John Caldwell to Dennis Smelt

The deed

Kind of deed

Town lot sale

Date

22 February 1796

From

John Caldwell

To

Dennis Smelt

Land

2 acres, in Chapel Hill, bounded by lots 24, 22

Roads and landmarks

Franklin Street

Citation

ODB 15/349
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).

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 1816 court (OCPQS 9/218)

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 15/349). Our record above is drawn from it.