Orange County Indexed
Joseph Benton to Benjamin Lea
31 January 1821 · ODB 18/416
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 31 January 1821
- From
- Joseph Benton
- To
- Benjamin Lea
- Share conveyed
- his interest in
- Land
- 1st tract: 42 acres
Waterways: Stony Creek
Neighbors: Shepherd
Roads and landmarks: E side of mill pond; County Line - 2nd tract: 81 acre
Neighbors: Evan Jeffreys
Roads and landmarks: above described tract; Evan Jeffreys corner - 3rd tract: 150 acres
Roads and landmarks: County Line
- 1st tract: 42 acres
- Earlier title
- conveyed to Lea & Benton by James Shepherd 1819
- Citation
- ODB 18/416
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
- Later title: ODB 18/417
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 18 (look for ODB 18/416). Our record above is drawn from it.
