Walter Alves to Richmond Harris

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

30 August 1797

From

Walter Alves

To

Richmond Harris

Land

1. Tract 1: 166 acres
   Waterways: on fork of Flat River; fork of Eno River
   Neighbors: Richard Benehan; Richmond Harris

Earlier title

James Harris to Walter Alves 5 Nov 1794 , devised to James Harris by will of his father James Harris as an undivided half, to James Harris from Thomas Webb & William Wallace, James Harris had bequeathed other half to Richmond Harris

Citation

ODB 6/94
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: ODB 5/116
• Earlier title: OWB A/337
• Proved at the August 1797 court (OCPQS 5/294)
• In the will books: Will of James (x) Harris (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 6/94). Our record above is drawn from it.