Orange County Indexed

Joshua Leigh to Edmund Herndon

2 January 1818 · ODB 17/21

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 2 January 1818
From: Joshua Leigh
To: Edmund Herndon
Land: 221 acres
Waterways: on Northeast Creek; on Barbees Spring Branch; on Renchers Spring Branch
Neighbors: John Barbee
Roads and landmarks: Barbees Spring; Renchers Spring
Citation: ODB 17/21
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).

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 1818 court, 25 August 1818 (OCPQS 9/551)

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 17/21). Our record above is drawn from it.