James Vestal to David Vestal

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

26 March 1769

From

James Vestal

To

David Vestal

Land

1. Tract 1: 28.75 acres
   Waterways: on middle branch of Rocky River; waters of Deep River

Earlier title

Granville to William Leaky 5 Feb 1755 Leaky to Simon Hadley 7 Nov 176_ Hadley to James Vestal 11 Aug 1766

Citation

ODB 2/558
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: Gv64, to William Leaky, 5 February 1755, 405 acres, on Middle Branch of Rocky River of Deep River
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-F
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 603
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2264

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 2/558). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.