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From: MS LOUISE T OVERTON< >
Subject: [NCORANGE-L] William KIRKLAND Deeds Orange Co. NC
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 15:18:08, -0500

Historical American Buildings Survey, 1964 Ayr Mount: Orange Co. NC

1...19 February 1760 Land Grant located NC Archives. Grant of 560 acres
from Earl Granville to Thomas WILEY.

2...Deed Book 3, page 456... 28 February 1763 Thomas WYLIE and James ESPY
sell the west 200 acres of the 560 acre grant to William FEW, Sr.

3...Deed Book 3, pages 215-216...22 April 1770 William FEW, Sr conveyed
this 200 acre tract of land to John BUTLER, Planter, and Sheriff of Orange
Co. for 100 pounds.

4..Deed Book 3.... 23 July 1771 John BUTLER conveyed the 200 acre tract to
Ralph McNAIR for 100 pounds.

5....Deed Book 2, pages 236-237... No Date, probably before 1790 or about
1790. William COURTNEY, Sr who had acquired the land 19 July 1780 may have
sold it or the Ayr Mount tract may have been offered for sale to William
KIRKLAND by the heirs of COURTNEY. William COURTNEY Sr. died intestate and
his 824 acre tract was divided into smaller tracts:

Deed Book 8, page 297... 30 Nov 1799 Tract #2 was sold by Joseph COURTNEY
to William KIRKLAND.

Tract #3 the present Montrose was acquired by John WHITTED.

Tract #(?) was William KIRKLAND's tract, formerly the property of William
COURTNEY Sr.. This seems without any doubt to be the Ayr Mount Tract. No
deed from COURTNEY to KIRKLAND exists in the Register of Deeds Office,
Orange County, NC

Orange Co. NC
Book D
Page 318
Dated 1 August 1811
Proved August Court 1811

Power of Attorney from William KIRKLAND to George McNEIL and Thomas RUFFIN,
all of Orange Co. NC to sell any of his property not devised by will to his
wife Margaret KIRKLAND and his sons John Umstead and Alexander McKinzie.
Wit: William NORWOOD.

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