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Walter Alves & Amelia Alves to Thomas Latta

19 April 1791 · ODB 4/457

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
19 April 1791
From
Walter Alves; Amelia Alves
To
Thomas Latta
Land
  1. First tract: 389 acres
    Waterways: on Mountain Creek of Little River; on spring branch
    Neighbors: John Latta Jr; Stephen Wilson; Ann Horton
  2. Second tract: 200 acres
Earlier title
Granville to William Churton , Churton to Henry Eustace McCulloh , McCulloch to William Johnston
Citation
ODB 4/457
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 40002, “Record of Deeds, 1785-1793, Vols. 3, 4” (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

  • Granville grant: Gv844, to William Churton, 290 acres, on both sides of Seven Mile Branch, adj Trading Path, Cullen Pollock, bents of a branch
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2133
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1465
  • See also: OWB A/333
  • In the will books: Will of William Johnston (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 4 (look for ODB 4/457). Our record above is drawn from it.

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