Orange County Indexed
James Watson to Abner Bailiff by guardian
21 August 1785 · ODB 2/168
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 21 August 1785
- From
- James Watson
- To
- Abner Bailiff
- Acting as
- guardian
- Land
- Tract 1: 140 acres
Waterways: Watson Creek
- Tract 1: 140 acres
- Earlier title
- granted Watson
- Citation
- ODB 2/168
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 3/495
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 2/168). Our record above is drawn from it.
