Orange County Indexed
Basel Brashear to John Watson
11 March 1756 · ODB 1/136
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 11 March 1756
- From
- Basel Brashear
- To
- John Watson
- Land
- First tract: lot 9, in Hillsborough
Waterways: on Eno River - Second tract: in Hillsborough
- Third tract: 480 acres
Waterways: on Reedy Fork; on Buffalo Creek
- First tract: lot 9, in Hillsborough
- Also conveyed
- gelding
- Earlier title
- Granville to William Churton
- Citation
- ODB 1/136
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 180
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 1/136). Our record above is drawn from it.
Notes for researchers
- Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
