Town of Hillsborough to Samuel Benton

The deed

Kind of deed

Town lot sale

Date

2 February 1804

From

Town

To

Samuel Benton

Land

lot 135, in Hillsborough, bounded by lot 136

Roads and landmarks

Hazel Street; Margaret Lane

Citation

ODB 11/161
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 40006, “Record of Deeds, 1803-1807, Vols. 11, 12” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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

• Proved at the February 1804 court, 29 February 1804 (OCPQS 6/500)

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 11 (look for ODB 11/161). Our record above is drawn from it.