William Pendergrass Jr to William H Merritt

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

15 May 1809

From

William Pendergrass Jr

To

William H Merritt

Land

1. First tract: measure not given
   Waterways: both sides of Morgan Creek; near Obeds Creek; mouth of Banks Branch
   Neighbors: Jones
2. Second tract: measure not given
   Neighbors: Trustees; Kittrell
   Roads and landmarks: Mill Pond

Citation

ODB 16/92
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 166 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 August 1817 court (minutes OCPQS 9/385; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 9/390)

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 16/92). Our record above is drawn from it.

Other deeds on this page

• ODB 16/92William Merritt to William H Merritt, 11 March 1817