Orange County Indexed
Gilbert Eccles to William Courtney
6 November 1778 · ODB 2/16
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 6 November 1778
- From
- Samuel Mains
- To
- James Dickey
- Land
- 200 acres
- Waterways
- both sides of Deep Creek; Stony Creek
- Neighbors
- James Dickey
- Citation
- ODB 2/16
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
- Proved at: OCPQS 3/113
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 2/16). Our record above is drawn from it.
Notes for researchers
- Read on the deed image: the deed of 200 acres on Deep Creek is Samuel Mains to James Dickey, and Gilbert Eccles’s deed to William Courtney on this page is the bill of sale for Leo. This abstract gives the land deed the other deed’s parties.
Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed
- The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Sale, 25 November 1778, naming Leo
