Orange County Indexed
Ralph Williams to Alexander Carnes
22 February 1779 · ODB 2/17
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 22 February 1779
- From
- Ralph Williams
- To
- Alexander Carnes
- Land
- Tract 1: 150 acres
Waterways: waters of Little River
- Tract 1: 150 acres
- Earlier title
- Granville to Gabriel Johnston 25 Mar 1751 land vested in John Rutherford, to Ralph Williams 17 Aug 1755
- Citation
- ODB 2/17
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
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 81
- Proved at: OCPQS 3/117
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 2/17). Our record above is drawn from it.
