George Doherty & Mary Doherty to Archibald Lytle & Jesse Benton

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

12 July 1785

From

George Doherty; Mary Doherty

To

Archibald Lytle; Jesse Benton

Share conveyed

half of

Land

1. Tract 1: measure not given
   Waterways: waters of Mississippi RIver
2. Tract 2: North Carolina
3. Tract 3: 5000 acres
   Waterways: on Hayes Creek of Duck River

Enslaved people named

Harry; Polley; Princess; Nancy; John; Abraham

Citation

ODB 7/238
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 40004, “Record of Deeds, 1798-1800, Vols. 7, 8” (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

• Proved at the August 1798 court, 28 August 1798 (OCPQS 5/438)

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 7 (look for ODB 7/238). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 12 July 1785, naming Harry, Polley, Princess, Nancy and 2 others
• Jesse Benton, a party to this deed