John Rees Jr & Martha Rees to Joseph Burton

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

18 June 1769

From

John Rees Jr; Martha Rees

To

Joseph Burton

Land

1. Tract 1: 270 acres, where Burton now lives
   Waterways: on Deep River; on Indian Creek
   Neighbors: Thomas Smith; Nathaniel Powell

Earlier title

granted [Granville to] Nathaniel Powell

Citation

ODB 3/183
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 40002, “Record of Deeds, 1785-1793, Vols. 3, 4” (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: Gv421, to Nathaniel Powell, 5 August 1760, 700 acres, on N side of Deep River, on both sides of Indian Creek, adj Stephen Howard
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-D
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2532

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 3 (look for ODB 3/183). Our record above is drawn from it.