Orange County Indexed
William Dossett Sr to Walter Alves
23 January 1801 · ODB 9/154
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 23 January 1801
- From
- William Dossett Sr
- To
- Walter Alves
- Land
- First tract: 146 acres, on which Dossett now lives
Waterways: on Crooked Run; on Eno River
Neighbors: Sampson Woods; Johnston; Synnott; Carrington
Roads and landmarks: ford at Carrington's Mill - Second tract: 31 acres
Waterways: on Eno River
Neighbors: Matthew Clinton; Synnott; Carrington
Roads and landmarks: Synnott's Mill Place - Third tract: 94 acres
Neighbors: Clinton; Cain; John Scarlett; Thomas Dossett
Roads and landmarks: Synnott's Old Mill Tract; Old Tract where William now lives
- First tract: 146 acres, on which Dossett now lives
- Earlier title
- Granville to Phillip Dossett 15 Dec 1762 , by will to son William Dossett
- Citation
- ODB 9/154
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 40005, “Record of Deeds, 1800-1803, Vols. 9, 10” (State Archives film).
Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 135 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
- Earlier title: OWB A/298
- Proved at the February 1801 court, 27 February 1801 (OCPQS 6/160)
- In the will books: Will of Philip Dossett (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 9 (look for ODB 9/154). Our record above is drawn from it.
