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Orange County Indexed

William Walker to John Pickett

3 August 1803 · ODB 11/58

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
3 August 1803
From
William Walker
To
John Pickett
Land
98.5 acres
Waterways
waters of Back Creek; on Mile Branch
Roads and landmarks
the Great Road
Earlier title
Granville to Thomas Lapsley
Citation
ODB 11/58
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).

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: Gv515, to Thomas Lapsley, 10 June 1761, 250 acres, on drains of Back Creek, adj Jacob Riley, Edward Lynch
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1862
  • Earlier title: OWB A/220
  • In the will books: Will of Thomas Lapslie (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 11/58). Our record above is drawn from it.

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