Orange County Indexed
James Lea to Elisha Wells
23 August 1796 · ODB 13/27
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 23 August 1796
- From
- James Lea
- To
- Elisha Wells
- Land
- 50 acres
- Waterways
- waters of Lynches Creek; on N Hico Creek
- Roads and landmarks
- Caswell County line
- Citation
- ODB 13/27
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 40007, “Record of Deeds, 1807-1815, Vols. 13, 14” (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
- Proved at the August 1807 court, 26 August 1807 (OCPQS 7/320)
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 13 (look for ODB 13/27). Our record above is drawn from it.
