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John Woods to Isaac Wood

9 June 1815 · ODB 15/138

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
9 June 1815
From
John Woods
To
Isaac Wood
Land
  1. First tract: 257 acres
    Waterways: on Buck Quarter Creek
    Neighbors: Tyree Harris; Holden
  2. Second tract: 80 acres
    Waterways: waters of Buck Quarter Creek
    Neighbors: David Copeland; Nathaniel Lewis; John Kelly; Whitted
    Roads and landmarks: path
Earlier title
Thomas Holden Sr to Woods 19 Aug 1762
Citation
ODB 15/138
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 40008, “Record of Deeds, 1815-1818, Vols. 15, 16” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 337 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

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 15 (look for ODB 15/138). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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