Orange County Indexed
Nathaniel Rochester to Thomas Pratt
6 November 1779 · ODB 2/73
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 6 November 1779
- From
- Nathaniel Rochester
- To
- Thomas Pratt
- Land
- 215 acres
- Waterways
- both sides of Spirit Branch
- Neighbors
- Patrick McCulloch
- Earlier title
- Granville to Hugh Woods 20 Dec 1753
- Citation
- ODB 2/73
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: Gv26, to Hugh Woods, 20 December 1753, 315 acres, on both sides of Spirit Branch, on S side of Eno River
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-J
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 498
- Earlier title: ODB 2/10
- Proved at: OCPQS 3/152
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 2/73). Our record above is drawn from it.
