Guaranty Title and Trust Corporation Records, 1883-1919 | Sargeant Memorial Collection

By Will Hopkins and Sarah Osorio

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Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Biographical Note

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 2: Books

Box 336: Title Books 1-7

Item 1: Title Book 1

Includes index. Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company; E. C. Cheshire; Nettie L. Woodson.

Item 2: Title Book 2

Includes index. W. G. Swartz; Clara V. Cox; Anna P. Hume; Charles and Edward James; F. F. Nash and F. P. Stras; Edna E. Hobbs; Louise K. Taylor.

Item 3: Title Book 3

Includes index. A. W. Veazy; Thomas W. Parsons; Cape Henry Beach Company.

Item 4: Title Book 4

Includes index. H. Fernstrom; D. L. J. Capps; W. Frank Hardy.

Item 5: Title Book 5, "B"

Includes index. Harry L. Maynard et als.; John M. White; Randolph B. Hugo.

Item 6: Title Book 6, "C"

R. L. Albano = Lafayette Residence.

H. Robert Diehe = Ballentine Place.

Item 7: Title Book 7

Includes index. Alex L. Black; Pinckney J. Payne; Monticello Realty Company; F. P. Smith; Annie V. Smith; A. J. Wilber; Griffith L. Johnson.

Box 337: Title Books 8-14

Item 1: Title Book 8

Includes index. Duval Land Company; Highland Avenue; Lots 14-18, Plat of Lockhaven; Parts of Lots 20-21, Virginia Place Company; Farm Land in Norfolk County, Virginia; Judgments against William B. Daughtrey.

Item 2: Title Book 9

Includes index. B. F. Goodson; Jordan and Davis, Inc.; Young Men's Christian Association.

Item 3: Title Book 10

Includes index. Mary L. Pritchett; Higgins Land Corporation.

Item 4: Title Book 11

Item 5: Title Book 12

Item 6: Title Book 13

Item 7: Title Book 14

Box 338: Loyall and Taylor Title Books 2-7

Item 1: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 2

Includes index.

Item 2: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 3

Includes index.

Item 3: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 4

Includes index.

Item 4: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 5

Includes index.

Item 5: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 6

Includes index.

Item 6: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 7

Includes index.

Box 339: Loyall and Taylor Title Books 8-12, 15

Item 1: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 8

Includes index.

Item 2: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 9

Includes index.

Item 3: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 10

Includes index.

Item 4: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 11

Includes index.

Item 5: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 12

Includes index.

Item 6: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 15

Includes index.

Box 340: Loyall and Taylor Title Book 17, Adverse Conveyances Books, Miscellaneous Books

Item 1: Loyall and Taylor, Title Book 17

Includes index.

Item 2: Adverse Conveyances, Book 32: The Norfolk Company and The Ghent Company

Item 3: Adverse Conveyances, Book 33: Westover Company

Item 4: Untitled, For George W. Taylor and Company, Inc., etc.

Item 5: Untitled, Virginia Beach Development Company, etc.

Box 341: Record Book No. 11, 13

Item 1: Book No. 11, 1914 August 7 - 1915 April

Item 2: Book No. 13, 1915 December 15 - 1916 July

Box 342: Judgments, 1912-1926

Item 1: Judgments, 1912-1926

Section No. 1-158.

Information includes name, book, page, docketed, and remarks.

Box 343: County Judgments

Item 1: County Judgments

Section No. 1-158a. Includes judgments up to 1928.

Information includes name of defendant, book, page, docketed, and remarks.

Box 344: Index Book of Unrecorded Maps

Item 1: Index Book of Unrecorded Maps

Index begins in 1922.

Information includes plat number, name/company, and description.

Box 345: Account Book, 1924-1938

Item 1: Account Book, 1924-1938

Information includes date, folio (possibly transaction number), debits, credits, and sales. There are three A-Z sections in the volume.

Box 346: Insurance Book

Item 1: Insurance Book, "1"

299 pages. Information includes title number, name of insured, location of property, and block number. Organized by last name of insured.

Box 347: Index to Plats, Norfolk City

Item 1: Index to Plats, Norfolk City

Index ends in 1926.

Information includes name, description, date, when recorded, and sheet number. There is an index in the front of the volume.

Box 348: List of Conveyances, circa 1900-1915

Item 1: List of Conveyances by Norfolk and Virginia Beach Railroad Company and Virginia Beach Development Company, circa 1900-1915

... in Princess Anne County Clerk's Office.

47 pages. Information includes deed book, page, grantee, description, remarks, lots, block, and plat.

Box 349: Property Book

Item 1: Property Book

300 pages. Information includes owner, description, remarks, building, and lot and building. Pages 2-7 are labeled "Colored."

Box 350: Account Book, 1941-1949

Item 1: Account Book, 1941 October 29 - 1949 August 9

152 pages. Information includes date, description, name/company, amount, and paid date.

Correspondence from this book is located in Box 375, Folder 7.

Box 351: Property Book

Item 1: Property Book

289 pages. Information includes name, description, building, and lot and building. Pages 264-289 are labeled "Colored List."

Box 352: Property Book

Item 1: Property Book

301 pages. Information includes owner, description, remarks, building, and lot and building. There are two A-Z sections in the volume.

Box 353: Index of Plats by Blocks, 1st-4th, 6th-7th Wards

Item 1: Index of Plats by Blocks, 1st-4th Wards

152 pages. Block 1-442.

Item 2: Index of Plats by Blocks, 6th and 7th Wards

89 pages. Block 450-1211.

Box 354: Street Book, Berkley Ward

Item 1: Street Book, Berkley Ward

189 pages. Information includes street, name/company, and lot dimensions.

Index includes street name and page number. Also includes a list of changed street names with old and new street names.

Box 355: Rough Books, 9th Ward

Item 1: Rough Book, 9th Ward, Book 1, 1915 May 25

50 pages. Information includes number, name, lot, address, and dimensions.

There is an index on the front inside cover.

Item 2: Rough Book, 9th Ward, Book 2

126 pages. Information includes number, name, lot, address, and dimensions.

There is an index on the front inside cover.

Box 356: Rough Books, 10th Ward

Item 1: Rough Book, 10th Ward, Book 1

85 pages. Information includes number, name, lot, address, and dimensions.

There is an index on the front inside cover.

Item 2: Rough Book, 10th Ward, Book 2

25 pages. Information includes number, name, lot, address, and dimensions.

There is an index on the front inside cover.

Box 357: Index to Suits

Item 1: Index to Suits

Box 358: Suit Book, Number 1-2

Item 1: Suit Book, Number 1

Item 2: Suit Book, Number 2

Box 359: Suit Book, Number 3-4

Item 1: Suit Book, Number 3

Item 2: Suit Book, Number 4

Box 360: Suit Book, Number 5-6

Item 1: Suit Book, Number 5

Item 2: Suit Book, Number 6

Box 361: Cash / Account Book, 1901-1921

Item 1: Cash / Account Book, 1901 March 31 - 1921 April 15

303 pages. Information includes date, name/description, and numeric values.

Box 362: Account Book, 1901-1938

Item 1: Account Book, 1901 February 21 - 1938 December 8

236 pages. Information includes date, name, lots, and price.

Box 363: General Index to Plats of Norfolk County

Item 1: General Index to Plats of Norfolk County

Information includes sheet, name, description, mag. dist. date, where recorded (M. B., Page, D. B., Page), section, suits, etc., and remarks.

Box 364: Index of Titles, Guaranty Title and Trust, A-G, 1905-1922

Item 1: Index of Titles, Guaranty Title and Trust, A-G, 1905-1922

Information includes title number, applicant, description, and date. There is a separate section in the back for Firms and Corporations.

Box 365: Index of Titles, Guaranty Title and Trust, H-O

Item 1: Index of Titles, Guaranty Title and Trust, H-O

Information includes title number, applicant or insured, description, and date.

Box 366: 1910 Land Book / Reassessment

Item 1: 1910 Land Book / Reassessment, 1910

219 pages. Information includes owner, description, remarks, building, lot, and lot and building.

There are two A-Z sections in the volume; pages 145-219 are labeled "Colored List."

Box 367: Insurance Book, Title Numbers 6968-16092, 1920-1930

Item 1: Insurance Book, Title Numbers 6968-16092, 1920 March 1 - 1930 May 28

Information includes policy number, date of application, date report issued, date policy issued, description of property, name of owner, from whom received, attorney handling, and remarks.

Box 368: Index Book, Block Numbers 1-700

Item 1: Index Book, Block Numbers 1-700

Information includes number, inst., deed book, page, and remarks.

Box 369: Index Book, Block Numbers 701-1540

Item 1: Index Book, Block Numbers 701-1540

Information includes number, inst., deed book, page, and remarks.

Box 370: Record Books

Folder 1: Book, Part I, Farm Surveys, Section 1103-1807G, 1954 October 15

Folder 2: Book, Part II, Subdivision Surveys, Section 1103-1807G, 1954 December 31

Folder 3: Record Book, 1908 January 3-March 12

Folder 4: Record Book, 1908 March 16-July 7

Folder 5: Record Book, 1908 May 18-July 1

Folder 6: Record Book, 1908 July 9-September 24

Folder 7: Record Book, 1909 January 12-April 9

Folder 8: Record Book, 1909 January 30-April 16

Folder 9: Record Book, 1909 July 16-August 27

Folder 10: Record Book, 1909 September 7-November 12

Folder 11: Record Book, Aetna Co, Title #1763

Folder 12: Record Book I

Deeds by Lamberts Point Company, Norfolk Waterfront Development Company, Lamberts Point Investment Company, West Highland Park Corporation, R. H. Baker Sr. and Jr., Lamberts Point Syndicate, Norfolk and Lamberts Point Land Company, and Virginia Investment Association.

Box 371: Title Abstracts

Folder 1: Index to Title Abstract 1-30

Folder 2: Title Abstract, 1. Atlantic Street, East side, Nash property North of Bank of Commerce building, C. A. Nash, 1901

Folder 3: Title Abstract, 2. Bank Street, West side running through to Brewer Street, between Market Street and City Hall Avenue, Andrew J. Dalton, 1910 July 7

Folder 4: Title Abstract, 3. Bank Street, East side, between Bute Street and Brambleton Avenue, Part of Lot 10 on Smith Plan, Joseph R. Nottingham

Folder 5: Title Abstract, 4. Brambleton Title

Folder 6: Title Abstract, 5. Charlotte Street, South side, between Boush and Granby Streets, Part of Lots 146 and 147 Boush Plan, Sallie L. Hubard, 19 Charlotte Street, 1907

Folder 7: Title Abstract, 6. City Hall Avenue, South side, owned by Dominion Warehouse Corporation

Folder 8: Title Abstract, 7. College Place, South side, between Granby and Boush Streets

Folder 9: Title Abstract, 8. Colonial Place, March Tract

Folder 10: Title Abstract, 9. Commerce Street, East side, Perpetual Leasehold

Folder 11: Title Abstract, 10. Duke Street and Hamilton Avenue, Southwest corner, Richard B. Fentress

Folder 12: Title Abstract, 11. Taylor Building, Southeast intersection of Granby and Market Streets, Part Lot 103 Boush Plan

Folder 13: Title Abstract, 12. Granby and Plume Streets, Southwest corner, The Virginia Club

Folder 14: Title Abstract, 13. Granby Street, West side between Freemason and Charlotte Streets, DeCordy Property

Folder 15: Title Abstract, 14. Granby and Charlotte Streets, Southwest corner, part of Lot 118 Boush Plan

Folder 16: Title Abstract, 15. Granby and Charlotte Streets, Northeast corner, part of Lot 115 Boush Plan

Folder 17: Title Abstract, 16. Granby Street, West side, between Charlotte and Freemason Streets, part of Lots 120 and 121 Boush Plan, 433 and 437 Granby Street, J. H. Cofer, 1920 January 2

Folder 18: Title Abstract, 17. Granby and Tazewell Streets, Northeast corner, part of Lot 103 Boush Plan

Folder 19: Title Abstract, 18. Granby Street, East side, between Tazewell and Freemason Streets, part of Lot 103 Boush Plan, Southgate Leigh, 1910 July 28

Folder 20: Title Abstract, 19. 149-151 Granby Street, East side, running through to Monticello Avenue, adjoining Taylor Building, 1911 May 15

Folder 21: Title Abstract, 20. 308 West Freemason Street, Property of Sallie T. Castle, 1917

Folder 22: Title Abstract, 21. Hemenway Tract, Brambleton, J. H. Cofer, Willoughby and Reservoir Avenues

Folder 23: Title Abstract, 22. Huntersville, Isaac R. Hunter / Lillie A. Bulmer Property

Folder 24: Title Abstract, 23. Magazine Lane, East side, Josiah T. Jones

Folder 25: Title Abstract, 24. Ocean View Land Corporation, near Willoughby Beach

Folder 26: Title Abstract, 25. Poindexter property, South Norfolk, McNally Manufacturing Oil Company, 1901 July 30

Folder 27: Title Abstract, 26. Princess Anne Avenue and Charles Street, Northeast corner, J. F. Dezendorf Plat, 1904 May 10

Folder 28: Title Abstract, 27. Shea Tract, Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, 1906 February 6

Folder 29: Title Abstract, 28. Water Street, South side, Hardy's Wharf, Citizens Bank property, 1901

Folder 30: Title Abstract, 29. Water Street, South side, running through to Nivision Street, 265, 267, and 269 Water Street, 14 Nivision Street, 1897 April

Folder 31: Title Abstract, 30. Water and Church Streets, Southwest corner, John L. Roper, 1893 September 30

Box 372: Notepads

Folder 1: Notepad, Title for Claude W., Northern Hawk Street near Scott Street, Slaughter, 1893 February

Folder 2: Notepad, William H. Foster to George W. Taylor, Bute Street, York and Granby Streets, also John A. Higgins contiguous lot (partial), 1893 May 4

Folder 3: Notepad, Lot 13 Gammon and Black Tract, Maltby Avenue, Examined for E. P. Belote, Hemingway Property, 7 Richardson, 1893 June 9

Folder 4: Notepad, Title to lot on the East side of the Indian Poll Bridge Road just South of the Bridge over Tanner's Creek, Searched for R. C. Silverwood, 1893 July 14-15

Folder 5: Notepad, Lots 7 and 8 in plat filed in suit Thomas Flair v. John C. Seibert, Cottage Toll Bridge Road, 1893 August 29

Folder 6: Notepad, 252 Bute Street, next to house corner Bank and Bute Streets, belonging to Patrick Davis, Examined for F. S. Taylor, 1893 September 29

Folder 7: Notepad, Title to lots 50, 58, and 65 East End Heights, Norfolk County, Searched for William F. Lee and C. B. Ackiss, 1893 September 30

Folder 8: Notepad, Title to lot on western side of Kelly Avenue (Mayfield Road), Brambleton Ward, belonging to John M. Berry, 1893 December

Folder 9: Notepad, Joel C. White, 185 Charlotte Street, 1893 December 6

Folder 10: Notepad, Ocean View Company, W. M. Hannan, Examined for H. L. Page and Col. W. H. Taylor, 1893 December 22

Folder 11: Notepad, Accounts, James F. Jenkins, John K. Peebles, and W. H. Barnard, 1902-1909

Folder 12: Notepad, Arthur Nelson, Lamberts Point Road, Atlantic City Ward

Folder 13: Notepad, Richardson, Dozier, Title, North side of Brambleton Avenue west of Maltby Street

Folder 14: Notepad, Title to lot on Charlotte Street (No. 84), between Bank and Brewer in the name of William H. Morris, vacant lot

Folder 15: Notepad, Mrs. Thomas, Marshall Avenue, Brambleton

Folder 16: Notepad, Gabriel Whitehurst, Home Farm, Pungo Ridge, Princess Anne County

Folder 17: Notepad, David Thomas, Lot 72, Avenue B, Hinton and Reynolds Tract, Huntersville, Camp v. Selden Title

Folder 18: Notepad, 123 Queen Street, Amelia Henderson to Maria Thomas

Folder 19: Notepad, Title of Fannie A. Webster, James and Alexander Streets, John Bonnot's Garden

Box 373: Notepads

Folder 1: Notepad, George W. Taylor, John deBree, South side of Second Avenue, Armistead Bridge Road

Folder 2: Notepad, Cottage Toll Road, Lee Avenue, East by Taylor's Estate, South by Richardson

Folder 3: Notepad, John James, 34 Fenchurch Street, Cove Street, 62 Fenchurch Street, Larchmont Realty Corporation, John R. Coupland

Folder 4: Notepad, C. R. Parlett, David V. Allen, William H. Williams, Claiborne Avenue

Folder 5: Notepad, Charles H. Consolvo, Riverview Park Company

Folder 6: Notepad, Catharine McNally, Proby's Lane / Court

Folder 7: Notepad, The Ghent Company

Folder 8: Notepad, Brambleton, North side Reservoir, Brambleton Heights Company, Park Avenue Extended

Folder 9: Notepad, C. B. Poindexter, Jesse C. Johnson, Greenleaf Johnson, Sandy Point

Folder 10: Notepad, Freemason and Boush Streets

Folder 11: Notepad, Richard, Jane, and George Byrd; Edward and Georganna Eichelberger, and John and Virginia Welsh, No. 8 Boush Street

Folder 12: Notepad, Joseph Phillips

Folder 13: Notepad, Joanna Armstead Estate, Taxes, No Cases

Folder 14: Notepad, Consideration: Grace: Negotiability

Folder 15: Notepad, Foreclosures

Box 374: Miscellaneous Title Abstracts and Property Records

Folder 1: Abstract of Title to Properties to be Purchased by the Norfolk Warehouse Corporation from the Pinner's Point Water Front Company, 1910s

Folder 2: Abstract of Title to Property of Lambers Point Company, 1922

Folder 3: Adverse Conveyances of New Highland Park Corporation

Folder 4: Adverse Conveyances of Barton Myers, circa 1915

Folder 5: Charters, 1890-1930

Folder 6: Deed Register, New Highland Park Corporation Lots, 1923-1942

Folder 7: Index to Plats of Norfolk in deed books, 1-173B

Folder 8: Log Book, 1921-1926

Folder 9: Renewals, Listed according to Alphabet

Folder 10: Renewals, Listed according to Numbers

Folder 11: Title to Block 9, Plat of Willoughby Beach, Recorded County Map Book 5, page 16-17, circa 1920-1941

Folder 12: Title to 20 Commerce Street, Dennis Etheridge leasehold, 1947

Folder 13: Title to old "Drummond Farm," Tanners Creek District of Norfolk County, embracing "Ingleside" and surrounding territory, tract platted by William G. Rustin, 1947-1948

Folder 14: Title of "Alanton Corporation," Linkhorn Bay, Princess Anne County, Virginia and Woodhouse Family and Lands, 1925

Folder 15: Information concerning the titles to properties situated on the north side of Main Street, also concerning the Newton family

Box 375: Miscellaneous Property Records

Folder 1: Notepad, R. J. and J. A. Webster, Johnson Avenue, Washington Avenue, Princess Anne Road, Charles Street

Folder 2: Notepad, Block 1-32

Folder 3: Miscellaneous notes from notepads

Folder 4: Book No. 17, 1919 March 1-July 31

Folder 5: Index, A-Z, Name, Letters or Blocks, Section, Description or Remark

Includes additional lists.

Folder 6: Untitled Notebook, A-Z, Name, Section, D. B. / M. B., Page Number

Folder 7: Correspondence, to S. W. Armistead, Civil Engineer, 15 Selden Arcade, 1944-1949

This correspondence was found in the Account Book in Box 350.

Folder 8: Miscellaneous Indexes

Index of Adverse Conveyances; Index to Title Abstracts; Index to Plats in Drawer Marked Old Plats of Norfolk Sub-Divisions and Miscellaneous Plats; Index to Plats in Drawer Marked Princess Anne County Plats; Index to Abstracted Chancery Suits; Index to Old Wills; Wills Abstracted in Title Books; Index of Adverse Conveyances; Revised Plan of Plat No. 2 Euwanee Park; Examination of Title to Property at the Northeastern Intersection of Main and Bank Street for The City of Norfolk; Examination of Title to George L. Arps Property on Bank Street just North of Main.

Folder 9: Miscellaneous Papers, circa 1900-1930