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Orange County Indexed

Samuel Eakins to George Newton

5 May 1780 · ODB 2/141

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
5 May 1780
From
Samuel Eakins
To
George Newton
Land
  1. Tract 1: 1 acre
    Waterways: on S branch of Little River
Earlier title
Granville to Samuel Eakins 6 Dec 1761
Citation
ODB 2/141
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 40001, “Record of Deeds, 1755-178[5?], Vols. 1, 2” (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

  • 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
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/175

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 2 (look for ODB 2/141). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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