Orange County Indexed
John Pinkerton to John McVey
27 April 1779 · ODB 2/42
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 27 April 1779
- From
- John Pinkerton
- To
- John McVey
- Land
- 214 acres
- Waterways
- both sides of Forresters Creek
- Citation
- ODB 2/42
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: Gv281, to Daniel Kain, 27 February 1759, 428 acres, on both sides of Forresters Creek
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-E
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 607
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 609
- Later title: OWB A/164
- Later title: OCPQS 3/59 (John Pinkerton)
- Proved at: OCPQS 3/127
- In the will books: Will of David Pinkerton (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 2/42). Our record above is drawn from it.
