Willis Smith to Eaton Walker

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

7 January 1840

From

Willis Smith

To

Eaton Walker

Land

1. Tract 1: 83.4 acres
   Waterways: on Cates Creek
   Neighbors: George Pratt; John W Norwood; Sneed; Ruffin
2. Tract 2: 23.25 acres
   Waterways: on Cates Creek
   Neighbors: Pratt
   Roads and landmarks: the New Chapel Hill road; old Chapel Hill road

Citation

ODB 29/168
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 40015, “Record of Deeds, 1836-1844, Vols. 29, 30” (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

• Later title: ODB 30/352 (James M Palmer)
• Later title: ODB 27/69 (Willis Smith)

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 29 (look for ODB 29/168). Our record above is drawn from it.