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Walter Alves & Amelia Alves to William Ansley

4 March 1791 · ODB 5/350

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
4 March 1791
From
Walter Alves; Amelia Alves
To
William Ansley
Land
100 acres
Waterways
both sides of Eno River; on Forrests Mill Creek
Roads and landmarks
Forrests Mill
Earlier title
Granville to Michael Synnott 25 Mar 1752
Citation
ODB 5/350
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 40003, “Record of Deeds, 1787-1798, Vols. 5, 6” (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

  • Earlier title: Patent Book 14/59
  • Earlier title: ODB 3/621
  • Earlier title: OCPQS 3/35
  • Earlier title: OCPQS 3/36
  • Earlier title: 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 5 (look for ODB 5/350). Our record above is drawn from it.

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