Orange County Indexed

Thomas Cate & Elizabeth Cate to John Basket

4 January 1769 · ODB 2/157

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 4 January 1769
From: Thomas Cate; Elizabeth Cate
To: John Basket
Land: 72 acres
Waterways: on Bear Creek
Earlier title: Thomas Estes to Thomas Cates 29 Apr 1767
Citation: ODB 2/157
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

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 2/157). Our record above is drawn from it.