William H Williard to Raleigh Manufacturing Company

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

26 December 1866

From

William H Williard

To

Raleigh Manufacturing Company

Land

1. Tract 1: 27.5 acres
   Waterways: waters of Little River
   Neighbors: Paul C Cameron; Isham Parrish; William Lipscomb heirs
   Roads and landmarks: mouth of branch
2. Tract 2: 42.25 acres
   Waterways: on Buffalo Branch
   Neighbors: Isham Parrish
   Roads and landmarks: middle of river
3. Tract 3: 429.5 acres
   Waterways: on Little River
   Neighbors: William Lipscomb; Paul C Cameron. All conveyed with machinery
   Roads and landmarks: the Factory Road; the Factory Pond; the Factory lot; Factory Road

Earlier title

with as much land as is covered by the mill pond and factory pond caused by the dam upon which is the Cotton Factory and other buildings, conveyed by O F Long to John C Douglass & John H Webb 23 Jul 1850 being tract which John C Douglass & Rachel Douglass his wife conveyed to James Webb & John H Webb 22 Oct 1860

Citation

ODB 37/402
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Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40019, “Record of Deeds, 1862-1869, Vols. 37, 38” (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

• Later title: ODB 32/293 (William Smith)
• Later title: ODB 33/498
• Later title: ODB 37/85
• Later title: ODB 37/366 (William H Williard)

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 37 (look for ODB 37/402). Our record above is drawn from it.