Orange County Indexed
William Blackwood & Peggy Blackwood to Charles Johnston
28 August 1776 · ODB 2/229
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 28 August 1776
- From
- William Blackwood; Peggy Blackwood
- To
- Charles Johnston
- Land
- 220 acres
- Waterways
- on Old Field Creek
- Neighbors
- John Young
- Citation
- ODB 2/229
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
- Granville grant: Gv163, to Richard Caswell, 11 May 1756, 640 acres, on both sides the fork of New Hope Creek & Old Field Creek
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-D
- See also: ODB 1/155
- See also: OWB A/129
- In the will books: Will of William Blackwood (our record of the paper the deed cites)
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 2/229). Our record above is drawn from it.
