Orange County Indexed
John Riley to John Poteat
20 August 1778 · ODB 2/36
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 20 August 1778
- From
- John Riley
- To
- John Poteat
- Land
- Tract 1: measure not given
Waterways: on Eno River
- Tract 1: measure not given
- Earlier title
- from John Scarlett to Riley
- Citation
- ODB 2/36
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 951
- Granville grant: Gv538, to John Scarlet, 2 October 1761, 700 acres, on both sides of Eno River, adj James Couch
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-L
- Proved at: OCPQS 3/124
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 2/36). Our record above is drawn from it.
