Alamance County Deed Records
THE FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IN ALAMANCE
The first permanent settlement in NorthCarolina was about 1660 on the northside of Albemarle Sound, and probably on Durant's Neck in Perquimans County.
The oldest land title is a conveyance forth at neck of land from the King of the Yeopim Indians to George Durant, dated 1662.
On 22 March 1663 King Charles II granted to Edward, Earl of Clarendon and others a true and absolute Lords Proprietors, all of the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
November 6, 1728, ten thousand acres of land in Haw's Old Fields were patented by E. Moseley. This was conveyed to Gov. George Barrington March 3, 1730. Of him, Nash bought land April 10, 1754.
Many squatters lived along the Haw River. To get them off the Strudwick land was a matter of litigation in the courts for many years. The Moseley land was conveyed as follows:
Deeds
Gov. George Burrington, 1730To Samuel Nash April 14, 1754
To Justie, Oct 11, 1780
From William Nash to Peter Mallet of New Hampshire May 1, 1787, purchased by said Nash of Mallet and Estes in 1785.
Samuel Nash to John Justice October 1780
Samuel Nash to Thomas Thompson August 1788
Samuel Nash to William Morrow Oct 1789
Samuel Nash to John Steele Aug 1788
Samuel Nash to Robert Milliken Aug 1792
Samuel Nash to John Woods Nov 1790
Gov. Burrington's land was conveyed to Strudwick April 10, 1754 as follows: Between George Burrington, late Governor of North Carolina, but now residing in the Parish of St. Margaret, Westminister County, Middlesex, and Samuel Strudwick of Mortimer Street in the Parish of St. Marylborn, in said County Middlesex, and son of Edmund Strudwick. Consideration, five shillings, Stag Park on northeast of Cape Fear, ten thousand acres; How Old Fields, northwest Cape Fear, thirty thousand acres.
Strudwick and wife to Howard 1745; to Alex Mebane June 28, 1769; to John Thompson 1787; to J. Steele 1787, and to A. Bane Oct 17, 1772. "Being a part of a tract of land patented by Edward Moseley, Nov 1718; by him conveyed to Governor Burrington, 1730, and then to Standwick, 1754.
Samuel Strudwick to John Kennedy Oct 21, 1789
Samuel Strudwick to James Christmas Sept 1790
Samuel Strudwick to Allen Sykes Aug 22 178--
Samuel Strudwick to Jemmings Gibson Oct 24, 1790
Samuel Strudwick to Thomas Lesley Oct 22, 1790
Samuel Strudwick to Thomas Bradshaw Oct 24, 1790
Samuel Strudwick to John O'Daniel Aug 4, 1791
John Strudwick to William Nash May 28, 1795
S. Strudwick to S. Kirkpatrick Oct 1792
S. Strudwick to Benj. Dixon July 1793
S. Strudwick to Lewis Kirk March 1789
W. F. Strudwick to James Mebane Feb 1799
W. F. Strudwick to James Moore May 1799
W. F. Strudwick to William Woody Dec 1798
W. F. Strudwick to Luke Grimes May 1779
W. F. Strudwick to Thomas Bradshaw Nov 1799
W. F. Strudwick to James Turner June 1799
W. F. Strudwick to Wm Paris Nov 1799
W. F. Strudwick to Jas. Cendenen 1796
Samuel Strudwick to James Thompson Sept 1790
W F. Strudwick to Elisha Kirk Feb 1801
W. F. Strudwick to John Jones Dec 1795
W. F. Strudwick to Nathan Christmas Dec 1795
W. F. Strudwick to John Johnson May 1798
W. F. Strudwick to William Crutchfield Dec 1797
W. F. Strudwick to John Nelson Oct 1795
W. F. Strudwick to John Justice June 1798
W. F. Strudwick to Wm Waters Oct 9, 1795
W. F. Strudwick to Jas. Patterson Aug 16, 1785
W. F. Strudwick to E. McDaniel
W. F. Strudwick to John Pugh Aug 1797
W. F. Strudwick to F. Clendenen May 1802
W. F. Strudwick to Samuel Stewart June 1802
W. F. Strudwick to J. Clendenen Aug 1803
W. F. Strudwick to Ruben Smith Aug 1804
W. F. Strudwick to Wm Freshwaters
W. F. Strudwick to R. Woods Nov 1801
W. F. Strudwick to Jas. Turner Oct 1804
W. F. Strudwick to Samuel Kirkpatrick Oct 1809
W. F. Strudwick to Val. Moore Oct 1807
W. F. Strudwick to S. Bradshaw Oct 1805
Abstracts from some of the old deeds are as follows:
Robert Patterson, in consideration of the sum of 3 shillings paid to Earl Granville May 1, 1752, the said Earl granted 640 acres in Parish of---- province of North Carolina, agreed that he pay rent at the rate of 3 shillings per year and cultivate 3 acres per hundred.
Hosea Tarpley and Sarah his wife, had land granted them by Granville in the Parish of St. John, 400 acres, Feb 13, 1756.
Wm Mebane leased from Earl Granville for 10 shillings and yearly rent a parcel of land in the Parish of St. Mathew on both sides of the James Collins Creek, 320 acres.
In 1744 the Earl Granville granted, bargained and sold, for and in consideration of covenants, provisions and agreements by Benjamin Martin that parcel of land lying in the Parish ot St. Mathew in the County of Orange in North Carolina on the west side of Haw River and on both sides of Cane Creek, 600 acres of land with the exception of a 3/4 of the gold and silver mines found there, at the rate of 3 shillings sterling per hundred acres per year or four shillings Proclamanation money at or upon the two most usual feat days--the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Michael, the Atrch Angel.
Granville (seal) by Francis Corbin, Registered by James Watson, Clerk of the Court
On the second of May 1755, Benjamin Martin deeded this land to William Johnson, selling it for sixty pounds with all the houses, gardens, orchards, fences and improements.
William Cox, planter, bought of William Pegott, sadler, in September, 1755, in consideration of 28 pds Virginia money one hundred acres of land on the south side of Haw river and on Cane Creek. This being a tract of land granted to Wm Peggott by Granville's agents in February 1755. In that year John Rogers bought of George Yate, Governor of Virginia, for 15 pounds Virginia money, a tract of land lying on the north side of Haw Creek in Orange in the presence of John Pryor, Trustee, and others.
In 1755 John and Alexander West purchased land on Stony Creek. Conrad or Caunrad Langna owned the land where Graham now stands---west of Haw River. Jacob Albright deeded to Joseph Albright a tract of land on the Great Alamance May 13, 1778. Witnesses: Philip Albright and John Patton, April 18, 1775, in consideration of the sum of 18 pds Prock. Jacob Albright deeded to John Albright a tract of land containing 150 acres on the south side of the Great Alamance, it being a part of a large tract of land northeast of Nicholas Gibbs which Gibbs purchased of Henry Eustice McCullock and Jacob Albright.
This indenture made the 11th of June 1754, in the XXII year of the reign of our sovereign Lord Goerge II, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith and between the Right Honorable John Earl Granville, Viscount Carteret and Baron Carteret of Haws in the county of Bedford in the Kingdom of Great Britain, Lord President of his Majesty's most honorable Privy Council and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter of one part and John Wood of the County of Orange of the Province of North Carolina, planter, of the other part. Whereas, the most excellent Majesty, King George II, by a certain indenture hearing date September 17, 1744, made between his Majesty on the one part and the Lord Earl Carteret on the other did for the consideration herein mentioned, grant unto the said Earl (by the name of John Lord Carteret) a certain tract of land in the province of North Carolina in America, and all the sounds, Creeks, Havens, Ports, Rivers, Streams and other Royalties as they are therein set forth, granted and confirmed by the said John Earl Granville, by the name of one eighth part of the Provinces of South and North Carolina said Indenture enrolled in the High Court of Chancery in Great Britain, and in the secretary's office in the Province of North Carolina. Now this Indenture witnesseth that for the sum of three shillings, Proclamation money to John Earl Granville by the said John Wood, the said Earl hath sold the parcel of land lying in the Parish of------ of the County of Orange and Province of North Carolina, on Stones Creek, and paying rent yearly and every year forever twenty-four shillings which is at the rate of three shillings per hundred acres, at or upon the most usual feast days, that is the feast of the annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the feat of St. Michael, Arch Angel Treasuring one fourth-part of all the gold and silver mines found on it to the King and one half of treasure to Granville. Granville by Francis Corbin and Benjamin Wheatly.
Source: The History of Alamance, a Work for the Degree of a M. A. at the University of North Carolna by Miss S. W. Stockard published in Raleigh 1900.