William Couch Sr to Thomas Couch Jr

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

23 January 1802

From

William Couch Sr

To

Thomas Couch Jr

Land

1. Tract 1: 181 acres
   Waterways: waters of Eno River; waters of New Hope Creek
   Neighbors: Peelor; McQuestan

Earlier title

part of NC to William Couch Sr

Citation

ODB 12/22
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 published abstract also gives 50 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 August 1805 court (OCPQS 7/72)

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 12 (look for ODB 12/22). Our record above is drawn from it.