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William Lytle Sr to James Hart

17 April 1799 · ODB 9/5

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
17 April 1799
From
William Lytle Sr
To
James Hart
Land
  1. First tract: 400 acres
    Waterways: both sides of Dutchmans Creek
    Neighbors: James Hogg
  2. Second tract: 200 acres
    Neighbors: Watson; Churton; Wiley; Conner
Earlier title
Johnston to William Wiley 24 Feb 1783, Wiley to Benjamin Few 24 Aug 1789
Citation
ODB 9/5
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).

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: Gv266, to William Churton, 22 February 1759, 460 acres, on S side of Eno River, on Dutchmans Creek, adj Pattersons Path, Col Corbin
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1173
  • Earlier title: ODB 4/220
  • Earlier title: ODB 4/222
  • Earlier title: ODB 4/549
  • Proved at the May 1800 court, 29 May 1800 (OCPQS 6/29)

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 9/5). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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