James Patterson to George Johnston & Samuel Hopkins

The deed

Kind of deed

Sale of goods or livestock

Date

27 February 1796

From

James Patterson

To

George Johnston; Samuel Hopkins

Also conveyed

all pine trees fit for sawing from mouth of Little Creek of Morgan Creek to Samuel Allen and W of Morgan’s Wagon Path that leads into Chapel Road, also all sweet gums on low grounds of Morgan, also all pine fit for sawing on a 140 acre tract S part of Patterson Tract adj Christopher Barbee, right & title to pines on land of Abraham Allen

Earlier title

title granted by Hardy Morgan respecting timber on land of Morgan

Citation

ODB 6/226
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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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 140 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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

• See also: OWB C/18
• Proved at the November 1797 court (OCPQS 5/330)
• In the will books: Deed of gift: Hardy Morgan to Jas. Patterson (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 6 (look for ODB 6/226). Our record above is drawn from it.