Chain of Title

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Chain of Title

[Prepared from "Potts-Fitzhugh House (Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home) 607 Oronoco St., Alexandria, VA" report for the Historic Alexandria Foundation and the Historic American Buildings Survey by Worth Bailey, 1966; ed. by Antoinette J. Lee, 1975. (MABS VA-707)

From Charles Alexander to John Potts, Jr., and wife, Eliza, 1794 (Alex. D.B. M (Hustings), p. 162)

From John Potts, Jr, to William Fitzhugh, April 1799 (Alex. D.B. M, (Hustings), p. 162)
From estate of William Fitzhugh to Willam H. Fitzhugh, 1809 (Alex. Orphans' Court W.B. C, p. 308)
From William H. Fitzhugh, to William Brent, Jr, of Stafford County, 1820 (Alex. D.B. K-2, Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Alexandria, p. 234)
From Marshall of the District of Columbia to Mechanics Bank of Alexandria, under writ issued by the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Alexandria, December 7, 1824 (Alex. D. B. 0-2, p. 231)
Trustees of Mechanics Bank of Alexandria to Portia Hodgson, April 20, 1839 (Alex D.B. Z-2, p. 267)
From William L. Hodgson, Cornelia L. Hodgson, Caroline 0. Hodgson and Julia A. Hodgson of Alexandria, 4/5 share to Sidney L Hodgson of Loudon County, Allotted to Sidney L. Hodgson by Loudon Chancery Court in settlement of estate of Portia Hodgson, June 3, 1841 (Alex. D.B. A-3, p. 456)
From Sydney L. Hodgson of Loudom County to William C. Yeaton of Alexandria, April 2, 1851 (Alex D.B. M-3, p. 313)
From Jarvis Mason of Philadelphia, Trustee, to whom Yeaton conveyed the property in a deed of Trust dated 20 December 1877 (Alex. D.B. 6, p. 520) to Mary E. Fleming, widow of Robert Fleming, December 14, 1883 (Alex D.B. 13, p. 399)
From Mary E. Fleming of Washington, D.C. to Emuella R. Burson, wife of John W. Burson of Alexandria, April 20, 1886 (Alex. D.B. 17, p. 88)
From estate of Emuella R. Burson to Mrs. Samuel A. Sizer and Mrs. William Chapman, December 4, 1931 (Alex. W. B. 5, p. 580)
From James Reese Duncan Trustee, Martha Burson Chapman, widow, of Philadelphia, and Anne Lee Sizer and Samuel A. Sizer, her husband of Tacoma, Washington, May 28, 1932, to Royd R. Sayers and his wife Edna L. Sayers (Alex D.B. 111, p. 155)
From Royd R. Sayers and Edna L. Sayers to Joseph B. Code, November 26, 1941 (Alex D.B. 182, p. 137)
From Joseph B. Code, unmarried, to Ada Hitchcock MacLeish. October 27, 1942 (Alex D.B. 195, p. 278)
From Ada Hitchcock MacLeish and Archibald MacLeish, her husband, to Josephine Underwood Goodale, August 20, 1945 (Alex. D.B. 219, p. 147)
From Josephine Underwood Goodale, widow, to Henry Koch, June 1, 1962 (Alex. D.B. 554, p. 557)
From Henry Koch and Virginia G. Koch to the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Inc. [later the Lee-Jackson Foundation] January 11, 1967 (Alex. D.B. 662, p. 157)