Orange County Indexed
Austin Hightower & Martha Hightower to Pomfret Herndon
28 August 1782 · ODB 2/374
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 28 August 1782
- From
- Austin Hightower; Martha Hightower
- To
- Pomfret Herndon
- Land
- 600 acres
- Waterways
- on Phils Creek; on Morgan Creek
- Earlier title
- Granville to Austin Hightower 28 Jun 1762
- Citation
- ODB 2/374
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: Gv659, to Austin Hightower, 28 June 1762, 700 acres, on Phils Creek of Morgan Creek
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 92-D
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1556
- Proved at: OCPQS 3/256
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 2/374). Our record above is drawn from it.
