Orange County Indexed
James Lindley Jr to James Downing
25 July 1755 · ODB 1/49
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 25 July 1755
- From
- James Lindley Jr
- To
- James Downing
- Land
- 100 acres
- Waterways
- both sides of Cane Creek
- Neighbors
- James Downing
- Earlier title
- Granville to George Williams
- Citation
- ODB 1/49
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: Gv13, to George Williams, 2 May 1753, 640 acres, on S side of Haw River, on N side of Cane Creek
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-H
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 137
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 1/49). Our record above is drawn from it.
