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Alex Albright to William Albright trustee

24 March 1843 · ODB 30/146

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
24 March 1843
From
Alex Albright
To
William Albright
Acting as
trustee
Land
  1. Tract 1: 110 acres, plantation on which Albright resides
    Waterways: waters of Rock Creek
    Neighbors: Daniel Graves; Solomon Albright
  2. Tract 2: 178 acres, John Pickett place
  3. Tract 3: 52 acres
Also conveyed
growing crop of wheat & oats in above land; 5 head of horses, 10 head of cattle, 8 sheep, stock of hogs about 40, 1 wagon & gear, 1 double seated gig & harness, 1 sulkey & harness, 1 wheat fan, 1 cutting box, 1 corn shilling machine, farming utensils, all the oats, hay straw & fodder now on hand, all the corn on hand about 30 barrels, 3000 lbs bacon, 1 watch, all my stock of goods on hand consisting of dry goods, hardware, cuttery, groceries, barrels, boxes, 1 stove & some castings; also all accounts etc of his store in the Hawfields under firm of J and A Albright including goods, produce after discounting his liabilities for debts of firm as lot or corn at William Euliss's about 8 or 10 bushels, a lot at Holts Mills about 10 or 15 bushels
Enslaved people named
Liney; Eli; Calvin
Citation
ODB 30/146
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 40015, “Record of Deeds, 1836-1844, Vols. 29, 30” (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 30 (look for ODB 30/146). Our record above is drawn from it.

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