D-OGS Meeting, 7 March 2012
Location: Christ Church Meeting Room, Chapel Hill, NC
Speaker: Mark Chilton
Topic: Land Grants in North Carolina – Their Impact on Genealogy Research
Meeting Minutes taken by Ginger R. Smith, D-OGS Secretary
7:00 Fred opened the meeting as we waited for the speaker to arrive. He asked for visitors to introduce themselves. We had 2 visitors and 2 members joining us for the first time.
Cyndi Evoy, has family in VA and PA, visiting with us tonight
David Southern, visiting with us tonight
Mary Whittier, member, first meeting attended in 30 years; Family came through NC from VA
James Ward, member of several years, family from old Orange and Chatham counties
Fred named the 5 new members that joined recently
Ginny Thomas, the Treasurer, is not here due to the operation she had. Beginning of Feb we had $4428.89. Expenses were $114.00 and and deposits were $220 for a final balance on 2/29/12 of $4640.89.
Budget has been completed. Most goes into publications and meeting hall rentals.
Holt asked how does one know if your dues are delinquent and Peg answered that you receive an email saying so and 5 months later you get another one, then you get a termination message. Peg’s email is ncdogsmembership@gmail.com
Secretary report is published (Fred) and accepted
Richard says we have 22 people who receive paper copies of newsletter (mostly orgs)
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MJ Hall, VP of Programs, introduced the speaker Mark Chilton, mayor of Carborro
Has done a lot of research of land grants near the Orange Co line
Hopes to publish 4 volumes on Olde Orange Co deeds and land grants – Orange, Durham, & Alamance Co’s
Disclaimer: learned he is descended from Marmaduke Victory from Randolph Co;
Orange Co in 1752 was huge with Hillsborough the center, from that Guilford, Randolph, Chatham, etc.
Particular interest in Saxaphahaw Oldfields or Hawfields, community of Oaks, Orange-Alamance Co lines.
He unveiled 3 maps side by side.
Oldfields – land already cleared and planted by the Indians prior to Europeans’ arrival.
1728 – surveyors surveyed along the VA and NC line from the coast west
William Little (Attorney General) was in the group of surveyors going West, but he led his group southward and surveyed the available land for himself and his party instead of continuing on to map the boundary of NC and VA. They ended up in the Old Trading Paths in Saxaphahaw In 1728.
1729 and the 8 proprietors sold the land back to the King.
“Land grant atlas of Orange County” – will be the book he plans to publish
Map Viewing
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