Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

Richard Howard to Neal H Horton

28 May 1824 · ODB 21/217

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
28 May 1824
From
Richard Howard
To
Neal H Horton
Land
  1. Tract 1: 300 acres
    Waterways: waters of Cane Creek; on Moccasin Branch
    Neighbors: John O'Daniel; Moore; Thomas Durham
  2. Held back from the sale: 32 acres
Enslaved people named
Samuel
Citation
ODB 21/217
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 40011, “Record of Deeds, 1824-1828, Vols. 21, 22” (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

  • Earlier title: OCWB D/577

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 21 (look for ODB 21/217). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026