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George Carrington to Armistead Hill & Russel Hill & Duncan Cameron

13 June 1803 · ODB 11/65

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
13 June 1803
From
George Carrington
To
Armistead Hill; Russel Hill; Duncan Cameron
Land
  1. First tract: 500 acres
    Waterways: on Mountain Creek
    Neighbors: John Carrington
    Roads and landmarks: the New Road; Miller’s field; New Road
  2. Second tract: 200 acres
    Waterways: on Mountain Creek
    Neighbors: James Horton; Walter Alves; William Johnston; Walden
    Roads and landmarks: branch
  3. Third tract: 100 acres
    Waterways: on Little River
    Neighbors: Charles Dunagan
    Roads and landmarks: pond
  4. Fourth tract: 180 acres
    Waterways: waters of Little River
    Neighbors: Carrington; Cain
    Roads and landmarks: Trading Road
  5. Fifth tract: 200 acres
    Waterways: on Jumping Run
    Neighbors: Carrington; May; Jumping Run; Clinton; Warren
    Roads and landmarks: conditional line; the meadow; the Meadow Spring
  6. Sixth tract: 117 acres
    Waterways: on Eno River
    Neighbors: Drury Johnston; Benjamin Farrington
  7. Seventh tract: 200 acres
    Neighbors: Thomas Lewis; John Baker
    Roads and landmarks: mouth of spring branch
  8. Eighth tract: 100 acres
    Waterways: waters of Eno River
    Neighbors: Benjamin Forrester; Carrington
  9. Ninth tract: 100 acres
    Waterways: on Crooked Creek of Eno River
    Neighbors: William Cain
    Roads and landmarks: the road
Earlier title
Granville to John Wade 28 Apr 1753 John Cummins to George Carrington 16 Sep 1796 Matthew Cates to George Carrington 4 Feb 1795 William Dunagan to George Carrington 1 Jan 1795 William Ansley Sr to Gilbert Ansley Gilbert Ansley to George Carrington 4 Jan 1800 Josiah Forrest to George Carrington 14 Dec 1799 incl land formerly held by May on E side of his Spring Branch Sutherland May to George Carrington 6 Dec 1800 Drury Johnston to George Carrington 24 Dec 1800 Drury Johnston to George Carrington 23 Dec 1802
Citation
ODB 11/65
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 40006, “Record of Deeds, 1803-1807, Vols. 11, 12” (State Archives film).

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

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 11 (look for ODB 11/65). Our record above is drawn from it.

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