Orange County Indexed
Edward Couch to John Strayhorn
28 February 1816 · ODB 16/139
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 28 February 1816
- From
- Edward Couch
- To
- John Strayhorn
- Land
- 194 acres
- Waterways
- waters of Eno River
- Neighbors
- John Strayhorn; James Strayhorn
- Earlier title
- Granville to William Couch
- Citation
- ODB 16/139
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
- Granville grant: Gv348, to William Couch, 21 July 1760, 630 acres, on the Rich Fork or Main Branch of Lower Creek
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-B
- Proved at the November 1817 court (OCPQS 9/412)
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 16 (look for ODB 16/139). Our record above is drawn from it.
