Orange County Indexed
John Butler to William Johnston
9 June 1780 · ODB 2/154
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 9 June 1780
- From
- John Butler
- To
- William Johnston
- Land
- 640 acres
- Waterways
- on Otter Creek
- Neighbors
- George Walker
- Earlier title
- NC to Butler 3 Jul 1779
- Citation
- ODB 2/154
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).
Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.
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
- State grant file: Ofile 1143
- Proved at: OCPQS 3/185
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 2/154). Our record above is drawn from it.
