Orange County Indexed

John Rainey to John Lewis Byrd

21 April 1770 · ODB 3/216

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 21 April 1770
From: John Rainey
To: John Lewis Byrd
Land: 120 acres
Neighbors: Lewis
Citation: ODB 3/216
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: Gv503, to John Rainey, 7 June 1761, 290 acres, on N side of Dan River, on Cane Creek, adj the Country Line, Mayo
Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-G
Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1224

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 3/216). Our record above is drawn from it.