Orange County Indexed
Richard Caswell to William Blackwood
9 June 1756 · ODB 1/155
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 9 June 1756
- From
- Richard Caswell
- To
- William Blackwood
- Land
- 640 acres
- Waterways
- on New Hope Creek; on Old Field Creek
- Earlier title
- Granville to Richard Caswell 11 May 1756
- Citation
- ODB 1/155
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
- Granville grant: Gv163, to Richard Caswell, 11 May 1756, 640 acres, on both sides the fork of New Hope Creek & Old Field Creek
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-D
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 189
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 1/155). Our record above is drawn from it.
