James Watson to William Mowat

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

6 December 1754

From

James Watson

To

William Mowat

Land

577 acres

Waterways

fork of Watsons Creek; on Haw River

Citation

ODB 1/116
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
A page can hold several deeds, and a long deed can run onto the next page.
Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40001, “Record of Deeds, 1755-178[5?], Vols. 1, 2” (State Archives film).

Names, places and measures are given as the published abstract writes them. This record has not been checked against the deed image.

Title and grant references

• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 222
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 168
• Later title: ODB 1/240 (James Watson)
• Later title: ODB 1/244

From the bracketed notes in Mark Chilton’s deed-book posts. OCPQS is the minutes of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions; RegLn is a line of the colonial Register of Orange.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 1 (look for ODB 1/116). Our record above is drawn from it.