North Carolina notes on Alexander Kirkpatrick born 1741 of Orange County, North Carolina (Note: 0riginal Orange County Deed Books covering 1757-1768 were buried when the British troops occupied Hillsboro during the Revolution, and totally ruined when finally unearthed. Current DB 2 has copies of a few deeds from that period. Court of Pleas Minutes also missing for Nov 1762 thru Mar 1777). Orange County, NC, Deed Book #3 pp.477-478 Date: 3 August 1772 Morrow to Kilpatrick Know all men by these presents that I, William Morrow, Orange County, NC, Planter for and in consideration of twenty shillings in hand paid I do acknowledge, have bargained, sold & delivered & by these presents acording to the due form of law do bargain, sell & deliver unto the said Alexr Kilpatrick an improvement lying & being situate as following (viz) John Stanfield, George Means, Widow Brook, Jas Hays, Will Morrow, together with a spring that is in Morrow's deeded land & the said improvement & claim I shall ever warrant together with the spring formerly mentioned, to the use & behoof of the sd Alexr Kilpatrick against all persons or manner of persons as witness given under my hand & seal this third day of August 1772------Testing the land (?) of the soil is excepted. Jas. Stewart Jne Riss his + mark s/ Wm. Morrow (seal) Typ deed Id Ref DB8/132 Dat 18 Feb 1793 Rec 3 Sep 1797 Frm Mat Forrest (part of NC to Eli McDaniel 3 Sep 1779) To Ale Kirkpatrick Con 61p Re 50a Haw C, N side Haw R Adj McDaniel, Pine Hill Wit Wil Trousdale, delv Moses Cox ! ! Metes and bounds. "Beginning at..." Pt bo sap McDaniel's line ln e; 45.5r; pt h ln n15.5e; 16.5c; pt ash Haw Field Br (Hawfield) lm n45w;20c; down Br (Est, dir & dim not given) pt beach at mouth lm s20w;20c; down crk (Haw C?)(est.dir & dis not given) pt p among rocks at foot of Pine Hill lm ;; pt end (NOTE: the ref to Pine Hill would place this track very near the Haw River at the place where the Old Trading Road crossed the Haw, which was called Pine Ford or Piney Ford, and the hill behind it became Pine hill, taking its name from the Ford) --------- Id Ref DB6/136 Dat 28 Aug 1797 Rec Aug 1797 Frm Ale Kirkpatrick (NC to Eli McDaniel 3 Sep 1779) To Mos Cox Con 40p Re 50a Adj McDaniel Wit Wil Trousdale, Rob Trousdale ! ! Metes and bounds. "Beginning at..." Pt bo sap McDaniel's line ln e; 45.5r; pt h ln n47e;16....5c; pt ro Hawfields Br lm s;20c; down Hawfields Br (dis & dir not given) pt beach at mouth Hawfields Br lm s20w;10c; down Crk (Haw C?) pt po among some rocks foot of Pine Hill lm ;; pt end Treasurer and Comptroller Records, Military Papers Vols 40 - 46, Index to Miscellaneous Volumes: Book C ( Vol 42 ) Kirkpatrick, Alex Vol C p.13 (or130) 4335/6071 L 1/7/9 ( pound/shilling/ pence) compensation for wagon hauling Auditors of Hillsboro Co Orange County, NC Tax List 1779 Alexander Kilpatrick-in Legislative Papers, value of taxable property £1,490 Orange County, NC Tax List 1780 Alexander Kilpatrick Orange County, NC Tax List 1782 Alexander Kilpatrick North Carolina Historical Commission, Orange County Records Lists of Taxable Property 1780-1783- Vol. 2 Page 1 Orange Co. District 1781- Alexander Kirkpatrick's value of property £2,905 1782-Alexander Kirkpatrick's value of property £280, 2 Negroes, stock, etc. Orange County, NC Tax List 1785 Alex'r Kilpatrick Orange County, NC Tax List 1787 Alex'r Kirkpatrick Orange County, NC Tax List 1788 Alex'd Kirkpatrick Orange County, NC Tax List 1790 Alex Kirkpatrick Orange County, NC Tax List 1791 Alex'r Kirktrick Orange County, NC Tax List 1791 Alex Kirkpatrick In 1789 Alexander Kirkpatrick purchased land in Sumner County (now Wilson Co.) Tennessee. He did not remove his family there until after 1796. 1790 Orange County, NC State Records (census), page 289 lists Alexander Kirkpatrick as owning 607 acres, 3 white polls, 3 black polls. Orange Co. NC deeds p. 520 25 May 1791 Thomas Holgan of Orange and Fanny his wife to William Hodge Senr. Of same, 130 pounds, 157 acres, part of a tract from NC to Alexander Kilpatrick 3 Sept. 1779, Kilpatrick to Heugh Shannon 1780 Shannon to William Hodge 1787. Orange County, NC deeds original deeds for Alexander (and Jane) from 1793