Orange County Indexed
John Strain to Alexander Strain
3 June 1785 · ODB 20/156
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 3 June 1785
- From
- John Strain
- To
- Alexander Strain
- Share conveyed
- half of
- Land
- Tract 1: 200 acres
Waterways: on Bolin Creek
Neighbors: John King
- Tract 1: 200 acres
- Earlier title
- being half of Granville to Joshua Eason
- Citation
- ODB 20/156
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 40010, “Record of Deeds, 1821-1824, Vols. 19, 20” (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: Gv732, to Joshua Eason, 15 December 1762, 641 acres, on Bolin Creek of New Hope Creek, adj John King
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 90-A
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1537
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 20 (look for ODB 20/156). Our record above is drawn from it.
