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Orange County Indexed

Asa Bishop to James Powell

6 January 1781 · ODB 2/247

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
6 January 1781
From
Asa Bishop
To
James Powell
Land
1000 acres
Waterways
on Mountain Creek; on Little River
Neighbors
Horton; Clark; Alexander Turrentine
Roads and landmarks
the Rich Mountain
Citation
ODB 2/247
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 3/228

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 2/247). Our record above is drawn from it.

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