This is the document that would have virtually ensured the incorporation of Pfafftown.

If you would like to obtain a copy of the deed, you may do so by mailing $1 to the following address below. In your request, include the location of the deed in the index which is book C pages 71 & 72.

Register of Deeds
201 E. Kapp Street
PO Box 303
Dobson, NC 27017