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Macy Newton to Joseph Armstrong

1 October 1818 · ODB 17/155

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1 October 1818
From
Macy Newton
To
Joseph Armstrong
Land
  1. 1st tract: measure not given
    Waterways: both sides of S Fork of Little River
  2. 2nd tract: measure not given
    Waterways: both sides of S Fork of Little River
Earlier title
Granville to Thomas Perkins 1761 , to Samuel Johnston , to Joseph Scott , to George Newton
Citation
ODB 17/155
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 40009, “Record of Deeds, 1818-1821, Vols. 17, 18” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 210 and 472 acres, figures 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

  • Granville grant: Gv622, to Thomas Perkins, 6 December 1761, 360 acres, on S Fork of Little River, adj Robert Jones
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-K
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1189
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1436
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2570
  • See also: OCPQS 3/32

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 17 (look for ODB 17/155). Our record above is drawn from it.

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