Orange County Indexed

James Alston & Gilly Alston to Robert Abercrombie Jr

27 November 1777 · ODB 2/58

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 27 November 1777
From: James Alston; Gilly Alston
To: Robert Abercrombie Jr
Land: 190 acres
Waterways: both sides of Ellerbe Creek
Neighbors: Borland
Citation: ODB 2/58
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 40001, “Record of Deeds, 1755-178[5?], Vols. 1, 2” (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 2 (look for ODB 2/58). Our record above is drawn from it.