William Dossett Sr to Walter Alves

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

10 February 1800

From

William Dossett Sr

To

Walter Alves

Land

1. First tract: 135 acres
   Waterways: on Crooked Run of Eno River
   Neighbors: Sampson Woods; Johnston; Synnott; George Carrington
2. Second tract: 31 acres
   Waterways: on Eno River
   Neighbors: Ansley; George Carrington; Clinton
3. Thrid tract: 100 acres
   Neighbors: John Scarlett; John Cain; Matthew Clinton; John Daniels

Earlier title

Granville to Philip Dossett father of William 15 Dec 1762

Citation

ODB 8/324
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 266 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

• Granville grant: Gv736, to Phillip Dossett, 15 December 1762, 135 acres, on Crooked Run of Eno River, adj Johnston, Synnott
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-H
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1196
• Proved at the February 1800 court, 27 February 1800 (OCPQS 5/666)

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 8 (look for ODB 8/324). Our record above is drawn from it.