George Herndon to Miles Wells Sr

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

30 October 1816

From

George Herndon

To

Miles Wells Sr

Land

199.5 acres

Waterways

waters of Lynches Creek

Neighbors

Aquilla Compton; Robert Mebane; Thomas Leewell

Roads and landmarks

Caswell County line

Citation

ODB 16/217
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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

• State grant file: Ofile 2348
• Later title: ODB 17/40 (David Herndon)
• Proved at the February 1818 court (OCPQS 9/478)

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 16/217). Our record above is drawn from it.