George Alston to Charles Wortham

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

13 April 1802

From

George Alston

To

Charles Wortham

Share conveyed

half of

Land

1. Tract 1: measure not given
   Waterways: both sides of N Fork of Little River
2. Tract 2: measure not given
   Waterways: both sides of N Fork of Little River

Earlier title

two tracts from Littlejohn to Alston 15 Mar 1795

Citation

ODB 10/111
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
A page can hold several deeds, and a long deed can run onto the next page.
Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40005, “Record of Deeds, 1800-1803, Vols. 9, 10” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 170 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

Names, places and measures are given as the published abstract writes them. This record has not been checked against the deed image.

Title and grant references

• Granville grant: Gv252, to James McAllister, 22 February 1759, 640 acres, on a fork of Little River, adj Tapleys Creek, James Murdock
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95.1-A
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 586
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 534
• Later title: ODB 5/477 (Altson)
• Later title: OCPQS 3/385 (William Littlejohn)

From the bracketed notes in Mark Chilton’s deed-book posts. OCPQS is the minutes of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions; RegLn is a line of the colonial Register of Orange.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 10 (look for ODB 10/111). Our record above is drawn from it.