Reuben Smith to James Smith

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

30 December 1813

From

Reuben Smith

To

James Smith

Land

1. First tract: measure not given
   Waterways: waters of Cane Creek
   Neighbors: James Thompson
2. Second tract: measure not given
   Waterways: waters of Cane Creek
   Neighbors: Samuel Smith

Citation

ODB 15/75
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 89.75 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 February 1815 court (OCPQS 9/22)

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 15/75). Our record above is drawn from it.