Joseph Townsley to William Laycock

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

28 May 1810

From

Joseph Townsley

To

William Laycock

Land

1. First tract: 100 acres, where he now lives
   Waterways: on Eno River
2. Second tract: 53 acres
   Waterways: on Eno River
   Neighbors: John Daniels; Clinton

Citation

ODB 13/368
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 100 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 May 1810 court (OCPQS 8/68)

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 13/368). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.